NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4328, 14 November 1882, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

General Summary. (For the month ending October 22nd.)

The directors of the Irish Exhibition Company held a meeting in Dublin on October 4th, and recommended that the present building remain another year, and also that a series of class exhibitions be held similar to those arranged at Agricultural Hall, London. The committee advised the holding of exhibitions in various places in England and the United States, with a view fo popularising Irish manufactures. They urge, in addition^ the formation of a new association to assist manufacturers.

Sir Stafford North cote made a speech in Glasgow on the 4th instant, in which he declared the Egyptian war unnecessary and unjustifiable, and that it could have been avoided by a firm stand at the beginning.

A commercial traveller named Brooks was committed for trial in the Bow street Police Court,, on the 14th instant, for threatening to murder the Prince of Wales unless he received money from him. The threat was contained in a letter to Col. Teasdale, the Prince's equerry. The prisoner is considered a crank. He claimed to have served several years in the Unitf d States army.

The Convention at Athenry, Galway, on tbe 13th of October, adopted resolutions declaring the right of the. country to national independence, accepting the principle of the land for the people, approving the system of peasant proprietary and the amendment of the Bright Clauses of the Land Act. Resolutions were also passed declaring the prevalence, of grass farming of the land as tending to paralyze industry and increase pauperism. The Convention further resolved to prevent hunting until the extra police drafted on the country were dispensed with.

By a despatch, dated October 13th, it appears that the committee under General Sir Archibald Alison, appointed to report on the Channel Tunnel, considers that the exit of the tunnel should be commanded by a fortress of^ the first class; that the tunnel should be provided with a port« eullis, and with an arrangement for filling it for a sufficient space with irrespirable gas, and that measures should be taken for the demolishing of the land portion, for the temporary flooding of the main tunnel, and also for its total destruction by a mine. These arrangements should be controlled by separate parties, both inside and outside the commanding fortress. But when all this is done the committee - admit that it would be presumptuous to place absolute reliance even upon the most comprehensive arrangements. Memoranda from Sir Garnet Wolseley and the Duke of Cambridge are appended to the report, condemning the proposed tunnel in even, stronger terms. The Times considers that this report has settled the question' of a Channel Tunnel adversely for a long time to come.

E. Dwyer Gray, Sheriff of Dublin, was released on the 30th ult. by Judge Lawson on the payment of £50D. In ordering the release, the Judge pointed out that a change had taken place in the tone of his paper, the Freeman's Journal, since the incarceration.

The six-days' pedestrian contest for Sir John Astley's long distance championship belt was concluded on the 30th. Littlewood made 451 miles, doing 414 in 70 hours and 20 minutes, beating Dobler's record in the United States of 414 miles in 72 hours. Little wood took the belt and £50. Day, of Birmingham, was second, scoring 377 miles ; and Corbett, of Aberdeen, third, with 347. Pearce, the American, finished sixth with 305 miles. . All the Irish suspects in custody were released on the 29th ult. in.view of the expiration of the term of the Coercion Act. An account of the first cremations which have taken place in England is published. The bodies were those of Lady Hanaham and Mrs Hanaham, who died in Dorsetshire in 1877 and 1876 respectively- They both expressed a wish that their bodies should be cremated. The remains were kept in a mortuaryhouse until preparations for the process were completed, and on Sunday, the Bth inst., the remains, enclosed in substantial coffins, were pieced in the furnace on plates of iron (five inch) and reduced to , ashes. , Mr Gladstone reiterates the declaration" that he unable to interfere with the operations of Mormons in England, as he preBumes converts go with them willingly.

,Non commissioned officers of the fndian regiments are to be brought Jbo England from Egypt, so that the Queen may pre* sent them with medals.

• There was a riot in Limerick on the 15th of October, caused by the arrest of a drunken man. The mob stoned the police, one of whom had his skull fractured; the police charged the mob and arrested the leaders. A sentry stationed outside Brabazon Park was fired at on the same day and dangerously wounded. Press i urg will remain under martial law. for one month, from October 4th. The Emperor of Austria has thanked Herr Tisza, the Hungarian Prime Minister, for the energy shown in suppressing the riots against the Jews there. Herr Tisza, Prime Minister of Hungary, is of opinion that the anti-Semitic movement may degenerate into one of a Socialistic.character. With a view to a settlement of the question, the Government have introduced measures revising the usury and trade laws. Six hundred Jewish families have left Presburg on account of the riots there.

