ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 580, 5 October 1869, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

In addition to the telegram of news by ! the English mail, which will be found in our fourth page to-day, we give the following extracts from our files, received last night : — A commission has been appointed tinder the Irish Church Bill for commencuhg arrangements to organise the Church. ; A cargo of meat preserved in ice has arrived from the River Plate. The Thames tunnel has been dosed/ having been bought at one-third of the original cost by a railway company. In consequence of the illness of Mr. Gladstone no whitebait dinner was given this year. It is proposed to erect a bishopric in Burmah. The commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851 are maturing a scheme for annual international exhibitions of choice and select articles. Permanent galleries are to be erected at Kensington for the purpose. . ,• It is proposed to erect a tablet to &•' memory of John Keble in Westminster Abbey. The Knsbury Park has been opened at a cost of L 95,000. The working men have held a conference on the subject of the patent laws, Sir Bouudell Palmer presiding. He strongly urged their total abolition, but failed to carry the meeting with him. Mr Edmond Bealea has been promised a County Court judgeship. A son of the Viceroy of Egypt is studying at Oxford. A soldier has been sentenced to penal servitude for life for committing an outrage on a child, and then throwing her over Dover cliffs. A man has been committed for trial for shooting Captain Lambert in Ireland. Mr Churchill, the consul at Zanzibar, has returned to England on sick leave. He expresses the fullest confidence in the safely of Livingstone, and believes he went in search of the south side of the lake Albert Nyanza. The north side was visited by Sir S. Baker. Instructions have been received at Ottawa to have the gunboats on the Cana a dian lakes ready for immediate use. Humors of a Fenian movement are supposed to have been the cause of the order. Mr Jefferson Davis has been making a tour through Scotland, accompanied l>y Dr Charles Mackay. A brisk competition is at present being carried on between the rival steamship companies trading between Liverpool and Dundalk, and for several days past passengers are carried between the two ports at a fare of 6d each— viz., 3d to Dundalk, and 3d back again. John Huberts, the billiard champion,

is a bankrupt in London. He ascribes his failure to losses on a trip to America. His debts are L 1429. The King of Sweden is expected to visit England in September. The hon Mr Sladen, of Victoria, and Sir Robert Ramsay, late Colonial Treasurer of Queensland, are at present in Scotland. A well-known old colonist, Mr Edward Hamilton, has taken his seat in the House of Commons, for Salisbury. He was just in time to take part in the Parliamentary requiem over the Emigration Board, which is about to be abolished. The summer drawing of the Russian Government lottery took place at St. Petersburg, on July 13. The fortunate winner of the L 28,000 prize is a subordinate clerk in one of the banking establishments, of the capital, who became possessed almost accidentlly of the successful ticket. Mr T. Dicker, late editor of the Melbourne Mining Gazette, has started a paper in London, entitled Dicker's Australian and London Gazette. It is intended for circulation at home, and is very admirably got up, containing a vast amount of colonial information on mining and general matters. Miss Ellen Barber is writing a series of Emigration Papers for the working classes, upon Victoria, Queensland, and the other Australian colonies. Another outrage is reported from Tipperary. As Mr Brereton, a respectable farmer, was, with his wife, driving from Thurles, a man named Slattery, who lay in wait behind a ditch in a lonely part of the road, stopped his horse, and hurled f,large and jagged stone at Brereton, breaking in his skull fearfully. Mrs Brereton supplicated for mercy without effect. Brereton has been unconscious since, and his life is in danger. Several pieces of bone have been removed from his skull. The cause of the quarrel was about laud. The accused has not been arrested. Eight men, who have been for some time past in Trim Gaol, on a charge of conspiracy to murder Mr Gargan, steward to Mr Farrell, of Moyanalty, were brought before the magistrates at Kells on July 23, and after a lengthened investigation remanded for a week. On being brought into the town they were loudly cheered by a crowd of people who had assembled to greet them, and the mob subsequently made a violent attack on a Crown witness named Magill, on whose information the prisoners were taken into custody. The police had considerable difficulty in saving him from their hands. Stone-throwing was resorted to, and several of the police were much hurt. The excitement at one time rose to a serious pitch, but was finally subdued through the exertions of the Roman Catholic clergy of the town. On August 7, we heard that au attempt to murder has been made at Farmer's Bridge, near Tralee. The victim is a wealthy farmer named Flynn ; and the assailant is also a farmer named Cahill. They were returning from Tralee fair, when a dispute arose. Flynn interfered to make peace. The party went into a public-house, except Cahill, who went into a neighboring house, brought out the , tongs, went stealthly to Flynn, and suddenly inflicted three terrible blows with them, knocking him senseless. Flynn's nose was broken, and his skull smashed in. The case is hopeless. Cahill fled to the mountains, and the police pursued and overtook him. When they were about to shoot him he surrendered. It is reported from Cork that an attempt has been made to assassinate the clerk of the North Chapel in that town, but no cause is stated for such a murderouß attack. The Habitual Criminals' Bill has passed. Henceforth, when a person has been twice convicted of felony, the Court may m?ke it a part of the sentence on the second conviction, that after the expiratiSn of his term of imprisonment, the convict shall be called upon to clear himself, if he is found in circumstances leading to the presumption that he is living dishonestly. On a third conviction he is to be sentenced for life. This will clear the air of the professional criminal. The unsettled condition of Ireland continues. We have constantly had to record murderous outrages in various parts of the country, and others must now be added to the fearful list. AMr Warburton, High Sheriff of Qneen'B County, was shot at and severely wounded on the 19th of July. The crime was committed in open day, and with great deliberation. Fortunately the gun was raised too high, and the greater part of the charge fell upon Mr Warburton's hat, but aevere injuries were inflicted upon the unfortunate gentleman, from which he is now slowly recovering. The outrage is Baid to be agrarian, and as usual the assassin has escaped. A large sum has been subscribed, as a reward for the detection of the parties connected with the outrage. Mr Warburton was only 26 years of age. Lord Clonbrock also has received a threatening notice. Ministers have labored hard, in the teeth of a violent opposition, to pass several important measures, includingßills for leasing the telegraphs, and relative to bankruptcy, endowed schools, habitual criminals, Scotch education, retirement of invalid bishops, and compound householders. The measures lost were Locke King's Real Estate Intestacy Bill, Marriages with Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, University TeatßiU, Registration of Trademarks Bill, Abolition of Capital Punishment Bill, the Protection of the Property of Married Women Bill, and many others. Mr Rylands' attacks on the expenditure of the diplomatic service induced the Government to promise a searching inquiry. At the Kildonan gold fields, Scotland, a good many of the old claims have got run out, and those working on them are doing little or no good. They are conseauently getting disheartened, and, as lere is no prospect of new ground being marked off for them, they will be forced to give up the diggings. In the month* of July ninety-five licenses were applied for. Great activity is being shown in fitting j up St. Peter's for the (Ecumenical Council. j The Mont Cenis tunnel makes rapid progress. It will be opened next year, when a grand exhibition will be held in Turin to celebrate the evtat. Mr Forbes, a merchant of Boston, now in Madaid, has been empowered to make overtures to purchase Cuba for the American Government for one hundred millions of dollars. The purchase appears im probable. The marriage of the Crown Prince of Denmark with Princess Louise of Sweden, has been celebrated in Stockholm. The Government of Prussia have de-

