ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1200, 14 November 1882, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

(PSR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). 8m Stafford Noßthcote made a speech at Glasgow in which he declared the Egyptian war was unnecessary and unjustifiable, and could have been avoided by a firm stand at the beginning. Cremedi Sons and Co., of London, merchants, have failed for £120,000. Thos. Ballan and Co., cotton spinners of Blackburn, have failed for £33,000. The returns of the Board of Trade show during September the British imports have decreased as compared with the same mbiith last year, by £55,000. The exports have increased £22,000. The Hon. John Bright has bean sharply attacked by the leading Radical journal tor declaring the Egyptian war was unjust and unnecessary, It is said that at the next election he will lose his seat for Birmingham. It is rumored he will retire from public life ;at the end of the year. Baker’s flour mill, Bristol, has been destroyed by fire ; loss £50,000. The West Concert Hall, Brighton, England, has been desttoyed bv fire; loss, £43,000.

Ingestre Hall, the seat of Earl Shrewsbury, has been burned down ; loss, £500,000. The prospectus of the Irish Banking Com* pany has been circulated. The proposed capital is £1,000,000. The new steamer Belgium, 4000 tons burthen, built at Aberdeen for the American trade, was totally wrecked on her trial trip. )wing to the alarming increase of pauperism in South Ireland, the Dublin Union has taken the lead in the proposal to send 1000 able-bodied men and women to Canada, at a cost of £7OOO. Galbraith’s spinning mills at Glasgow are burned, loss £500,000. The Irish farmers and peasantry have forcibly put a stop to hunting. The statement is again made that as soon as the Marquis of Lome’s term expires Sir John McDonald will be raised to the peerage, and created Governor-General of the Canadian dominion. By a hurricane in Ireland on the Ist of Oct. more damage was done on the lands than by any storm for 20 years past. An American ship, the Harvey Mills, from Liverpool for New York, lying at Queenstown, was driven ashore, and several yachts sank. The castle and military barracks at Enniskillen were seriously damaged by fire on the 2nd of October. A great fire took place in Boas hardware factory, Boulevard Charronnal, Paris, in which Colonel Trevideran, second in com* mand of fire brigade, was killed, and several wounded, A belief Is current among Gladstone’s friends that he intends absolutely to retire into private life after the autumn session. The Marquis of Hartington is regarded as the coming Premier. The burglars who robbed Count Andrassy’s palace were arrested at Vienna. A Vienna despatch states that a large number of Orsini bombs were found in the rooms of Demeter Ragusi, companion of Dordante, who proposed to assassinate the Emperor of Austria during his recent visit to Trieste. The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, New York, wearied of the Russian Jew influx, have notified the London, Paris, and Berlin authorities to send no more Hebrew refugees to the United States. O’Donovan Rossa and other Irish agitators in New York are charged with embezzling the Fenians’ skirmishing fund. Enough evidence has been produced to send the trustees of the fund to the State prison. The Dominion Government have been informed of the intended visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales on the occasion of the meeting of the British Science Awoclation in Montreal in 1883. The Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lome propose to remain in British Columbia till late in November,