ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. CITY OF NEW YORK WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1427, 25 August 1881, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. CITY OF NEW YORK WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

The P. M.S. City of New York, arrived in Auckland afc 2 o'clock yesterday morning, with English news up to 30th July :—: — General Summary. The Standard (London) reprints from the Irish- American papers, published in New York, a column and a half of extracts in praise of outrages against England. The article is headed "Science of Dynamite," and is prefaced : " WhateTer the Government of the United States may think on, the subject, the leaders of the Irish agitation in America regard themselves in a state of declared war against England." The contributions to the Irish Land League from America have fallen off so materially that Sexton, the president, suggests that Irish farmers be asked to subscribe a portion of their abatement. Eight hundred inhabitants of Northampton have petitioned that Mr Bradlaugh be not admitted to Parliament. In the House of Commons, on the sth, Mr. Gladstone announced that Government had abandoned the Bills for dealing in corrupt practices; for amending the Ballot Act, and for regulating the Irish, r-ounty government, but hoped to pass a Bankruptcy Bill. The Queen reviewed 50,000 troops afc Windsor on July 6, the largest review ever held there. The Duke of Cambridge commanded, and the Prince of Wales marched at the head of the^fionouraile Artillery Company of London. The Duke of Connaught commanded a division of the Second Army Corps!, There were 10,000 spectators present. The Labouchere Censure Resolution against the Prince of Bulgaria was nofc permitted to be put in the Commons. Sir Evelyn Wood is to be raised to the peerage for services in the Transvaal. In, the race, July 14^ the lharaes Challenge Cup was won by the London Crew ; Thames crew, 2nd; Cornell (American College), 3rd. The race was won by 3 lengths, with a length between the Thames and Cornell boats. ' .The., Orange, anniversary, passed off quietly in Ireland. A steamer has arrived in, the 'Thames from the Clyde, steered by an electrio

apparatus, The' steering gear worked well, but the compasses were so affected by the electricity as to be useless. In an interview with the Inspector of Police, Mr Bradlaugh said he could not prevent a mob assembling at Westminster on th"c 3rd of August, when he makes a final demand for his seat. On that day the pubjho will be excluded from the Palacft^ard. Patrick Talfourd Hickie, 18 years of age, an Irishman, has been arrested and arraigned at Bow-street, for threatening 1 the life of Chief-Secretary Porster. The shooting match between a team of six Canadians and a team of six British riflemen at Wimbledon on July 23, resulted as follows ;—BOO; — 800 yards : England, 424 ; Canada, 406. 900 yards : England, 415; Canada, 352. 1000 yards : England, 383 ; Canada, 347. Total : England, 1222; Canada, 1105. O'Connor, secretary of the Cork Branch of the Land League, has been arrested under the Coercion Act. A telegram from Washington to Earl Granville informs him that the American authorities are exercising an active watch, and will send to London all necessary information of the intrigues of the Irish- Americans. A vast amount of property has been destroyed in England by storms In Lancashire, fifty mills had stopped. The London Board of Tratte returns show that the value of imports has decreased £6,500,000, as compared with June of last year. The exports have increased £342,000. Dean Stanley was stricken with erysipelas on the 18th, and the disease spread vapidly. Canon Farrar administered the Sacrament. The Dean died on the 10th. The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived in time for a few parting words. Cannons Farrar and Jones, and the Dean's sister, were at the bedside. His last audible words were: "I have laboured amidst many frailties and much weakness to make Westminister Abbey a great centre of religious life, in a truly liberal spirit." Cialdmi, the Italian Minister, has left Paris. No successor, it is said, will be appointed. Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has been expelled from French terntoiy, charged that he was intriguing against the Republic, which he denies. Spanish hostility towards France is very bitter, and in the Madrid cafes the probability of war is openly discussed, and the coming elections are comparatively ignomed. France is making treaties in Senegal for the exclusive right to found stations and open roads to the Niger. Segoo is. to be placed under a French protectorate, and a French resident is to be stationed there. It is intended to build a railway up the valley of the Senegal towards Biamakoo, on the Niger, in older to establish communications with the Upper Soudan. The great landslip near Segmwell, Lanton, Berne, is steadily moving tow .u ds Lake Thurm. It makes three nu'ties daily. The course is three miles v ide. and of unknown depth. The cities ,ue out of clanger, but farm-houses are debited. A teirific stoim has passed over Lake Geneva. The vines* and wops in the vicinity suffered immense damage fLom "large hailstones. A paity of Americans recently travelling from Paso del Noite to Chihuahua, Mexico, made the appalling discovery of thirteen dead bodies, all Americans, and a portion of a surveying expedition of the Mexican Central Railroad. They had been murdered by the Apaches. The reported Tichborne claimant's daughter, Jennie Ogden Ferris, writes to the iVt'H 1 Yo/L&ta) th.it her father ia playing a game of deception on the Califoinian people, and that he admitted to hci in Biooklyn, N.Y., he intended to peisoiute the lost Sir Roger. John Buuiriide, onpinally a poor Irish immigrant, died in New Orleans ou the 12th July worth 5,000,000 dollars. He was the lorgefat sugar planter in the Southern Stateß. Gertrude Blood, (laughter of the notorious Victoria C. Woodhull, the free love and women's right advocate, is reported to have married Lord Colin Campbell, brother of the Governor-General of Canada. The Orange anniversary, July 12, was celebrated in the United States and Canada without disturbance. Biush, of Cleveland, the electric litfht inventor, has announced a .solution of the problem of scoring electricity, so that it cim.be carried from place to place and tleliveicd like coal, oil, and gasoline ; it can bo placed on wuggonp, btreet cars, &<;., and used to propel them. Details irepiomised. Sitting Bull has finally surrendered to the United States authorities, and arrived with all his tribe at Fort Buford. Jldison is preparing to light a district I in Hew York by electncity. Houses will probably be lighted by October Ist. The editor the Tune*, Little Rock, Arkansas, has been assassinated. The course of his paper did not please certain outlaws. Mr Bradlaugh's Liberal friends are dishatisfied with his course. It is now b.iid that if he attempts the assertion of hia npbt to a seat in the House, he will be arrested and conveyed to the nearest prison cell, instead of the more comfortable Clock Tower quarters. C mada shows a population increase in 10 years of 080,198. The police of Liverpool have taken no less than twelve clockworka for infernal machines, fixed with dynamite, from steamers arriving from America, six fioni the Malta and six from the Batavia. They were put up in barrels invoiced to contain cement. One of the machines has bpon forwarded to Sir William Harcouit. The Alento, natives of the seal islands of Alaska, are dyinjr in numbers from an epidemic of typhoid-puuemonia. A collection of American histories, including Virginia Colonial records and autograph letters of Washington, was cold by auction in London lecently for £2215. Quarititche, a noted bookseller was the purchaser. An immense aerolite fell at San Francisco on the 30th instant. It struck the waters of the bay in the vicinity of Goat Island. O'Donovan, connected with the Fenian movement some fifteen yearg ago, and now a prisoner at Merv, ia writing letters from that place to the London Daily News that attract a great deal of attention. He is a son of Dr. O'Donovan the famous Celtic scholar, and, ainco his banishment, hits been a soldier of fortune. The Commons, by 314 to 205, voted down Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's vote of censure of the Government for its course on the Transvaal. Noareplf h& 9 y e *> been mado by the United States Government in regard to the incitement to outrages by the American Press. Nathan Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court died on July 25fch» He ■was the oldest Judge on the Supreme Bench, having been bom in 1803. Another comet hag made its appearance in the west. It iB labelled by astronomers "Comet C," being the third this year. It is reported from London that the well-known Victoria Woodhull is about to marry a rich banker; and that Baroness Burdett-Coutts, as well as the prima donna, Mdlle. Albani, will soon be under the necessity of retiring for a short time from public life. • At the, wo^Nvood races, ou July $9,

