ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1656, 9 June 1875, Page 2

ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

(From our London Correspondent.)

DEATH OF JOHN" MITCHEL. Me. John Mitchel, member for Tipperary, did not long survive hia re-election. His health was bad when he landed in Ireland, • and the excitement appears to have been too much for him. He was buried quietly, and V without any political demonstration. What will be the issue of the affair is not known..Before his death a petition had been lodged by the Conservative candidate, Mr. Moore, and the Court of Common Pleas will have to decide whether Mitchell was duly elected or ?■ not. If so, a new writ will be issued, and; - in the other case Mr. Moore will step into - the seat. A NATION'S DEGRADATION. In Spain they are still fighting away, but treachery seems to be at work in the camp of Don Carlos. The King's (Alfonso) troops, won't fight well, so Alfonso is trying a little paiin oil, and he finds that pays better',, than hard knoeka. What a debased state of affairs ! Politicians, statesmen, generals, :. soldiers, all of whom can be bought over for ■" dollars This is a terrible state of thingg .. for a country once occupying such a position' as did Spain. And in the midst of all this the people are dancing and love-making, and" ' '.'. caring as little for the slaughter and rapine as 1 if the whole thing was a great joke. THE GREAT LOCK-OUTS. What will be the end of the lock-out in South Wales it is hard to see. It is now said the master's losses are so great resulting from the strike and lock-out that they will\. not blow in their furnaces this year, or until * there is a rise in the iron market. What J will become of the men one cannot tell, and " were it not for the women and children, who,, are the worst sufferers one would not care much. Verily these strikes rob one of all patience. They are so stupid and meaningless. I know a case in which a North country shipbuilder wanted to take a Govern- .'.„ ment contract to construct an ironclad, but fearing his men he determined to sound them first. I may say that for some time work ,:' * had been so slack that the men had only been - employed three whole days in the week, and it might have been exnected that they would be only too glad at tue chance of full employ ment. No sooner did the master start a rumour that he had secured a good contract than these wretches went out on strike for a rise of 10 per cent, and the consequence was that their master was obliged to decline the r contract. Who can have sympathy with ? such stupid fellows. THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. The boat race this year was a very hollow affair. Towards the last week it became very evident that Cambridge would be nowhere. They had far too rapid a stroke, and were pumped out from the outset. There was not quite such a mob as usual on the river bank, and the weather was intensely bitter, but as usual London broke out into a sudden eruption of blue. The cab horses, , ; the whips of the handsome drivers, even the crossing sweepers' brooms bore a light 0r..... dark badge ; and as for the female part of« the population, it was quite surprising to see what an interest they took in coruleaa matters. DEATH OF MR BATEMAN. The death of Mr Bateman, the American lessee of the Lyceum Theatre, was very sudden and unexpected by his friends. He was only ill a few hours, and, at the time of his actual decease, Miss Bateman was playing Ophelia to Mr Irving'a Hamlet. He was a most successful manager, and worked up the Lyceum from a very low ebb, and hfe loss will be very deeply felt on the boards. He was one of those who dared, an! successfully too," to revive the legitimate drama.on the London stage, and the " Old Colonel," as he was familiarly named, was the first to recognise the genius of Irving in Shakesperiatt dramas. A FAST YOUNG NOBLEMAN, Lord Charles Hamilton has been getting into trouble with the Jew jewellers. MesMi ._; i Emanuel Emanuel and Co. have been letting his Lordship run into debt in their books to the tune of £15,000, all expended in jewellery for *' pretty ladies." The jewellers had secured, as they thought, the money on the strength of His Lordship's expectations, but it turned out that he had none, so the biters were nicely bitten. They agreed to take £3,000, and unkind people say that r there will still be left to them a fair margin of profit as their profits are ordinarily about 75 per cent. THE LIBERAL LEADEBSHIP. There is little doing in the political world. It is said that the Marquis of HartingtoniS tired of his position. Finds it too great a tie, and. the party very unmanageable. He is really no leader, and never has been, andwas merely put in as a sort of stop-gap^ warming pan, or "split the difference. There is positively no one else to succeed him at the present time, unless Mr Gladstone were to re-consider his determination. Mr Foster would not suit the dissentew. The party would not serve under Mr Low • "vg Jjj SirJ William Harcourt has sunkjback fr -^Jgjl

Gladstone might do if he saw his party in extremes. DR. KENEALY. On Easter Monday, Dr. Kenealy got 20,000 idiots to go and listen to and cheer , hi*l" "pd Mr Onslow in Hyde Park. He « /speeches there about Orton and the Jsting subject of the trial, and all sorts of vain and ridiculou.3 resolutions were passed. The Orton movement has already begun to show signs of dying out, and the sooner the better for the lower orders of this country. As for Dr. Kenealy, Infancy he must be making his fortune out of the follies of his followers. NEW LONDON STREET. There is to be another grand new street made in London, connecting Fleet-street with the Thames Embankment. Those of your readers who know London, will remember what a crowded condition Fleetstreefc is always in, and this new outlet will be an immense convenience. The purchase money of the land for this street is £170,000, and to this amount isto be added theexpense of removing old houses, &c, but the Metropolitan Board of Works takes no thought of money in a case of this kind.