SUMMARY OF ENGLISH NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 96, 11 December 1869, Page 6

SUMMARY OF ENGLISH NEWS.

Loyjjox, October S, 1960. ] Ir'tere is some departure from £he jnita which makes tMs period o,ne of gt^nation. In France, jn -^pain, in -Egypt, there are excitements of various 3simh, and Ireland is 4.9'n^ h p r best to ftttn^j; the unfavourable' 'notice. ,of our fi-overnmpnt. j^ompsfic evpnfcs of a trawic character have occurred, and on j the whole jfche monthly chronicle cannot h«j said to be withpnt interest. Kuroyipan atfieTjti'fm. Tbo lon<j <|clay, on We pnrt of the Ernppror, m' calling Jbogpth^r phfi Legislative !?<]9j» is scanty tq be pc counted for in a^atisiactory innnncr. Tt w;JI be'rp'nem"hfred ,that vr'ien i^e ■n^.QJPfl'P'l informs had bfpn announ^Pil, .°nd th^' promise •hjH nr>pn »ivon thnt tho SeTjntus ConPUfhl"! should nt n^"o b.^ taken into fonsidpration, t^o Chn^nber was prororn^i, and although the act wis capable of hpiuq; defended, and alt^^hou'TH som9 acijn'irnmPTit was dpsi■^rabl^in ordpr tq jet the natjqn calm ltfl^lfWoyiTi, \ha prolnn^p.d r^cp^s was held to 'be a n. intake, pnijtrary to previous pplicj-, the props, which js so ' potent fo^ oy'il in Franco, j! p 3,g allowed to fnke its own coursn, and freedom speedily hocaxiic licen^p. It would be diiSmik to convoy in a paragraph a ... complr f <» impro^picn of tie fierce warfare wMch has boon carried on by a Hriro number of tho French journals ngainpfc tVs Emperor on peraopal as Tvell as political <;roun'ls. "flii? illness, - about which thore ooijirt he no doubt, hss bf°n lncjcked, and vile caricatures whi" 1 ! no' decent En'^lishimn would alley to enter his hou^o, have been peattwed broadcast-, not so much with a view to bring Xapoleoij into conterfmt, as to creatf? ? belief" that he was ilTiyi^. T^P eifeot of all this upon Franco has been very bad. Then arose tha olamour for the re-a^sembling of tho Legislature, and t^e G-oyernment mnde no response, untiVeyen mocjerate jEn^lis 1 ! JQurnKl-s •re^tiped io suggest that 'an a.p'atKetic policy, at such a time, could ijot be safe one. At length ji njgj^ber of the Legislative body, a 'fount <le Keratry, a hot-headed Bretnn^announced bis belief that £he prolongation of the recess heypnd a given -~sjitp, the 2Sth Qf tt\h month,' was 'illegal. He 'furfclier' declared that whether summoned or not, he should pwe^ed to ( the Chamber on that day, and take h.is seat, and he 'has invited -'-'aTiwho #Hnk with him to meet him thprs. A very few of the extreme party have approved this course, and it lin.ls disfavour with "the yeasonablo Opposition. But in France a very small an-l unworthy motive power is enough to breed a revolt. Very real apprehension is felt that if s erate r atl 7 and iiia friends adopt the course they Vtienaee, they will be followed to the phainber hj a crowd of revolutionists, and such a mob once assembled, .1 pistol shot, fire«l by chance or intention, may, as Sfc has done before., bring pn a .catastrophe, tt seems most rational to believe that the G-overninent will iraard against such a result, and with Paris in the condition to which ." improvements" bare oroq.ght jt. a jnob would have small chance. But a collision and bloodshed would be about tLo worsj; things that could now happen for the dynasty, jm X it mus : fc not be forgotten that though half "France proclaims itself in peaceful opposition to the JiJtnperor, a vory large parfc of the population would easily ?ee a pretext lbr abandoning a .spei'itic attitude. '"' 'rhinfi-i, therefore, give 'cause for very .wreat anxiety, :ior'is it thought wise on the part of the Grovernment to postpflnd yhp opening of the Chambers until the 29th 'ot? November, as it has juo ; t don^». ' There must be much delay over fhe unverified elections, and ifc is scarcely possible that serious work can be taken up within the pre- ' seu fe' year. The Empress has departed for Constantinople, via Italy, the Prince lingQi'ial remaining with, his fafehe;:. f ' ' ' Spain.|j(jjoutinuc3 to be disturbed. Republicanism is showing itself afc vai'ious points. At 3 a rceloua barricades vfbi:s thrown up, and a night of hard fighting \yas Qeceasary to repress the insurgents. At Tarragona a furious ,• oiob arosej and brutally murdered the rppreserrt;itivo uf the s ov 'eruor, vrith circjjiris^ances too painful to enlarge tfjKm, a]id .which show the savage nature «.■«' the lower order of Spaniard. ) Ail oi^ rt the vusb district in the south, called Andalusia, which comprehends '~lvur provinces, bjvuds of annod men /—js,r,ti/ — js,r,ti «ax'aifiug, and seizing guii3 and aud ihe nature of the makes it' difficult for regular troops' to act against them. Madrid for the present ia kept jn order, but there is a difficulty abouc pending to JDu'ig. \hp reinforcements, without yfliieh the Island will probably' be lost al —we heljeye tatpt nofc more than 7000 z* mci} have been sent, Erim judging it of more pressing importance to have a m. p^wei'%l army ai; home. The Cortes ■ been summoned, and, ihe Eegeut ■ Las beem obliged tq 'demand the suam. pensiua of the Habeas Coruus Act m tiere, bufc with cercain elemeuts of a W stato hiesje.' It is at t'aia 'time j;hat the f fl-OYernmont ha,s proclaimed tlie nauie r utHno ; x?aQ^klate it selects |W Kiu^. WL ifaUJ^lnoiiias Altjtyrfc Yictqr, Dii'ke uf Hfllpoa, of the King of Italy. itoont 16, and is' at school at be bears a very nigh His relatives have assented candidafciire only on condition Crown is offered him bjr two-

