MAIL NEWS. GENERAL SUMMARY London, December 20 to January 17.

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MAIL NEWS. GENERAL SUMMARY London, December 20 to January 17.

At Birmingham, on January loth, 5,000 persons out of employment adopted a resolution asking that the Corporation furnish employment. A procession, later, marched through the streets, halted before a bakery, and shouts of " Break in!" were heard. An artisan stole a loaf of bread, and was promptly arrested. Violence among the working classes was teared. A shocking crime occurred at Frankfort-onthe-Main on January 3. A Police Commissioner named llumpff, who had been active in the prosecution of the Socialists, was found dead in front of his own house stabbed in two places. The assassin is unknown. The Queen and Princess Beatrice will go to Germany in March, and they will remain on the Continent three weeks. The third trial of James Ellis, the French Director of the Detective Department of the Royal Irish Constabulary, for scandalous offences in connection with the Cornwall case resulted in his conviction. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment. In accordance with previous announcements, a mass meeting of unemployed workingmen was held in front of the London Royal Exchange on Jan. 17. Shortly after noon the people began to assemble, and by 3 o'clock fully 10,000 had come together. The multitude, in perfect order, awaited the arrival of the speakers, Henry George, Helen Taylor and other well known radicals, who were loudly cheered. The speaking began at a little past 3 o'clock. Kadical pamphlets of the most advanced descriplion had an immense sale, borne of these were headed in old type with the words, " Blood, Bullets, Bayonets," and presented an extraordinary appeal to the "halfstarved, herring-gutted, poverty-stricken, parish-damned inhabitants of the disunited kingdom." '1 he story is now told that the emeralds which adorned the crown of the Empress Eugenie were false. The crown was sold along with the jewels at the Government sale in Paris. The bogus emeralds were purchased by an English nobleman for £40,000, and the money paid to the exEmpress for her claim to the emeralds as personal property. The money, however, was returned when it was found that the emeralds were only imitation. The Figaro asserts that the Empress was aware of the deception. The British Government has received no advices confirming the report that Russian agents at Cabul are treated by the Ameer with unusual regard, and have access to his confidential correspondence with the Indian Government. The feai-s entertained yesterday for the safety of the packet steamer Admiral Moorsom, plying between Dublin and Holyhead, are fully justified. She came in collision with the American ship Santa Clara, from Liverpool for New York, and i sank. The Santa Clara landed twelve of ! the sunken steamer's crew and two passen- •• gers at Holyhead. The steamer carried a crew of between twenty and thirty persons, i Later accounts from Holyhead state that '. the Admiral Moorsom had eleven passengers, and only two of them were saved. i The Marriage of Princess Beatrice. Queen Victoria has thus far declined to fix a dat-e for the wedding of the Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Batten burg. The court milliners, who are the parties mostly interested in tho affair next to the principals, believe the marriage will take place early in June. The " Times' " London cable says : Some- '' thing very like an unseemly quarrel is re- J ported to exist in the* Royal family. 1 Neither the Prince of Wales nor the Duke * of Edinburgh ba3 congratulated Prince l Henry of Battenburg or the Princess Beatrice on their engagement, and they are ] said to be disgusted at the match. The Queen has refused to go to Sandringham * because the Prince of Wales insisted on ' having dancing. To this she was opposed * on account of the Duke of Albany's death. The Princess Beatrice also refused to * go, but for another reason. She was £ in the sulks over the neglect of Prince * Henry, who was not invited, and she would not have gone even if her mother had given I her permission. The Queen has intenered to have the Prince of Wales 's son called v Albert Victor by the Peers, in spite of the 8 father's effort to have the public know him * as Edward, by which name he is always v called at home. The Queen and Princess v Beatrice are going to Germany in the spring s for a loDg visit, after v. hich the Princess v ill be married. It is said she will live in a urermany half of each year, during which *■ time the poor Duchess of Albany will take her place as the victim of the Queen's t splenetic morbidity. c Panama Canal.— A La rge Contract Let. Panama, December 19th.— A powerful 2 Anglo-Dutch company has signed a contract for cutting 15,000,000 metres of the fj canal, on the Culebra section, at a figure 0 under 8 francs per metre, the work to be 0 finished within two years. A large force of fc Europeans are ordered for work. Monster Salvationist Gathering. n A cablegram of January 13 says :—: — c "Doubters of the progress in strength andyd v tactics of the Salvation Army should have *' been in Exeter JBail last evening, where the crowd rivalled that of the Drury Lane s pantomime. General Booth was in the chair, and his son stood behind him. An v uproar of applause that must have been *• heard in the stalls of the Vaudeville greeted P the rising of this tall, thin, sallow, and f Cromwellian-haired enthusiast, who with * ! thin, clarionet voice announced that this P was a farewell meeting to thirty officers, chiefly women, who were to be despatched I as recruiting sergeants of the Salvation Army to America, New Zealand, and 2 India. " I have under organisation an army corps in every British village, which will barrack in vehicular caravans, and be guarded at night by sentries." One of the recent recruits to the army, a celebrated cricketer, Btood near the r< General. Referring to him Booth said : <1 "He goes to India to guard the salvation P wickets against the swift bowling of the devil." This was received with howls of *I applause. The audience, keeping time to ci well-known weird music, or with the songs, c ' seemed animated by a fanatic zeal truly oriental in looks and gestures. d ] w * fa A\ ASYLUM HORROR. -,' A Orpban Children Burned to Death. , Twenty Bodies Found. a£ T New York, December 18.— The Catholic hi Male Orphan Asylum at St. Mark's and Al- Tl bany Avenue, was burned this afternoon, nc and a large number of the children perished gi in the flames. The fire started in the drying- C« room, which adjoined the southern end of th the main building. This drying-room also sfci contained the boilers and heating appa- 75 ratus, with a dormitory on the third pc floor, in which there were 60 orphans he

