NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2295, 11 August 1881, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

[By TblbobathJ [Per b.b. Wakatipu at Wellington.] LONDON, July 1. The House of Commons is now engaged on the 7th clause of the Land Bill, This is the most critical portion of the measure, as it deals with the powers‘’of the Land Court in regard to arbitration between landlords and tenants. The rate of progress which the Bill is making is greater than was anticipated, but nevertheless it is doubtful whether the whole measure will pass the Commons and got _ returned from the Lords in time to realise Mr Gladstone’s expectations of adjournment early in August. The Government have already obtained priority for the Land Bill over all other business, and it is hinted will demand for it urgency if its progress in committee is not accelerated.

The House of Commons rejected by 175 votes to 79 a Bill introduced by Mr Pease for the abolition of capital punishment. Mr Grant Duff, after having received fortyeight hours to consider an offer of the Governorship of Madras, has accepted the post. He takes up the appointment at the end of tho year. It is expected that Evelyn Ashley, who is now at tho Board of Trade, will succeed Mr Grant Duff in tho Colonial Offic*. The Governor of the Province of Buenos Ayres intends to send a commissioner to Australia to study the system of wool-washing adopted in the Australian Colonies,

Great preparations are being made for the Volunteer Review by her Majesty at Windsor Great Park, on 9th July, at which fifty thousand Volunteers, divided into throe army corps, will take part. The murder on the Brighton railway created a deep sensation, only comparable to that caused by the murder of Briggs by Muller, under similar circumstances, fourteen years ago. The full name of the supposed murderer is Percy Lefroy Mapleton, and he is very respectably connected. He visited Australia and remained there one year, and returned to England two years ago. He had spent a small patrimony, and had lately dabbled in literary work.

Mr Grant Duff, replying in the House of Commons to a question by Sir M. Hicks Beach, said that Sir Arthur Gordon still retained the supervision of various matters in Fiji, especially those relating to the native population and titles to land. Sir A. Gordon be believed could perform the duties connected with Fiji as well from New Zealand as if he were in Fiji itself. Government had not yet seen any way of overcoming the difficulties of the proposed arrangement for entrusting the powers of High Commissioner to a naval commander in the Pacific.

The census returns show the population of Ireland to have fallen 250,000 since last census. It now stands at 4,907,000. The population declined in twenty-nine out of thirty-two counties. Dublin, Antrim, Kerry were undiminished. The decline was greater in Ulster than in Munster and Connaught, principally due to immigration. The total population of the United Kingdom is about 35,250.000, or an increase of 4,000,000. Scotland gained 500,000. The population of London is 4,000,000 5 Nottingham has doubled its population since last census, and Manchester has declined 10,000. The anti-French demonstration in Italy, produced by the anti-Italian riots at Marseilles, is calming down, but there is no doubt that the occurrences at Marseilles, following the Tunisian affair, have deeply embittered the Italians against France, and produced a soreness between the two nations which will take a long time to heal. The Italian Press now unanimously demand the strengthening of Italian armaments. The existing irritability seems destined to he further increased by the evident intention of the French to pursue in Tripoli a system of aggression as in Tunis. Meanwhile the Arab insurrection in the southern part of the province of Iran is extending, under the leadership of a daring young chieftain named Bon Armena, who has hitherto eluded the French columns. The forces under his command surprised an extensive Spanish colony at Saida, and killed four or five hundred men, women, and children, under circumstances of great barbarity. They carried off several hundred others, and the Spaniards are now flying from Algeria and arriving in Spain, The Spanish Government has complained to the French Government relative to the Saida affair. The Arabian insurrectionary movement is not only extending in Algeria, but a fanatical ferment is reported also from parts of Morocco, bordering on Algeria. The balance of the indemnity (2000dzs of gold) imposed upon the King of Ashantee, has arrived at Madeira. A gold axe, which the Ashantee King sent to the Queen as a token of peace and amity from his Majesty, has already reached Windsor. Two new claimants for the Tiohbome estates have appeared, one from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the other from San Francisco. The latter seems to be the most plausible. Ho has been interviewed by the Duke of Sutherland, and Dr. W. H. Russell lately transmitted a report of his case to England from San Francisco, The claimant has an ardent wealthy] supporter, who declares it to be his intention to carry the matter before the English Courts. Pierce antagonism has lately been prevalent between the German and Czech students at Prague University, resulting in serious disorder. The Czech students aided by the Czech population attacked the Germans, many of whom were badly wounded. The Prague journals are so anti-German that all of them have been seized, and the University of Prague closed. Prince Rudolph declared that he would leave the city if the disturbance continues.