SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2558, 2 June 1881, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

SECOND EDITION

Mr Biggar, the Land Leaguer, has given notice that he intends to move in Committee of Supply to reduce the salary of Mr Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, by £3OOO on the ground that the right hon. gentleman has not made himself sufficiently acquainted with the Irish land question. There seems to be an expectation in the political clubs that a small batch of peers will shortly be announced, and that amongst them will at length appear the name of Sir W. Harcourt Johnstone, who, it is believed, will take the title of Lord Derwent. Humours are afloat respecting Lord Hosebery being likely to take office. There is no doubt his lordship is an able man, and be is a great personal friend of Mr Gladstone’s. Lord Aberdeen has been appointed Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Mr Gladstone lias just been unanimously elected President of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution in the place of the late Mr Carlyle. An influential committee we understand, is at work on the preliminary operations required for the erection of a statute in memory of Mr Curdle. About £6OO have already been promised, and among the subscribers are Lord Derby, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Granville, Professors Tyndall and Huxley, the Duke of Westminster, the Bishop of Exeter, Lord Houghton, Sir John Lubbock, and Lord Airlie. The amount at present promised is about one.fourth of the sum that will be ultimately required, Early on the morning of St Patrick’s Day a band set out with the intention of serenading the prisoners in Kilmainhnm Gaol, The progress of the hand being opposed by the police, a dispute arose, which ended in a riot. A riot occurred last night when the police attempted to stop another band and torchlight procession. Stones were 1 thrown and the police assaulted. Lord Fitzhardingo’s well known pack of foxhounds have had a narrow escape from being cut to pieces. While hunting recently in the vicinity of the Midland Railway at Gossington, near Dursley, the fox crossed the line, and as the two leading hounds were following an express train came up and killed one of the dogs, a very valuable one, on the spot, and injured the otiier. Had the train been a little later the whole pack would have been on the line. At the meeting of the Carlton Club, to be held in May, there is to be an increase in the number of ordinary members from 950 to 1300, half the increase to be taken from the candidate list (which numbers 1200) at once, and the other to be selected by the committee at the rate of forty per annum. It was also proposd to increase the admission from £2O to £3O, the fee for “ selected” members to be fixed at £4O. The land of some of the prisoners in Kilmainhara Gaol is being tilled by the country people, who gather in large numbers for the purpose. Ho steps have yet been taken to reduce the miltary establishment in Ireland, which consists of seven regiments of cavalry, twenty-seveu battalions of infantry, eleven batteries of field and garrison artillery, four companies of Royal Engineers, besides several troops and companies of the Army Service and Hospital Corps.