NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1707, 6 March 1888, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

FRANCE,

The Timas correspondent at Paris telegraphs on January 23rd that portion of the report made by M. De Bouasett, who was sent to Panama in 1886 by M. Do Freycinet on behalf of the French Governmen', which the correspondent alleges Government has heretofore kept «ecr«t. The report, lays the Panama Canal is entirely feasible but it is problematical whether the work will be finished unless simp ified. In any case the works have reached such a point that they ought not to be abandoned, and therefore France rather than offer obstructions ought to assist as far as possible its completion. A deputation consisting of Lord Herschell, Cardinal Manning, Edward; Cowper, the Bishop of Bedford, Cyril Flower, and W. Arnold White, waited upon Lord Salisbury on February Ist in regard to the distress among the poor of London. Mr Shipton, a member of tho trades union, and other representatives of working men were among those present. No two of the delegation cuuld agree upon a remedy for the distress, which was conceded to be chronic. His Lordship dismissed the delegation with sincere protestations of sympathy wi h the suffering. Mr Judgson Smith, seoetary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, bis received advices from Central and Eastern Turkey, dated B’ebruary 6th, stating that people were dying of hunger, and the money of the mission was exhausted. 10.000 dollars at least are necessary to relieve the distress in Central Turkey alone, where the famine is tho result of drought. In Eastern Turkey it comes from tho devastation of 10,000 square miles by locusts. Advices from Shanghai say that nearly 200.000 persons are utterly destitute through the Hoango floods. The labor movement in the United States is losiugcohesion. Tho latest manifestation of weakness is a split between Henry George and Dr M'Glynn, his former colleague, ou the tariff question. George is an out-and-out Freetrader.

The Agricultural Society urges the sale of the State railways, the ro-cstablishment of harbor dues and Customs duties on cocoons, the maintenance of a tax on foreign and colonial sugars, and the withdrawal of France from the payment of the sugar bounties. M, Wilson was summoned on Feb.B to appear before the Correctional Tiibunal on charges connected with the decorating of M. Logrand and M. Creshin, Prince Philip of Bou'bon, sou of the Duke of Aguela, and nephew of the Emperor of Brazil. Ho has been (sentenced by default to thirteen months' imprisonment and to pay 5000 francs damage for the swindling jewellery .rnnsaotion. Up to Jan. 13 presents to the value of £2,000,000 had passed through the hands of the Vatican on the occasion of Pope Leo’s Jubilee, The Princes Louise and the Marquis of Lome were living at .Naples on Jan, 30, ni a simple fashion, dining at the public table, and otherwise practising rigid economy. The village of Ulsona w s almost tota ly destroyed by fire on Jan. 30, leaving the inhabitants destitute. Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, U.S., has written to the Vatican, urging that Henry George’s wi-.tiugs be not condemned by Rome, as such condemnation would only fan them into fictitious importance. It is stated that the business at the Monte Carlo gaming tables having greatly fallen off, the proprietors intend to open a special saloon for the poorer classes, whom the stakes will be two francs instead of five.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND’S QIBTTO THE POPE. The London Times of Fab. 2 published a telegram purporting to give the original address of the American pilgrims who presented President Cleveland’s jubilee gift to the Pope. Those pilgrims (if this document be eenu ne) spoke in the words both of the Ameiioan Pi evident and the American people. They offerel Ha Holiness an expression of the veneration of the President. They describe their mission ns a tribute paid to Hii Holiness by the ruler of 60,000,000 of freemen. They entreat His Holiness to receive, through its most worthy President, the tribute of a free and independent people. They remind the Pope that his favorite theologian, Thomas Aquinas, his written true and beautiful things concerning Republicanism, . and they assure His Holiness that the Catholic Church in the American Republic is left perfectly free, theoretically and practically, and they conclude : “We beg you then, moat Holy Fafier, to bless this bravo young Republic which has achieved so much.” The correspondent who telegraphs this from Rome says the address was read in Latin to the Pope, who could not understand the readei’s pronunciation.