MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4232, 25 July 1882, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

The St. Petersburg^ police seized 38 pounds of nitroglycerine and 120 pounds of dynamite in a .house aearched on Friday, besides a quantity of bombs of the newest pattern, ten of which were loaded. Amongst the persons arrested are several naval officers and Jews. It is .also said that an operatic singer is implicated in the plot. About 80 persons in all were_arrested. _. - - —

About 1,400 Russian Jews are being sheltered around the Castle Gardens in New York, the Aid Society's houses being all filled.

At Armagh, Ireland, several hundred men marched through the city on Sunday in military order,-singing rebel songs and execrating the Queen.,

It is stated that a package of powder, to which was attached a smouldering fuse, was „ discovered inside the rails of the Vestry Hall, Kensington. The Minister of Interior at Petersburg again asserts that officials who do not prevent outrages against the Jews will be dismissed. ;

In the House of Commons on June 23, John Bright said it was obvious that the condition of Ireland was made greatly worse by subscriptions from America, and by those persons who came from America to participate in conspiracies. ; Mr Sexton warned the Government that the feeling was generated among Irishmen in America by seeing their countrymen driven as aliens from careers of industry, and must cause trouble in Great Britain at^no distant date. . ' A company, comprising Irish noblemen and large land owners, has been formed as a purely commercial speculation for the purpose of defeating the influence of the Land League, and supplementing the work of the Property Defence Association v and Emergency Committee., Capitalists [are invited to take shares in the company, which will take possession of evicted lands and work them to the greatest public advantage.

The Golos says that live important firms of Moscow have formed a syndicate for promotion of cotton cultivation in Central Asia. They propose to engage American experts to superintend the cultivation of the plant.

A St. Petersburg despatch .says that among those arrested on Valisht£jJSnd is a Nihilist leader disguised as a woman.

The police have made a descent upon the Nihilist haunts.

Bradlaugh made an abortive attempt to present a petition in the Commons on Thursday afternoon, but withdrew under protest at the order of the Speaker. At Danville, Illinois, Jqne 22, Alice Mills (aged 14 years), Mary.dglie (17)'^ and Mary Jones (12) committed suicide by taking arsenic. The first did so because her father lived with a shameless woman; the second, because,«he s was an orphan; and thd third took the drug because the others did.

The British steamer Panedo foundered on May Bth, near Porto Santo, in the Madeira Islads. In a moderate head sea she cracked amidships, her decks started up, and she sunk in two minutes. Four ot the crew were drowned. . The rest escaped in boats. There were seventy-six in all. - \

Th 6 recent United States census 'shows that over six millions of people in the country, over 21 years of age, are unable to write.