ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1137, 21 August 1883, Page 1

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Yellow fever has made its appearance at the quarantine lazarette, below Philadelphia. The physicians are apprehensive Egyptian cholera will visit the United States, as it is travelling just in the same track as in former years. The Paris Figaro has advices from Tamatave, Madagascar, by nay of Aden, to July 27th, saying that the British Admiral there demanded of the French Admiral that the state of siege he raised, but Admiral Pierre refused to. comply. 1 hough Queen Victoria’s lameness has been entirely-cured, according to reports of July 7th, her mental indisposition still continues.

The London Lancet of July 12th says there is nothing in thi coil ITtion to excite the slightest anxiety. A Bill legalising marriage to d •'•'asea wife’s sister, c>mie up in the House of Lords on July Isi. A'-despatch says; ‘The Bishops are so alarmed by the storm of criticism evoked hy their opposition. that they have prepaled a reply in justification, explaining their motives,’ The despatch further says : * The Royal Family is much vexed at the failure of the measure, which puts the intended martiage of Princess Beatrice with her widowed brother-in-law as far off as ever, that prospect being said to explain the warm advocacy of the Bill by the Prince of Wlies and his brother.’