ENGLISH MAIL ITEMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1523, 21 June 1873, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL ITEMS.

Almost unpamUeled distress > prevails among the population of the islands of Baffin and Shark, off the coast of Galway. The sheep have died of starvation, and the potato crop of last year being a failure the people have no seed to put in the ground. The fishing season has commenced, but the men have no gear, and they cannot obtain nets and lines on credit aa they did before. An armed party of men recently made an attack upon the residence of Sir Thos. Tobin, five miles from Belfast. The butler of the house made resistance, and he was fired at by one oi the party and wounded. Shots were exchanged, and the report of firearms created an alarm. The police and the people of the neighi borhood went towards the house, and the raiders disappeared. The other evening a boy fell into the river off the North Mall, Cork, and was carried down under the Worth Gate Bridge. Two men descended the iron ladder on the quay wall, but when they reached the water they dared not jump in. At this critical moment Colonel Burke appeared on the scene, and, rapidly divesting himself of superfluous clothing, sprang in. In a few minutes he brought the child out safe, leaving one of his boots in the mud. The second trial of O'Kelly, for shooting at David Murphy, of the Irishman newspaper, took place on April 8.. The first trial at the last Commission ended in a disagreement of the jury. The prisoner was caught running away from the spot where the shots were fired which wounded Murphy, and was seen to fire a shot when being pursued. On being captured he had a six-chamb3r revolver in his possession, two of the chambers of which had been discharged. The jury were again unable to agree, and were discharged. Thirty-five destitute English emigrants, victims of the Brazilian emigration scheme have effected their escape and reached New York. They tell a melancholy story of privation and suffering. Among the victims of bhe Atlantic disaster was Mr Sheat, long interested in the promotion of the Pacific Mail service. On March 29 Judge Lawsori, on taking his seat in the Crown Court at county Antrim Assizes at Belfast, called on Mr MacAleese, the registered proprietor of the Ulster Examiner and Northern Star. His lordship then proceeded to pass judgment with regard to the uontempt of court committed by the publication in that journal of two articles in reference to the sentence passed on a couple of Roman Catholic rioters. He ordered Mr Mac Aleese to pay a fine of L 250, and to be imprisoned for four months. The sisters Rae have been found guilty of the Kingstown murder, and sentenced to penal servitude for life. The Prince of Wales has come in for some very severe criticism in consequence of the doings of a mystic body called the Knights-Templars, who have been holding high jinks at Willis's Rooms, under the pretence of an " encampment." Shades of FrontTde 7 Bceuf and Jaques de Molary ! That this is what the Holy Temple knights should have come to ! The thing would have been harmless enough but for the tremendously sensational account of the proceedings — "solemn, nearly sacred" — in the Daily Telegraph, and the notice in the Court Gazette. Of course the Prince is not so muph to blame as his entourage, who take advantage of his good nature to lead him into some questionable company and doings. The gang of forgers who succeeded in " dqing" the Bank out of so large an amount have now been all caught. Noyes was the first man to be captwed, and he was soon folloAved by Austin Bidwell, who had got out to Havanna where he doubtless thought himself safe. But now-a-days with these extradition treaties, nobody is safe anywhere, and so Mr Bidwell, to his disgijst, is on his way to this country. Macdonuell has been laid hpld of in America, and George Bidwell in Edinburgh, so that now the whole gang is in the hands of justice.