•j^ > . ■ ' — _____ thirds of the Cortes, and it is a qups;fcion whether m the- present state of the Spanish mind, Prim will be able- to se<\ur,e this number. Even if he should : there is but the prospect of a per- 1 turbed reign, and perhaps an early i revolution for the poor youth/ and many feel the best thing $bi»t could happen would be the ' rejection of the Govern men't scheme. All in Spain . seems to point to military dictation, j for the' present, as the only possible ijiode ot' preserving order, and this - f&ei;, after more than a year since Queen. Isabella was driven away, does nnt indicate much wisdom on the part either of the governors or the governed. Then affair's have been still more complicated by a sort of passage-at-arms with American diplomacy. The minister of the United States, General Sickles (whose name became unhappily familiar to njioßt persons from the vfinojeanee which he took upon a man vrhq had outraged family honour) contrived to 'e,xppe v ss himself so bluntly upqn the nature oi" the contest in Cuba, and to press mediation of such a very decided kind on tHe pai?t of the States, that the Spanish Government was enabled to get up a grei£ display of national indignation, to refuse £o listen to any thins that America had to s.ay, nn 1 to breathe out flames of a very furious sort. The States, knowing their strength, could afford to amile at tlv\ and to bide their time, so the quipel has been made up for the mo-mo-at, to hreak out all the more fiercely it a still more inconvenient date for .Sp-iin. Irishmen have been giving another proof of their versatility. When we h<*t wrote little was talked of but the fond question, and men were endeavouring to see whether it were possible to reconcile the views of the most moderate of the tenant party with the rights of the landlords. But a. fres 1 ! subject for agitation is. now before the Irish, namely, the release of the Fenians whom we still keep in confinement. The Government, rather hastily as it was thought, even by their friends, let out a large number of the convicted men, retaining only those who were the leaders of the Fenian movement, or could be mischievous in promoting it. The clamour is now that these shall also be set free, and monster meetings are being held, even in Ulster, in support of the demand. The release is asked, not on the ground of mercy, but of justice, and the most menacing language is used by the oratora, a few of whom are by no moans of the lowest sort. Some members of Parliament join in -the cry, thqngh they do not go such lengths as would procure their expulsion when tho House meets It remains to be seen what the (government will do. Mr. Gladstone has managed to signify in answer to one petition which was of a becoming character, that phe request can be listened to only if it be admitted that j fclie Fenians have no justification, and ! throw themselves on the lenity of the Crown, but, as we have said, this is by no means the tone of the disaffected in Ireland. It would be worse than •i blunder to yield to the sort of prespure which, is now bemsj exercised, but lb is most probable that a refusal will produce outrages. Agrarian crime increases, and the last case is that of fifing at a gentleman and a lady, who were both wounded. , A jury I'efused to convict the assassin named Barrett, althoui* 1 ! the evidence asjainsfc him, direct an-l circumstantial, was complete, and the mob nearly murdered one juror who was believed to have held out, hunted the gentleman who had been shot at, and atoned the carriages of the Queen's juduea, breaking the winsq\jrsl ' And yet in' Co i;Tc ' i'fcell? a meeting qf the most- loy.-il' kind was held in honour of the Lord- Lieutenant, and men of nearly all views, Fenians excepted, joined in it. Ireland continues to be a riddle, though the solution is clear, enough — It is the absence of the solid and respectable class. That protection agaiu.st extremes is wanting. As regacda the land question, the agitators were getting on so very fast (consolidating their demands into a phrase " fixity of tenure "), that the Government deemed it convenient to speak out, and three Cabinet Ministers — Lord Clarendon, Lord Hartirigton, and Mr. Cardwell-rdeelared with much straight- forwardness that; it \yas intended to do right by all and wrong by none, and that there would be no concession to th^ wft<l and Tsubversive demands of which' 'they had lately heard so mqcii. This announcement will bear fruit in due .season; 1 but for the moment the Fenian convicts -are before the eyes o£ Ireland. - \ His Holiness the Cope has had, his troubles. . Tae blood of St. Januarius duly liouifled, and the clumsy- miracle occasioned the usual joy amqng the lower cla»s, while educated Catholics looked on angrily, at a farce which degrades felie Church, fcq which they ar,e proud to belong. _>ut in Paris, the most famous preacher of the day, the Carmelite friar, Father. Hyaciathe, who.se influence over, the religious world is extraordinary, haj broken, iuto opea revolt against the policy of Rome, has declared that the; attempt tb divorce the Church, from, advancing thought \a unhqly tyranny, and haying been h^self ' ordered to be ort^oo^ox or. silent, has afya^doned his pulpit in Notre.-jllaine, and K|s convent. A violent attempt is being made to crush him, the head of his order having ordered, him to return within ten days

