MAIL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1229, 14 November 1882, Page 2

MAIL ITEMS.

Ingestre Hall, the seat of-the Earl of Shrewsbury, hag beeii burnt down. TheloßS is £500,000. : ' - The prospeotus of the Irish' Banking Company has been circulated. The proposed capital.ia £1,000,000. • The new Bteamer Belgium, 4000' tons burden, built'at Aberdeen for the Amorican ; Tenders for £2,000,000 worth of Indian--4 per cent, debentures were opened at the Bank of England on the 10th of' October. The loan was covered twice at about par. I Owing.to .the'enormous increase of pauperism in the south of Ireknd, tno Dublin Union ;bos j;akeu{tlie> lead ,m, a proposal to, Bend 1000 able-bodied r men and'women ito Canada at a cost of'£7000. ! :; f ;)! ,* !iv,., Galbraitli's spinning mills at Glasgow have ;been burned, Lo'sb, £50,000. : A commercial traveller, named Brooks was' committed for trial at the Bow-street Pojici, Court on the instant for threatening to .murderi the. Prince of Wales unless-he received money, from him,, The threat 1 wa.3 icontained 'in a letter to 'Col. Teesdale, the Prince's Equerry. The prisoner is considered a lunatic, He claimed, that he had perved for several years' in the United States army. ■ Irish farmers and peasantry assembled at Ciirraghmore on thel2th instant, and forcibly put n stop to hunting. Sir Staflford Northcote made a speech in Glasgow on' the 4th instant; in'which .lie (declared that the Egyptian 'War was unnecessary and. unjustifiable, and that it could have been aroided by a firm:' stand it the beginning ■ ; It is reported that the authorities, of the Suez Canal have prohibited the employment of anyone who worked for or assisted British troops, Consequently many ..are thrown out.of employment;, i ;, f Henry George,'correspondent o£ J> the " Irish World," (New York) in Irelarid'r ' where, he was arrested and detained some 13 hours as a suspect,, has written a; letter..tpj President Arthur, in which he poses as an American martyr. It has created laughter in Irish circles.

. In Ireland, the closing of the Land League in America is regarded as a victory for Mr Gladstone's Land Act. Agitation will cease, to be formidable the moment American supplies are cut off. 11 ' Returns issued by the Board sf Trade, October 8, show that during.September British imports decreased; as compared with' that of the tame month last yew, £55,000, while exports increased £22,(X)0. John Bright has been sharply attacked by leading Radical journals for declaring the Egyptian war unjust and unnecessary, It is even said that at the neit election he will lose hisseat for Birmingham,' just as 'he lost his,seat for Manchester for,his jemarks on the, Crimean War.' It is'riimot'ed' hie ! 'will retire from public life at the end of the year. Bradlaugh has issued another address to the 'English people. .He saysj ['! In ,thia Parliament I will sit." But he does not say' how he means to do it. .-'j >

A hurricane occurred in Ireland on the Ist October and was done on land tlun by any storm fw 20 years past. An American ship, the H.ai\rey. Mills, from Liverpool for New YoA, lying at Queens-, town, was driven ashore, aijid yachts sunk, . E. Dwyer Grey, .Sheriff of Dublinj j,vjs released by Judge Dawson on paymtnf 'of £5,00. In ordering his relejise,. pointed out that a change had .takeji place' in the tone of Grey's paper, the" freeman's Journal," since the prisoner's incarceration. , The castle and military barracks at Enniskillen were seriously damaged by fire on tho 2nd October.

An account of the first crematious which have taken place in England has been published. The bodies were those of Lady Stanaham and Mrs Stanaham, who died in Dorsetshire in 1877 and. 1870 respectively. They both expressed a wish that their bodies should be cremated. The remains wore kept in- the mortuary house until preparations for the process were completed, and on the Bth instant, the'remains, enclosed in substantial coffins were placed in a furnace on plates of iron (sin), and reduced td ashes. A yieuna despatch states that a large number of Qrsini bombs were found in the rooms of Demeter Kagoyso, a companion of Derdante, who proposed jo assassinate the Emperor of Austria during Ins recent vjsit to Trieste,

Herr Tisza, Prime Minister of Hungary, is of opin.on that the anti-Semitic movement may degenerate into one of a socialistic character, and with a view to the settlement of the question, the Government has introduced measures revising usury and trado laws.

Six hundred Jewith families havo left Presburg oil accouut of riots there. A despatch from Paris says 80 Fronchmen, assisted by 1400 laborers are about to commence the construction of ut railway between the Niger aud Sjijegal rivers. Their operations will he protected by » military column, which will plant the French" jjid erect two forts on the Niger, ''" Quite a scandal has been created concerning O'Donovan Ilossa and other Irish agitators in New York, who are charged with embezzling tho Fenians' skirmishing fund. Enough evidence lias been' produced to send the trustees pf the fund to the State 1 prison. ' • ' 1

A ti?ht for a divorce is going on between Scoville (Guiteau'a lawyer) and,his wifo (Guiteau's sister), Scoville's answer and crossbill to the petition of his wife charges her with ijijobaste and unwifely conduct. Flopffsinttj T/wJ reduced hundreds of wealthy to ag the approach of winter'greatly Aggravates the situation.: ■' ' " 1