NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3760, 15 January 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Latest English. Summary.

(FBOM A COERESFONDENT.)

BIEMINGHAM, .Dec. 6. Sir Charles Trevelyan condemns the present poor law system.

The funeral of Colonel Mure, MP. for Benfrewshire, took place in Neilston Churchyard.

General Grant was entertained at dinner in New York -by Senor Eomere, exMexican Minister.

Mr A. H. Evans, of Oriel College has been elected captain of the Oxford University Cricket Club.

It is stated that Lord Frederick Caven dish has accepted the post of Chief Coin missioner of Works.

The Marquis of Hertford has been elected a Member of Council of the Oxford Military College.

The Grand Duke Constantine of Bussia has arrived at Carril, after having visited Santiago de Compostella.

The Turkish Council of Ministers is engaged in discussing the measures to be taken in view of the Greek armaments.

Some German bankers.are stated to be investing surplus money in shares of the Panama Canal Company.

It is stated that the announcement as to the forthcoming issue of a new naval medical warrant is premature.

Lord G-ranville is much better. His indisposition is so slight that it does not interfere with his official duties.

It is stated that Mr Fawcetfc is .cpnsidering the introduction of double post cards, similar to those in use on the Continent.

During a Republican celebration at Sife harbor, Pennsylvania, a cannon exploded, killing two men and wounding several others.

Eight men have perished by the burning of a boarding house, near Bradford, Pennsylvania, caused by one of them replenishing a fire-stove with oil.

It is announced that the revisers of the authorised version of the New Testament have completed their labors, having sat, upwards of 400 days.

Lord Justice Bramwell, at the conclusion of the present assizes, will spend some weeks on the Continent, returning ing in time to take part in the Spring Assizes.

The Pope has signed the appointment of Mgr. b'eraphim Vanutelli, late Papal Nuncio at Brussels, as Nuncio at Vienna, in the place of Cardinal Jacobini. A great change is to be made immediately in the uniform of officers in the army. By the adoption of certain badges upon the shoulder straps, the rank of every officer will bo known. For killing a man named Cassidy by stabbing him in a street brawl in Liverpool Thomas Egerton, a youth of eighteen, has been sentenced to penal servitude for twenty years.

At the Hull Police Court, a Sunday School teacher named Hardcastle has been sent to prison for three months for an aggravated assault on,one of his pupils, a girl of eight years.

A landslip has occurred on the railroad, near Orange Court House; Virginia, whereby two persons were killed and five injured. It is believed that several others were buried under the earth.

Notices of a bill /or.the erection of the Tay Bridge have been prepared. The old structure will be removed, and the new one will have a double line, the maximum height of the piers beinjj 77 feet.

A man named McGibbon has fallen from the steeple of the new Free Church, G-reenock, and was killed instantaneously. His brother met with a similar death from the same steeple three weeks ago. Mr T. F. Dallin, M.A., public orator and Gresham Professor of [Rhetoric at Oxford University, has died at Brighton. Pie had been unwell, and had gone to Brighton for the benefit of his health.

A large quantity of pistols and revolvers have been hastily despatched from the Ordnance Department at Portsmouth by passenger train to the Tower, whence they will be sent by mail steamer to the Cape.

The death is announced of Mr William Wilde, a Senior Bencher ,of Gray's Inn, in his eighty-first year. He was called to the bar in Michaelmas Term, 1822, and for some time filled the office of Chief Justice in the island of St. Helena.

William Thompson, cook and steward of the barque Peru has been committed for trial from the Thames Police Court, London, on a charge of attempting to shoot the first and second mates and a seaman on board the vessel on which he was engaged. It is stated that upwards of a hundred cases of typhoid fever have occurred at Haver ford west, at least ten of which have already proved fatal. It is believed that

the pollution of one of the reservoirs supplying the town with water has been" the cause of the outbreak.

Mr Watkin Williams, the newlyappointed judge, many years ago dilligently studied medicine and completed his curriculum at University College. He acted as house surgeon under Mr Eriehson, the present president of the Royal College of Surgeons.—Lancet. The Common Pleas Division has refused to grant a new trial in the action brought by a widow named Hindle against the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company for compensation for the loss of her husband. The jury awarded her £4500, and the Company appealed.

The British Med.cal Journal states that on the recommendation of Mr Forster, the Premier has granted a sum of £250 from the Royal Bounty and Special Service Fund to the widow of the lato Dr. ilobinson ; and a sum of £150 to the mother of the late Dr. O'Donovan, of Skibbereen.

