NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2487, 10 March 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

GREAT BRITAIN. London, Feb. 15. Michael Davitt,the Land League agitator, was arrested on February 3 under his ticket-of-leave. He was taken to Milbank Penitentiary, and immediately clothed as a convict. The arrest was made in Dublin, and the cause assigned was that he had not reported himself to the police. Egan, Brennan and Dillon tried to see him at the Castle, but were refused, the detectives having left with the prisoner for London. The doctor advised Davitt to, go to the hospital as soon as he arrived in prison. He was conveyed to Portland convict prison, but it is not expected that he will be detained after order has been restored in Ireland. It is stated the real cause of Davitt’s arrest was in connection with the new movement to employ physical force in solving the Irish question. Orders have been given to treat Davitt with all possible indulgence. He occupies a room with bedding, and is kept apart from other convicts. He will not be subject to ordinary prison labor, but must wear the convict’s dress. The Home Secretary says there was grave and just cause for cancelling Davitt’s ticket of leave, but it is not desirable to state reasons. Davitt is in good health, and is satisfied with the arrangements made for the time at Portland.

At a meeting of the Land League, Dillon urged the continuation of agitation even after the passing of the Coercion Bill, and advised tenants to resist landlords in every way, and start physical force, for which they were prepared. A resolution was passed declaring that, in view of the importance of securing the sympathy of America, and of the Irish in America, Parnell be requested to proceed to that country immediately. Brennan will also go to America, and Walsh goes to Australia.

It is stated that. the holding of a National Convention in Dublin will be prohibited. Dillon advised its postponement until Parnell, Davitt, and Brennan can be present. Patrick Egan, the Treasurer of the Land League, has the League’s funds in Paris to avoid possible confiscation, now the Coercion Bill is passed. He sends strong appeals to America for material aid, Mr Arthur O’Connor, Home Euler, has denounced a published statement to the effect that Irish members of the House re-

ceived an allowance from the Land League Fund as an atrocious calumny. Home Rulers have decided to carry the agitation against coercion into the great towns of England and Scotland. A murder, growing out of land disputes, is reported at Derry Lee. A serious encounter with the police has taken place at Kilkenny, and also at Bally Hauris. The mob stonfcd the police and were charged at the point of the bayonet. Strict precautions are taken in every part of the United Kingdom on account of the Fenian agitation. Remarkable vigilance is used at the Houses of Parliament, and the troops even inLondonare confined to their barracks.

An infernal machine, containing a pound of’ gunpowder, was found in a London square. Three policemen were shot in Edinburgh —one seriously—in making the arrest of two men for lurking about the Custom House. One of the arrested parties committed sucide. He. is supposed to be an Irish-American.

Fearing a Fenian attack, police guard Mr Gladstone’s residence, and attend him at a distance.

The Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland have been convoked by the Archbishop to consider the new Land Bill, The claims of the Boers are to be inquired into by a Royal Commission. A Dutch rifle corps has been formed at the Hague to assist the Boers. A vessel has aurived at Plymouth with the figurehead of the lost training ship Atalanta.

20,000 miners attended a meeting of a league in Lancashire, and afterwards repaired to the Atheton collieries, where a desperate riotj ensued. The Hussars, Infantry, and police were on the ground, and after the reading of the Riot Act the Cavalry charged the mob. Several miners and policemen were injured. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts and Mr Ashmead Bartlett were married at Christ’s Church, London, on February 12. None but nearest relatives and intimate friends were present. Thomas Carlyle was unconscious for many hours before bis death, but suffered no pain. Twelve men were imprisoned, and have probably perished, by a colliery explosion in Whitfield, Staffordshire, on February 7. Two ships were damaged, and eighteen railway trucks and twelve grain-laden barges were destroyed by fire at the Victoria Docks, London, on February 8. The steamer Bohemian, Captain Grundy, from Boston to Liverpool, went ashore in Dunlop Bay on the Irish Coast during a dreadful storm. Thirty-two persons were drowned. Twenty-one of the crew, including the second officer, were saved. The Bohemian was one of six steamers of the Ley land Line, plying between Liverpool and Boston, and was probably worth 500.000 dols. when wrecked. Her cargo, which was worth 283,000 dols. was insured. The North German Lloyd’s steamer Kron Prinz Frederick Wilhelm, was sunk by a steamer in collision off Cookhaven. Six lives were lost, ’ The ship Bremen has been wrecked at the Shetland Isles. Thirteen men were drowned and seven saved. AMERICA. The united States Government has agreed to an International Monetary Confcrenc this year at Paris, and negotiations will bo conducted on the basis as to whether t° admit a double standard of gold and silverIn consequence of the United States Government’s acceptance of this invitation, France will invite the powers. The House Committee of Foreign Affairs has adopted the resolutions declaring the policy of the United States in reference to an inter-oceanic canal to be a reaffirmation of the Monroe doctrine. The TORnlntions insist that the work shall not be under the control ot any rsuiuputia a Q vernment or power, but they shall be free to commence the work upon equal terms with the States.

