'Frisco Mail Summary.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 62, 6 February 1883, Page 2

'Frisco Mail Summary.

ENGLISH.

A despatch from London, dated January 9th, s .ys the British ship, British Empire, trom Shields for Bombay, was burned at sea. Only ten persons were saved. Two boats, containing the captain, the mail, and fourteen hands are missing. Pigott, the Land Leaguer, declarod that £100,000 of tbe Land League's tunds are unaccounted for. Ihe new Law Courts have been pro~ nounced an architectural failure. Michael Davitt, on the 14th January, attempted to dcliv r an address at Old* ham on the Irish question, but was howled down by an organised gang. A free fight followed. Weapons supposed to have been used by the Phoenix Park assassins have been found near the premises of Carey, of the Dublin municipality, who was arrested with twenty others on a charge of conspiracy to murder Government officials.

The courb on the 11th of January pave judgment against Charles Bra is laugh m an action against Erskine, the Deputy Sergeantoat"Armß of the House of Commons, for assault on the occasion of Bradlaugh attempting to enter the House of Commons and take his seat as a member, after a resolution had been passed prohibiting his doing so. Richardson & Niven's linen factory, Belfast, was burnt on January lllh. Los 9 £30,000. The ship, Wild Deer, bound for New Zealand, became a total wreck on the north coast of Cloughey, Ireland, on January 13tb. All caved. On the 13th January, the Prince of Wales unveiled a statue at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, erected to the memory of the Prince Imperial by subscription* ot 25,000 officers and men of the British Army. Patrick Higgins, one of the tnurdereis of the Huddys, was hanged at Galway on the 15th instant. No excitement. The floods of the Rhine hare made terrible ravages, and raany districts -pill never regain their former pros* perity. . j On the 9 th. of January, Raab, on the Danube, was submerged, and many persons were drowned. The French General Ctiangy died of rupture of a blood vessel ia the head while asleep. On hearing of his death, General Horey de Valdan died at Lisle, of apoplexy, on January 6th. Bismarck's appearance m the Reichstag, on the. 9th, evoked general sym* pathy. He seemed weak and m pafo It is doubtful if he will be able to attend the sittings of the Reichstag m May. A petition signed by 6000 persons has been presented to the Reichstag asking the repeal of the enactment of the law closing commercial and industrial establishments on Sunday. in Paris. The Rappel of January 10th ridicules the unveiling of the statue of the Prince Imperial by the Prince of Wale 3, and stigmatises the English nation as a herd of cattle, and the English Army as an " 'army ot women." The rest of the Paris journals alse join m these remarks. A Ukase by the Czar dissolves all secret societies m his dominions. The Emperor and the Empress of Russia arrived at St. Petersburg on January 13, and immediately visited the Kasan forcress and the Cathedral. Detectives anji spies were inoreased m every direction. The province of Murcia, m Spain, was shaken by an earthquake on Saturday, 13 th January. The losses by floods m Germany are estimated at 80,000,000 marks.