suffering from various complaints. Sister Mary Josephine, who was in the dormitory at the time the fire broke out, made heroic effortß to save the little ones. She remained in the room ■ until absolutely driven out by the flames. Then she ran to a window, where she Btood on the cornice until Fireman McQroarty of Engine 14 from the roof of a build. ng swung his coat to her. The sister caught the coat, but when McGrorty tried to pull her from her perilous position she lost her grasp and fell to the f round and struck on her shoulders and cad. She was conveyed to St. Catherine's Hospital in an unconscious condition. Joseph Ryan, a boy, tried to descend by a ladder from tho same floor (third) and got within eight feet of the ground, when tho ladder parted and he received severe in- J juries John McGrath, S years old, jumped from the third story and was badly injured. Mother Dechautel and Sister Anthony wore in the office when the fire was discovered. They at once gave the alarm, and proceeded to got the youngsters out of the building. There were 755 orphans in the main building, which was also known as St John's Home. Ihey wore told to leave the house and seek shelter in any neighbouring house until called. There was great excitement among the inmates. Hundreds of the little fellows ran out into the falling snow, hatless and coatless. The flames spread withjgreat rapidity, and the buildings werealmost completely destroyed. The asylum and grounds occupied the entire block. The asylum building was 210 by 150 feet, three stories high, with a mansard roof, and constructed of bluestone. New York, December 19. — The ••Brooklyn Eagle's" extra states that the Eire Marshal reports twelve bodies found up to 8 o'clock this morning among tho ruins. Workmen are still searching the debris. The utmost excitement prevails in tho vicinity of the Asylum The bodies found are ao charred and blackened that identification is almost impossible. It is believed that most of the children who perished were in the ill-fated Sister Josephine's ward. The men engaged excavating the ruins of the laundry found the remains of nine boys and two grown persons. Who the adults were has not been ascertained yet . No Precautions Against Fire. Brooklyn's latest horror is another evidence of the sad truth that no amount of good intention can atone for the lack of proper precaution and vigilance. Hundreds of children in the asylum were tenderly protected against all harm, except that which would have been most easily guarded against fire. There was a very large water hydrant in the yard with four butts, but there was no hose in or about the building, or any other means of extinguishing the fire, so what began as a trivial accident ended in an awful tragedy. At the time the fire began, the larger boys were playing in the courtyard making slides on the newly fallen snow or snowballing. It was. visi'ing day, and many parents of children bad come to see them. About thirty five children were in the infirmary on the second floor under the care of Sister Anthony. Beyond Identification. In the room of the saved portion of tho ' asylum proper are the budies of those who have been found. They are tied up in sheets, and any effort to identify them v\ ould be perfectly useless. In that room h the only story of the loss of life so far as is known. It is also now known that the little patients were so situated ab to be almost completely cutoff fromescape,and the flames ate rapidly upward, thus preventing egress by the lower parts of the house. < Eddie McGrath, one of the kitchen boys, 12 years of age, was going in to wash cups '> when the fire broke out. He ran on and ' saved his little seven-year-old brother, who ' was on the second fioor. Speaking to a 1 " Union " reporter, McGrath said there were ' seven boys in tho infirmary on the third i floor afflicted with sore eyes, and about twenty-three sick with malarial fever. He * said seven were unable to leave their beds, * and suggested tho probability that they < were the first victims. The children were s received at the home on various conditions. ( Most of them were orphans, and some half c orphans. In addition to these a few have 1 been committed by Police Magistrates when £ their parents were either incapable or un- « willing to properly care for them. The boys forming the last-named class were, in greater part, unwilling inmates, and these, ' it is believed, compose mainly the irissing 123. Having been set free by the fire, they prefer to remain at large. Sister Veronica was in the infirmary when the fire was discovered. She said it seemed to originate in some dish towels fi that hung on a rack. Sister Clementina v was there, too, and ran upstairs to get l 1 water to throw on the flames. Before c she got back the fire had gained such head- a way that it was useless to try and check it, v and their efforts were directed to saving * the children. Mrs Feezey, who is the £ laundress of the institution, was found in * the farmhouse of the asylum at the east ° end of the grounds and about 500 feet dis £ tant. Here she p issed the night with 63 of the smallest children, who ranged from *- 2 to 8 years. " New York, December 20. — A gang of ft fifteen labourers has been working today § lon the ice- covered ruins of the burned !! i orphan asylum in Brooklyn searching for ■* bodies. About noon, when the workmen had almost concluded that there were no more bodies buried beneath the debris, they * came upon a group of six more, all of which were burned to a crisp. This makes six d teen bodies lecovered. v The workmen have not yet reached the c space underneath the stairway. It is be- ° lieved when this spot is reached more bodies * will be discovered. It is now estimated J that fully twenty five or thirty children *' perished in the flames. Thus far, over ° twenty children are unaccounted for, but it * is supposed many are being cared for at *■ private houses. •* DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKE. Loss of Life and Great Damage in u Many Spanish Towns. t< Terrible Scene in a Theatre. |t

