MAIL ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1073, 17 November 1882, Page 3

MAIL ITEMS.

By the San Francisco Mail. A despatch from Dublin, dated October 4, says the police believe that that the inurderers of Lord Frude iek Cavendish and Under-secretary Bourko numbered ten, and are still in Ir 'a id j but that unless the aid of some inf-rmer can bo secured the crime cannot be brought home to the guilty parties The weapons need in the commission of the murder wore found some days ago com-e -led in the ratters of a stable in the rear of the house belonging to a man recently sentenced to penal servitude for intimidation of Mrs Kenny, widow ot tho man mutdored in Saville place, Dublin, because ho was suspected of having given informationlegarding the murders. It is alleged that Kenny was the driver of tho cab in which the murderers rode. The weapons found were four knives, nine inches long, with blades thr-e----quarters of an inch wide. They are quite new, very sharp, and evidently surgical dissecting knives. The Wades were discolomed, as proved by chemical analysis, by human blood. The authorities maintain the strictest silence. Three London detectives arrived at Dublin on the 15th October with th ee of the crew of the Gladstone, one of whom was Westgage, the self-accused assassin, who as mentioned before, had sailed for the West Indies. The sailors were subjected to a searching examination, and the authorities are thoroughly determined to sift Westgage’s assertions in order to quiet the public mind. The police adhere to their belief that Westgage is crazy, and that his assertions a- - unworthy of belief. Ds| t es from Loudon, dated October 8, say .oat the comet is all the talk of scientific circles at present. It is being regarded with considerable apprehension. Mr. Richard A. Proctor, who denied that it was the comet of 1843 and 18SD, now finds that he made a m's*ake in his calculations, and so has withdrawn his statement. More cautious astronomers than be have no doubt of its identity, and believe that it will return. at latest, in October 1883, and will then fad into the sun, with results that will dispense with the future publication of tho niwspapers ot the world. It is said that this is the opin on of the most eminent authorities of the day. Mr. C. Piazzi • Smyth, t'ne Astronomer-Royal of Scitland, in particular, his made no secret of his belief that the end of the world is at hand. An ac'-ount of the first cremati m which has ta l en piaci in England is published The bodies were those of Lady Hansbaw and Mrs. Hansbaw', who died in Dorsetshire m 1877 and 1876 r-spectively. They both expressed the wish that their bodies should ne crema'rd. The rtm uns were k-pt in a mortuary house until pre) arations for the process were completed, and on Sun-lay, the Shi -st., the remains were enclosed in substantial cf.fii s, placed on afu naceon plates of iron, (dveinch), and reduced .to ashes. In ati inquiry held on October 12h into the murder of process-servers near Lough Mask, a farmer named Kerrigan and his w'ifo testified that the elder Hnddy was stunned with a stone 8 he was serving the paper, and he was then kick id, while an assassin from a cover fired into his body, killing him. The younger Huldv’s head was then dashed atrainst, a heap of stones, and he was afterwards shot in the presence of a crowd of villagers. By a dispatch dated October 13 it appears that the Committee under tho presidency of General Sir A. Alison, appointed to report on the Channel Tunnel, considers tho exit, of the tunnel should be comma-ide 1 bv a fortress of the first class. Tho • tunnel should be provide 1 with a portcnßus and j with an arrangement for filling it over a i sufficient, spice with irreapirahle gas, and that measures shoul I be taken for the dc- i inolishing ot the land pn>-tion, for the tem- I porary flooding of the main tunnel, and i so for its total destruction bv a mine. These arrangements should be controlled by aonerate parties, both inside and on side, com mainline the fortress. But when all this is done, the Committee admit that, it would be presumptuous to place absolute reliance upon even the most comprehensive arrangements. M< moron da from Sir <4. Wolseley and the Duke of O mm-idee are appended to th- report, condemning the proposed tunnel in even stronger terms. The Times considers tl-.i report has settled the question of a Channel tunnel adversely for a long lime to come. A thick fog smelling of burning turf covered the whole ot St. Petersburg on the 20th and 2lst of October, A vast circle of incendiary fires extended from Finland to the Baltic is said to surround the capital, and to include within its circumference Gatsohina, where the Fmp-.ror now is. The tires are in the woods under which are turfpits, and they may last for a long time. They are attributed to tho Nihilists. Overdank. the man arrested in San Francisco some time since whilst manufacturing bombs, was sentenced to death on October !9!h. Mr Stanley, the African explorer, returned to London on 16tb October. He considers the work he undertook on the Congo for the King of the Belgians practically finished and will not return to Africa for the present. A belief is current among Mr Gladstone’s friends that he intends absolutely to rerirc into private life after the autumn se ; sion. The Marpuis of Harrington is regarded as the coming Premier. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s farewell address on retiring f-om the congregation shows that in effect he denies the inspiration of the Scriptures, tho orthodoxy of the doctnnes of thefall and atonement, and also tho doctrines of general punishment, at which he scoffed. Owing to the large increase of pauperism in the South ot Ireland, the Dublin Union has taken the lea-1 in the proposal to send 1000 able-bodied men and women to Canada, at a cost of £7OOO. Ga'b'-niti.’s spinning-mills at Glasgow wore burnt. The loss was £500,000. A street fight in Knoxville, Tennessee, terminated fatally. The feu 1 was between the Mabegs and Major Tom O’Conner. It involved the death of the parties concerned. O'Conner, who was killed, was the wealthiest man in the State, being worth 10, 000, OOOdol