London.

Manawatu Herald, 9 March 1893, Page 2

London.

France and England are exchanging Notes regarding the occupation of Egypt. Turnbull, Martin and Co. are about to start a monthly line of steamers to New Zealand. They are building two fa t 10,000 ton boatn for the fro^ea meit I trade.

Lord Salisbury has been fleeted president of the British Asso- iation for the Advancement of Sciento for 1894. The Time? Fays the 111 iter vr an are rapidly enrol!i.i<); themselves to resist Home Rule by force. Mr Leek}', ihfi historian, has published his opinion that autonomy i:i its present form wi.l be ruinous. f .'he retention of the Irish members at Westminster is a grotesque suggestion. The employment of sc .fliers only, he say, wiil cotnpsl U'.ster to ac- | cept it. A meeting, expected to be attended by ten thousand Unionists from Ulster, Cork and Dublin, is convened at the Albert Hall, Lon don, for April 29th. 'i he Daily News says the Home Rule Bill will be read a second time before Easter, whatever means of obstruction the Tories may use. The d image at Sandgate was due to subsidences and rain, and was not the result of the earthquake, as at first supposed. A large part of the. town 'is gradually slipping towards the sea, and this is attributed to explosions in connection with the removal of the remains of the ship Benvenue, wrecked about 800 yards off the shore in November, 1891. Five hundred houses are damaged, and fifty families rendered homtless, Half the rateable value of Sandgate was destroyed by the slip. The Nonconformist Unionist Association of England is making an appeal condemning the Home fiule Bill as a betrayal of the Protestants. A great meeting has been held in Dublin, at which prayers were offered against the adoption of Home Rule. Archbishop Plnnkett, of Dublin, presided, and many leading Methodists and Presbyterians were present. It is reported that the Liberals after passing the Home Rule Bill will endeavour to nationalise the land in Ireland. In tendering to the War Office for a supply of Australas an meat to the garrison at Malta, Wills and Company intimate that they propose to spend £12,000 in erecting stores to supply the citizens as well.

could not be revoked, but would have to be carried out, whereas in ] the case of a sentence of imprison- : ji nient merely the Cr.-v v cculd comvjnute or vary the sentence if it ascertained that the prisoner's in.-ntal condition was such as to call for other treatment. If, however, he . was fit to be at large, he was fit to j receive punishment. The sentence usually imposed for this class of oftence was a long term of imprison- j menfc with severe corporal punish ment, but in this case the sentence would merely b6 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour.