MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4588, 18 September 1883, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

Carnegie, American iron , master, has bought the London "Echo," and taken shares in several half-penny papers in the English provinces. Forster, formerly Chief Secretary for Ireland, is delivering speeches in favour of Irish emigration. The "Times" Alexandria correspondent, on August 20tH, says :—"lf the British troops should be withdrawn from Egypt no European family should remain in the country a week after their departure. Egypt," he says, "is incapable of selfgovernment." There has been a wrangle in the House of Commons over Prince Alfred's Moscow. expenses, amounting to £2,000. The House was asked, to pay this sum, and did so after a slightly acrimonious debate. Labouchere made a spirited attack on the measure, calling attention to the fact that £4 000 had already been paid for the English ambassador's expenses on the same occasionand that His Royal Highness ought to defray his own expenses when he wants to visit his relations. London gossip says the Duke of Teck is to be exiled to an almost desolate and unpleasant German schloss, on account of the scandal he has brought on the Royal family by having his household effects sold out by the sheriff. The Duke is uncomfortably poor for a member of royalty, and he borrowed money from the city Jews to pay the expenses of his journey to Egypt. Thus it was that he got into deep trouble. Fred Gebhardt, the rich American, with whose name Mrs Langtry's is so frequently associated, has entered a number of horses for the English Autumn Handicaps. He will visit England during Mrs Langtry's theatrical tour in that country. Wall street, New York, has beea subjected to a stock flurry, in which several old firms have been wrecked. The crisis was brought about by the manipulation of Jay Gould, who seeks to control the Northern Pacific Railroad, Despatches of August 12 from London describe the return of Mrs Langtry not looking in good health. She had begun her provincial tour at date, but proposed to visit Paris to replenish her wardrobe. While there she would take lessons in elocution from Reignier. She is due in Montreal, October 29.