DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 212, 12 February 1875, Page 4

DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

A telegram from Aden contains a bit of intelligence which will make geographers prick up their ears. It states that letters have been received from Lieutenant Cameron announcing that he had circumnavigated Lake Tanganyika, and on the unvisited western side had found an effluent, which he has identified with the Lualabaof Livingstone. If this information is substantiated, the problems so frequently discussed, whether the Lake has any connection with the Nile, and what becomes of its surplus water, may be considered solved. Lieutenant Cameron believes that by descending the Lualaba he will find his way into the Congo, and eventually to the West Coast. Bespecting the arrangement entered into by the Government of New South Wales to continue the San Francisco mail service the Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne Argus writes as follows :—Three of the boats brought out by Mr Hall are available—namely, the Cyphrenes the Macgregor and the Mikado. To these the company add the City of Melbourne,, and as a spare boat, the Wentworth. At a pinch the City of Adelaide would also be available. There is no prospect, therefore, of any difficulty arising from the company running short of ships. The route will remain as at present from Sydney to Auckland and Auckland to San Francisco. This is not the shortest route, but it is the most economical, as involving no branch service. While our Government is thus at this end acting on behalf of the two colonies, and doing its best to keep the route open, it will devolve chiefly on New Zealand to try and make arrangements in London for a permanent contract. It will be powerfully represented there by Mr Vogel, Mr Russell, and Dr Featherston. Somebody was to have gone from Sydney, but procrastination has stood in the way, and it will be necessary to nominate a plenipotentiary by telegraph. I mentioned that the owners of the Whampoa have sent this vessel (originally built for the China trade) on a trial trip to Sydney. Mr James Ewan (of the firm of John Frazer and Co), to whom she is consigned, has written tc say that his London letters inform him that a company could be arranged at once with a capital of £300,000, that would run 3000 ton boats from Sydney to San Francisco via Auckland on a basis of a seven years’ contract, with a subsidy of £70,000 and a guaranteed six per cent interest for the term on the capital mentioned, which would make our liabilities £BB,OOO a year. Mr Ewan, however, while intimating that snch a bargain is possible, somewhat discourages the propriety of spending any money at all in this way, and suggests that it might be put to more advantageous use by subsidising immigration to be carried on by a line of steamers by the Cape route.” The Guardian gives the following account of Lords Camoys and Acton, the Roman Catholic noblemen who have sided with Mr Gladstone in the controversy now raging. It says • —‘‘lt may be worthwhile at the present conjuncture to note who Lord Camoys is, and how he comes by his ancient title. Many people regretted the termination of an abeyance which in 1839 changed Mr Stonor, of Stonor, into Lord Camoys. The Stonors have been seated at their Oxfordshire residence from time immemorial. Mr Shirley says the family may certainly be traced to the twelfth century. Leland says ‘one Fortescnu invanyd it by marriage of an heire general of the Stonors, but after dispocessed.’ This was Sir Adrian Fortescue, who married Anne, sister and sole heir of John Stonor who had married Fortescue’s sister. In 1732 Thomas Stonor, of Stonor, married Mary, daughter of John Biddulph, of Biddulph, who through the families of Goring and Radmylde, represented Margaret Camoys, the granddaughter of Lord Camoys, the hero of Agincourt, a Knight of the Garter, who died in 1421. The barony was claimed in 1838 by the great grandson of the above-named Thomas Stonor; and the House of Lords having reported in August, 1839, that he was the senior co-heir, he was summoned to Parliament by the title. There is some obscurity about the early descents of the barony, and it would puzzle a king of arms to say whether the present Lord Camoys is a second, third, or fifth baron. We may mention in passing that the heir to the title, the Hon F. Stonor, is married to a daughter of the late Sir Robert Peel, who is Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales. Lord Acton, who is stepson to Earl Granville—his mother, the only child of the Due d’Alberg, having been first Lady Acton, and afterwards Lady Granville—is also of an ancient family, one of the 330 allowed by Mr Shirley to be older, as territorial magnates, than the beginning of the sixteenth century. Lord Acton, whose peerage was conferred in 1870, is nephew of the late cardinal, Charles Januarius Edward, who died in 1847,

We have not yet heard the last of the Greville correspondence (says the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian), The issue of these memoirs has caused annoyance in the highest quarters by revelations they contain of the social condition of the upper classes of the last generation, and it is now anticipated in well informed circles that Mr Reeve, the editor of the memoirs, will be called upon to resign his post as Registrar of the Privy Council. The grounds upon which this expectation is based are that Mr Greville was sworn to secrecy as an officer of that Council, and that in transmitting to Mr Reeve the information contained in these volumes about incidents that occurred at the meetings of the Council, and other official matter of a like nature which he discovered by virtue of his office, he was guilty of a breach of privilege ; and Mr Reeve is also guilty of a similar breach by the part he has taken in editing and publishing these pemeixi.

The New York papers publish intelligence from Cuba, announcing that a Spanish gunboat has seized a British schooner, suspected of conveying war material to the insurgents, while two and a half miles from the Cuban shore.

