ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 926, 11 March 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Th« following itemß were received by the English Mail steamer Australia, which arrived in Auckland at 5 p.m. last Thursday, and was put into quarantine owing i to having measles on board : ) A hideously indecent expression was

interpolated in the Times's report of the •peech of Sir William Harco>vt on the 23rd February. The matter was made worse by an apology, some six day* »fter the announcement, from the man ger, who hoped to bring the- guilty paries to justice. The paper containing the indecency was sold as high as £1 per copy, and low weeklies printed the report verbatim and were sold on the streets by thousands. In connection with the affair 20 compositors and two proof readers were discharged from the Times. By the failure of the Pam Bank, the Union Generale, the Dukedeßroglie, who transferred a great portion of his fortune to his son, one of the directors, after the failure of an adventure on May 16th, loses a large sum. The Count ue Chambord loses several millions, and the Orleans Princes loses 500,000 francs. Genera] Millie owned 300 shares, and Viscount de Buonouza, husband of a lady once on the operatic stage as Marie Hilbron, is reported to have sunk 25,000,000. Oapoul, the tenor, and Lusall, the baritone, have, like a number of other artists, lost a great part of their earnings, and the editors of the leading legitimist and clerical papers are involved to an extent ridiculously disproportionate to their fortunes and possible earnings. None of the official brokers have come to grief.

Nearly 100 naval officers made application to the Secretary of the Navy for orders to go in search of Captain De Long and the missing boats of the Jeannette. The latest news regarding the Jeannatte survivors is that Lieut Trower and nine of his crew have arrived at Irkutsk. They were ordered home, and Lieut Melville and his party were directed to continue the search after Captain De Long, and the others missing as long as the slightest hope of success remains. A semi-Fenian and Ribbon conspiracy, has been discovered in Ireland, extending to 24 counties, with a head organisation iu Dublin, and Nationalists and Ribbonmen, for the first time in the history of the country, work in. nnity. The object is to deter persons from payment of rent and to punish those who disobey the orders of the conspirators.

The Superintendent of police at New York has received a c ; rcular from the Scotland yard police, advertising a reward of £4OO for the discovery of the body of the late Earl of Crawford, which was stolen from the family tomb at Aberdeen. The English Government will pay £.500 and the family £250. The New York Herald has sent a special correspondent to Panama, who reports that the actual condition of affairs connected with De Lesseps' can d scheme are altogether unsatisfactory. The terms offered by the French contractors are a mere bait for investors, being 66,000,000 francs less than the minimum fixed by the technical Commission, and considerably less than half the original estimate. Half the population of Port au Prince, Hayti, are down with yellow fever. The financial affairs of the country are desperate. The prospects of the north-western States for crops are encouraging. A great fire occurred at New York on January 14th in Pr'nting House square, doing damage to the amount of two million dollars. The Scientific American lost 100,000 dollars in models and patents and other journals suffered severely. A Papal nuncio at Madrid has advised the Spanish Government to prohibit the pioposed pilgrimage to Rome, on account of the difficulties connected therewithSome excitement was occasioned in Newark, New Jersey, on account of an attack by Father Coroker, Roman Catholic priest, on the Sisters cf Charity and the closing of their schools. Steps are being taken to close the church.

Sir Henry Parkes, accompanied by C. W. Field and T. D. Babyc ok, delivered an address before a special session ot the New York Chamber of Commerce on the 15th inst., on the subject of the commercial relations evisting between the United States Australia. After thanking the Chamber of Commerce for the welcome accorded him. he proceeded to give a description of the six L ustralian co ; oni3s, claiming that in a few years the group would become a vast empire and a great power

The are making proprovisions for the Jewish refugees from Russia.

The Marquis de Jolas, a large loser by the broken Paris bank, the Union General* 1 , has committed suicide. The Catholic Bishop of Montreal has served notices to quit on ail tenants of Church property selling liqnor,

Lebanon? the Russian Ambassador in London has declined to send the Russomemorial to the Czar protesting against the outrages. It was signed by Xtothßchiid, as Secretary of the Committee.