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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3609, 5 February 1883, Page 3

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A despatch from London dated January 9th says the British ship British Emj.irc, from Shields for Bombay, has been burned, at sea. Ten persons were siwed, but tAvo boats containing the caj.tain, mate, and fourteen hands arc missing. Pigott, the Land Leaguer, declares that £100,000 of tho Land League's money is unaccounted for.

The editors of the Times and London Observer were cited by the Lord Chief Justice on the 11th January for contenvpt in publishing correspondence in the Boyd-Cham-berlain libel suit^ ' The new LaAV (_ v. "ts arc jn'ono'unced architectural failure.

Alichael Davitt on the 14th January attempted to deliver an address at Oldham on the Irish quastion, but Avas howled cloavu by an organised gang. A free fight folloAved. AA'eajions, suj. jiosed to have been used by the Phcenix Park assassins, have been found near the premises of Carey, of the Dublin Municipality, AA'ho was arrested Avith tAventy others on the charge of conspiring to murder Government officials.

Judgment has been given against Bradlaugh in the action against Erskine, the Deputy Sergeaiit-at-Amis of the House of Commons for assault on the occasion of Bradlaugh attempting to enter the House of Commons and take Ids seat as a member after a resolution had been passed prohibiting his doing so.

Richardson and Nivcu's linen factory at Belfast Avas burnt on January 11. The loss is £30,000.

Tho ship AVild Deer, bound to Now Zealand, became a total Avrcck on the north coast of Cloughey, Ireland, on January 3. All ou board .vcrc saved.

On the 13th January tho Prince of AValcunveiled tho slatuto at the Royal Alilitary Academy, Woolwich, erected to"the__.__ory

of the Prince Imperial by the subscriptions of .Aventy-five thousand officers and men of the British army. Patrick Higgins, one of the murderers of the Huddys, was hanged in Gahvay on tho 15th January. There AA-as no excitement. The British note re Egypt was proposed in order to avoid abuse *of the freedom of the Suez canal; that it shall be enacted that, in time of Avar, a limitation shall be placed on the times during Avhich vessels of belligerent PoAvers Avill be permitted to remain in the canal, and that no troops or munitions of Avar shall bo disembarked, and no hostilities permitted in the canal,_or its approaches, or anyAvhere in the territorial waters of Egypt, even in the event of Turkey being "one of the belligerents. A recurrence of an emergency resembling the late rebellion is proA-ided for by a clause excepting- the measures for the defence of Egypt from the above restrictions. Every poAver shall be bound to bear the cost of the immediate repair of any damage its A-cssels may cause in the canal, unci Egypt shall take all measures hilts power to' enforce the conditions imposed upon the ships of belligerent Powers using the canal. No fortifications shall be erected on tho canal' or in the vicinity. Nothing in the agreement, Ikjavcver, 'shall be construed as curtailing the territorial rights of Egypt further than expressly stipulated. Among other subjects the note declares the question of the suppression of sla.A-.ery to be one AA-hich the British Government has much at heart and that it Avill miss no opportunity of ach-ising j the Khedive to take the necessary steps calculated to attain the end in vicAv.