SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3847, 28 April 1881, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

(From the Eubopean Mail, March 11.)

GENEBAL SUMMARY

Westmeath has again been the scene of a terrible agrarian murder. A farmer named Farrelly, who had taken a farm from which a tenant had been evicted, was met on returning from (he cattle fair at Multifarnham, by two young men, unknown to him, who fired six shots at him, most of which struck him. Believing him to be dead, the assassins went away. Farrelly, however, was able to make his way to a neighbouring farm, whence he wag removed to the county infirmary at Mullingar, where he soon afterwards died. Previous to his death he gave a description of the raeawho shot him, but no arrests have taken place;' Half a million he.:d cf cattle are estimat d to have perished during the recent inclement weather in the Western States of America.

The death is announced, through bui_iing, of General James Butler, of Kintbiiry, Berks. He carried the colours of his regiment through the battle of Water1< 3, and was present at the storming of Peronne and the capture of Paris. The House of Lords has decided against the clritn of the intent son of the la'e J rd Hnnlingtowrr to be declared Earl of Dysart. The Committee of Privileges were of opinion that the lady, who had borne four children, had fs>ied to prove the Scotch mariiage which she ahegod had taken place. The evidence disclosed some unpleasant things about the late Earl's life. The son of Lord Huntinglower by his marriage with Miss Burke, in 1851, has therefore established his right to the Er.'ldom. '

It is said that the main provisions of t'le new mersure to be introduced into the House of Commons fdir'Tegulating the trade of the licensed victuallers are absolute free trade in licenses, and that any person of good chcacbr may keep a public-house on the condition of paying the stipulated licensicg doty, equivalent to so much in.the pound on the rateable value of the premises. The New York liners have always b?en repu'od for quick passages, but the quickest on record musi now be credited to the White Star liner Britannic, as she, has just made the ran from New York to Liverpool in us days ten hours, .« Colonel Thomas Diirand Baker, C.8., of the 12th Regiment, who served in the New Zeabnd War of ISC4 65, and who was appointed aide de cajip :o the Queen in 1877, hr-: just, died in London.

It would appear from the emigration returns just issued that while the excess .of emigrants to the United States over immigrants in 1880 has been 131,C30, as compared with 71,00 in the previous year, the number of our population emigrating to Australasia hs? decreased from 35,000 to 18,033. These figures show at a glance what the present tendency of emigration is. The English mind is no longer aiiracted by the visions of enormous wealth to be acquired in the gold mines, or by the high wages and good living to be met with under the stock owners of Australia. It is a great pity, but we cannot blink the fact that the unsatisfactory reports in regard to Austialia and New Zealand, set afloat here by unprincipled adventurers, have led much of the surplus wealth and labor of Great Britain to find employment under the Stars and Stripes.