NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3782, 10 February 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

(feom ottb own coebespondent.)

Bibmikgham, December 29,

Mr P. A. Taylor, M.P., intends next session to move a his usual resolution in favor of the abolition of the Game Laws.

The death is announced of Professor Thomas Kymer Jones, F. 8.5., the wellknown author of works on natural history. He was 71 years of age.

Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttlewortu has been elected a member of the London School Board, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Rev. J. Rodgers. Three young men have been drowned off Rbona Island, in the Hebrides, by the capsizing of their boat. They were engaged in fishing for lobsters when the accident occurred.

The Republique Francaise mentions among the mourners at Madame Thiers' funeral, Mr Pitman, representing the English Committee for aiding the French peasants after the war of 1870.

R. W. Boyd, the well-known oarsman, has resolved to challenge Hanlan or any other man in the world for £200 or £500 a side, the race to be rowed over the Thames or Tyne championship course. At the Central Criminal Court, London, Thomas Titley, a chemist, of Fitzroy Square, has been convicted of supplying noxious drugs to be used for an unlawful purpose, and was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labor. At a meeting of the Common Council of the City of London, Mr Bedford presented a report of the proceedings of the City Lands Committee in regard to the Temple Bar Memorial, the cost of which is stated to be from £10,600 to £11,000.

After an interval of four years, foot-and-mouth disease has again appeared in the neighborhood of Lewes, Sussex. Ten beasts were condemned by the official inspector, and it is feared that several more animals on two separate farms are developing the disease.

M. Gune, manager of the Paris Gil Bias, a journal that has acquired an unenviable notoriety for the publication of indecent literature, has been sentenced for the perpetration of an offence of this character on December 5, to three months' imprisonment and a fine of I.OOOfr.

The premises of Messrs Musgrave and Son, woollen manufacturers, Leeds, have been destroyed by fire. For the last few: weeks the firm bad been very busy, and work was carried on almost day and night. The loss, which is covered by insurance, amounts to several thousand pounds. From Dortmund it is reported that a fatal explosion has taken place in a coal mine near Langendreer. Four miners were killed and two were severely wounded. The accident was caused entirely through culpable carelessness on the part of a miner, who opened his lamp, contrary to the regulations. Mr Hyacinthe Loyson, better known as Pere Hyacinthe, has just addressed a letter to the President of the Paris Municipal Council, asking for the use of the Church of the Assumpti n, in the Eve Saint Honore, as he is compelled to give up his chapel in the Rue Kochechouart before January 15 next. A Board of Trade enquiry has been held at Cardiff, into the circumstances attending the foundering of the British steamship Mavis, of London, in the Bay of Biscay in November last. The Mavis was lost when on a voyage from Cardiff to Bordeaux, and two of the crew were drowned. The Court suspended the master's certificate for twelve months.

Thirty-eight men have been charged at Bangor with intimidating workmen employed in the South Carnavonshire granite quarries at Llanaelhairn, where a strike lately occurred, owing to an Englishman being appointed foreman. One defendant was committed for trial, five were fined £5 and costs, and the others, with one exception, 40s' and costs. Notice of appeal was given in seven of the cases.

A letter has been received by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce from the India Office, in which it is stated that nothing is known officially of the alleged proposal of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal that the Government of India .should impose a moderate duty on all cotton goods, and that " Lord Hartington has no reason to suppose that such a proposal would be entertained by the Government of India."

Lord DufFerin has resumed his official duties as Ambassador at St. Petersburg. The Queen has appointed Mr R. Redgrave, R.A., to be a Companion of the Bath. *

Colonel St. John, R.E., is to be created a X.C.5.1., for political services at Candahar.

Owing to the prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease, the county of Northampton has been declared an infected area.

Intelligence from St. John's Newfoundland, announces the wreck of the barque Nonantum, with all her crew.

The Russian Government is said to have decided upon increasing the flotilla stationed in the Caspian by three more war steamers.". ■ :

The death is announced of M. de Maltzow, the oldest functionary of the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, at the age of 73. . : ': ■ r An active exchange of views has commenced between the Powers in consequence of the last Notes of the Porte on the Greek Question. : A manufactory of paperhangings a t Buffalo has been destroyed by fire. Out of 150 persons employed on the premises fifteen perished in the fire. . ; The cost of the military expedition

undertaken last year by Russia against tbe Akh'al Tekke has been ascertained as amounting to 4,686,000 roubles.

It is stated that the Queen has been recommended to allow the regiments lately engaged in Afghanistan to bear on their colours the names of the engagements for which special clasps have been accorded with the war medal.

It is believed that the Powers will propose the appointment. of an International Delimitation Committee to deter* mine the new Tarco-Hellenic frontier.

General Sir F. Roberts has arranged to visit Cardiff on January 28. During his stay he will distribute the prizes to the 3rd Glamorganshire Artillery. Madame de Lesseps has'received the Grand Cordon of Marie Louise from the King of Spain. The insignia was presented to her by a Chamberlain of the Queeu Mother in King Alphonso's name. .

The Besancon municipality has voted a commemorative tablet on the house where Victor Hugo was born. M. TCaimbaud, M. Jules Ferry's principal secretary, will represent him at the inauguration. Major General Sir Frederick Roberts will be admitted to the freedom and livery of the Grocers' Company, on Friday, January 7, and entertained at dinner the same evening in their hall.

The owners of the ship City of Montreal^ lately abandoned in the Atlantic, have just received a telegram from Brixham Devon, reporting the safety off the crew.

The new French cable, which was fractured several weeks ago of CapetCsa," has been repaired, and communication with New York has been resumed via that line.

Patrick Malone, who was charged at Salford with being armed for an unlawful purpose, and who was suspected of being connected with the Land League, was discharged on Saturday with a caution. Mr Gladstone, acknowledging a resolution passed by the Northampton Liberal Union, thanks the Union for its confidence in He** Majesty's Government in dealing with the question of land tenure in Ireland.