NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3568, 3 June 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

(FBOM THE HOME NIWB.)

Prince Leopold, April 13, laid the foundation stone of a new High School for Boys at Oxford, and at the subsequent luncheon the Prince spoke approvingly of public school education.

General Sir P. L. M'Dougall has as. sumed chief command of the forces in Canada.

The Canadian House of Commons have passed a bill legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister.

Germany ia making great exertions to promote an increase of exports to the Melbourne Exhibition and to Australia generally. Prince Gortschakoff still remains in a very- precarious condition, and at St. Petersburg but slight hopes are entertained of his recovery. . The health of the Empress of Russia also continues in an unsatisfactory Btate, and her death is hourly expected. - Much anxieiy is felt as to the fate of the fate of the Atlanta training ship, now greatly overdue on her voyage from the Bermudas. The engine of the train which fell from the Tay Bridge has been raised, and, upon examination, it was found that the ma* chinery was in motion at the moment of the accident. It would appear that Her Majesty is by no means pleased with Lord Beaconsfield for having informed her that the Conservatives were so sure of a majority that there would be no necessity for her speedy return to England. His lordship also wrote in the same strain to many foreign statesmen. •

HIGH CLASS EMIGRANTS.

Some day, perhaps, Australia and New Zealand may attract a new and a far higher class of emigrant. Hitherto the men who have sought new openings in new lands have been workers crowded out or enterprising youths with small capital and active brains. But it is just possible that people with what seem at first sight considerable incomes may be induced to emigrate to countries where they need make less show and can yet do more with their money. Many of our landed gentry, the holders of large estates, as well as the small squires, have been very hard hit by recent bad years. With some of these financial tightness amounts to actual distress. They are compelled, to put down establishments and reduce expenditure in every conceivable way. The ammunition in their means has been steadily and continuously gaining ground. The old type of squire, the man who laid down a pipe of port in his cellar every 1 year, generally for his sons and descendants to drink, who never left his park gates except in a carriage and four, and often with outriders besides, is a type, of the past. Compared with those old times, even the magnates of a county live nowadays parsimoniously. A simple brong> ham with a single horse serves to convey lord lieutenant or high sheriff to his official dmties; hospitality may still be practised, but when guests fill the house extra footmen and a man cook are hired from the neighbouring town; clarets and champagnes not always of the finest vintage replace the Comet and Exhibition ports. Where economy and frugal ways are so general it argues that spending power has sensibly decreased. If those, who feel the pressure most could only harden their hearts to leave the old coantry they would find themselves infinitely better off in a new.—Home News.