ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3630, 10 October 1874, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

_ The details of the Austrian Polar Expedition show that after abandoning the ship the party travelled seven months in sledges, and spent two winters on the ice. Only one died. 3

The Belfast strike has ended, ahd 10,000 workmen have gone back to employment at reduced wages. A fearful railway collision has occurred near Norwich. Twenty persons were killed and fifty injured. -Arch’s agricultural strike ended in failure and disaster, the farmers getting labor for haryest and leaving strikers unemployed. 'The Union announces its inability to support them, and many are emigrating. Outrages are reported at Uundrum, Ireland, against the farmers who use agricultural machinery. An encounter has taken place at Brazil between the troops and religious fanatics. The troops lost forty men, and were defeated, abandoning tbe artillery. Complaints are most vigorous in the American Press with reference to the treatment received by through passengers on the Australian mail line. . The conduct of Mr Hall in selling through tickets is characterised as swindling, he being made aware by telegraph that through tickets had been and would be dishonored. The Call demands chat the American Government should take steps to have Mr Hall punished, - At the recent meeting of the British Assoelation held in Belfast, Professor Tyndal, on taking his place as President, gave the Association a clear statement of hxs religious views. In it he charges religion, especially Christianity, with being inimical to human progress, and does not hesitate to assert his belief that iij the nature of things there cannot be aoy harmony between science and religion, and that if man is to progress, the latter must be sacrificed in the interests of the former. He ignores faith altogether, and, in short, declares himself a materialist.

Theodore Tilton’s new story, “ Tempest Tossed,” is having an immense run. It is reported that the various magnificent but secret donations that have been given to the different charitable institutions of London during the past few years have been traced to the Queen, who is said to have disposed of over LIOO,OOO in that way.