SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2625, 19 August 1881, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

The Prince of Wales has given a subscription of 100 guineas to the National Memorial to Lord Beaconsfield. The French Government has entered into a contract with an English firm for the supply of English and Irish horses for the French cavalry at an all-round price of £55 each, and horses in large numbers are being brought up throughout the United Kingdom for shipment to France. The “ Dublin Gazette ” states that the Earl of Bandon has been chosen a representative peer for Ireland in the room of the late Lord Dunboyne. It is reported that Lord Milltown will probably succeed the late Earl of Wicklow as Irish representative peer in the House of Lord. The vacancy in the county court judgeship ot the Ipswich Circuit h*s been filled by the appointment of Mr F. Roxburgh, Q.C. The national monument to the late Lord Beaconsfield, which was to take the form of an enlargement of Hughenden Church, does not seem to appeal very strongly to the public taste or to national gratitude. It was supposed the £SOOO or £6OOO necessary would be raised in a few days ; but up to the present time £SOO has not been collected.

Further experiments with the electric light were made in the House of Commons one night last week. In addition to the twelve Brush lanterns in the roof, there were thirty-four small incandescent lights 'on the Swan system under the galleries. Those lights superseded sixty-four gaslights in the roof and thirty-four gas jets on the pillars. There was a perceptible diminution of heat under the galleries, and the light there was steady and clear. Though some alterations had been made in the deeply ground glass which encased the opal globes in the roof, no change was observable from the previous experiment. Opinion is still divided as to the comparative merits of the old and new systems of illuminating the chamber. Dr McCabe, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, in a pastoral wliieh was read on Sunday, says he regrets to find that there are men, even in his own diocese, preaching doctrines tending to dishonesty and subversive of law and order. lie adds, ‘‘ We must take care to guard our flocks from dangers which their long-denied claims for justice might call forth. Unreasonable demands or indiscreet zeal may throw our country into misery even greater than that from which she seems on the point of escaping.” The liquidators of the City of Glasgow Bank invite tenders for the interest which they hold in the New Zealand and

Australian Land Company (Limited), amounting to about £348,403 preference four per cent stock, and £923,300 ordinary. For the former no tender less than £9O per cent will be entertnined, and the latter £63. The sudden change in the weather from a Midsummer heat to an October chill last week left us a legacy of colds, bronchitis, and rheumatism. It caught Londoners perfectly unprepared, and the result will be to swell the mortality returns of the Registrar General. The white hats and waistcoats and the gossamer costumes of a week ago disappeared as if by magic, but with the return of comparatively warm weather they are beginning to appear. An enigmatical paragraph appears in one of the morning paper to the effect that the Carlton Club bad summoned a meeting, at which a motion will be submitted for the reduction of the club by one member. This diplomatic way of putting it refers to the case of a baronet, a member of the last Parliament, who has made himself obnoxious in the club.

The Parliamentary incident of the hat has not yet ceased to excite amusement. It has moved the Bev. Isaac Nelson, who has been exhibiting a lamb like submission in bis native country, to make an appeal to journalists. “ You should not be always twitting me,” says he, “ with breaches of Parliamentary order. Be gentle with the novice. For surely you have no case against me when the Prime Minister of England, after Haifa century’s experience in the House of Commons, does not know how to manage bis own bat.”

Messrs Badford and Moore are (a New York paper says) superintending the building ofa boat in which they expect to cross the ocean, leaving New York lor London. The boat’s dimensions are 19ft. keel, 20ft. over all, sft. beam, and ofl3in. draft. This diminutive craft will carry "three tons, including two men, provisions, and twelve sails. She in to be rigged brig fashion, but will be provided with three oars, and will carry canned provisions in her lockers for forty days. The mariners say they expect to reach London in thirty or thirty-five days. By the exercise of a little ingenuity, the names of the. placed Derby horses were conveyed across the Atlantic in the form of a single word—or rather imitation of a word—of nine letters only. It was arranged that the first three letters of the successful horses’ names should be cabled, and the message therefore an “ Iropertow.” This was readily translated into Iroquois, 1 ; Peregrine, 2 ; Town Moor, 3. Mr P. Lorillard had a special message in this style forwarded to him from the Grand Stand.

THE JOCKEY ARCHER. What a curious thing is popularity ! Since the Derby, Archer, the jockey, has been more talked about than any man in the country. All kinds of people seem anxious to know what he says, what bo does, and how he lives. He is the petted of all classes. Titled men are proud of repeating what Archer said to them, if he said anything at all. Archer has the income of the Lord Chancellor, and his life is a round of pleasure, for he certainly loves the sport. Wo open our cjo with admiration and wonder when we hear of an artist getting £IOOO for a picture that has cost him, perhaps a couple of years of work and thought; but Archer gets his £IOOO for a three minutes’ ride. A RED-HOT FENIAN. Writing in the “United Irishmen,” an American publication,O’Donovan Rossa remark* :—We are to have measure for measure, blood for blood. Two verdicts of murder have lately been recorded against the English Government in Ireland, and we would heartily rejoice this day if the telegraph flashed across the news that some two Irishmen had executed that sentence on Buckshot Forster and Hypocrite ’ Gladstone.” The following extract has reference to the Doterel explosion:—lrishmen here is the work you ought to direct your attention to. Give half .your money to the Land League, and give half to blow up an English ship or an English castle, and you will be doing some good. Without some kind of tight or skirmishing outside Ireland to back up what Mr Parnell is doing, and to draw off the enemy’s attention from his peaceful and constitutional agitation, that agitation will collapse.” In another article O’Donovan Rossa threatens to blowup all vessels carrying the English flag.