or be held excommunicate and infamous, and great interest is felt as to the c,o.u,rse whjch he will adopt. It is supposed thqfj he will refuse obedience ; what he can then do unles be becomes Proteßtant it is hard to say. But his condemnation of the course which the grea.t_ (Ecumenical Council is to take under the dictation of its head (whose personal infallibility is to be one of the dogmas to be adopted) has been a severer blow than can be understood save by those who know the relations of the Church of France and the Church of Borne! The anti-Roman spirit has been revived in the former, by which it is perceived, as it is no£ in the intense stifled atmosphere of the Vatican, that the only chance for Catholicism is to. advance with the times. We may note here that Archbishop Manning has delivered an eloquent sermon in, explanation and defence of the policy ot the Council, but he has told ua only what we knew before, that the opposing forces, Rome and Liberalism, are irreconcileable "W"e shall nearly have disposed of foreign affairs when we have mentioned that though the Khediveh does not go at present to Constantinople, matters have been sufficiently smoothed down to make it probable that the great ceremony of the opening of the Suez Canal next month will be performed to the satisfaction of the ruler of Egypt. "We hear that some 8000 visitors are expected. M. Lesseps has performed the- voyage from end to end in a small steamer, thus solving, in the eyes of Europe, the problem of the different levels of the two seas. To reward himself with domestic happiness after all his labours for the good of mankind. M. Lesseps is about to marry a lady of sixteen — forty-four years his junior. The only other item is the gratifying fact that the war in Paraguay is brought to an end at last. The forces of Lopez have been utterly demolished, and he is a fugitive and an outlaw, whom the Brazilian Commander, Count d'Eu, is hunting down. All the English prisoners have been rescued, and though the complete tale of their sufferings has yet to be told, their appearance was enough to prove the miseries which they had suffered at the hands of the cruel tyrant whom it has been sought to make a hero. Her Majesty is still in Scotland, as is the Prince of "Wales, who has gone thither for sporting purposes. The Princess has returned, and, though looking delicate, is stated to be in f»ood health, and looking forward to an interesting event. She has visited several of the theatres, and to the representation by the autlior of a new sensation piece which her royal highness was about to witness, that one scene was of a startling character, the reply was given that the Princess was much obliged for the warning, but meant to be amused. She will not be allowed entire repose, even at this i crisis, for there are to be grandly loyal doings at Chester, to which ancient I city the Heir Apparent and his wife are to be welcomed with extraordinary enthusiasm, A remarkable condition has been exhibited by the bench of bishops. The aged prelate of Exeter died before he could resign the see over which he had presided so sternly for so many years. The Bishop of Winchester's resignation created a vacancy, which has been filled by the preferment of the eloquent and energetic Dr. Wilberforce, of Oxford, to the larger see. The Bishop of Carlisle is dead, and the Bishop of Bath and Wells has resigned. Mr. Macarnes?, High Church, succeeds the Bishop of Oxford, and Lord A. Herver, Evangelical, is, en revanche, promoted. Mr. Grladi sfcon'e has §ftll important selections to make, and having no Lord S.haftesbury at his elbow, as Lord Palmerston had, to advise him in such 'maij;ers, is understood to feel the responsibility much, for these are not times in which a friend of the Church, as the Premier undoubtedly is, can fill up her high places in obedience to unworthy motives. While on ecclesiastical affairs, we may say in a line that the effort at reconstructing the Irish Church, on the new basis supplied by legislation, appears to make satisfactory progress, oven amid tae disturbances of the exoited island. The laity contribute largely, and what is better, sIJoV a desire to be actively associated wi^h the clergy in the work in * question. ■ TTue suic4tto_of a. fudge isj happily so i rjire as to Remand mention, here. The, Eord Justice. Clerk, of Spotlan/i, whqse Ape was P.attop,. and , whos,e v tftje, \tate'G-lenalmond, had been summoned to appear before the Bribery J *CommisAc a it Bridge water," to testify as* to su idry .dealings at a contest staere in wj ich .he.