NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2151, 11 February 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

(Per City of New York, at Auckland.) ADDITIONAL SUMMARY. LONDON, .Tax. 18. Land meetings continue in Ireland. The Home Pule League has thanked America for prompt aid. The Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Secretary for Ireland went to London in the middle of January to consult the Government as to what measures should be taken to preserve the peace of Ireland. A bloody collision is imminent in the South and AVcst. The police fired on a crowd of Galway peasantry. None were hurt. 200 extra police were drafted to the county Galway. The Duchess of Marlborough’s Irish Belief Fund is only distributed among those known to have paid rent, and not participated in the anti-rent agitation. The British Government resolved to grant loans for drainage works for long terms, at low interests, to laud owners in distressed districts in Ireland. Inducements will be offered to Boards of Guardians to undertake sanitary works. If these means are inadequate, Government will ask Parliament to appropriate £5,000,000 of the Church Surplus Fund, for reproductive works, under the ad - ministration of a Board of AVorks, and create baronial sessions to determine the character of such works.

Mr Gladstone lias gone to Cologne, in consequence of the illness of his sister, who has long resided abroad. Dr Eenealy is not in the Tichborne case, which is fixed for the middle of July. Mr Judas P. Beniamin, Q..C., Confederate AttorneyGeneral during the American civil war, is leading counsel for the claimant. Lord Derby will actively oppose the foreign policy of the Government. Sir Thomas Bunch, and other eminent engineers, who have examined the scene of the Tay bridge disaster, attribute the accident to one or two of the end carriages of the train being blown off the rails in the storm, and thus thrown against the lattice work of the bridge. It is now believed that the total number of those in the train at the time of the disaster did not exceed 90, and that the loss was at first exaggerated. Among the passengers were the following persons :—cx-Councillor David Jobson, of Dundee ; J. A. Cordon, corn merchant, residing in Newport, with his ■wife and two daughters ; Win. Brown, junk salt merchant, Dundee, who, with his wife, was returning from their honeymoon : Mr Meldrnm, of Dundee, who leaves six children ; James Duncan, ship carpenter, from Edinburgh ; Hubert Watson, David Watson, and Hubert Watson, father and two sons, who were returning from Cupar, Fife ; Hubert Milne, of Dundee ; David Scott, goods guard ; Janies Bruinmel, wine merchant, Dundee ; Hubert Syme, clerk in the Hoyal Hotel, Dundee; A. McDonald and Thomas Aimab, Dundee : William Hobertson, and Alexander Hobertson. brothers, belonging to Abernathy, and employed at the Dundee gas works: Peter (1. Salmon, blacksmith, Dundee; Mr Maun, residing at Forfar ; Lizzie Brown, D. Craham, D. Almahar ; John Hamilton, grocer, Dundee, and R,

son of Mr A. J. Murdoch, were both expected as passengers by the train. The loss of the Borussia and 200 lives is reported. The ship Mallowdale arrived at Cork on Dec. 23, from Bassin and landed 10 men, part of the crew of the Dominion line steamer Borussia, being the only survivors of that vessels crew and passengers as far as is yet known. It appears from the statement made by one survivor that they left Liverpool on Nov. 20th for New Orleans, calling at Corunna and Havannah, for cargo and passengers. Of the latter they had on board for Liverpool 76, with a crew of 54 all told. They reached Corunna on Nov. 23, all well. Having shipped some cargo and embarked about 80 Spanish immigrants they proceeded for Havannah on the 26th, the wind being light from S.E. with calm sea. On Dec. 30, the wind freshed and increased to a gale. On the following day it suddenly veered to N.W‘ blowing strong, with a heavy cross sea, in which the ship labored heavily, and at noon sprung a leak amidships. All efforts at the pumps failed to keep the ship free, and the water filled the engine room,- putting out the fires, and stopping the engines. The crew still worked at the pumps till Dec. 2nd, when they determined to abandon her. The boats were lowered and provisioned, and part of the crew with about a dozen passengers, got into them. Those who remained by .the vessel were the master (Captain Eoberts), the second mate, three engineers, eleven firemen, three stewards, the carpenter and two boys. Shortly after leaving the vessel, one of the boats was swamped by a sea, and five of them drowned. The survivors state that the steamer’s covering board, when they put off, was not more than two inches over the water. Soon afterwards they saw a rocket tired off from the steamer, and almost immediately after the steamer’s masthead lights which were visible during the evening, dissapeared. It is supposed she must have gone down with her living freight. The barque Fulda arrived at Liverpool on Christmas Day with five other passengers, and on January 3rd the Italian barque Giacomiuico, with six passengers and ten of the crew. The others arc still missing. The cotton spinners of Ashton-under-Lyne, demand 5 per cent advance on wages. Ten per cent advance is asked at Bolton and its neighborhood. The “ Mark Lane Express ” states that the wheat crop of England is the worst of any season for "the last ten years. The German tariff has already increased wheat 32. V per cent higher than when the Bill was passed. Eye is 55 barley 25, and oats 40 per cent higher. The Ex-Empress Eugenie embarks in the steamer Germany with a small retinue for Cape Town. It is expected she will arrive at the scene of the Prince’s death on June Ist, the anniversary of that event. The country between the "Volga and the Don is famine stricken, many persons having perished. Typhus also prevails. The Porte contributes 4,000.000 piastres to relieve the destitute of Constantinople. 800 people in Bosnia are reported on the verge of starvation. Opposition to Austrian occupation is becoming serious in Bosnia and Herzegovina, owing to the tyranny of Austrian officers.

