NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1981, 10 September 1869, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

We have had few domestic incidents of importance, London has been partly amused, parity scandalised, by a scene in one of the police-courts. A Mr Grenville Murray, who has been for some years unfavorably rr. garded by the Foreign-office, is supposed to he connected with a scurrilous newspaper in which sundry of the officials there have been constantly and insol ntly abused. A young lord, Gariugton, whose amusement is driving a coaph, [found in the paper au offensive reference to his late father, So he went tp the Conservative Club and assaulted Mr Murray, who is at present a member thereof, Whether he merely struck him, formally, or cleft his beaver with a downright blow is a matter on which Murray and the club-porter are disagreed, the former alleging that he was weakly smitten, and that his em my was seared, and ran away. Any way Murray summoned Lord Carington, who is now on bail to stand his trial. But after the hearing, his lordship’s solicitor, who had a black box of papers, was suddenly set upon by persons who desired to seize this box, wh- reon some of the more respectable part of the rushed tp his defence, a free fight ensued.

and the magistrate left the court. The hox was, however, retained hy the solicitor. Until contradictory evidence shall be produced, the public will remain in the belief that the box contained papers which were given up, in terror of law, by somebody connected with the scurrilous paper, and that they would throw light upon authorship the proof whereof would be disagreeable to Murray and others. The assaulted Murray is very persistent in his sclf-vindic ition. It has been suggested that this distinguished officer should be sent out to New Zealand to settle accounts with the rebellious natives. Colonel Gordon is the Engineer officer who, at the head of the Ch’aug Sheng Chi’un, or Ever Victorious Army, as it was officially called in the Chinese records, accomplish, d the overthrow of the dreaded Taepings, ami relieved tlie Imperial Government from a danger which threatened its very existence. To appreciate the remarkable character of this achievement it must be remembered that the force which afterwards acquired such an imposing title was, when Gordon first assumed command of it, a loose, straggling, undisciplined body of 3000 men, all told, chiefly foreign mercenaries of equivocal trustworthiness ; that he was destitute of anything in the shape of an organised commissariat or transport service, and embarrassed by official routine and jealousies ; and that he had to lead this army, under such trying circumstances, through an exceedingly difficult country, in the face of a wily and desperate foe, flushed with continuous victory, and excited by fanatical fervour. The moral ascendency which Gordon established over all who came in contact with him, his calm decision and force of character were even more remarkable than his military energy and genius. He was no less successiu restraining the excesses of his own victorious troops than in routing the Taepings. In 16 months he took four cities and a dozen strong places of minor importance, and with 3QQO mep of the kind we have described scattered before him an enemy 15 times as numerous. Having done these feats, Colonel Gordon, in fhe most modest and disinterested manner withdrew to England, where be has since be n engaged in superintending the construction of some military works in the marshes near Gravesend. Thex-e are thousands of men, of course, quite fit for such a work as that; but it would be difficult to point out any one in the service more signally' qualified for such work as awaits doing in New Zealand. A deputation of gentlemen interested in Hew Zealand bad an interview with Lord (Jrapyille op July Ist, to urge the necessity,'updei: present circumstances, of retaining for a short time, seme troops in the colony. The deputation was introduced by ■ Mr 0. Magniac, M.P., and consisted of Mr Malheson, M.P., Mr N. M do Rothschild, M.P., Mr C. H. Mills, M.P., Mr Jardine, M IL, Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart,, Mr Brooks, Mr Larnaoh, Mr Boutcher, Mr Miles, Mr Dalgety, Mr Campbell, Mr Vanderbyl, Mr W, S. Oral in me, Mr John Morrison, Mr Larkworthy, Mr Williamson, Mr H. W. I), Saunders, Mr Waterhouse, Mr Robert Campbell, and Mr A. M'Arthur. Amongst the recent appointments under the new Order of St Michael and St George are the following : —Ordinary members of the third class, or companions of the Order, Charles Cowper, Esq., late Chief Minister of the Government of New South Wales ; John IJqyley Daryall, Fsq., late Attorney-General of the colony of New South Wales ; Ferdinand Mueller, Esq., M.D., Government Botanist for the colony of Victoria ; George Macleay, Esq., of New South Wales. Forty-sevep peers—ipcludipg thp Earl of Derby, who beads the list, apd Bishop Selwyn—have protested against the Irish Church Bill, pn the following grounds:—!. Because the Bill, for the first time since the foundation of the British Empire, introduces Hp far a,s Irelaip iaj copcerned, the principle, Unrecognised ip any other country of Europe, of ap entire severance of State and Church. 2, Because the adoption of this principle cannot but give great encouragement to those who desire its extension to every part of England. 3. Because it is a violent stretch of the power of Parliament to reverse a grant made by itself in perpetuity ; still more to confiscate j, roperty held by long prescription and by a title independent of Parliament. 4. Because if this principle be well founded as rcgarda private property, it is stilj more fco with regard tp that which hag been solemnly set apart for the purposes of religion apd the service of God. 5. Because the legislation attempted by the Bill tends to shake confidence in all property, and especially in that which rests upon a Parliamentary title, heretofore considered as the most unassailable of all. 6. Because it is impossible to place a church disestablished and disendowed, and bound together only by a tie of a voluntary association on a footing of equality with the perfect organisation of the Church of Rome. 7- Because the bill Mill be felt as a grievous injustice by the Protestants of Ireland, who, through their Irish Pad ament, surrendered their pol'■fdpalipdependenceby a treaty thefundamental condition of which was the greater secui ity of the Protestant establishment 8. Because while the measure will tend to aleurite those ivho have hitherto been the iiuncst supn rters of Bpjtish throne and British Connexion, so far tram concili itipg, much Jess satisfying, it will only stimulate to fresh demands that large portion of the Roman Catholic ] opulation of Ireland which looks forward to ulterior and very different objects, and, above all, fo ultimate emancipation from the control of the British Legislature. The claimant to the Tichborne titl : and estates arrived at the Swan Inn. Alrcsford, near Tichborne Park, on Friday afternoon, July 2, after an absence of some months, lip was immediately called upon by many of jiis old acquaintances, and by the oldest and pjost influential of his tenants. The claimant pas now been known for nearly three years iu Alresford and Tichborne since his return from Australia. Hardly a day passes without some fresh case of recognition between him and those who knew him in his younger days. He only awaits the arrival of the connnis-ion from Australia to try bis case. The other commission, from Chili, has arrived, and is said to have ascertained that the claimant cannot hi Arthur Orton, and that he is marked in ao peculiar a manner as to settle that question to the satisfaction of any jury in Great lb itain The Wimbledon meeting has passed very successfully. The Frinee of Wales’ prize of LIOO was won by Corporal Peake, Gtli Laucashire Rifles, with 45 points. This gentleman was, by the Association’s rules, debarred from entering any other contest, as during practice he loaded his rifle by accident with a live instead of a dummy cartridge, 'fhe §OO yards breech-loading competition resulted, so far as the competition has gone,