- was engaged when' one. of liqrd, Derby's law oflteets. There ia not reason* to .believe that Anything 'wa& t»|h done of a disgraceful character, asjelections go — no doubt, Mr. 1 ' Patton spent a good deal " of money, for the corruption, of Bridgewater. is so ingrained that; withoufr bribes xiq candidate would have a chance, but there was nothing to call for special reprobation. But he was & jnan of proud and sensitive -nature,-.- and 'he shrunk from the ordeal that would have compelled a judge to own that part of his way to the bench' has been defiled, and he rose early one morning, and cast himself into, a river. We believe that the last case of the kind was that of Lord Hardwick, who accepted the w Chance^rship from the Duke of

Grafton, and in a day or two destroyed himself, but here what may be called political honour came into play. Mr. Patton's death' occasions the first change in Mr. Gladstone's Ministry. Mr. Moncreiff, the Lord Advocate, becomes Lord Justice Clerk, and Mr. young the Scottish Solicitor-General, of course takes the place of Mr. Moq, crejff. A murder, of which all Prance has been talking, has been committed, which is so sensational that it can hardly pass unnoticed here. A whole family, named Kinck, has been slaughl tered. A mother, encimte, and six j children were destroyed in the most brutal manner in a suburb of Paris called Pantin, to which they had been i inveigled by treachery, and there they were found hastily interred in a trench. Later, the lady's step-son, an adult, waa discovered, and he also had been slain. It is expected that the corpse ! of the head of the family will be added to the horrid list. The murderer — whether he had accomplices or not is unknown — is a young man named Traupmann, from Alsace, and he is in prison, and has partially confessed, though his precise intentions in committing the crime can be judged only from other evidence than his own. He desired, it is believed, to possess himself of a sum of money with which the elder Kinck was about to establish a new business. The revolting details of the atrocity have supplied material for the French papers, " literary " and pictorial, for nearly a month, and even the political situation and the Hyacinthe affair have had slight attention while all Paris was rushing to the squalid suburb where the murders were committed. High and low have shared the unwholesome curiosity, and Madame Uattazzi, wife of the Italian statesman, actually obtained leave to be present at the autopsy, but the surgeons refused to touch the bodies unless the lady departed, and she has now written a diplomatic letter intended to make the world believe that she was not there at all. Against this tale of horrors we have several English crimes iq set, the last and worst, perhaps, being the murder by a jealous paramour, of a worthless scoundrel whom he believed to be a successful rival, and of the poqp woman herself. He then tried to commit suicide, but was prevented. The noticeable point is the way in which English people allow a man to. work out any wickedness, without their interfering. There were many witnesses who could have prevented both murders. The unusual spectacle of a contest for the Lord Mayoralty of London has been afforded, the question being whether the pre&ent holder should be re-elected. It has been decided that he shall not, and the next Lord Mayor will be named Besley. The proceedings in reference to the great Assu- ! ranee failures have been of a most unpleasantly interesting kind, and a Vice* Chancellor has ruled that the journals are not to discuss such* mat. tors from the moment they come before a court, a dictum which will have tq be disregarded or overruled, if journalism is to be free. Lastly, our friends at a distance will be amused to hear that thousands of persons have allowed themselves to be terrified by a 1 prediction that a great rise in the tide, or as they prefer to call it a tidal wave, was on the sth or 6th of this month to produce the most direful destruction around the coasts. ' Namerous persons moved from the water side, and though, the AstronomerRoyal explained that at certain dates there were always higher tides than at any other time, but that there was nothing to fear, the terror was, we suppose, too pleasant to be abandoned. ! Our Social Science Congress has been sitting, but it is remarked that its debates- are not very amusing. This means that the members are gradually coming to the belief that the only topics which such a congress can take up usefully, are serious matters, and that they must be treated otherwise than sensationally.. What, the debates lose in briskness, they gain in sense. But a few members will always be found to yeuttlate their pet crotchets, there is a.n indefatigable Mr. Tallack who thinks that nobody should be hanged, and puts down Mr. Mill, who thinks that many persons should. Spme ladies gave useful and not gusbiug contributions. — "Home News." '

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