ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1162, 8 April 1884, Page 3

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

The following items wero received yesterday by the English mail which arrived at Auckland : Lord Boston seeks a divorce from his wife on the ground that she had another husband living when he married her. Mr Bradlaugh, while lecturing at Bridgewater on March 14th against perpetual pensions, was pelted with rotten eggs, fruit and fireworks. The roughs afterwards wrecked the house where the chairman of the meeting lived. The London Communists were to have met on Sunday March 15 at the grave of Karl Maix. The police, however, closed the cemetery gales and prevented the meeting. Despatches of March 14, say it is doubtful if the Queen will be able to go to Darmstadt to attend the weddinglof the Princess Victoria. Her condition is pronounced precarious. She is apparently in good health one day, and the next suffering from extreme fits of depression. If she goes, two physicians will accompany her, and she will be attended by a very limited suite in a quiet retreat at Karnichstein, three miles from Darmstadt, which is being put in readiness for her. The Emperor and Empress of Austria will meet the Queen there, and the Cuar will join them in April. ‘Memoirsof Princess Alice’ will appear early in April, edited by Prince Christian. Murray will publish a book, by Baron Rowlou, which is nearly completed, entitled ‘ Memoirs of Beaconsfield.’

Lord Garmoyle’s defence in the action for breach of promise brought by Miss Fortescue, has been delivered to the Court. He admits the contract and the breach of it, and leaves the jury to assess damages, but submits that £30,000 is too much. He is at Constantinople. Miss Fortescue, continues an object of interest t® the London public. She is playing at the Court Theatre, us Dorothy, in ‘ Daniel Deronda,’ and although her parrot-like delivery and mechanical care are commented on by the Press, the house is nightly filled to overflowing, and the audience show their smypathy for her position by frequent xecalls. Her weekly stipend at the Surrey Theatre, before the Carmoyle incident was £3 ; it is now £SO. The London World and Truth has been criticising tier Majesty with the utmost freedom. It first charges her with dragooning her household into providing presents tor the Princess Victoria, on her approaching marriage with Prince Louis of Eattenburg, and secondl", says she is delaying the appearance of Princess Alice’s letters till another edition of her own journal has been sold. A bust of the American poet Longfellow was unveiled at Westminister Abbey on March Ist. Earl Granville, Sir Hugh Childers, Minister Lowell, Longfellow, Annie Longfellow, dauphtera of the poet, Moncure Conway and Sir Theodore Martin, were the attending persons present. Earl Granville made a eulogistic speech The bust has been placed in the Poet’s Corner, between those of Chaucer and Dryden.