FRISCO MAIL NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 56, 21 October 1884, Page 3

FRISCO MAIL NEWS

[PRE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, September 21. A British, gunboat was foundered off Tory Island on the north-west coast of Ireland on September 23rd. Fifty-two men, including all the officers, were drowned. Only six persons were saved, by clinging to wreckage. The vessel struck at 3 o'clock in the morning, during a haze. A correspondent of a well - known American paper has eloped from London with the young wife of an English nobleman, and they are believed to have taken a passage to the Australian colonies. The most curious part of the affair is that the journalist is old enough to be the father of the lady. The names arc -not yet made public. An English Church paper savagely atk tacked General Wolseley and Lord Northbrook for starting on their Egyptian mission on Sunday. Her Majesty Queen Victoria is at Bal- j moral for the autumn. She is said to be in a gloomy state ef mind, and visits John Brown's grave daily. Over 3000 people at Leicester were recently summoned for defying the vaccination laws, the feeling against which is bitter ali over England. The Rev. Mr Track leton, Presbyterian clergyman of Tullamore. has brought a suit for £60,000, and Mrs Brown for £25,000, against the Dublin Freeman's Journal for damages. The Journal printed an article in its columns, stating the clergyman had eloped with Mrs Brown to Paris. Fifteen thousand persons attended tho funeral of Duggan at Dublin on the 14th September. Among them were Messrs O'Brien and Davitt. At a meeting of the National League, Ballianslse, on the 2 1st September, Mr J. M. Kenny, M.P. for EHnis, declared that Ireland would never be contented till she was free. The Irish members in the House of Commons were opposed, he said, to tho Liberal Government because they expect more from the Conservatives. Resolutions were adopted in favour of an Independent Government and a peasant proprietory. Mr Parnell was cheered as the future Premier of Ireland. Sir. Stafford Northcote, in an addross to the Conservatives of Edinburgh, said the action of the Government on the Franchise Bill demonstrated a desire to rise grievances against the House of Lords. Mrs Weldon, who won her own case against Drs Winslow and Temple for illegally confirming her in a lunatic asylum, is again before the London courts in the various capacities of plaintiff, defendant, and counsel- Since her first success the lady is said to have become a monomaniac on litigation. A London despatch of the 34th Sept says the lately divorced Lady Colin Campbell recently applied toa leading newspaper for a position as correspondent with the Egyptian army, but being denied she has sought retirement at tho home of her mother, Mrs Edwin Maghln-Blood in Ireland. Mr Gladstone left Midlothian on the 26th September. On parting he thanked his constituents with much warmth of expression for tho encourageing reception accorded to him throughout the tour. The many honours shown htm were owing, he believed, to the great cause which he represented. He also spoke at Carlisle. Among other things of a like tenor he said in the present crisis the Lords ought to study the best means, provided that the House of Lords shall not fall, ihis end can best be secured by their acting with moderation and prudence.