Madkid, December 26. — Many towns, it is reported, suffered from the recent earthquake. The official report shows that 266 persona were killed in the provinces of Malaga and Granada by the recent earthquake. The population of Granada is still encamped in the squares. The richer classes are lodging in carriages along the promenade. The facade of the cathedral is seriously damaged. Many houses were destroyed in Jimena, and a whole family killed in the village of Cajar by the falling of a chimney. Over half the inhabitants of Albunucklas were killed. Albama is mostly in ruins. The province of Malaga suffered equally as much damage as did Granada. Commerce is paralysed. Two hundred houses at Alfarnetejo were badly damaged. The panic is subsiding. The shock was not felt in the northern and north west provinces. The Government has granted 5,000d015. from the National Calamity Fund for the relief of sufferers in the ptovince of Granada. Later advices state i hat 300 lives were lost at Alhama, and 750 houses and a church destroyed. Thirty persons were killed at Pereirana. The town nail and many houses wore damaged at

Torrax ; the inhabitants fled, panicstricken It is now estimated that abou.t 600 persons were killed in the province of Malaga, including the kilted of Alhama. Midnight, — Official returns from the province of Granada state that 526 persons -were killed by the earthquake there, and in Malaga 100. In Alhama over 350 bodies have already been recovered. In Periaua 60 bodies have been recovered. Many persons died from fright. Tho convicts in the Seville prison attempted to escape. Vienna, December 29.— A severe eaitbquake shock was experienced in Carinthia, in Austro-Hungary, to day. Considerable damage was done to many buildings. An earthquake chock was felt at Tarvis on Sunday night. Violent shocks at intervals of an hour were also felt in the vicinity. The inhabitant-* are greatly alarmed. London, December 20.— An earthquake was folt in Wales td-day. Many houses were injured. Madrid, December 29. — The telegraph lines in Andalusia are useless on account of the earthquake. In Malaga the loss exceeds $500,000. Two hundred and twentyseven housos were damaged more or less. After the earthquako there was a religious procession headed by a bishop, who implored Divine mercy. There were renewed shocks in various places to-day and further damage at Cordova. The inhabitants are in a state of panic. Madrid, December 30. — Fresh details received from the distri t in which the late earthquake shock was the severest add new hoirortothe great calamity. AtNai'ja, a town of 5,000 people, in the province of Malaga, the earthquake was followed by a hurricane. This finished the destruction of many housos which already had been brought to the brink of ruin by tho previous shocks. The inhabitants fled in terror from the houses and camped outside the town. Much suffering was caused by the scarcity of provisions. The alarm in Malaga is now sub.-iding. At Granada to-day the Te Deum was sung and prayers offered for the cessation of the earthquake. At Priego, in the province- of Cordova, shocks came while the theatre was crowded with people. A terrible panic followed. Many persons jumped from the galleries and from the windows upon the crowd below. Two were killed outright, and foity more or less seriously injured. At Malaga two lofty chimneys of the gas works fell The patients in the hospitals were so terrified that they forgot their maladies and fled to the open air. The convicts in the prisons refused to enter the cells, and remained all night in tho courtyard. Alhama and Santa Ciuz wero completely destroyed. Soldiers are now clearing up the ruins in search of corpses, which are found in largo numbers, many of them horribly disfigured. A number of the persons killed are unknown. There is much distress among the survivors, who a.