The important statement made, that Californian wheat is deteriorating, is attributed to the impoverishing of the land, by growing year after year the same kind of crop without the fertilisers. Anew organisation, the National AntiMonopoly League has started in New York, with branches over the country. Its object is to protect the citizens against the aggressions of corporations, and to advocate and defend the rights of the many against the privileges of th c few. Jay Gould has ordered 15,000 tons of steel rails in England, at 60 dollars per ton.

King Kalakau, of the Sandwich Islands, has arrived in San Francisco, He proposes to visit the different Asiatic and European nations, with a view- to finding out the most feasible means of attracting a desirable class of emigrants to the Islands, to take the place of natives doomed to rapid extinction. Two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars have been subserbed for ex-Presi-dent Grant.

An effort to abolish hydraulic mining is being made in California. It is proposed to send the Government vessel Crawin in search of Bennett’s Arctic exploring yacht the Jeannette. The crew of the British barque Souvenir, from New York for Queenstown, mutinied, and taking command of the vessel from the Captain and mate, returned to port. American forgers have been arrested in Florence, Turin, and Milan. Papers found in their luggage showed that their operation extended throughout the United States, Canada, England, France, Belgium, and Italy. The New York Legislature has refused to pass a resolution of sympathy with the Irish people and to regret the course adopted by the British Government. Thelrish National Land League of Boston has appealed to the American people for aid and sympathy for Ireland and denouncing England. A monster indignation meeting, concerning the imprisoment of Davitt, is proposed in San Francisco.

Meetings in favor of the Irish Land League have been held in San Francisco, and were largely attended by citizens. The feeling was very enthusiastic Professor Proctor has returned from Australia, and is drawing thousands to hear his lectures on astronomy.

Two barrels of nitro-glycerine cartridges were recently shipped aboard a Sounds steamer at New York with a view to blow up the vessel, but the carriers acting suspiciously caused an examination and the explosive was at once thrown overboard. Inexperienced burglars attempting to get into the money vault of Messrs E. Palme and Co.’s paper warehouse, New Orleans, recently, blew the whole front of the building out. Soldiers are enforcing writs of judgment against delinquent tax-payers in Ottawa, Ontario. The Chinese treaty with the United States excites alarm in some English quarters, on account of the opium clause, as it is found China intends to renew her attempts to prohibit the importation of opium altogether. CANADA. The tide of emigration to the United States has increased enormously. Some papers hint that it might be stayed if Canada ceased to be a British colony, The Railroad Bill has finally passed the Canadian Parliament. It is generally considered the figures were “cooked ” on which the awards were made in the late Fishery Arbitration between Canada and the United States, the latter being the sufferer.

FRANCE AND GERMANY. The London “ Times ” says the Bank of France has Iried to cure gold being drawn by issuing notes, but this has failed, as predicted. The proprietor of the “ Marseillaise” has been sentenced to a fine of 1000 francs for defaming the army, and eulogising a regicide ; the manager of the same paper to one years’ imprisonment and a fine of 2000 francs; and General Chisarct, the editor, to two years’ imprisonment, and 3000 francs. Eight million francs worth of redeemable three per cent bonds, to complete military material and great public works, will not be issued until July. Bismarck proposes to combat social democracy by remedial measures, and not by repressive decrees.

Bismarck has introduced a proposition into the German Parliament for triennial Imperial budgets. The hereditary Prince Leopold of Hohengollien, who was recently chosen heir to the Roumanian throne, was forcibly abducted by three men and taken across the Rhine, but he subsequently escaped. An amnesty has been granted Spanish journalists who are being prosecuted, and those already condemned and political emigrants will be permitted to return.