ENGLISH NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1221, 16 March 1880, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

■ The Bangalore reached Albany on March sth, and was quarantined owing to measles. One saloon passenger died. ; London, Jan. 30. ■lt is again stated, but the statement is quite unconfirmed, that the Prince of Wales informed Mr. Childers that he and the Princess of Wales intend to be present at the opening of the Melbourne International Exhibition. • The Duchess of Marlborough has disclaimed any connection between her fund and the Dublin Mansion House fund. : The Duchess of Marlborough in addressing her committee in Dublin said that the "Ipurest charity could not escape Mr. Parnell's misrepresentations, but that it was not surprising, seeing that he who slandered Her Majesty the Queen, by daring to say Her Majesty gave no help in the famine of 1848, should also unjustly accuse the Duchess of using the fund for political purposes and not for tHe relief of the distressed peasantry." ■Mr. Brassey, at the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, pointed out the importance of establishing a coaling station in the colonies in case of war. He said that large sums were expended for objects '.really much inferior in importance to that of the defence of the colonies. If the colonial resources are to be made available for imperial as well as local purposes, some new special machinery must be devised, and the British Isles, India, and our colonial possessions must become component parts of an organised imperial whole.

intends founding convict colonies in the South Sea Islands. The subject has been discussed by the Federal Council, but nothing was decided regarding carrying out the project.

ARGUS SPECIAL TELEGRAM. ; The Pall Mall Gazette, Morning Post, and Standard congratulate Yictoria on the success which has attended the elections, and attribute the result largely to the people recognising the fallacious

policy of the Government, i'hese papers special satisfaction at the rejection Sir Bryan and the Standard fs&ys that he has been thus punished fpr his demagogic tampering with disloyalty. keutek's telegrams. St. Petersburg, March 3. General Loris Melikoff, who was last week appointed head of a supreme commission for repressing conspiracies of the Nihilists had a narrow escape from assassi-nation„ato.-day...While... driying,...throqglv the city he was fired at by a Nihilist," who; most fortunately, entirely missed his aim. Before, he could made good his, escape, the would-be assassin was arrested. C - : ' '.London, March 5. St. Petersburg is in a state of siege, and, all forms; of law are set aside. The Nihilist who attempted to i assassinate Geheral Melikoff is found, to be a baptised Jew, and "his, connection with the Nihilist organisation is undoubted. Acting under, the despotic powers, conferred upon him as President of the Committee of Public Safety appointed by the Czar, General,.'Melikoff has ordered the man's immediate execution, without trial. A sentence of death by hanging has been passed upon him, which will be carried out to-morrow morning.

March 6. The Nihilist who attempted to assassinate General Melikoff was hanged this morning outside St. Petersburg, in the presence of ' an immense concourse of spectators; When,interrogated as to his accomplices, -the prisoner firmly refused to afford the authorities any information. He was' ; escorted from the' gaol to the gallows by a strong foree of military and police, as an attempt at rescue was apprehended. During the execution a disturbance occurred, but the police having apprehended: the ringleaders, order was restored..