°k relief. At Albunnelas 200 persons were injured by falling houses. Ono hundred bodies so far have been recovered. The barracks at Loja, province of Granada, were ruined. At Seaffarraga, a town not far from Loja, fifty persons perished. Madkid, January 14. — Earthquake tremblings were felt josterday at Torrax, Canillas, Almunccar, and Algarabo. The storm in the southern province still con tinues. The rivers are greatly swollen, and the sufferings of the people, who have been rendered houseless by the earthquakes are intense. According to tho official record the number of persons killed by the earthquake in Granada was 695, and the number of injured 1 ,430. January 17. — Another severo shock of earthquake was experienced at Granada at 10 o'clock last night, causing great alarm among tho inhabitants. King Alfonso is visiting Velez Malaga to day. The heavy snowstorm and frofct continue. In Malaga the most severe snowstorm sinco 1861 prevails. The sugar-cane crop is destroyed and orange and olive groves are damaged. The situation is mjst critical. The earth is again trembling. The wind and snow dafatroyed the huts of those who fled to the open fields from the cities and towns for safety. At Frigiliana, twenty-seven miles east of Malaga, the people, rendered desperate by cold and hunger, attacked the houses of landowners. Another severe shock of earthquako has been experienced at Canillas.

THE KII IRTOIM EXPEDITION.

An Outline of Wolseley's March.

Cairo, December 22. —General Wolseloy will complete the concentration of his army at Korti the first week in January, and will begin his march through the desert upon Shendy on the 7th of January. The distance from Korti to Shendy is 200 miles, and General Wolseley calculates the march will occupy sixteen days, unless he meats with opposition from the onemy en route. Simultaneously a movement will be made from Suakim against Osman Digna, in order to secure from attack the fJank of the Nile expedition of General Wolseley. General Stevenson will leave Cairo for Suakim on Wednesday, to assume command of the expedition from that place Major Chermside reports that out of the garrison at Suakim of 1,200 marines and sailors, there are only 100 effective men. Fresh troop* will bo sent to Suakim. General Wolseley is far from satisfied with the arrangements of the expedition. Re has sent furious complaints to the War Office of the inefficiency and absolute breakdown of the transport and commissary services. Although a good two months has elapsed since the pioneer corps left Sarasso, only 1,500 of the 5,000 men composing the full force of the expedition have reached Korti. British envoys have left Korti for the Kabbabish and other tribes, which are only weakly attached to El Mahdi's cause The envoys will endeavour to persuade these tribes to enter into an alliance with the English. News From General Gordon, January 11.— It is officially stated that a messenger arrived at Khartoum on the 27th ult. bearing a letter from General Wolseley to Gordon. The messenger left Khartoum on the 20 bh, but was captured and beaten. The papers entrusted to him by Gordon were all taken, with the exception of a small note, which was sewn in his clothes, and which said that all was well at Khartoum. The messenger says he saw five steamers with troops. They were engaged in seizing supplies for the Khartoum garrison. The messenger returned to Korti on foot by way of Bayuda. The Maroh Through the Desert. London, January 17.-- A despatch from Gakdul says that thirty camels dropped dead on the march from Howenjatt. The troops suffered severely. A majority of the waterskins leaked, and the men, yielding to their thirst, exhausted their rations of water prematurely. Very few fell out of line, and the condition of the men under the circumstances was splendid. All bore their hardships bravely, as is evinced by their singing as cheerily as their parched throats would permit. They are keenly desirous to fight. * Lord Wolseley telegraphs as follows from Korti, under date of January 17th: "A large convoy has returned from Gakdul. The whole route is quiet. The convoy returned to Howarab. The Bowaivis tribes start with etoreß for GaKdul tomorrow.

