ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF SYDNEY WITH THE EUROPEAN & AMERICAN MAILS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3994, 17 October 1881, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF SYDNEY WITH THE EUROPEAN & AMERICAN MAILS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

| [BY TjJLEGBAfH, P£BPbE3B ASBOCU<Tia& ? ] AUCKLAND. This day. GENERAL SUMMARY.

GEE AT BRITAIN. _

■" September 25. A conference at Westminster, called by the National Land League, and intended as a demonstration in favor of."fair trade " principles, was very thinly attended.

Tbe Methodist Ecumenical Council is in session in London. Dr Bennett says the falling off of children of the sect in America in favor of other denominations was ono of the most disastrous facts connected with Methodism.

The farmers are threshing, and the result is poor. Indeed in the North of Scotland the root crops will be-almost * total failure, and in Ireland potatoes an seriously damaged.

DEAN STANLEY'S WILL. Dean Stanley left £84,000. behind him, and in the text of the will just published he gives sums of money .ty,between thirty and forty person 8, as well as £3000 to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, a portion of which is to be applied to the ' * abolition of fees now charged for visiting ." the Abbey, and £500 to the Westminster Nurses' Home. LEANDEB, VANQUISHED. Lord Clanderboyle, Lord Dufferin's son, has just beaten Byron and Leander's swims from Sestos to Abydos. He swam across from Therapia to Blecos in little more than an hour.

A despatch from Calcutta to the London Times says:—Tea Syndicate established in 188U for the purpose of opening up tbe Australian and American markets to Indian tea, report that operations have been successful. The agent of the Syndicate in America reports that the prospects of building /up a trade with India are mostpromising^

LAND LEAGUE: The Land League unanimously adopted resolutions calling on the farmers to prove their sympathy for the labourers by erecting dwellings for (hem and ' enabling them to lire in something like comfort and decency. A resolution was adopted recommending all the Leaguers ' to use Irish manufactures, and empowering branches to adopt measures to encourage native industry. Johnson, the founder >. and " secretary of the Irish Laborers' •*

League spoke, saying the laborers:would show the world they could, best .attam their ends by joining hands with Vjjfraeli. He said ail efforts to separate s:,tn«m prove futile. Resolutions were adopted adding to the Land League's present title the words "and labour* 1 and industrial union." Immediately after the Dabhn Convention a series of. monster land meetings are to be commenced. The first will be at Irishtown, where Da*iu4>ejan the League movement in 1879.. Parnell - presides. Mr Parnfcll in his' speech, said they proposed to teat the Act, not to use it. The country continues very un« settled. . .-", ,/ t ' ;: The system of intimidation remains in force, and serious outrage's on property kre reported. There is a very 'bittejrj^gjfgjj?* 1" between Jhe fwyJ^tarj^A^ a Juimltft 1 lluS'Taken place in Dublin between I the police and the public, .caused, by some soldiers making some insulting .remarks ' about the Pope. Fifteen ,persons' were' wounded. " , /' ' Bishop Nulty, of Meath, advises that the Land Bill should have a fair trial. Kettle issued an address f^qnj iKilmainham Goal as the Land LeaguV.candidate for Parliament for the County of Montr gauaa. • ■. Thomas Dickson ha? been returned to 'Parliament from County Tyrone, to fill the vacanoy caused by Lytton's appointment as Commissioner under the Land Act. '

A herdsman in the employ of Captain O'Callaghan, Zulla, County Clare, died da the 7th September, having been shot a fortnight before. The vindiotiveness of persons concerned in the murder is shown by their posting notices warning people against attending the funeral.

MOEE EXPLOBATIONS. Lieutenant Boyle, the arctic explorer, has gone to Patagouia to examine that region. ..

CONTINENTAL.

Count Jourdeville, ono of the oldest families of the French Legitimist nobility, haa been arrested for stealing a carriage and horses at Spa in Belgium, selling them, and leaving the country. A new Russian paper, the Free World, published in German, has made its appearance. It advocates constitutional government, and is-equally opposed to revolution and reaction.^ The .Nihilists' organ, The Will of the People, hju re-ap-peared at St. Petersburg!!, lumbers were issued ; they con tain.varioui notices warning spies of their fate. The' list of donations to the revolutionary fund, amounting to 600 roubles, a list of 400 Nihilists arrested since November, and an article condemning the Czar's policy and threatening to deal the enemy a final blow.

Baron Baronoff, the Prefect of Police, waited on the Czar on September 6th to warn iiioi that a great laoremaot was to

be made by the Nihilists in two or three months. He was snubbed, ''your sue cessor Kaisloff" replied the Czar, " has energy and wit enough to triumoh over them." He then turned his back ou

Baronoff.

One hundred Jews escaped from Russia and arrived in America. Five hundred and fifty four Jewish work people at the Kieff tobacco factory h;»?e been ordered to quit the town immediately. The attention of the Government has been called to the possibility of a famine in Algeria. . „ The military occupation of the city ot Tunis and some other points has become a necessity. M. Ronstan recommends that the force in the Regency be raised to

120,000. , , „ Sixty-one persons were burned to death recently by the Algerian forest fares; many were wounded, and six hundred and eighty-two dwellings were burned. Count, Herbert Bismarck has been appointed Minister at Washington, personal and family affair making his employment beyond the sea expedient. The much talked of meeting between the Kaiser and Czar a Dantzic appears to have brought about Tan entente cordiale belwe.ro the;two sovereigns. Nihilism and Socialism^ were discussed by the two sovereigns and their Premiers, and the usual oracular reports ' promulgated, but as no papers were signed ft is evident the importance of the meeting was magnified. . ; A cojß*reh*Mive conspiracy was recently> disclosed at the _?reneli Island of St. Pierre, situated at the entrance of Fortune Bay, near St. John s, JNewfoundland. The colony is used as a penal settlement by the French Government, and has a population of 5200 persons. The social'«nd State offenders are dimplinaines, and the batch at present undergoing purgation are of unparalleled turpitude. Among them are several representatives of the aristocratic order in France. Their purpose was to burn the city, murder the officers and every one m their way, seize two vessels in port, and escape. The plan was well arranged, and might have been successfu had it not been discovered before its full maturity.