ARRIVAL

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2683, 13 November 1882, Page 3

ARRIVAL

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AUCKLAND, November 13,

Despatches from London, dated October Bth, say that the comet is all the talk of scientific circles at present, and it is being regarded with considerable apprehension. Mr Richard A. Proctor, who denied that it was the comet of 1843 and 1880, now finds that he made a mistake in his calculations, and so has withdrawn his statement. More cautious astronomers than he have no doubt of the identity of the comet, and believe that it will return, at the latest, in October, 1883, and will then fall into the sun, with results that will dispense with the future publication of newspapers of the world. It is said this is the opinion of the most eminent identities of the day, and Mr C. Piazzi Smith, the clever AstronomerRoyal of Scotland, in particular, having made no secret of his belief that the end of the world is at hand. News that the Horse Guards had returned from Egypt on the 20th caused a most enthusiastic reception along the whole route. Reports have reached London that the Danish and Dutch Arctic expeditions are in danger. They are beset by ice in the Kara Sea, about eighty miles from the continent. The German ship Constantin, Captain Kuchlken, came in collision with the steamer City of Antwerp, fourteen miles off Eddystone, on the 17th October, and both vessels were sunk. Fourteen of the crew of the steamer were drowned. Barry Sullivan, the actor, has consented to be nominated to Parliament by an Irish constituency on Home Rule principles. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has commuted the death sentence of W alsh, convicted as an accessory to the murder of Constable Kavanagh, to penal servitude for life. A thick fog, smelling of burning turf, covered the whole of St. Petersburg on the 20th and 21st October. A vast circle of incendiary fires, extending from Finland to the Baltic, is said to surround the capital, and to include within its circumference Gatchina, where the Emperor now is. The fires are in the woods, under which areturf pits, and they may last for a long time. They are attributed to the Nihilists. A man, arrested in San Francisco some time since while manufacturing bombs, was sentenced to death on the 19th inst. SAN FRANCISCO, October 22,2 p.m. The Australian cricketers have been handsomely entertained during their short stay in this city, and on Saturday played a match merely to show their style. The cricketers carry back with them over £II,OOO. Rowell, the English pedestrian, has offered to bet £20,000 that he will win the coming six days’ match in New York. The sanguine believe 640 miles will be madeThe British ship Bremen, of Liverpool, went ashore in a fog on October 16th, near San Francisco harbor, and is a total wreck. A Bill was introduced in the Vermont House of Representatives, on the 18th instant, requiring prison authorities to render prisoners insensible before the execution. On the 16th of October Mr Secretary of State Prelinghughon convoyed to Harry George, the New York “Irish World” correspondent, the regret of Her Majety’s Government “for the treatment to which he had been subjected in Ireland.” The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s farewell address, on retiring from the Congregationalists, shows that in effect he denies the inspiration of the Scriptures, the orthodoxy of the doctrine of the fall and atonement, and also the doctrine of eternal punishment, at which he scoffed. Major O’Connor, worth 10,000,000d015, has been killed in a street fight in Tennessee. The lightkeeper at Lonely Island, Canada, has been arrested for robbing drowned persons washed on shore. Messrs A. and J. C. Hope, iron importers, of Montreal, failed on October 16th for 200,000d015. A cyclone has visited the Kilka Abago tobacco region in Cuba, and wrought so much damage to property and loss of life to individuals that the Captain-General is compelled to appeal for aid to the Spanish Minister of the Colonies. The acts of the Peruvian Provincial Government at Arequipa show their cause to be desperate, and according to a despatch of the 21st October, “ they are marching headlong to destruction.” Professor Blackie, of Glasgow, and others are about to start a fresh land agitation in the Highlands. The movement is wholly independent of the Land League. A despatch from Dublin of October 4th says that the police believe that the murderers of Lord Fredk. Cavendish and Mr Under-Secretary Burke numbered ten, and they are still in Ireland, but that unless aid to some informer - can be seemed, the crime cannot be brought home to the guilty parties. The weapons used in the commission of the mux - der were found some days ago concealed in the rafters of a s table in the rear of a house belonging to a man recently sentenced to penal servitude for intimidation. The weapons found were four knives, nine inches long, with blades three-quarters of an inch wide. They are quite new, very sharp, and evidently are surgical dissecting knives. The blades were discolored by, as proved by chemical analysis, human blood. The authorities are maintaining the strictest silence. Three London detectives arrived at Dublin on the 15th of October, with three of the crew of the' ship Gladstone, one of whom was Westgage, the self accused assassin, who, as mentioned before, had sailed for the West Indies. The sailors wore subjected to a searching examination, and the authorities are thoroughly determined to sift Westgage’s assertions, in order to quiet the public mind. The police firmly adhere to the belief that Westgage is crazy, ' and that his assertions are unworthy of belief.