Sulep, ohief of the Kabbabish tribe, has oome in. The English boats are now arriving. Out of 800 landed in. Egypt, 780 are still able to be used on the river. The others are being repaired. Tery few were wrecked." Colonel Burnaby, with a convoy of grain, joined General Stewarts forces at Gakdul on the 15th inst. The London "Standard's" correspondent sends from Howenjatt : — " We are experienoing the difficulty of a desert march. The immense column starts at two a.m., and the march continues the whole day. We are going to Gakdul, via Abubalfa Wells, where we hope to find sufficient water for men and camels. A small party lefb at Howenjatt was fired into one night, but otherwise we have not been molested. Small parties of Arabs, wearing the Mahdi's uniform, are roaming the desert yet. Some self us sheep, and assert there are only a few rebels at Metammeh. The heat is very trying. The camels go sixty hours without water, and the men are only allowed two pints daily. The water resembles pea soup in thickness. The soldiers freely offer a crown for a tumblerful. If the Arabs had been in active hostility, they would have rendered the desert impossible, and it would have been necessary for us to carry every ounce of food and water for both men and animals. Sir Herbert Stewarts force consists principally of the Mounted Infantry and Camel Corps, led by a troop ot the 19th Hussars, acting as scouts. It numbers about eleven hundred all told. Gakdul is slightly over one hundred miles from Korti, and about eighty miles from the Nile at Shendy. Of tho eleven hundred men, about four hundred will be left at Gakdul, where they will entrench themselves, while the others return to Korti, and from there lead on the remainder of the Cavalry Brigade, with the probable addition of the Royal Sussex Hegiment (the 30th), whose boats have just been arriving ab Korti. By January 10th, therefore, if not before, Sir Herbert Stewarts column may be on its way from Gakdul to the Nile— or to Khartoum direct — that is to say, via Shendy, which lies half way between Khartoum and Berber. From Shendy to Khartoum the Cavalry Brigade would havo to march only one hundred miles. General Earle's Columns. After his intended operations against the Monasters, General Earlo will resume his advance up the rivor to Abu Hamoi, where the end of the Nile turns southwards to Berber At Abu Hamed— according to the detailed plans telegraphed— Genoial Earle will open communications with Korosko, and then proceed to Berber. His infantry regiments will have to row themselves 100 miles from Handab to Abu Hamed, and 120 more from the latter locality w Berber. In the first-named section there are at least six so-called cataracts, none of them, however, very formidable. These obstacles passed, the rest of tho voyage will bo comparatively plain sailing. The total relieving force numbers 2,400 men— viz., 900 infantry and 1,500 of the mounted bii^ade, with ?ixfccrew guns. The whole of the expeditionary force is expected to reach Korti by the middle of January. The Commander-in-chief. Lord AVolseley's interviewer in camp speaks in laudatory terms of him. He says : — " It is marvellous to sco him. Up at five o'clock oi before, he is out and about actively till near noon. All the afternoon ho works in his room, making work for others and making others woik ; he may take an hour's exorcise at five o'clock, then returns to work till dinner time. To bed, after perhaps a couple of hours' more in tellectual labour, about midnight, and up again beforo five. He is never tired, or never shows it. He can ride horse or camel from early morning lill late at night without showing punishmont, and his personal equanimity and amiability are never upset."

ANOTHER DYNAMITE EXPLO SIOiY IN THE CITY OF LONDON.

An Attempt to Wreck the Underground Railroad.

The Windows of a Passing Train Shattered and Persons Thrown Down.

