MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1133, 18 January 1884, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

A strike of 'engineefs has taken place on the CanailiaiiiPacifib "ritSyi'fiy/and business ' is at a standstill. The company was re- , trenching. f !’ Mr .Wilson, a. curate at St., George’s Ca hedrali Kingston! Ontario,' /has been dismissed for attending a Salvation Array Ilg ,U-m 1.1, l) % il.: rr The Pope has approved of the proposal to erect a memorial church to Daniel O’Cdnnel, at Calinbveri, County Kert y.' V Arch- 1 bishop Croku will lay the corner stone. The executrix of the Dowager Lady Lytton threatens to publish 300 letters of the late Lord -unless his son will do justice to the memory of his mother. ' Mr Bradlaugh met with a cordial reception’ in Paris, But he studiously avoided the Anarchists,. ■«, > , , • ’ The refusal of Mr Goschen to accept tho Speakership of the House of .Commons is the result of.aapirations to succeed the Marquis of Ripen as Viceroy of India. ’ Ther n are 14,000 cotton operatives idle in Lancashire, and ha’f the Blackburn looms are stopped through the men being on strike..... , lt . , ... The Anglo-Egyptian Bank,' Alexandria, offered the Egyptian Government ton million sterling to construct a canal parallel to tho present Suez Canal. The deficit in the Egyptian budget for 1853 is three million dollars. , , There were violent gales throughout Great Britain on December 12th, and much dkmage donq.v , ,01 i.l -snn«l Gerald Massey, whp has arrived in New York to deliver a course of lectures, has' commenced an action against the New York Times , damages 5000 dollars, iop publishing a defamatory article. ~ ;.{ot «s» ! The Bolivian Commissioners at Santa do Chili report the completion of peafia negotiations between Pern- and Chili. ••‘‘ • The London police have began to raid the fashionable gambling houses. ' On'the I3'.h they entered the. Baccarat Club, Pink’s Club, Park's; Club, and others known as small hells, and warned the players and proprietors. ' The following failures are reported : Peyton and Peyton, furniture manufacturers, • Birmingham, Ll00,000; Abbot, Page, and Co,, London, stockbrokers, L 165.100. Cyrata, a Lyons anarchist concerned in an explosion at hj theatre there, has been sentenced to death. Rosa Bonheur is dangerously ill at Fontaiubleau. Tremendous floods in tho Scheldt did great damage. Badingaret, who helped tho Emperor Napoleon 111. to escape from tho fortress of Ham, died in Paris lately. Manteufell, Governor of Alsace and Lorraine, has issued an order abolishing the French language in debate. Sarah Bernhardt has assaulted Marie Colonvier, an actress who accompanied her to America, for publishing a satirical biography of her under the title “ Sarah Bernhaum.” A civil suit brought by the Central News Agency against the comic paper Judy was dismissed by the jiiduc on the ground that tho alleged libel was a fair criticism on the way the Agency conducted its business, and if the suit was acceded to the freedom of the Press would be seriously endangered. A meeting will shortly take place between the Emperors of Austria, Germany, and Russia, Thu tea nins of the Jeanette Arctic exploring i arty reache' l Irinkstik on December 21st, uemg escorted by a military guard. They writ Ibe taken to Alriou. The dispute between Spain and France as to King Alfonso’s treatment in Paris has been satisfactorily settled. Tho Grown Prince of Germany, during his visit to Madrid, gave 24.00J piastres to palace servants, aud 50,000 to military asylums. At the opening of the Spanish Cortes the Royal sp eeh announced an extension of suffrages to ad who can read and write, and pay .taxes. The Innrioanc in the Province of Ahenso, Spain, on the 12th of December, uprooted 1400 olive trees, aud demolished tho quays. At Deruca, in Valoneii, it mandated the town and wrecked 13 vessels. Canton Valois, Switzerland has restored the death penalty for murder. Mod. Savaiez, tho Pope’s domestic prelate, has left the Roipan Catholic Church and been received into the Episcopalian Church by Dr Niven, of St. Paul’s American Church, Romo. The Italian S.S. Co has refused tho uso of steamers to tho French Government for Tonquin service. At the funeral of Mario a wreath from Queen Victoria was placed on the coffin. At an interview between the Pope and an American Catholic bishop the former expressed hopes that he might live to see the Greek and Latin Churches united.. Several people were crushed to death in Moscow on December 10th, owing to the pressure of immense crowd assembled to receive a gratuity usually given at tho demise of wealthy persons. The assemblage was at tlio house of a rich merchant. The depression in tho iron trade of. America continues. The manufactories in, Pennsylvania generally arc shutting down, and 12,000 coal miners are out of employ-; ment. , A statue of Mr Gladstone has been un,-l veiled at the Libera}. Club Room, London. Earl Granvill».‘.'delivered strong personal ■ speech on the Premier. ■ • A movement has been commenced against secret societies by a Christian league embracing the loading divines of the United States Brennan, hon. secretary of the.lrish Land League, is in Sau Francisco for the purpose of,(raising money for the .League., . . * Yillard, the,, projector and. successful manager of the Northern Pacific railroad, has resigned the presidency owing to pressure by the discontented stockholders. His manipulations have almost beggared several leading men of the country, while ho is reported to he worth 10,000,00t)dols. A twenty years’ law suit ended in ’Frisco on December 13th by a pioneer of California and millionaire, Ohas. M‘Laughlin, being assassinated in his office by a railway contractor, named B. Cox, who hod grown desperate through his protracted legal difficulties with M’Laughlin. Cox originally advanced money to the deceased to build a railway between San Josa and San Francisco. The New York Cotmpissioner is purifying the police department. Five officers havo been dismissed, two permitted to resign, one placed on trial for murder, and others charged with drunkenness and obtaining money under, false pretences. Seventy workmen discharged from the Patterson Locomotive Works, New Jersey, left for tho Clyde to work in tho iron works there, paying their own passages. American freetrade journals says this augurs badly for protection. The British and Chinese flags were. pnh*. licly burnt by an assemblage of Iriahm- n in Bin Francisco on Sunday, December 9th. Cremation was preceded-by resolutions of sympathy for O’Donnell.. , -I A movement for separate government is gaining gromid in Manitoba, owing to misgovehnnent at Ottawa. A great convention I has been held at Winnipeg.