Additional 'Frisco Mail NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 246, 19 September 1883, Page 2

Additional 'Frisco Mail NEWS.

(By Telegraph.) (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.^ London ;< August 28. < Mrs Langtry says it is the dream of her life ; to return from her American and Australasian tour, and found a theatre m London, to be known by her name. The London Athenaeum devotes 14 c;lumns to the publication ot the new Byron correspondence, showing the re* lations between Lord and -Lady Byron ■and his sister. The correspondence! disposes of the scandal circulated by , Mrs Harriet Beecber Stowe. j Ferryman lcfs Dover on a floating bicycle on the 28th Ju l y> for the pur« pose of crossing the Channel, and ar% i rived at Calais atf^ve o'olock the same j afte noon. Mr Labouchere says, m Truth, that the greater part of the Duchess of Edinburgh's trousseau was, sold m London some time ago as the propsrfcy of a lady of rank. The Queen received Mr and Mrs Gladstone on the itty of August for the first time for many years. The coldness beween the Queen and the Premier is lessening. This is considered to mdi* cate an early application to Parliament for a farther grant to the sons of the Prince of Wales. A wrangle took place m the Hoase of Commons over Priuca Alfred's Mos» cow expenses, £2000, The House was asked to pay ir, and did so sfter a slight acrimonious debate. Mr Labouchere made a spixlted attack on ;> the. measure, calling attention to the fact that £4000 had already been paid for the English Ambassadors' expenses, on the same occasion, and saying that His Royal Highness ought to defray his own expenses when he wants to visit his relations. The supposed Moabjte manuscript of the Book of Deuteronomy, written oh leather leaves copied many years back was submitted on the Sthinst. to Dr. Guerberg and other eminent Hebrew experts m London. The weight of

.opinion. w^| m favour of its genuineness bpt subsequent in vestig i ion has dj'sclosed -«h« thingf as a fraud. The owner bhaftetteri, a"Uealer at Jerusalem, asked the British Museum an immjnse sum for the manuscript. A meeting m favor of State aidod emigration-was held at the Mansion ? M a Lon t don oa August 10th, ftt which TSarl Shaftsbury presid d. It is proposed to send 10,000 families to Canada next spring. Marwood stands a chance of losing his position as hangman. At Durham 95L...fte_14th__of August he appeared drunk on the scaffoft o"hang < EEe = "raaa Barton for the murder j of °& woman. .The rope caught under the man's elbjw and he.had to. pall' Him" out bpfcKa^ptt" and, fling him "dowa again, shoflk" 1 ing bungling was represenfcfed' to-the" Home §Bcfet%?>.. rr -"/ I^:S V/ajff , London gossip says that the Duke of leck'ra to'gftfo an almost {Qjߣ3iat^aud} utnpleasant German schbss, on accou'ntf of a scaadal he has brought on the Royal. Fatally % having his tao*fe>sfr effect sold^ out by tho sheriff The Duke is nncomfortably poor f* a mem. ber •of Royalty, : and he borrowed money irom the City Jews to pay t^e expenses: -. ot .his journey to.^K*Bt». Thus it was that ha got into deep trouble; ' . „ , r Mr Forster,. formerly' Chief Secretary for Ireland, is delivering speecheg- m favor of Irish immigration. ,