London, January 2.— A dynamite explosion occurred on the Underground Railway, between Gower street and Kinga Cross station, at 9.30 o'clock this evening. The windows of a passing train were shattered and the gaslights extinguished. Beyond this no danmgo was done. The passengers were greatly terrified, but no one was hurt. The train resumed its journey after a delay of 25 minutes. Theshock of the explosion was felt by tho residents of Euston Iload between St. Pancras's Church and Judd-street. The railway runs the whole length of Euston Road underneath the roadway A crowd speedily collected at a vent-shaft at the head of Ossulton-street, from which, at the time of the explosion, a quantity of smoke issued. As soon as possible after the explosion a number of porters were sent to the spot with lamps and appliances for clearing the line. " Up to the present time nothing has been found. The residents in the locality were greatly alarmed. The shock overthrew several wayfarers on Euston Road. It was with great difficulty that horses on the road were restrained from running away. Tho gaslights in the Gower-street station were extinguished. The ticket collector in the station was thrown from his box, and tho engineer working the incandescent electric light machinery was thrown from his seat a distance ot three or four feet, landing on his face The lights in other trains in the tunnel were extinguished by the explosion The passengers were greatly alarmed, and many ladies fainted. The Gower-street platform was literally strewn with forms of persons prostrated by the phock. The houses in the vicinity were shaken, and the roadway oscillated. Two trains were passing each other at the time of the explosion, and in both the lights were extinguished. Windows were shattered, and the framework of several carriage doors was smashed. The green, red, and white lights at the front and rear of the trains were extinguished. The ticket collector at the Gower street station describes the report of the explosion as sharp and ringing in character, like the discharge of a small piece of field artillery. The point where the explosion occurred is directly under the road leading to the main entrance of the London and Northwestern Railway station. A lady's nose was cut by glass, and one gentleman had his side and face, and another his wrist, cut. These are the only serious caeualities reported. All the passengers left the trains at the Gower street station. Many of them were in a half fainting condition. Superintendent Williamson, of Scotland Yard, and the superintendents and inspectors of various districts arrived at the Gowerstreet station half an hour after the explosion, and immediately proceeded down the line. They discovered the signal-box eastward of St. Pancras's Church partially wiecked, the signal wire separated, ana the clock stopped dt fourteen minutes past 9. Close inspection showed thnt the explosive material could not have beengun-

i powder, as the surrounding brickwork was • not; blackened. It must, therefore, have ) been either dynamite or guncotton. The ) locality of the explosion is on the north side i of the line, midway between St. Pancras's Church and Charlton-etreet. The- only clues are a few fragments of paper whioh i were found strewn about the track. At the site of the explosion there is a hole in the solid masonry about four feet from the ground, with a diameter of four feet and a depth of five or six inches. The masonry is more or less damaged for some eight feet all around the hole. The effects of this explosion correspond almost exactly with those of the explosion at the Praedstreet station fourteen months ago. Both the trains which met at the time and place of the explosion were fairly crowded with passengers. The third-class carriages suffered most frpm the shock. The locomotives of both trains sustained no damage. The signal man who had charge of the wrecked signal box says that the floor of the box was heaved up by the explosion, and he was half stunned. Speedily ascertaining that the signal apparatus was safe, he relit the gas and telegraphed up and down the line. The fact of the meeting of the two trains at the place of the explosion is regarded as accidental. The belief is general that some miscreant dropped the explosive with a time fuse attached from an earlier train proceeding to the city. Near the spot the police found a man's cap, some pieces of twine, and some burnt fragments of rag. London, January 3. — ColonelMajendie, the Chief Inspector of Explosives, and a part of railway officials to-day inspected the scene of last night's explosion in the Underground Railway tunnel. The only injury that was discovered was a triangular indentation in the masonry about three feet from the ground, and averaging two inches in depth. Colonel Majendie decided that the explosive material was dynamite. A passenger on a train that left Gowerstreet for Kinsj's Cross Station a few minutes before the explosion, says he saw a man who wore an ulster with a fur collar and a soft wide-awake hat enter the compartment next to that in which he sat. The man carried a parcel, apparently of considerable weight, which was wrapped in cloth of American manufacture. Shortly after tho train left (lower-street, the man let down a window of the compartment with a loud slam. Ho got out at Farring-ton-street and walked away. He was then without the parcel. The passenger thought the stranger had forgot it, and looked over the partition betwoen the compartments to see if it was there. It was gone. The landlord of the Rising Sun Hotel, which is near the scene of the explosion, says that the shock was felt in his house severely. Ho heard a loud rumbling noise, and the house seemed to be shaken to its foundation. Hft was leaning over his bar at the time, and was lifted nearly a foot from the floor. Mr Win. Freston, who was engaged in the defence of Dr. Gallagher, and who says the dynamiters unjustly suspect him of having given information to the Govern rnent, said to-night that he believed his house in Euston Road was the objective point of the attack. He says he wa? standing at a front window of his house la?t ovening, when he heard a sound like the discharge of a small cannon. Several seconds afterward he heard a terrific report, and his houso trembled with the shock. In another second he heard and felt a still greater crash, which caused him to fall. Mr Freston is the only one of tho many witnes&es of the affair who heard more than one explosion. The latest report is that a reward of §100,000 is to be offered for the arrest of the perpetrators by the combined action of the Home Office and the public. The "Pall Mall Gazette" heads the subscription with §100, and says: "They come high, but we must have them. The sum pro posed is more than they ate worth, but it fc a cheap insurance against further outrages."

