SUMMARY OF MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1100, 3 May 1883, Page 3

SUMMARY OF MAIL NEWS.

The Horae Secretary urges the local bodies throughout the United Kingdom to adopt precautionary measures with a view to preventing dynamite and other explosions in their respective districts.

Hostilities have been recommenced between the French and Anamese, with reference to the occupation of Tonquin, France has despatched reinforcements of troops to the scene. It is probab'e that China will resist the troops now in Tonquin, and a war between the two countries is very probable. An outbreak of plague has taken place in Persia, and is - spreading rapidly. Fears are entertained that it will extend to Europe, and the greatest excitement prevails, The Channel tunnel scheme is being vigorously agitated in London, with a view to securing concessions in its favor, By one mile and a quarter bore on the French side the French engineers Lave shown that they can proceed to bore at the rate of 222 feet daily, This would complete a gallery eighteen feet wide be whole way acroee in a little ovei

eiglitei n months. French enthusiasm on the subje3t takes no account of English opposition.

Bismarck declares, in reply to a letter from the Crown Prince, that lie intends to devote the remainder of l.is life to considering ;the finances of the empire. Biding, late French consul at Tunis, is arraigned for an alleged attempt to palm off a foundling as the son of his late wife by her first husband, Admiral Carcemie. The case came before the Paris Probate Court on April 6th, Counsel for the prosecution hinted that the child was a natural son of Napoleon m.

A despatch from Rome, dated April 4th, says The story of a triple defensive alliance between Austria, Germany and Italy against France, is made the occasion by the Italian Press of many - offensive anti-Gallic articles, the Liberta and Journal de Rome are particularly bitter, Tbe latter says that from the Baltic to Sicily the French Republic has nothing but enemies, who are ready to attack her if she moves a finger.” United States Minister Lowell attended a banquet of the Corporation of Civil Engineers at Kensington, In the course of his after dinner remarks he said And though I may not venture to allude to certain topics I can say that no American, any more than an Englishman, believes that assassination is war, or that dynamite is the raw material of policy.” (Cheers.) Davitt has written a vigorous letter on the “dynamite policy.” He says it can only have the effect of exasperating the English democracy, and that “it would be far better to wait another twenty years than to play into the hands of Ireland’s enemies by giving the reins to despair and revenge.*’ The powder depot at Passo, Italy, exploded on April sth, killing forty persons aid injuring many others. The explosion was caused by » workman carelessly throwing a match near some 2cwt of powdo r. Baron Wertheim, the wealthiest manufacturer in Austria, died in Vienna on the afternoon of April 4th. In the House of Commons on April sth, Sir H. Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, explained his Budget for the financial year ended March 31st, The total revenue amounted to £89,000,000. This exceeds the estimates by £4,064,000. The expenses of the war in Egypt includes the amount contributed to defray the cost of the Indian contingent, £3,896,000, There fell to the present Administration of Government an inheritance of £7,850,000 for war charges, which have been paid out of taxes. Of the £10,700,000 for war charges, he had no arrears whatever to report on account of war expenditure as incurred by the present Government. The National debt was reduced during the pasl year by about £7,100,000. He expected to be able to make a further reduction this year of about £8,000,000, and in the next two years by £12.000,000. He proposed that the lax on railway earnings, where fares ere very small in amount, be abolished ; that a provision be made looking towards a reduction in rates for telegrams sent anywhere in the United Kingdom for sixpence each, and that three-half-pence of the income tax be removed. This last measure would, according to Sir H. Childer’s estimate, reduce the revenue of the Government by £2,135,000, This was the report of the new Chancellor, and it was received with much favor, and at its conclusion there were loud and prolonged cheers. Commenting on the above figures, the Times says :—We may assume that 1 the greater part of the additional funds quoted for prosecuting the war in Egypt were deducted from the expenditure. The prospects of the Budget for the coming year thus appear satisfactory.

The resistance of the Danes in Schleswig, in opposition to the demands of Prussia, that they shall serve in the array is as strong as ever. Thirty of them have just been expelled from the country for refusing to inscribe their names for such service.

