ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1420, 19 November 1885, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

The racing yacht General nailed from New York for England ow October 4th. Her crew refused to return in her except she made the trip under jury rig. By an accident to a train on the Ferguß branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad on October 4th, fifteen hands were killed and sixteen others wounded. The train broke in two going up an incline. Some 10,000 Irish Americans met at a mass meeting at Chicago on 30th October, and agreed to send 10,000 do!, for the Parliamentary Campaign Fund for Irish members on the plan originated by Mr Parnell. There was a sensational report in New York on the 17th, that the Priuce of Wales had entered into oil speculations, and had purchased half a million barrels of petroleum. The order was executed by the principal brokers of the Standard Oil Company. If the repoit be true the Prince lias made a tidy lot of money. A'type-setting.invention which has been Jong perfecting, and which it is said will revolutionise type-setting, has been introduced in New York. It is claimed that any one capable of using a type-writing maohine will be able to set type and stereotype at the same time the type required for printing a newspaper. Steps have been taken by Mrs Nellie Satorious, daughter of the lata President Grant, t) promre a divorce from her English husband, Algernon S&torious, on account of bis cruelty and neglect. The Archbishop of Baltimore will shortly be made a cardinal, and will lake the place in America of Cardinal McCloskey. The Episcopal Convention of the Dioease of New York have rejected by a bare majority the proposition which has been nrged soma years by the American clergy to revise the Book of Common .Pnyer. J. Shay, the great estate dealer of San Francisco, was shot on the evening of Oct. 24tli by the husband of a lady with whom he was dining in a public restaurant. Canon Farrar,, of London, had several interviews with President Garland during bin stay in Washington. Chinamen continue to be evicted wholesale from Washington Territory. No violence is used. WiliamWhite, the Independent candidate for State Senator for Virginia, waylaid and shot Judge G. White, editor of the Examiner, at Burlington, on September 28th. Afterwards some of the latter'* friends fired some seven shots into the former's body. The shooting grew out of an electioneering controversy. At a banquet given to the GovernorGeneral of Canada, in Victoria, British Columbia, on October 12, he said that colonial repmen ation in the Imperial Parliament was likely «o be an important question at' the elections next summer. It was also decided Etquimalt shon'd be fortified and made 'he great Britinh arsenal for the North Pacific. Heavy rains and floods have occurred in Mexico, washing out railroad beds in all directions. Cuban revolutionists have had several encounters with the Spanish troops, paiticularly in the Cincovillas district. Many leading Spaniards and prominent Americans are in sympathy with the revolutionist!!. The Panama Isthmus has ceased to be duty free and Custom Houses are now established at; Colon and Panama. The Republic of Peru is representedto be in a deplorable condition. A letter from the revolt!tionary General Cacares «rsß intercepted, and this led to the imprisonment and banishment of merchants and pnblic men in several cases. Canon Midtlia, one of the most distinguished prelatss of the Republic, has also been ordered to leiive the country. Horrible atrocities have been committed by the rebels of R'ca. A New York Herald special from Con-ftantiru-ple, elated Out. 10<b, say« Sir H. D. Wolff's mission has been crowned with success. H ; s .understanding with the Porte on the Egyptian affairs is complete, and an Imperial decree will shortly be issued sanctioning the arrangement, the principal of which are as follows : Turkey appoints commissioners—two for finance, two for military organisation!, and two for general administration. England will appoint a similar number. When the labors of these men are completed, and the Egyptian affairs have been placed on a satisfactory footing, the British.occupation will cease. A despatch from Paris, dated Oct. 12th says a careful calculation shows the Conservatives will number 210 in the new Chamber, Clemenceau's party 124, and the Republican!) of other shades 250. Clemenceau's position will be therefore something like Parnell's in the English Parliament—by entering upon any important division with either party he m»y turn the scales as he likes. A Paris deapafceh of Oct. 13th says the Briefon Ministry is now uncertain about its ability »olead a majority of the new Chamber of Deputies, as a serious split in the Republican ranks is threatened. The Republicans were united to carry those diFtncts which they regarded as necessitating a second ballot, but now each faction insuts on adopting its own programme. The Czar has issued a ukase forbidding the general celebration on March next of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the freedom of the erfs. He is afraid of an uprising of Nihilists. Large additions have been made to the Russian naiy, Germans are prohibited from r»siding within the Specifiied zone around the fortified places in Russia. It is rumored Jn Madrid that a marriage is to be contracted between Princess Eulalie, King AJphoneo's youngest sister, and Prince Carlos, heir to the throne of Portugal. . M. De Lesseps has left Pans for Panama, to look after the affaire of the canal. ';/, ■■• Portugal lias seized two French stations at the Golf of Guinea.

