NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2344, 21 September 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

[By Telegraph.] (Per City of New York at Auckland.) Aucklaxd, Sept. 20. The City of New York, Captain Seabury, arrived at 3.30, having left San Francisco at 5 p.m. on the2Bth August, Among her passengers arc four sisters of the Sacred Heart Convent, whose destination is Auckland. GREAT BRITAIN. The emigrant returns from Liverpool show an increase of 5000 compared with July, 1879. Thirteen thousand emigrants wont to America duriug the month. Herbert Spencer, a writer on political economy and philosophy, will make a tour of the world next year. He firstvisits the United States.

The cattle plague appeared on the 15th of on the farms in Lancashire. The ironworkers of the West of Scotland mot at Glasgow and resolved that all furnaces in the country belonging to the firms represented at the meeting, were to be blown out at once.

Mr Levin, a Justice of the Peace, was fired at while riding home recently from Tanm, Comity Galway'. Three bullets struck him in the breast without effect, as lie wore a coat of mail. Five hundred officers and men of the Iloyal Marines have been ordered to Ireland. The “ New York Tribune’s ” correspondent says that when Lord Lytton landed from India the Queen summoned him to Osborne, whore ho had a “ bad quarter of an hour.” It is now known lie advised the declaration of war with Jliissia when Saijekoif went to Cahul.

The man who fired at Lord Lytton, in Calcutta, has recovered from his insanity and has been committed for trial.

The Marquis of Waterford was warned not to attend the Royal Agricultural Society’s show, and if he went he would be shot for voting against the Compensation BiU. He was present despite the threat.

A terrible riot took place at Dungannon on Sunday, Aug. 15, in'which many policemen were wounded. Their ranks were finally broken and they fired buckshot freely into the crowd, several of whom almost rushed on the points of the bayonets in their eagerness to attack.

At Downpatrick, in a fight between the Catholics and Orangemen (the former being worsted), firearms were almost incessantly discharged from Sunday fill Monday. Precautions have boon taken against any resistance to eviction in the west of Ireland.

Iron lints for the police are being constructed near Claremorris, in County Mayo.

At a Home Rule demonstration at Glasgow a serious riot took place while the procession was passing the Orange Lodge. The police were overpowered, and two who were badly injured arc not expected to live.

In the debate on the Irish constabulary on August 2u, Mr Richard O'Shanucssy, of Limerick, protested against the use of small .shot in firing on a mob. The Secretary for Ireland said small shot was useless, and only irritated. A footman named Donovan has been arrested and charged with sending threatening letters to Lord Oranmore for advocating the cause of Irish landlords. lioOO is in band in London to back Trickctt in the match against Hanlon. The French Jesuits have made two settlements in Wales. Harvesting is proceeding rapidly’ in Ireland. Nearly one half of the land is denied. The strike of naihnakers in Worcestershire lias been abandoned for want of co-operation. The ex-Empress Eugenic intends to quit Chisclhurst and take the remains of the late Prince Imperial with her. Messrs M. and W. Collinson, of London, offer to stake £IOOO against a similar sum that Ur Tanner will not fast forty days and forty nights, the brothers Collinson to watch him. Messrs Jones, Reid, and Co., bankers, of Liverpool, have suspended payment. The Dublin steamer Laneford and the steamer Baltic, for New York, collided in the Mersey’. The Laneford was sunk but the passengers and crew were saved. The Baltic put back for repairs. Ten thousand workmen in the Tyne shipyards have struck for an advance of ten per cent. AMERICA. Dr Tanner, the -10 clay's’ faster, seems so far none the worse for his experiment, and is rapidly' gaining flesh. His divorced wife, now in Paris, states that Tanner is a fraud, and takes nourishment in a liquid form. French papers laugh at the Americans for their credulity; Young Lyons, a physician, attempted to imitate Dr Tanner in fasting. He gave up at the end of a week. His limit was 15 day's. A miner has died from the extreme heat in the deep working at the Comstock silver mine, Virginia. Owing to the heat it has been found impossible to continue the South drive in the 3 000 feet level. The American Press generally' condemn the Canadian Pacific railroad as a foolish and expensive scheme. At Rochester, New York, on August 12, a contest took place between the famous trotters Maude and Sf. Jidicn, in heats. St. Julian made the mile in 2min HJJsoo; Maude, 2min llfsec. Second heat—St. Julian, 2miu 11-f Sec ; Maude, 3min Third heat—St. Jnlicn, 2min 2-LVscc. In consequence of the tie the judges declared all pools divided. The census just completed shows the population of the United States to be 49,000,000. A scandalous romance comes from Loscruiseo, New Mexico, where a priest, named Fattier Teddoranault, persuaded a beautiful young nun, Marguerctta Garcia, to elope with him from the convent, which she had entered at the solicitations of the priests and against the wishes of Her relations. An uncle of the girl followed the fugitives, and would have killed the lover, but he compromised by marriage. The priest and girl tell horrible stories of the conduct of the clergy' of all grades. John Buchanan, Dean of the Medical College, Philadelphia, under charge for the fraudulent issue of medical dipiomas attempted suicide by'drowning. One of his diplomas was issued to a “ Doctor ” Wright, who certified a case of death as “ coilary infantum.” Buchanan is now in gaol in Detroit.

A New York street car was recently invaded by a gang 1 of robbers and the passengers despoiled of their watches and money. A wholesale surrender of the hitherto unsubmissive Sioux, who went to Canada, takes place at Fort Keogh. There are 1800 of them who were formerly connected with Sitting Bull. The experiment of connecting New York with London by telephone is to be tried, using the French cable for the purpose.

A number of Chinese students now in the United States will be sent back home for offences committed. Some arc dishonored for having cut of their queues.

A mau supposed to be Stanley C. Augurs, a correspondent of the “Liverpool Courier,” and who was with Prince Napoleon in Zululand when the latter was killed, was found dead beside the United Pacific Railroad track on August sth. Be had been run over by the cars, and ended his life by shooting himself through the heart. The deceased had been writing up west for his papers. The gun case of the American sharpshooter, Colonel Pogardus was seized on his arrival in New York from England, and was found to be stuffed full of costly goods which he intended to smuggle. Our commercial world has been somewhat startled by the arrival of the steamer 1100 Chung, which arrived at San Francisco direct from China as the first pioneer vessel of an exclusively Chinese line of traders. It is looked upon as the commencement of a new era in the carrying trade of the world. At all events the 1100 Cluing hails from a part the United States is not allowed to fra lo with. She will have to pay an alien tax of 2 dels 80 cents per ton every lime she enters the United States From such a port, and in addition to this 10 percent, ad valorem on her cargo. EUROPE AND THU EAST. An association has been formed in Italy to collect monies for (he necessities of the Pope, th ; amount of tribute demanded from all Catholics being one centime or six sons per month. The Italian Ambassadors at London and St. Petersburg have been summoned to Romo. Recruiting is rapidly going on in Greece, and the army will soon number 20,000 men. Volunteers are enrolling everywhere. A camp has been formed in Athens. Recruits arc drilling in the streets, and 1-1,000 artillery horses have been purchased. The advance into Servia with the view to forming an alliance, offensive or defensive, is denied. News has been received in Belgium that Captains Carter and Cocklentecd, of the Royal Belgian exploring expedition, have been murdered by the chief Emcramho, in Central Africa. This is believed in London to he the celebrated robber chief Mcrcambo. Germany has given up all intention of colonising Samoa.