MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4589, 19 September 1883, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

Captain Webb's widow, who came to Niagara to receive her husband's body, was taken to the fatal whirlpool where he met his death, and is reported to have made light of the difficulties of the undertaking. "Poor. Mat," she said, "must have struck a rock in diving, or else he would have been all right. Why, I could swim that myself." Despatches from Egypt on August 15 say the River Nile is falling, and there are no longer fears of a flood. When the news of Carey's murder reached Ireland, the wildest delight was manifested. Mobs entered houses and seized bedding, furniture, and other articles with which to make bonfires, and effigies of the dead informer were burned, and mock funerals held in various Irish towns. Eight enormous bonfires blazed around Carey's old residence; also fires in other streets. Bands marched through the city playing national airs, followed by crowds of people cheering as they marched. A slightcoliision occurred between the crowd and the";police officials. In London the murder continued the sole subject of conversation for days, but not a word of sympathy was elicited for the informer's fate. The Times, in an article on the subject, thought the occurrence a public misfortune, as Carey had been au instrument in the attainment of justice. The murder was calculated to encourage acts of violence, f and the joy caused in Ireland by the homicide is proof that many elements of danger still exist there. ... - -.'..-. A supposed Moabite MS. of the Book of Deuteronomy on leather leaves, copied many years back, has been found. It was submitted on the sth instant to Df Guerberg and other eminent Hebrew experts in I London, and the weight of opinion was in favour of its genuineness, but subsequent I investigation has disclosed the whole thing as a fraud. The owner, Shafsira, a dealer of Jerusalem, asked the British Museum an immense sum for the manu-, script. ,