Representatives of the English are in treaty for the purchase of several of the Mexican narrow-guage railroads. White laborers are entering British Columbia by thousands to work on the Canadian railroads.

It is generally understood in Ottawa that the Marquis of Lome will be succeeded by tbe Hon W. E, Forster as Governor-General of Canada. The Mormons have been holding jubilee meetings all through Utah Territory, because of the failure of Congress to pass Edmunds’ Polygamy Bill.

Crop reports for April Ist say the present outlook is unfavorable throughout the United States, and the prospect is 20 per cent below last year’s crop, which was by 20 per cent the largest ever grown.

Lord Dunrayeii Intends to propose to the present Parliament motions in favor of legislation on tehalf of Irish laborers and for a large scheme of emigration in order, to prevent a recurrence of distress .

The Vatican has expressed its displeasure that Archbishop Croke, of Cashel, should have opened suhscrip tie ns for the relief of-the Parnell Committee of the Irish National League. An organisation, to be known as the European and Anglo-Indian Defence Society, was being formed in Calcutta for the purpose of watching over the interests of Europeans and Americans in India. The immediate efforts of the Society, however, will he devoted to the preservation of the rights enjoyed by all Europeans and British subjects to be tried by their own countrymen, and to defend the Bill which permits of the trial of whites by native Judges in certain cases.

Three men were arrested at Cork on March 29th, belonging it is alleged, to a secret society the object of which is to commit murder whenever it is believed such a course would advance the interest of their organisation, and to blow up buildings in the principal cities of the British Isles.

Freeman’s Journal says that ‘No I.’ whose name is Tyniu, was in Dublin until the first day James Carey was examined at the hearing of the conspiracy case. He then managed to reach Bremen by way of Hull, and from Bremen he proceeded to Havre, and from thence to New York. He was a member of the London Volunteer Corps. The Parnellites think the tone of Mr Gladstone’s speech respecting the Land Act, delivered in the House of Commons on March 14th, calculated to assist in promoting an appeal to America for more funds. The Premier said, in effect, that the Land Act was far more efficient than Mr Parnell described or believed. Mr Parnell’s Bill amending it amounted virtually to a remodelling of the Land Act. He strongly denounced Mr Parnell’s statement that the Courts imposed rack rents. He insisted that the tenants were willing to pay rents fixed by the Courts, He had hoped that Mr Parnell would give an assurance that the new crusade would be conducted in a strictly legal manner. It would be in violation of the duty of Government to demand further sacrifices from the landlords, Mr Gladstone’s remarks were repeatedly cheered by the Tory members. The second reading of Mr Parnell’s Bill was then rejected by 63 to 25, John Brown the servant of the Queen died at Windsor Castle on March 27th. A London dispatch says he was sent from Windsor to Lady Florence Dixie’s to enquire into all the circumstances of the outrage said to have been committed upon her, and what with the inclemency of the weather and the mystification into which her ladyship plunged him, he took to his bed and died. The Queen is deeply afflicted over the loss of her servant, and the whole Press speak of him. with great respect and almost at as great length as if he had been a Cabinet Minister. The public expression which Her Majesty gave of her grief was somewhat extraordinary. He had served thirtyfour years in the Royal household. The French Press insist that Brown was the Queen’s adviser in domestic and State affairs, and indulged in some, very equivocal and unfounded romancing, reciting numerous anecdoctes presumably illustrating his behavior to British notables. Brown is said to have died worth £1,000,000. Mrs Langtry is again before the public by the fact that Miss Agnes Langtry, sister of the Lily’s husband, who was sent from England to chaperone her through the United States when Mrs Labouchere gave up the task, eloped on March 31st with a Toronto young man named Stone, and was married at Drumraondville, in Toronto. The Lily is ones more desolate, and is very angry with her sister, and shocked at what she calls her want of propriety, but the fact is Agnes was sensible in not passing the opportunity to get a good husband.