The floods in Tyrol hare reduced hun dreds of wealthy landowners to povery, and the approach of winter greatly aggravates the situation.

There has been a tremendous decline in the price of Russian grain, owing to the competition of America.

The difference between Russia and the European Danube Commission threatens^ to assume the proportions of a serious^* conflict, and may lead to complications. The military tribunal in session al * Balta, October 9th, trying the cases of the anti-Jewish rioters, condemned one of the leaders to two years, and fire others to from sixteen to eighteen months' imprisonment, The revenue of Russia, from January Ist to August Ist, present year, was 30,128,000 roubles more than for the same time in 1881, and the expenditure for the same period was 26,603,000 roubles less.

The Middlesex Magistrates have caused a sensation in London by re licensing the well-known A-rgyle Rooms.

The belief is current among Mr Gladstone's friends that he intends absolutely to retire to private life after the autumn session. The Marquis of rlartington is regarded as the coming Premier. •

General Havelock AJlen has written to the Times concerning the charge of English soldiers having killed Egyptian wounded. He begins by flatly contradict* ing the charges, and ends by admitting that wounded men were killed in some instances.

The Queen of Madagascar refuses to recognise the rights of France to that island, and energetic stops are to be taken with a view to their preservation.

Under the plan of reorganisation of the new Egyptian army, the staff will consist of equal numbers of British and Egyptians. The expense of the army will be £368,003 yearly. The gendarmerie is to be officered by Egyptians, but will have two British inspectors. Baker Pasha considers that one of the principal advantages of his scheme will be a healthy emulation between the regiments commanded by British officers and those comman* ded by native offices. The army will number 11,000 men.

During the last cession of the Council of the Kussian Empire it was resolved to restore to the former owners or their heirs a large portion of the confiscated estates in the western government. •

Three members of the Salvation Army were arrested in Calcutta in order to prevent a street riot.

A despatch from Paris says 80 French" men, assisted by 1400 laborers, are about to commence the construction of a railway between the Niger and "Senegal Rivers. Operations will be protected by a military column, which will plant the French flat and erect two forts on the Niger. A Paris newspaper credits England with negotiating for the purchase of 200,000 more Suez Canal shares.

The Republique. Francaise refuses to believe that Lord Granville will set aside the Egyptian control without consulting France. .

In Ireland the closing of the Land League in America is regarded as a victory for Mr Gladstone's Land Act agitation, es Ireland will cease to be formidable the moment the American supplies are cut dffp It is reported that the authorities of the Suez Canal have prohibited the employment of anyone who worked for or assisted the British,,troops, consequently many a,re thrown out of employment. John Bright has been sharply attacked by the leading Badical journals for declaring the Egyptian war unjust and unnecessary. It is even sail that at the next election he will lose his seat for Birmingham.

Owing to the alarming increase of pauperism in South Ireland, the Dublin Union has taken the lejd in a proposal to send one thousaud able bodied men and women, to Canada at a cost of £703.

Irish farmers and peasantry assembled at Curraghmore on the 12th October, and forcibly put a stop to the hunt. Miss Marie Prescott, the well known actress, who recently sued President Tonsay, of the American News Company, New York, for circulating a dramatic paper containing a libel against hercharacter, recovered 12,500d01s damages. '

Henry George's letter to the President excites laughter, especially his attempt to pose as a martyr after thirteen hours' detention.

Mr Morley's retirement from the Fortnightly Review elicits regret in the most opposite quarters. The Spectator describes him as having introduced serious thought into the magazine. The' Saturday Review laments the withdrawal of an eloquent, virtuous, and strictly honorable editor. .

At the final sitting of the International Arbitration Conference, Hew Lasker, member of the German Reichstag and one of the German delegates to the Conference, declared that Germany was especially liberal. Germany was at heart pacific. " If the country which is bur western neighbor," said he, "wishes peace as sincerely as we do, peace is assured."

While the annual train which recently departed from Cairo with imposing ceremonies was journeying to Suez on its way to Mecca, the canopy over the sacred car was caught and overturned by telegraph wires, and the sacred emblem exposed to the public. The Dervishes in charge were greatly excited by the accident. It is not certain,but that the cararan will have to return, and the ceremony be performed over again in Cairo.

A national conference of miners decided there was not sufficient unanimity to admit of a national strike, bat as an alter* native the 8 hour day system would be generally adopted. M. DeLesseps claims that his company possesses for 99 years the exclusive right to maritime communication between the Gulf of Pelusium and the Bay of Suez. The Timei.doubts this right.