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

Captain Thomas Phelan Dangorously Stabbed in O'Donovan Rossas Office.

Cause of the Affray.

New York, January 0, — At a late hour this afternoon, several men rushed out of 12, Chambers-street, in whioh building is located the office of O'Donovan Rossa and the " United Irishman." In a few seconds a man, covered with blood, tottered down the stair? to the hallway, and sank on the front stoop, while his blood covered the sidewalk in a stream. Several officers rushed up, and seeing a few men making towards Chambers-street and the City Hall, followed them. One of them, a tail man, was captured and brought back to where the dying man was lying. "Is this the man who stabbed you?"

asked the officer. "Yes, that is the man," was the reply : " but, by heavens, if I'm going to die I'll die game, and there will be two of us." With that, and before the bystanders could realise his intentians, he drew a revolver and fired two shots in quick succession at the man standing before him. One of the balls took effect in the thigh of his would be murderer. The man who was stabbed proved to be Capt. Thomas F. Phelan, of Kansas City, aged forty-nine, and his assailant, whom he says stabbed him, gave his name as Richard Short of 861, Tenth Avenue. An ambulance was summoned and Phelan was taken to the Chambers- street Hospital, dying. He is stabbed in the neck and breast and several other places. Short, it was stated, came to the country with the man who, in the summer of 1882, shot at "Jim" McDermottin Capt. Ryans barroom, in Chambers-street. He is said to be a native of Cork, where he was one of the principal leaders of <ho movement directed by O'Donovan Rossa. Phelan was one of the originators of the skirmishing fund, and was at one time Buspected of being the famous "No. 1," mentioned by Informer Carey in his evidence. He has been an Iri9h Nationalist all his life, and been always prominent in Irish rovolutionary movements. Phelan's Wounds.

Phelan's clothing was cut in several paces under which there waB no wound. The four stabs in the back were slight; two just below either shoulder were two inches deep ; the seventh was in the right side of the neck ; another penetrated the chest, and each arm received a thrust. The right arm was almost severed at the shoulder. Coroner Martin came to the hospital to take the wounded man's ante-mortem statement. Phelan said he would give a true story and proceeded : An Ante-mortem Statement,

" On last Sunday week the interview between myself and the editor of the Kansas City 'Journal,' was published in the 'Journal.' The paper is now in my pocket. I aiterward received a letter from John T, Kearney, asking me to come to this city. I telegraphed him I would be here January Bth. When I arrived to-day I called on Kearney, and together we went to O'Donovan Rossa's office. Rossa was not in. A man named 'Rooky Mountain OBrien came in while we were there. He shook hands with me in a friendly way, and asked how I was. He then left. A, man,