The Belfast News Letter, referring to the parting speech of the late Governor, says : “ Sir James Fergusson is, no doubt, to a certain extent, an impartial witness, and what he says speaks highly in favor of that little isle of the Pacific, and of the energy of its handful of settlers. Our opposition to emigration, as far as Ireland is concerned, is well known. We have repeated over and over again, and we repeat once more, that Ireland is capable of profitably employing twice the population that we have at present ; but in default of keeping our people here, it is a melancholy pleasure directing them to our own colonies when, as in the case of New Zealand, according to Sir James Fergusson, the much talked of ‘ working man ’ must be in a position to satisfy his most exacting friends. One is inclined to take rather a romantic interest in New Zealand, It is the most distant and the youngest, with the exception of Fiji, of all our colonial possessions. It has gone through more vicissitudes and had more tricks played upon it than perhaps all the other colonies put together. Wb cannot forget how the late Liberal Administration met the earnest appeal of the New Zealand colonists in their sore need with cold neglect, nor can we forget how it was pointed out to them that they acted as a drag on the state coach wheels of this great Empire, and that the Empire would be better without them. It is not due to Mr Gladstone and his party, but rather to the sound wisdom that prevailed amongst the local rulers, that New Zealand at that time did not fall away from allegiance to the mother country. Had it done so, not only would one of the brightest jewels have fallen out of Britain’s diadem, but in falling out the setting of the others would certainly have been loosened. These facts, and the pluck with which the colonists, numerically, have entered upon a great policy of emigration concurrently with the formation of railroads and other public works throughout the length and breadth of the two islands, throw a romantic and patriotic halo over that distant dependency that cannot but be felt and appreciated by the people of the United Kingdom. New Zealand has certainly been fortunate in having men like Mr Farnall to act as her representatives at home. It is not any nor every stranger that will come amongst us in Ireland. The full significance of the importance of the settlement about being formed under the auspices of Mr Geo V. Stewart, in New Zealand, has yet to be realised. It not only means the departure of a class of men from our shores that we can ill afford to lose, but it also means, if the prospects held out to those who accompany Mr Stewart are fully realised by them, a steady emigration in future years to a colony that up till now has received but an infinitesimal quota of the enormous numbers that are annually leaving us. It is certainly time that something were done by those at home who are supposed to be responsible, unless they wish to see the country drained of the bulk of the best part of its population.

On Tuesday, Ist December, in the Quebec Institute, at a meeting presided ofer by Sir Charles Clifford (says a correspondent of the Daily Times), Miss Faithfull read a most interesting paper on female emigration to New Zealand. After having compared the advantages of New Zealand with other places, the United States in particular, as a colony for emigrating to, Miss Faithfull went on to show what the gain was in emigrating, and who were the persons who ought to emigrate. The wages for female labor in New Zealand are high, as much as £3O or £SO a year being paid for cooks, and situations are so easily obtained that when a ship arrives there, the women are generally all engaged in a few hours. Nor is it necessary that immigrants should be perfectly trained servants; and, on the contrary, Miss Faithful said that those who had the least experience in England as domestic servants generally turned out to be the most successful in the Colonies, This she said, was owing to the opportunities for employment offered to young women well brought up, but who, owing to family pride, objected to going to service where they were known. In far away New Zealand the case was altogether different, and there the well educated but poor middle-class females could easily earn a comfortable living, and could soon gain independence by doing things, and getting liberally paid for what they could not do at home. Within the last few years, improvements'have been made in the accommodation and management of emigrant vessels, and a girl might now go alone to New Zealand in one of those ships with as much propriety as she could go to a ball, a theatre, or a flower show in this country. Miss Faithfull pointed out the advantage gained by a family emigrating together on account of the Government granting land to the value of £2O to every passenger paying £l6 for a free assisted passage. Thus a family might, on landing, find itself possessed of a piece of land which would be its property for ever. Nor is it necessary to settle on land thus granted immediately on arriving in the colony, and a family might, by dividing and going to service for a year or two, soon be in a position to stock a farm and cultivate it to the greatest advantage. Sir C. Clifford and some other gentlemen then addressed the meeting, which adjourned after a vote of thanks to the chairman.

An important point in marine law is, according to the Indian Daily News, likely to be raised as to who is to bear the loss of certain horses suffocated on board the shipUdsoon. As the case now stands, the importer of these horses will be the sole loser, as, though he was insured, the insurance only applies to the total loss of the ship. The question arises, however, as to whether the importer is not entitled to call for a “ general average ” as charterer of the ship. A clause in his charter party enforces the captain to find certain extra ventilation. This is done by stripping up part of the planking on each side of the deck, and placing combings round the apertures. This ventilation had to be closed, and also the hatches to be battened down during a cyclone, and thus the importer had to lose his horses to save the ship. The law as to marine insurance is very peculiar, and unfortunately there is now no competent authority on the subject in Calcutta, but it is believed there is some one in Bombay and another person in Dacca who understands it, and hopes are entertained that one or other of these savants may be able to throw some light on the subject,