GREAT BRITAIN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3702, 28 May 1883, Page 4

GREAT BRITAIN.

Loxdox, May •'• The project for a second Suez canal is rapidly taking shape, and unless delayed for political reasons will undoubtedly be developed at an early d;ite. Capital for the project is forthcoming iv London without the slightest delay. The old canal shares have fallen in Paris. Prince Batheiiy, who fell dead on the Newmarket racecourse recently, left the greater part of his property to his mistress. His relatives will contest his will. Au explosion occurred in Peterborough, blowing up a, sewer iv the principal street. It caused great alarm, as it was believed to be the work of dynamitist.s, but it was soon found out that the cause was an ignition of gas in tho sewer. In Carey's examination during the trial of the Phconix Park murderers Brady's counsel elicited that Carey, while plotting the murders with the other men, -was a member of a society which received the Sacrament at stated periods. He had for IB years been working i'or wages averaging £2 per week, and in IKB2 he had 90 houses. Einally he said he had been informed by lMallow, the chief of the Dublin detectives, that if his (Carey's) evidence should be freely given to the Crown, and bo confirmed by that of others, he and his brother Avould bo pardoned. The Dublin Freeman's Journal says that the dynamite plot was betrayed to the British consulate at New York, and the name of every conspirator who came to England, and the slap in wliich he sailed, (tabled to England directly after the vessel left New York, and that the police watched the conspirators from the moment they landed in England. Tho Journal adds that only members of tho governing council could have given such information. The Parnell testimonial fund realised up to April :ioth.Cl2o(). Lady 3lountmorris and 3lrs Blake have been awarded jCiiOOO each compensation for the murder of their husbands. The Irish National League in Loudon is raising a fund i'or the relief of the families of those avlio have fled the country or con arrested in connection with murders n Ireland; GUI) families are said to be destitute. The police have evidence that James Carey Was implicated in the murder of Talbot, police inform'!'; Clark, Fenian informer ; and in the attempted murder of 3turphy. Mr Siemens, telegraphic engineer, has been knighted by the Queen. 3l'r Gladstone in reply to a question in he House of Commons, said he did not flunk it in accordance with the public interest to make a, statement as to negotiations with lho American Government on the subject of Irish outrages. Sir Stafford Northcote unveiled the statue of Earl Beaconsfield in Parliament Square, London. There was a groat assemblage present. Kingston, Ilealy, and Gibuey, charged ■with conspiracy to murder 3lr Poole, were brought up at the Dublin Police Court on 3lay Ith for examination. An informer named Larino gave evidence confirming the existence of a " violence and murder circle" to which the prisoners belonged. Tho prisoner.-* wore roiuaiidc-d for a week.