cided that, owing to the progress which has taken place throughout Europe, the armament of tiie Prussian troops should be changed. The new-needle gun has been adopted by the Minister of War. The Emperor of Austria has received an address from the Austrian and Hungarian delegates. Both express sentiments of attachment to the Emperor. The statement by the Minister of Finance says there will be an improvement of seven millions of florins as compared with the estimate. A German Railway Congress has been opened at Vienna, at which several important lines were projected. A colonel in the Russian army has committed suicide because he was struck by the Czarewitch. The Emperor was much affected, and compelled the Grand Duke to attend the funeral. Intelligence from Mexico states that General Vega has organised an independent confederation in the Northern States. The California!) Republican Convention has passed a resolution declaring it to be the duty of the Government to demand full reparation for the injury inflicted by the British Government and people on the American commerce during the rebellion. It is also in favor of Chinese immigration, but against Chinese suffrage. Mr Seward has visited California by the Pacific Railway, and had an enthusiastic reception. Fifteen gunboats under construction at New York have been seized by the United States marshal, on the complaint of the Peruvian Minister, who alleged they were intended for an attack agair.st Peru. An accident has occurred to the New York express train on the Erie Railway. The train was thrown off the track,, the cars caught fire, and seven persons were burned to death. A plot against Ameer Shere Ali has been discovered at Kabul. Timos, Shere's nephew, and the supposed instigators, have been arrested, sent into British territory, and placed under the surveillance of the Indian Government. There is a smart controversy going on just now among the Freemasons in Eugland. A worthy brother, having spent several years in Australia, has returned, announcing as the fruit of his sojourn the discovery of various an«ient mysteries. The Babylonian and Greek astronomy are pronounced to have been organised by Freemasons, and the Assyrian monuments in the British museum to be nothing but illustrations of the same great fact. The discoverer, of course, has not been withoat the countenance of some of the more ignoratit, if met by the contempt of the jstter informed. Some of the masons eve, however, very indignant at an attempt to represent that the key of cuneiform and- hieroglyphic literature should be claimed to have been picked up by chance and hidden away as a masonic secret; and they call on the inventor to publish his contribution, if he have any, to the stores of general knowledge, as they want no covert possession of it.

(For continuation of news see fourth page )