ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2684, 14 November 1882, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE 'FRISCO MAIL.

* [I>BESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.] r [Per City of New York, at Auckland.] ! ADDITIONAL ITEMS. | The directors of the Irish Exhibition Company held a meeting in Dublin on ! October the 4th, and recommended that the present building remain another year j f also 7 that a series of class exhibitions be i held similar to these arranged at the Agn--1 cultural Hall. The London committee ; advised the holding the exhibition in various places in England and the United States, with a view to popularising the Irish manufactures. They urge, in addition, the forming of a new association to assist the manufacturers. . Sir Stafford Northcote made a speech m Glasgow on the 4th instant, in which he declared that the Egyptian war was unnecessary, unjustifiable, and that it could have been avoided by a firm stand at the beginning. ~ ... ~, It is reported that the authorities of the Suez Canal have prohibited the employment of anyone who worked for or assisted the British troops ; consequently many are thrown out of employment. Cremedi, Sons and Co., London, have failed for £120,000. The National Conference of Miners has decided there was not sufficient unanimity to admit of a national strike, but as an alternative the eight hour system would be generally adopted. . Flanagan and wife, suspected of being concerned in the murder of Lord Mountmorris at Clonbar, County Galway, on September 18th, were arrested in the county named. Thomas Ballan and Co., cotton spinners, Blackburn, failed for £33,000. Charles Chabot, the well known London expert in caligraphy, is dead. Henry George, correspondent ol the "Irish World" (New York) in Ireland where he was arrested and detained some thirteen hours as a suspect, has written a letter to President Arthur, in which he poses as an American martyr. It has created laughter in the Irish circles m Ireland. • . The closing of the Land League m America is regarded as a victory for Mr Gladstone's Land Act. The agitation in Ireland will cease to be formidable the moment the American supply is cut off. The returns issued by the Board of Trade for October the Bth, show that during September the British imports decreased, as compared with »that of the same month of last year, £55,000, while the exports increased £22,000. John Bright is sharply attacked by the leading radical journals for declaring the Egyptian war unjust and unnecessary. It is even said that at the next election he will lose his seat for Birmingham, just as he lost his seat for Manchester at the . Crimean war. It is rumored that he will retire from public life at the end of the year. Baker's flour mill, Bristol, was destroyed ( by fire ; the loss was £50,000. The West Concert Hall, Brighton, England, was burned; the loss was £43,000. . Tempting offers were made to Mathew ( Arnold to engage in a lecture tour through ( the United States. He hesitates, because f he doubts whether he has enough to interest the large and miscellaneous audiences which would there greet him. Ingestre Hall, the seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, was burnt; the loss was ; £500,000. The prospectus of an Irish Banking Company has been circulated. The proposed capital is £1,000,000. The new steamer, Belgium, 4000 tons ' burthen, built at Aberdeen for the Ameri- ] can trade, was totally wrecked on her trial trip. Tenders for £2,000,000 worth of Indian 4 • per cent, debentures were opened on the 10th October. The loan was covered twice at ; about par. Owing to the alarming increase in ; pauperism in the South, of Ireland tha '. Dublin Union has taken the lead in the : proposal to send 1000 able-bodied men and | women to Canada at a cost of £7OOO. Galbraith's spinning mills, Glasgow, were burned ; the loss was £50,000. i A commercial traveller named Brooks was ' committed for trial at Bow street Police Court on the 14th inst. for threatening to murder the Prince of Wales unless he ; received money from him. The threat was contained in a letter to Colonel Teesdale, the Prince's equerry. The prisoner is considered to be insane. The convention at Athenry, Galway, on the 13th October, adopted resolutions declaring" the right of the country to national independence. They accepted the principle of a land for the people, approving ; of the system of a peasant proprietary and the amendment of the Bright clauses of the ; Land Act. Resolutions were also passed declaring the prevalence of grass farming of land as tending to paralyse industry and increase pauperism. The convention further resolved to prevent hunting until the extra police drafted on the country were dispensed with. The miners of Lancashire, Berkshire, Derbyshire and North Wales have given notice of the demand for an advance of 5 per cent, in wages. ' The Irish farmers and peasantry assembled at Curraghmore on the 12th inst., and forcibly put a 3top to the hunt. By a despatch dated October 13th it appears that a committee, under General I Sir Arch. Alison, appointed to report on the Channel tunnel, considers that the exit of the tunnel should bo commanded by a fortress of the first-class. The tunnel shoald be provided with a portcullis and with an arrangement for filling it for a sufficient space with irrespirable gas, and that measures should be taken for the demolishing of the land portion, for the temporary flooding of the main tunnel, and also for its total destruction by a mine. These arrangements should be controlled by separate parties, both inside and outside the commanding fortress, but when all this is done the committee admit that it would be presumptuous to place absolute reliance upon even the most comprehensive arrangements. The memoranda from Sir Garnet Wolseley and the Duke of Cambridge are appended to the report, condemning the j>roposed tunnel in even stronger terms, The "Times" considers this report has settled the question of a channel tunnel adversely for a long time to come. Bradlaugh has issued another address to the English people. He says, "In this Parliament I will sit," but he does not say how he means to do it. A statement Is again made that as soon as the Marquis of Lome's term expires Sir John McDonald will be raised to the peerage, and created Governor-General of the dominion. Henry Edmund Knight, alderman, Cripplegate Ward, was elected Lord Mayor of London. The Castle and Military Barracks at Enniskillen were seriously damaged by fire on the 2nd October. An account of the first cremation which has taken place in England is published. The bodif.-s were those of Lady Hausham and Mrs Hausham, who died in Dorsetshire in 1877 and 187 G respectively. They both expressed a wish that their bodies should be cremated. The remains were kept in the mortuary house uutil preparations for the process were completed, and on Sunday, the Bth instant, the remains, enclosed in substantial coffins, were placed in the furnace on plates of iron (sin) and reduced to ashes

In an enquiry held on October 12th into the murder of the Huddys, of Lough Mask, a farmer named Kerrigan and his wife testified that the elder Huddy was stunned with a stone as he was serving the papers, and he was then kicked, while, an assassin from a cover fired into his body, killing him. The younger Huddy's head was then dashed against a heap of stones, and he was afterwards shot in tolie presence of a crowd of village. The belief is current amongst Mr Gladstone's friends that he . intends absolutely to retire to private life after the autumn session. The Marquis of Hartington is regarded as coming Premier.