NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3404, 19 November 1879, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

(Peb 8.8. Zbalamdia at Auckland.)

(Peb Peess Agency.)

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, October 7. At a tenant conference at Dublin, thirty-two counties sent delegates. A league was formed to secure a reduction in "rack rents nnd give facilities for nc quiring ownerships. Parnell declared tbo English Government to be indifferent though thej knevr the distress coming to bo as bad as the famine of 1847. Major O'Gorman declared before God, that the Irish had more cause for violence than the French before the Revolution. Parnell advocated passive physical resistance, saying that so long as Englishmen govern, Ireland will be robbed and oppressed. Boring bands of Kibbon men create disturbances. The military has been streng- * thene^.

The cotton and iron industries are reviving. The mills at Preston are being reopened. _ , When five of the City of Glasgow Bank directors' sentence expired they were hooted by the crowd. Potter and Stronach are still in gaol. m^ Bonapartislß hare arrived in London to ' effect a reconciliation between Eugenic and Prince Napoleon. Courtney has issued a challenge against any sculler in Enelnnd. Elliott believes he can beat Hanlon. The highest acqaatic authorities declare that Hanlon forfeited the title of champion of England, and Elliott claims it. Rosenberg, the publisher of Town Talk, has been'imprisoned for libel for asserting that Langtrey began the divorce cause.. He made an abject apology* The pardoning of Communists ,has ceased. .Eugenic goes to Africa to pray on the ipofc where her son was killed. There have been severe frosts in the wine districts of France. - The Petersburg Vremga says that sooner or later a war of life and death with England is inevitable. of Merv sent assistance to the defeated Turcomans. : A sanguinary conflict between the military and people in the Eussian town of Kansan took place, the people resisting the arrest of students, members of the Liberal League. There has been floods in Spam. Several villages are in ruins, and the crops and railways am destroyed. Authorities estimate that two thousand people have been drowned. The situation in Armenia is serious. The Arabs joined the Kurds in resisting MidbatY reforms. By a waterspout in Switzerland twelve bridges were destroyed, and vineyards

were flooded. * The famine in Cashmere is nearly over. . - The Hanlon-Courteney race is believed to have been a gigantic fraud. The general opinion is that both principals knew of the sawing of Courteney's boat on ih« understanding the §6,000 stakes were to be shared equally. N All bets are off, and the stakeholders refuse 'to give Hanlon the money. Courteney made an affidavit declaring he was told Hanlon must win as he intended to go to England to row Elliot, where the bets would.be so largely in his favour that he could afford to lose and so make enough to retire.

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The Commission on slavery emancipation in Cuba, hare drafted a Bill proposing the gradual enfranchisement of old slaves to be emancipated in 1880, and others at rnrious subsequent periods till 1890, when all are to be enfranchised.

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A party of-armed masked men attacked tiro land agents and the Smiths (father and son), near Castlebar, Ireland. Several shots were fired. Young Smith was shot dead. The body of one of the attacking party was found in a bog-hole, and recognised as a militiaman. The Lords of the Admiralty hare given instructions to make a handsome piece of furniture, to present to Mrs Grinnell and Henry Grinnell, of Boston, from the timber of the exploring ship 'Resolution. Grinnel fitted out two expeditions in search of Franklin.

The cotton operatives of Wigan have resumed work at 5 per cent, reduction. A meeting of delegates of all counties, and boroughs in Ireland, held at Dublin on October 21, organised an Irish Land League for the reduction of rack rents, and to facilitate the transfer of ownership Boil-to cultivators. Mr Parnell was appointed President. The meeting repudiated the charge of terrorism, deploring the fact that threatening notices had been issued. The Land League will defend the tenants threatened with evictiou. Major O'Gorman wrote to the effect that the Irish had more causa for violence than the French had in 1789.

Count Minister, the German Ambassador at London, had several interviews with the Marquis of Salisbury, explaining the political situation on the Continent. England is strongly favorable to the Austro-German Alliance. Bismarck 13 ftni»etfs that England should join. The shipwrights atGrioisbey, England, struck against the resolution of the employers to extend working time from 54 to 591 hours weekly. Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott was elected Lord Mayor of London. The Marquis of Salisbury at a banquet at Manchester on October 16 delivered 'an important speech relative to England's foreign policy. After twitting the Liberals for inconsistency relating to the Berlin Congress, he referred to the-fact that Turkey bad not occupied the Balkans, and said there are other points of the Treaty of Berlin besides the occupation, of the"Balkans. "If you do not trust j the Turkish sentinel on the rampart you may .trust .the Austrian sentinel at the dobrl Since the Austrian occupation of NoyibaJfar the advance of the Russians beyond the Balkans and Danube is impossible. In the independence and strength of Austria rests the last hope of Europe's The strike of the Staffordshire potteries was averted by the men consenting to arbitration. v The English miners are organising a nteat emigration scSeme to America and Australia. „ Hundreds .of .skilled operatives *re/leavjnj£ t ,for' America under special enMjremenfc.. > . . AffinrTia Ireland are greatly lraprovin*. The anti rent agitation continues. Tn' th> kmiiJ r««lf nf< Octobers-fire

h having receivedl £459 18s, and the Advertiser £173 19s 3d. We are surprised that our contemporary should have published such figures, apparently in good faith, as he should know perfectly well that there is not a particle of truth iv them. We consider that the sneering allusion of our contemporary to our political opinions, and then giving that as the cause ot the difference in the amounts, is entirely beneath notice. The reference to their " independence " is ra'her good, coming from a journal with such v