Lieuerere of October 17th published a tptegram from Esther MattiD stating that 700 Christians were massacred in Anam. Among the victims were M. Chatlet, missionary, and ten native priest"*. The Emperor of Germany has pardosed the Polish poet Kr«ewlik, whose health hus broken down in prison. The German newspapers are becoming thoroughly aroused over the expulsion of Poles from that country, and most of them without regard to party affiliation. At present the protest is" against the barbarous Inhumanity of the order. The suffering of the exiles are described as terrible. Advices from Tonqnio to the Paris Temps of the 19th describes the situation there as not very glowine. Since the beginning of summer 300 Frenchmen have died of cholera, and large numbers are daily succumbing te the disease. The mortality among the troops hinder the progress of the campaign. The reinforcements Bent from France are scarcely sufficient to fill up the gap muds in the French ranks by the plague. Despatches of 22nd say the French troops recently made a tour from Houghoa to Huangum, and met formidable numbers of the Black Flags in the vicinity of the place?. Three thousand fresh troops are about to leave France for Tonquin. Mr Ddnogh, of Armagh, gave £25,000 lotbeCharch of Ireland on Oct. 15th, and also a perpetual annuity of £SOO. Mr Thorn.™ Davison, the well-known English scientist, is dead. The funeral of the Earl of Shaftesbury took place in London on October Bth. The religious servicer the remains were conducted at Westminster Abbey. Hundreds of poor people stood outside in the drenching ram during the entire ceremony, being unable to get inside the sacred edifice, so dense was the crowd that had gathered to pay the last mark of respect. Large numbers .of shoeblacks with crape bands on their arms, and many other boys who have been benefited by the departed Earl, stood in line with the elite in the Abbey. The service was very impressive. A despatch from Copenhagen of Oct. 20th says the long continued arbitrary policy of King Christian in refusing to dismiss the Eetrupp Cabinet in compliance with the vote of Parliament has led the latter to refuse to vote the Budget, and has caused a number of serious riots and imposing demonstrations. The people seem determined their representatives in Parliament shall have some voice in the affairs of Government, and have become so threatening in their demands that the King has ordered the garrison at Copenhagen to be largely reinforced. The popular.manifestations are not confined to Copenhagen alone, but are general throughout Denmark. It is expected a Rtate of siege will be declared, and it is feared a revolution will ensue if the King persists in refusing the concessions asked by Parliament. A number of arrests have been made, tending to further incense the people aDd bloodshed hflanticipated. A desperate attempt whs made on the afternoon of October 21st to assassinate the Premier, Estrupp, by h youth named Rasmussen, a compositor. He fired two shots from a revolver at the Premier, and when in the act of firing a third shot he was seized by a couple of detectives, a number of whom have continually been aitecding on the Premier for some time pas', owing to the extreme hatred of the populace towards h>m and th« members of his Cabinet. Rusmussen was hastily taken to prison, the officials fearing an attempt at rescue would be made. The first shot struck a button on the Premier's coat, and glanced off. The second shot went wide of the mark. Rasmussen declares that his motives were political, as Herr Estrupp's conduct in the present controversy in Denmark was inimical to the State.

Cardinal McClosky, of New York, the first American cardinal created, died at his residence on October 10th, and was buried with great pomp. Nearly every Protestant minister in the city made fiiting reference to his denth. Mr Beecher, preacbin? on "The Resurrection," concluded bis sermon as follows : "That dear old man who has gone up from among those who loved him leaves behind his. Cardinal's throne, his purple robes and his tiara. It was well enough he should have them as symbols of his authority, but the motnen the emerged into that other life he stood in his spiritual entirety where his temple was his Lord. 'Vhen he lifts his venerable head he will be young in the presence of his God, and hd will remain with those whom be has saved from destruction, for they will be there too. I rejoice in bis translation, as Ido in tbnt of all saint*. This is the testimony of a Protestant minister. \ou could not make a Catholic out of me any more than you could make an eagle chained i.i a barn yard laj eggs." A oable despatch received at New York on Oct. 14th, reports that Agnes Robertson, who says she is still Mrs Dion Boucicault, has a card in the London World alleging that the famous actor and playwright's recent marriage to Miss Thorndyke in Australia is bigamous. Mrs Boucicanlt declares she has never been divorced from her husband. Judge Button Hoeffen who was counsel in the divorce proceedisgs begun in New York some five years ago, says that the suit was discontinued before it reached its conclusion, and Mrs Boucicault was receiving 1500 dols. a year. When Boucicault was in San Francisco some, fivf months ago he informed the Press that the proceedings had been re-opened by mutual consent, and when the divorce was obtained his marriage with Miss Thorndyke would take place. He was expected in San Francisco from Australia by the November steamer. Trouble has occurred on the Duke of Devonshire's estate, in County Waterford, in connection with the eviction of certain tenants. The tenants and their friends made a determined resistance, and attacked the police with stones. A sheriffs posse finally dispersed the mob at the point of the bayonet. The district is "black flagged."