the Molocombe stakes were won by Andrastes ; Baliol, 2 ; Keene's Forget-Me-Not, 3; the Chesterfield Cup, by Victor Emanuel ; the Hassaur Stakes, by Thebais. Dean Stanley was buried in "Westminster Abbey on July 25. The Prince of Wales was present at the funeral, and other members of the Royal Family were represented. Matthew Arnold, the Right Rev. William Perry Smith, the Bishop of Exeter, the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, and the Duke of Westminster were among the pall-bearers. Professors Huxley and Tyndall, Rev. Dr. Newman Hall, Cardinal Newman, Cardinal Manning, Lord Shaftesbury, the Bishops of Tennessee, Peterborough, St. Alban, and Gloucester, and other prominent clergymen were at the side of the grave ; also the Dukes of Argyll and Richmond, the Marquis of Salisbury, Lords Derby, Aberdeen, and Sherbrooke, Hon. Mr j Gladstone, Sir Stafford Northcote, Sir R. Assheton Cross, Sir Bartle Frere, Sir Robert Creighton, and Baroness BurdettCoutts. Further steps regarding the murder of Captain Elliott, and Magistrate Malcolm, in the Transvaal, will not be taken. The total number of petitions presented in the Houhe of Commons, praying the Hou&e to reject any change in the law which may be proposed for admitting an atheist into Parliament, is 1362 with 230,595 signatures, and the number praying for the retention of the law is 673 with 15,541 signatures. True bills have been found against McGrath and MoKevitt, who were ariested for trying to blow up Liveipool Townliall. The Land Bill finally passed the House of Commons on the 29th inst. Parnell's amendment, adding to clause 44 a proviso that action for rent pending at the same time as an application for fixing judicial rent, shall be suspended until the latter is determined, was accepted. A majority of Conservatives, and some Pamellites, including Parnell himself, abstained from voting on the Bill ; also Goschen, Heneage, and some other Liberals. The movement of troops through France towards Tunis continues steadily. Ten thousand soldiers en route had arrived at Paris in eight days. New from Tunis and Algeria is very conflicting. Some reports represent that quiet is returning and others speaks of new outbreaks actual or intended. The telegraph f i om Medina, on July 25, announced fifteen French ships bombarding Mabes. The Foreign Secretary has issued a notification that, in future, no moie bri-gand-captured British subjects will be lansomedby the Government The Chinese students, numbering 100, are to be withdrawn from America, and sent for education to France, England, and Germany. The County Cork farmers and agricultural laboureis have come to terms. The potato crop throughout the country promises to be good and plentiful. The American team won the Albert jewel, at Wimbledon, on July 21. The United States has declined to join in the proposed general representation on the subject of tho treatment of Jews in Russia, on the ground that it has already instructed its Minister to Russia on the subject. The Czar will shortly leave for Moscow, and, as a precautionary measure, troops have been stationed all along the line. Four hundred police act as an escort. Just now there is a mania for killing officials in the United States. Both Governor Pill&bury, Minnesota, <md Governor Cornell, of Now York, have had narrow escapes faom murderous lunatics. The German Government has warned the Czar of a plot in his household to assassinate him. The C^sar will paBS the winter at Gatschina. The infernal machines shipped to England from America have created quite a scare there, and almost equal excitement ni the United States. The Secretary of the Treasuiy has addressed a communication to the collectors of New York and Boston, with instructions to use every means to find out the name of the conbigner of the deadly packages. The representatives of the steamship companies are especially agitated over the affair, and have deprived O'Donovan Rossa of a sub -agency he held in the Allan line. The editor of the National Democrat, Pcoria, Illinois, states that tho infernal machines were made in that city, and gives the names of the street, besides a reporter of the paper had been invited to an exhibition of the machine's destructive power. The Now York Tribune, referring to the matter, says :—"lf: — "If the Americanauthoiities do their duty, tho Irish revolutionists will not be long able to plan their hellish schemes in America.