i i whose name, I think, is Barker, came in with a knife in his hand, and he immediately approached and struck at me about the chest. I was seated in a chair at the time, and wardod off the blow. He made more thrusts, and stabbed me several times. I sprang to my feet and ran downstairs, but Barker followed me and cut me again and again. On the street Barker was brought before me. I recognised him as being the man who stabbed me, and supposing he would stab me again, I shot him.'* '1 he police found the knife with which the crime was committed on the top step of the second flight of stairs leading to Rossa's office. Its blade was five inches long and ! sharpened on both edges. The handle was twisted with twine to give a firmer grasp, i O'lJonovan Rossa came to his office after nightfall, and pretended ignorance of the whole affair. When told a man had been hacked to pieces in his office, he smiled incredulously, but afterward he showed consternation and asked for all the particulars. He was told to go to the station-house for information, and he suddenly locked his door and disappeared. The "Journal" Interview. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 10.— The interview with Captain Phelan heretofore mentioned as published in the "Journal" of 1 1 is city, December 21 sb, is devoted chiefly to the revelation of a plot to blow up the steamer Queen, and the description of the manner of manipulating a mysterious dynamite machine. The machine is simple, but works with fatal precision. It consists of a reservoir of acid which drips upon a tube enveloped in sheets of tissue paper. It takes a minute for the acid to eat through each sheet of paper. In this case 120 sheets were wrapped around the tube. When the last sheet is eaten through, the acid runs down the tube and upon the percussion cap beneath, and then the explosion. The machine is noiseless and almost infallible in working a terrible injury. Speaking of himself, the Captain said he was a dynamiter out and out, belonged to the Irish National Society and was obedient to their call, having participated in many of their plans for terrorising tho English Government. Be determined to return to Liverpool and save the Queen, in order to protect the lives of the hundreds of people who would sail on the next voyage. Many of those people were his own countrymen, men, women and children, going to join their friends in America. An Interview With Rossa. J^NewYobk, January 10.— The following statement in the form of an interview with O'Donovan llossa is made public to-day : "Did you ever write to Captain Thomas Phelan ?" was asked of Mr Kossa. "I did, I serot him a copy of tho Kansas City 'Journal,' asking him to erase anything in bis interview in it which he did not acknowledge as his." "Did you receive an answer to that letter?" "I did not." "Did you not receive a telegram from Captain Phelan telling you that he would come on to New York and meet you at your office?" "I did not." '•Then you had no knowledge that Captain Phelan was coming on to New York ?" "I had not." " How did you look upon the interview of Captain Phelan as published in the Kansas City 'Journal'?" "I considered him a traitor to our cause, if that interview were correct." New York, January 13.— 1t is the general idea among those who are interested that Phelan will not be satisf ed with punishing Short for criminal assault, but that he intends to punish all his gang, and prosecute them for conspiracy to murder. It is also thought that attempts may be made to persuade Phelan not to appeal to the law at all. Phelan promises to make it hot for everybody.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, Jan. 18.

The United States Fish Commission have shipped, through Mr K. J. Creighton, a million whiten'sh eggs from Lake Michigan for Ballarat Acclimatisation Society. The eggs are in a forward state, and they are in the icehouse on the City of Sydney. A bill has been introduced in the Tennessee Legislature to punish those teaching the doctrine of polygamy. The law is directed against Mormon missionaries. The Tichborne Claimant has arranged a lecturing tour in America. A cyclone swept through the States of Alabama and Georgia on January 12, destroying forests, towns, and everything in its path. The strike of coal miners in Pensylvannia is becoming desperate. The men fired one of the largest mines in the country. Phelan, the dynamiter who was stabbed in O'Donovan Bossa's office, says he believes he was deliberately trapped into the office to be murdered, because it was thought he blabbed too much to newspaper reporters. Phelan visited Hull, England, in 18S3, but was so carefully watched by the police that ho had no opportunity of perpetrating any dynamite outrage. ! Mrs Herman Adlo-, better known as Leonora Simonsen, pnma donna, died in San Francisco on the 27th December, of peritonitis. Her father, Martin Simonsen, arrived from New York two days before his daughter's death. There are signs of revival in the iron industry, Pennsylvania. A scheme is being matured by the IrishAmericans whereby 20.000 responsible pei'sons in the States will agree to pay five dollars a year each for payment to Irish members of Parliament so long as the constitutional methods conducted by Mr Parnell are maintained, The New Orleans World s Exposition is in bad luck, losing a thousand dollars daily. Unpaid employe's threatened to burn the building unless back wages were paid. Six thousand men are idle in Montreal.

Wednesday a number of Kaipara natives waited upon the Hon. the Native Minister at tho Star Hotel to lay before him certain matters requiring attention in that district. Mr Ballance did not go into all the subjects, but promised that he would visit the Kaipara soon and. make personal investigations on the 'Spot. One matter, that of the claim of A. Waiapo to the Kaira block of about 60,000 acres at Kaipara, was fully laid before the Minister. Waiapo is a young man who inherited large properties on the death of his father some years ago ; but there have been continual disputes regarding the ownership, and some poitions were seized by other chiefs. The large block in question had been the subject of lengthy dispute before the Native Committee, but no decision was arrived at. Waiapo now requested the Native Minister to have the block surveyed by Government and passed through the Native Land Court with a view to determining the title. Mr Ballance promised to have the survey made, and to look after the young man's interest in the land. Another railway crossing accident— this time at Oamaru. As a ballast train from the South was coming up to the crossing a buggy jvith five persons in it drove on to the line, and before the driver could do anything in order to clear the lino the engine struok the baggy, throwing the occupants out, but fortunately clear of the line,' so that beyond a few, cuts and bruises no injury^was dpne. There was a watchman in charge of the crossing, but he had gone home, . >; .