An inquest on the bodies of Bichard Barnes, aged 67, and William Allen, 27, who were found dead in an unoccupied house at Tottenham, has been held. It' was shown that death resulted from suffocation by inhaling the fumes of a coke fire, and verdict to that effect was returned.

The Queensland Government has recently arranged for a direct four-weekly service of steamers, which will commence in February, 1881, between London and Brisbane, via Suez Canal, "and touching en route at Colombo, Batavia, and the Queensland ports of Cooktown, Townviile, and Rockhampton.

A trailing actor named Jeffrey, has been committed for trial at Henley on Thames on a charge of stabbing a woman named Basden, also a travelling actress. The parties quarrelled over the breakfast table and the man savagely attacked the woman with a knife, severely wounding her in the breast.

The death of Hismet Dowlah, the Coinmander-in-Chief of the Persian forces, is confirmed.

A statue of the late Earl llussell will shortly be erected in the central hall of the House of Lords.

One of the cement factories on the banks of the Medway, at Bochester, has been destroyed by fire.

The Earl of Beaconsfield, who has beea suffering for some weeks from a severe attack of gout, has now completely recovered.

Mr Thomas Meekham has been unanimously elected chairman of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum for the ensuing year. Subscriptions are being invited in aid of the expatriated Socialists of Hamburg, many of whom have arrived in London in a state of destitution.

It is stated that Sir Hercules Bobinson, Governor of the Cape Colony, will not proceed to South Africa before the first or second .week in January.

Although a duty on iron has been once more instituted, still German iron manufacturers complain bitterly of the distressing condition of this branch of commerce.

At a meeting held in the Cannon Street Hotel, London, of: a committee for promoting the presentation of a testimonial to the Late Lord Mayor, it was resolved that Mr Frank Hall, A.R.A., should paint a portrait of Lady Truscott as a companion to that of the late Lord Mayor, recently presented to him by his ovvn ward of Dowgate.^ One of the greatest fallacies in connection with the Irish land question is the belief that, because tenants cannot make both ends meet, therefore their rents are too high. The real fact is that the land ■ itself will not carry so many people, and other industries besides agriculture mast be largely promoted if the population are to exist. It will,- I suppose," hardly be disputed that a tenant has no right to expect to put a larger profit in his pocket than the landlord; and it follows as a necessity that a man who takes a £5 or £10 holding cannot, after accounting for his labour, &c, be aggrieved if he too makes £5 or £10 profit. On this, however, he cannot live, and the blame is not to be laid on the rent —for that, in the supposed case, has worked out all rightbut simply and entirely on the fact that the juans holding is not large enough if he has to support himself and his family solely by agriculture.

Mr Harrison, a shipowner in Great Tower street, London, and a barge owner named Bridges, have been convi-jted at Rochford, of having contravened the Explosives Act in connection with the transhipment of nearly 11,0001b of dynamite from the ship Chevington. Harrison was fined £20, and Bridges £10.

Great excitement prevails in the fashionable world to get the first copies of the Eari of Beaco'nsfield's new novel, " Endymion." It appears that the noble Earl receives from the publishers the sum of £12,000 for the copyright. Many people have been wondering, from time to time, why Lord Beaconsfield had retired so completely into private life. The mystery is unravelled in " Endymion."

Sir Frederick Leighton is at work again in London after his holiday. Besides portraits, the pictures upon which he is now engaged consist of one Scriptural subject, "Elijah bringing the Son of the Shunammite Woman to life," and two. classical pastorals, one of which, representing two girls reclining on a hill while a shepherd pipes to them, is to be on a larger scale than recent pictures of the same class from his hand. Mr R. B. Browning has just completed three pictures of about the same dimensions?^ his last year's " Tan-yard." One, to be Vailed«. "Still life," represents "a group of sunflowers, melons, metal dishes, and the 'ike; s another, to be called "Disturbed' Life," is a portrait of a family, of owls of his own rearing; the third picture represents an enclosure with three figures in the year of a cottage, and is called " Tan Garden."

There is talk here among Irishmen of a new movement against that of the Orangemen who are gathering in the harvest for Captain Boycott. " Lord Erne's tenants are to be organised to make an expedition on their own account. They, are, it is said, to marea in military array to Lord Erne's own seat to pay.him personally the rent which they owe. The soldiers will thus be protecting a people from a enemy who has flitted. But the flitting "enemywill have to pass through a district where Orangeism has been excited by events to readiness for almost any violence. I am informed by one who knows the country well that such a march, unless it was protected by more soldiers, would have an almost certain effect. Nothing could avert the semblance of a pitched battle. Every tenant, in the neighbourhood, Parnellite'or Orange, is armed. Most of the tenants have good rifles and a supply of ammunition. ■