Additional Mail Items.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 276, 26 August 1881, Page 2

Additional Mail Items.

The shooting at Wimbledon began on the 12th .July. The Canadian team numbered 20, and was commanded by Colonel Gibson, who is accounted the best shot in Canada, The University match terminated in favor of Oxford. The heat was intense, the thermometer on the 15th standing at 137. Several riflemen were overcome and had to go into hospital. Scotland won the International Trophy, scoring 1774; England 1744 ; and Wales 10S6. Mr Labouchere moved a vote of censure against the Prince of Bulgaria, but it was not permitted to be put in the House of Commons. Sir Evelyn Woo 1 has been raised to the peerage for his services in the Transvaal. A steamer has arrived in the Thames from the Clyde, steered by electric apparatus. The steering gear worked well, but the compasses were made useless by the electricity. In Ireland, trial by jury has become a farce, owing to the lax law known as O’Hagan’s Act. In some cases the jury announce before the charge is delivered that they hare made up their minds to a verdict of not guilty. Evidence of crime is disregarded, and if the C'rovru’s case is absolutely conclusive of the prisoner's guilt, the jury generally disagree. Another comet has appeared in the west, and is labelled by astronomers comet “ C,” being the third seen this year. In County Cork the farmers and agricultural laborers have come to terms. The potato crop throughout the county promises to be plentiful. The Board of Trade returns show that the value of imports has decreased L 6,500,000, as compared with June last year ; exports have increased L. 342,000. Dean Stanley was stricken by erysipelas on the 13th, and the disease spread rapidly. Canon Farrar administered the sacrament, and the Dean died on the 19th. The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived in time for a few parting words. Canons Farrar and Jones and the Dean’s sisters were at the bedside. His audible words were—“ I have labored, amidst many frailties and much weakness, to make Westminster Abbey a, great centre of religious life in a truly liberal spirit.” Eight hundred inhabitants of Northampton have petitioned that Bradlaugh be not admitted to Parliament. King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands has been the lion of the month in London. He behaved himself very well, excepting that he drank too much at dinner. In the House of Commons, Mr G ladstone announced that Government has abandoned the Bills for dealing with corrupt practices, for amending the Ballot Act, and for regulating the government of Ireland ; but he hoped to pass the Bankruptcy Bill. The Queen reviewed 50,000 troops at Windsor, being the largest review ever held there. The Duke of Cambridge commanded. The Prince of Wales marched at the head of the Honorable Artillery Com*, pany of London. The Duke of Connaught commanded a division of the second army corps. 10,000 spectators were present. The race on July 14th for the Thames challenge cup, was won by the London crew, the Thames crew 2nd, and Connell (American college) 3rd. The race was won by three lengths, with a length between the Thames and Connell boats.

The Orange anniversary passed off quietly in Ireland. The shooting match between a team of six Canadians and a team of six British riflemen at Wimbledon, resulted in the English scoring 1222 and Canada, 1105. A vast amount of property has been destroyed in England by storms. In Lancashire 50 mills are stopped. Lefroy will be tried at Lewes during the November assizes. The Newcastle Chronicle published a letter from the accused, written in April, alleging that he was a contributor to several American journals. Lefroy’s relations are highly respectable, but they disowned him for some time, and the Crown will have to provide counsel for his defence. The defence will probably be insanity. The prisoner's grandfather died in a madhouse at Malta. His relations, as A well as bis associates on the “Era” aiul other journals for which he was a “penny-a-liner” look upon Lefroy as more of a rogue than a fool.

It is estimated that from one to forty million francs in imitation gold lias been shipped from Geneva to Egypt within a few years, and disposed of by an organised band of swindlers, comprising men of prominence in Geneva, Marseilles, and Alexandria. They have been arrested, and will lie defended on the trial by the celebrated Maitre Le Chaiule, of the Paris Bar. Kialkini, the Italian Minister, has left Paris. His successor, it is said, will not be appointed if France is making treaties in Senegal for the exclusive right to found stations, and form a road to the Niger, or if Scgoor is to be placed under a French protectorate, and a French resident is to be stationed there. It appears that it is intended to build a railway up the valley of the Senegal, towards Bramakoo on the Niger, in order to establish communication with upper Segoor. The race for the July Cup, six furlongs, was won by Charibcrt, with Peter second and Lorillard’s Barrett third. In the Wimbledon rifle contests, Canada won the Koloparc cup by twenty points, , The Elcbo challenge shield was won by England. The British claim for damages during the bombardmentof Sfax, amounts to 60,000,000 franc*, and the claims of other nations to a similar sum.

San Francisco, July 30. $ railroad train was recently boarded by some 13 desperadoes at a point in New Mexico and thoroughly sacked. The conductor was shot ; also a stonemason, one of the passengers, who tried to defend him. Edison is preparing to light a district in New York by elictricity. The houses will probably be lighted on Ist October. John Burnside, originally an Irish immigrant, died in New Orleans worth 3,000,000 dollars, being one of the largest sugar planters in the Southern States. The Italian bandit Guiseppe Espresito, alias Radazzi, living incog, at New Orleans has been arrested and sent to Italy. There is a terrible catalogue of crimes committed in Sicily and Palermo against him. The Orange anniversary, July 12th, was celebrated in the United States and Canada with ou t d istu rbance. Regarding the Brusli-Cleveland electric light*the inventor has announced a solution of the problem of saving electricity, so that it can be carried from place to place and delivered like coal, oil, or gasoline. It is said that Vanderbilt will soon run a line of railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Maud S., Vanderbilts mare trotted a mile in 2mins. 11 seer,, (being the fastest time on record) on the Chicago track. Small-pox is raging at -San Domingo to a fearful extent, and parties are daily organ, ised to bury the victims. The American team won the Albert Jewel, at Wimbledon. CONTINENTAL, The Nihilists held a great and solemn meeting of their Executive Committee at Paris. Several exiles came from Genoa,

The meeting resolved to warn the Czar once more, and then if lie and his advisers do not heed it, the treaty will perish. Statistics published by the Hamburg police show that the number of German emigrants passing through Hamburg alone to America, from January Ist to June 30th, amounts to 77,038, being twice the number for the same period in the year following the late war. Reckoning other departures, it is said it will be found that Germany has lost so far in 1881 a quarter of a million of her best subjects. The Sultan is still sending contingents of troops to Tunis, in spite of a promise to the contrary given to the French. Relations between France and Turkey are strained to the utmost. The Sultan declared he would nover again receive M. Tissot as French Ambassador at Constantinople. Tissot, in reply, Says the Sultan may soon learn what it costs to insult a great nation in the person of its Ambassador. Later accounts say the relations between France and Turkey are considered excellent. The Forte satisfactorily explained the despatch of troops to Tripoli.