GREAT BRITAIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3213, 17 October 1881, Page 3

GREAT BRITAIN.

September 25

The conference at Westmeath called by the National Land League, and intended as a demonstration in favor of " fair trade " principles was very thinly attended.

The Methodist (Esumenical Council is in session in London. Dr. Bennett says the falling off of the children of the sect in America in favor of other denominations was one of the most disastrous facts connected with methodism.

The farmers are threshing, and the results arc poor indeed. In the North of Scotland the root crops will be almost a total failure, and in Ireland the potatoes are seriously damaged. Dean Stanley left £84,000 behind him, and in the text of his will just published he gives suras of money to between thirty and forty persons, as well as £3000 to the Dean and Chapter of Westminister, a portion of which is to be applied to the abolition of the fees now charged for visiting the Abbey, and £500 to the Westminister Nurse's Home.

Lord Ohanderboye, Lord Dufferin's son, has just beaten Byron and Leander's swim from Sistor to Abydoa. He swam across from Therapia to Blikos in little more than an hour.

A despatch from Calcutta to the London Times says the Tea Syndicate established in 1880, for the purpose of opening up the Australian and American markets to Indian tea, report that the operations have been successful. The agent of the Syndicate in America reports that the prospects of building up a trade with India is most promising. The Irish Land League has unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the farmers to prove their sympathy for the laborers by erecting dwellings for them, and enabling them to live in something like comfort and decency. A resolution was adopted recommending the laborers to use Irish manufactures, and empowering branches to adopt measures to encourage native industry. Mr Johnson, the founder and secretary of the Irish Laborer's League, spoke, saying the laborers would show the world that they could best attain their ends by joiaing hands with Mr Parnell. He said all efforts to separate them would prove futile. Resolutions were adopted adding to the Land League's present title the words " and Labor and Industrial Union." Immediately after the Dublin convention a series of monster land meetings will be commenced, the first to be at Irisbtown, where Davitt began the League movement in 1879. Mr Parnell presides. The country continues very unsettled. A system of intimidation remains in force, and serious outrages on property are reported. There is a very bitter feeling between the police and the people.

A conflict has taken place in Dublin between the police and the public caused by some soldiers making some insulting remarks about the JPope. Fifteen persons were wounded. Bishop Nulty, of Meath, advises that the' Land Bill have a fair trial. Mr Parnell's speech, in which he said they proposed to test the Act, not use it, was a surprise. Mr Kettle has iseued an address from Kilmainham gaol as a Land League candidate |for Parliament for County Monaghan. Mr Thomas Dicksonhas been returned to Parliament from County Tyrone to fill the vacancy caused by Mr Lyttons appointment as Commissioner under the Land Act. . _

A herdsman in the employ of Captain O'Callaghan, of Tulla, County Clare, died on the 7th September, having been shot a fortnight before. The vindictiveness of the persons concerned in the murder is shown by their posting notices warning the people against attending the funeral. Lieut. Boye, the Arctic explorer, has gone to Patagonia to examine that region.