Russia has undertaken to protect Servia against Austria. Prussia is building two branch railways through Silesia, to give employment to distressed people. 160,000 need relief. Extensive drainage works and new industries are also undertaken. Russia is putting extreme pressure on Persia to induce the Shah to retire from the English alliance. In Berlin the shares of the Samoa Company have been subscribed nearly twice over. A correspondence has been discovered proving an alliance between German Socialists and Russian Nihilists. The Czar says he has handed over the administration of internal affairs to the Czarewitch, retaining the control of the foreign policy. At a review of the household troops at St. Petersburg, at which the Czarewitch was present, the Czar addressed them and said he hoped they would obey his son as faithfully as they had himself. AMERICAN SUMMARY. SAN FRANCISCO, Jax. 10. A Mormon agent from Salt Lake City is in the City of Mexico, negotiating for permission to establish a Mormon settlement in .Mexico, under a guarantee of religious liberty. The Salt Lake anti-Polygamists have asked that their delegate, Air Canon, be expelled from Congress, because he is a Alormon apostle and the husband of many wives. AH the children in “ The Shepherd’s Fold,” a New York charitable institution, have been taken in charge by the society for the protection from cruelty of children, because they were being neglected and starved. Diptheria, or a disease resembling it, is carrying off large numbers both of adults and children in the Colorado territory. Six thousand six hundred and fiftyeight mercantile failures have occurred in the United States, in 1879. Professor Henry Morton, President of Steven’s Institute of Technology, N. Y., thinks Edison’s electric light must eventually take aplace with Keeley and his motor, Payne and his engine, and Garay and his magnetic motor, as impracticable ideas. Count Dummied, a recognised high authority in electric science, writing in the Paris “ Temps,” says the Edison lamp is not new, and warns the public against the pompous announcement from the New World. The “N. Y. Tribune” confesses the lamp is by no means perfect, and the carbonised paper burner, on which so much reliance was placed, was only an experiment. Freund, editor of the New York “Musical and Dramatic Times.” is reported as having absconded with 75.000 dols. It is reported that Chinamen in Cincinnatti are ficely embracing Christianity. An experimental tea farm is to be started with Chinese labor in South California. A female doctor, named Mrs Cynthia Hodgson, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in the State penitentiary of California, for mal-practice. An outbreak has occurred in Jamacia on account of (he levy of taxes. Miss Lucy AT. B. Horton, who was jilted by a son of Senator Morgan, of Alabama, met the young man in Washington on new Year’s Day, and

shot him, causing severe but not fatal wound's. In Ohio ti sheriff, while attempting to arrest a a lan in a house of ill-fame, was shot dea d. The sun’s t-clipse on Jan. 11 was total in Southern Uulifornia. It was scientifically ohserw ?d by several astronomers, who visited C alifornia for the purpose. The atmosphere was clear and the sky cloudless. The police h ave ferreted out a gang of murderers ai id robbers near the railway depot, Hast street, Missouri. Their plan was 1 o lure travellers by the night cars on the* platform, kill and rob them,; and then bury their bodies in the marshes clone by. It is said the disappearance of ; several prominent men of late is thus accounted for. Frank Leslie, proprietor of numerous pictoral publications, died in New York on the 10th J an.

A frieght train of 34 cars fell through a burning bridge near the Durant Station, Texas and were all burned. The fireman waa burned to death.