NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3501, 15 March 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

• , - , . - ;- -- :. .. • i^_ Edward Middleton Barry, 8.A..W architect of the House of Parliament, the new National Gallery, and other important structures in,! London, died on the 29th ultimo, and on the same day died Sir William Erie, formerly Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. -.-..,•:■ ; ■-'-"'■ Carl Rosa's production it Loathm— " Taming of the Shrew," by Goethe—is a remarkable.success. . . '

Mr Archibald Forbes attacks Lord Chelmsford in the, Nineteenth Century. Mr Morley's life of Cobden is postponed until the spring. Sari fieaconsfield has recorered from a serere attack of the goat. Lord Salisbury is reported ill of bronchitis. M r James Russell Lowell's appointment as American Minister to England .gives general satisfaction in the British capUaK Sir Ashton Bilke declines to contest Berkshire against Mr Walter,.but will stand for Newcastle-on-Tyne.. ; '■, The Earl of Bessborough is dead. -„-. Thousands of mutton, carcasses, refrigerated, are arriving in France from South America. ■■• IT - ■ ■ Messrs J. Gurford and Sons, cornfactors and seed crushers, London, hate failed for £65,000.

The American demand for iron;caused unprecedented activity in the British trade..- ' '• • .< ,-.\ ,-,- y The Liberal demonstration' at Binning. ham was on a grand scale. Mr Bright,, Mr Chamberlain, and Vernon Harcourt, were the principal speakers. Mr Har* court repudiated the, pretensions of fossilised Whigs aaddisguisedToriestoaequire the leadership. Mr Bright denounced the Government's war policy, saying:-— " If the country sustains it, let us abandon the claim to be Christians. ...... I say take down your Ten Commandments from inside your churches; Say no longer yoa believe in the Sermon on the Motht'« Abandon your Christian pretensions, o? abandon your heathen practices." . L!;,