NEWS BY THE MAIL

Evening Star, Issue 2914, 21 June 1872, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL

The following general summary of news is from a second edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, of May 31 London, April 19. English public opinion is dead against the grasping trickiness of the Sydney Premier, and Lord Belmore’s complicity is regarded with grave disapprobation. The Daily Telegraph treats Sir James Martin’s discomfiture as a punishment for his disparaging remarks about Gladstone as an arch-destroyer of the empire. The Spectator thinks the dispute will hasten colonial confederation, and perhaps cost Hew South Wales a valuable province. But for his protectionist aberration the Hon. Charles Cavan Duffy would stand high in English estimation. The tone of the Press is respectful to him. The announcement of a project for a grand trunk railway across Australia is thought premature and injudicious. The opinion is that it would be better first to complete telegraphic land lines to Port Darwin. A very effective paper on the cost of the colonies, and controverting Professor Rogers’ views, was read last month before the Statistical Society by Mr Hamilton. The fact that British sheep and stock are deficient four and a half millions has provoked anxious discussions about future meat supplies. Agricultural men urge the improved culture of grass lands. Mr Edward Wilson points out in the Times the limitless sources of supply of Australian preserved meat. The trade is rallying. Several vessels have with Communist convicts for New Caledonia. Notwithstanding the briskness of trade the volume of emigration swells. 200 Cornish miners have left for Australia : others are preparing to follow. Upwards of 14,000 sailed from the Mersey in M arch, Canada is offering special advantages in order to attract emigration. ... . Mr Lang is preparing designs for a memorial of those who fell in the New Zealand war. . . A shipment of destitute Communists to England was stopped by a remonstrance on the°part of the British Government. A shoemaker named Missengtpye, under fear of fjtaryatipn, puudered his four children. Hr. Carden, of Clapham, clergyman, has been sentenced to six months hard labour for obtaining money under false pretences of charity. Mr Daintree has received L6OO towards the expenses of the annexe built to receive Queensland goods at the Intercolonial Exhibition ; other Colonies are all bebills have been found against Thomas Castro for perjury and forgery. He pleaded not guilty. Subscriptions towards his defence to nearly LIOOO have been made. A petition has been sent from the claimant’s Hampshire friends, asking the Government to furnish money for his defence. The bankruptcy proceedings are postponed for three expected that a French mail company will take up the route for New Caledonia.

Liardet proposes Port Darwin as the headquarters of the Australian mail service, with branch steamer. The Prince and Princess of Wales received a cordial welcome at Rome. The King of Denmark, Mr J. Buchanan, Members of Legation, Italians, and other official personages, waited subsequently to pay a visit to the Pope, which Mr Newdegate has made the subject of a solemn adjuration in Parliament. They spent ten day's in Florence, nnd then left for Milan. The Duke of Edinburgh was present at the annual meeting of the National Lifeboat Institution, and gave a graphic sketch of recent lifeboat services. Prince Arthur turned the first sod for a new branch railway between Sandgate and Hytbe, and received the honorary freedom of the Grocers Company. Governor Kcate has been appointed to the West African Settlements. Mr Edwin James has returned from America, and commenced a series of lectures on the Great Republic. At Manchester, lamplighters have extorted higher wages by deeds of darkness. Dock labourers threaten to strike. The Heath Lane murderers were captured in Paris, and confessed to the crime. The'roal strength of revolving turrets is shortly to be tested by a combat between the Hotspur and the Glatten. A shipment of destitute Communists to England was stopped by a remonstrance on the part of the British Government. The introduction of the Internationale in Ireland occasions excitement. Sixty members formed in Dublin an influential deputation to invite the Premier to visit Belfast, and their invitation was accepted. The hours of voting in the Ballot Bill are from 8 till sunset, with provisions for scrutiny aud to make ballot premissive. It was admitted that the laml question must shortly receive earnest attention. The Conservative demonstration at Manchester was very significant, Mr Disraeli and Viscountess Beaconsfield were received with overwhelming enthusiasm. The horses were taken from their carriage and the guests were drawn in triumph to the residence of Mr Calleudar, Victoria Park, where a large number of Conservatives assembled in the dancing saloon of Pomana Gardens next day. Mr Disraeli was greatly pleased He received multitudes of deputations and addresses from all parts of Lancashire. On Wednesday a monster meeting was held in the Free Trade Hall, Mr Disraeli spoke for three hours on the Throne, the Peers, the Commons, Church and State, Nonconformists, Education, the Army, the Admiralty, and the foreign policy of the Ministry, which he compared to extinct volcanoes. On Thursday he received deputations from factory operatives—from the Church Defence Association, in regard to the freedom of public worship. He lunched at the Conservative Club, visited Peel Park, and dined with a party of distinguished Conservatives on Friday. He took his departure amid the acclamations of a crowd of friends. The Liberal Press thinks personal popularity rather than sympathy with the Conservative policy explains the remarkable success of the Lancashire visit. Strikes of agricultural labourers are agitating farmers and landowners. There are combinations in Warwickshire, Cambridge, Lincoln, and Hereford. They are rapidly extending and ranging themselves under powerful leaders. Energetic demands are made for 16s to 18s wages, cottages from landlords, and right to combine. Fanners declare that they cannot afford it. The Press says their rents should be lowered and tenure extended. Relief committees for the laborers are re-organised; Trades’ Unions are helping. 500 compositors struck work ; but masters succumbed to the majority. 1500 men in Birmingham nut and bolt trade have accepted amended terms. A colliery explosion has occurred at Bolton ; 26 lives were lostAt the fuze manufactory explosion at Camborae, nine girls were killed, and more were wounded.

A tunnel has been projected under the Mersey, between Birkenhead. Sir John Goss was enterta'ned at a banquet given by his musical friends, the Premier in the chair. Christ’s Hospital is to be removed to the country. The site fetched L 600,000. Several railways follow the Midland in attaching third-class carriages. Measures are being taken to realise Fowler’s steam ferry across the Channel. Mr Bright has written an admirable letter to Mr Cyrus Field, strongly condemning the American case, as marked more by attorney - ship than statemanship. Lord Russell condemns going to arbitration till the claims are withdrawn as weak and dangerous. The Sunday Trading Bill was rejected after discussion. It was admitted that the land question must shortly receive earnest attention. John Bright reappeared in the House occasionally to test his capacity to bear excitement. Sir Massey Lopes’ motion, in reference to local taxation, was carried against the Government by 100 majority. A Private Character Protection Bill has been introduced by Mr Raikes, in consequence of the Travers-Twiss case.