in a triumph for the Henry. Sergeant Pace, 26th Kent, in the three minutes got off 43 ronutis and scored 114, live more than too winning score of year. The Wcstley-Richards-Henry was als > fired with promising results ; one competitor gat oil’ 315 rounds, and scored 104 points ; another gat off 42 and scored the same number ; while a third with the same description of rifle got off 40 and scored 97The Chassepnt was tried, but entirely bro.ee down ; and the Martini-Henry only got off 34 rounds with a total score of 84. In London, on June 28, a silversmith, named Duggan, murdered his wife and six children, and afterwards poisoned himself. 111-health, and the consequent loss of employment, appear to have been the cause of his’eommittingthe deed, although he alleged in a letter written to his master that the liaxvsh and inlmm.an treatment o£ Lis landlord was the cause.

Enormous demonstrations, exceeding in number anytliingthat can be remembered, took place all over Ireland on June 12 ; but they passed off without disturbance. The following resolutions were adopted at many places :—“That inasmuch as the ancient Church of Ireland had no connection with the Church of Rome, and as the property of the Established Church was given either by private endowment or by grant from the Crown, we regard the Irish Church both as a most unconstitutional measure, and a gross act of robbery, injustice, and wrong. That as the Province of Ulster, which in the reign of James I. yielded only a revenue of LI 1.805, now yields L 1,948,345, a state of things due to the energy and perseverance of the Ulster Presbyterians, the withdrawal of the Reginm Donum cannot be regarded as other than ungrateful and ungenerous. That trusting in God, we are determined to use every means in- our power for the preservation of the true rehgion, and the maintenance of the Protestant institutions of this kingdom, assuredly believing them to be the only safeguards of the civil and religious liberty of all classes and denominations of people in this empire.