English MaiL News. [PER TELEGRAPH.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1475, 15 December 1881, Page 2

English MaiL News. [PER TELEGRAPH.]

THB'&s.~"City.of New York arrived in Auckland yesterday afternoon, bringing the Knglish mail via San Francisco. Sheleft the last-named port on the 21st ultimo • — '.

General Summary. London, November 20. ,- The Pope and Cardinals hav.e had the: Irish question under consideration. The Berlin Press, covers Cambetta'a Ministry with ridicule and scorn, > Paul Bert's appointment as Minister of Worship as well as Jnstructiqn caused an unfavorable impression. The permanent officials in the Department , of Worship resigned. A faint cQtnet in the constellation Oassiopea has been discovered at the Washington Observatory. A barrel of naptha oil burst on board the steamer Severn at Kingston harbor, and five persona were burnt to ashes., The steamer was nearly destroyed. The ship Relmarden, coal laden from Glasgow to San Francisco, was burned off the coast of Chili. Advices from Panama report a violent storm, which completely destroyed a town. The British ship Alnwick Castle and four Amerioau vessels in port at the time, were driven ashore. The town was levelled to the grouud. Estimated loss : Half million dollars, exclusive of shipping. Levi Lawson hai bought the Duke of Westminster's Chief den estate for £200,000. The British ship Edith Lome was wrecked on Columbia bar when loaded with 23,000 centals of wheat. The crew were saved. The barque Lira, from Hull for San Francisco, has been abandoned at sea. The captain and part of the crew were landed at San Francisco. The lemainder ire missing. Despatches from Berlin state the King did not open Parliament iv person. Bis•narck reid the Emperor's message, and was listened to with icy ooldneas, not one sentence being applauded. All Kinds of rumours vrere iv circulation. It was even reported that the Emperor had abdicated. Landlords, magistrates, tenants, and tradesmen held a large meeting at [ Rosorea, Tipperary, to support Governjneut and for mutual protection against "boycotting." The Turkish navy is being reduced. Two thousand sailors have been dis missed and several ironclads dismantled. An English land company is in negotiation for a large tract in Dakotah territory, 800 miles west of Capitol In a case heard in the Supreme Court, Montreal, the judges decided that Orange societies are illegal under the laws of the State and country. Gladstone has given up the thought of retiring, if he ever entertained it. Pedic, on behalf of the Scotch Liberals, will introduce a bill next session for the disestablishment of the Scotch Church. The Canadian Government are using tremendous efforts to induce English settlers to go to the north-west. The Marquis of Lome delivered a series of lectures on the subject. Gladstone, replying to an address congratulating the country that no fewer than 30,000 application forms tinder the Land Act had been issued, said he anticiiwted the future peace and prosperity of Ireland. Secretary Forster walks through the streets of Dublin unattended, and apparently without fear for hia personal safety. The steamer Clan Macduff foundered off the Welsh coast, and 40 persons were lost. Novoremga criticises bitterly the American salute of the British flag at Yorktown, aud refuses to believe it the token of amity. The winnings of the American horses in England and France this year amount to £30,000. It is rumoured in London clubs that Government intend to sell Gibraltar. The movement for the English land reform is represented as a movement without any conspicuous leader. Lord Hartington's speech extinguished all hopes expressed in some quarters that he would become the champion of the farmer's alliance. Owing to the energetic action, the Irish policy of the Government has gained strength throughout the country. English views on American policy re Panama Canal, have much modified. It is contended that the United States has quite as much right to control the canal as England has to control Government of Egypt because the Suez Canal is the direct road to India. Chief Justice Coleridge in summing up in Lefroy'a case was strongly against the prisoner, and discredited the point on which the defence relief, viz., that Lefroy Kad not pawned the pistol. He showed entire disbelief in prisoner's assertion that a third persjn was \m the carriage at the time of the murder. An influential meeting 1 of the Central 'hamber of Agriculture held in London rejected the motion in favor of " fair r,rade." A terrible typhoon has occurred in Western Tonquin. One hundred churches, 34 paraonagea and 2000 houses were destroyed, and 6000 Christians^re juined and without resources. ! Advices from Cape Coast Castle report : that the King of Ashantee killed 200, ! young girls for the purpose of using their blood to mix mortar for the repairu of one I of the state buildings. A determined effort in being made by the Radicals to drive the Duke of Cam- ! oridge from the post of Comraander-in-Cbief on account of his resistance to the changes made by Mr Childera in the army system. The Pall Mall Gazette violently attacks the Duke's appointment of Sir U-arnet Wolsely to be AdjutantGeneral, which is intended as a decisive blow at the Duke's influence. The Princess Beatrice has given £1000 out of the proceeds of the sale of her Christmas book for the support of the Belarrave hospital for children. Forty persons were killed by an explosion of gas in s sulphur mine in Italy. Mr Keane, the owner of the American racer Foxhall, offers to match that horse against Bond Or for £10,000. Messrs Wood and Card, manufacturers, Bradford, hare failed for £150,000.' The new Cunarder Servia, steamed 20J miles an hoar on the trial trip with 2500 tons detid weight on board. ' Stoker, the leader of Anti-SemeHc -novementH, was defeated in the elections. The Frankfort police have seized all bill* giving information to iatenJdiuy emigrants.

American, San Fbanoisco, Nbve ber 21. A hundred and fifty Jews, driven from Russia and Germany, arrived on the 15th, mostly strong hardy agriculturists; The Bath concerts were a partial failure, owing to the high prices and bad management. Patti superseded her Paris manager by an Americtn. Guiteau's trial excites great interest throughout the, country. The, prisoner has made several angry attacks on his counsel, and his general behaviour jgives impression that' he is acting so as to strengthen thb jjlea of insanity. "*' The,' conviction" 1 is 'grbwmg.that'Guifceaa maty ': escape tUrougE legal teobjttQalfties,' *toci

'Consequently there is a daily increasing 'crowd around th£ v <k>uftrhouse and gaol, 'and the prisoner is hailed with yells of derision and imprecation*.' ; Many, in crowd are armed. ,< Ghtftean -it thoroughly . frightened, and bounds ;into, the. *pnsoa van as though ipursued.^ ..I-- mf** ..'or i i < Tbe lfational;T«i,riffi6oa¥eiitioafl^N«w^ 'York is attended by ttiore.th*n,'4so dele* jgates, representativesoH,OOo,ooo doUan ■■ icapitaLinvestedinimatiufacture^h -- .< - 1 | „ Experiments '• vrith /Eh^ak*)l»'flotpifpedo ~ Isoat have bgen eminently soccetisf oL' > ■ : , A . miUJQiv . dftllarai, .worth ,of _ property . was lost by floods in theWestentStatwn * ,The province of . Ontario,; 'Gaoada;; lost during the pastf season r<ten(. to -'fifteen ~ million dollars, by iorestJSres. ,u, b acu.:.: The Garfield iund has reached 661,tX)0 doSars. .' f—t-? > < _u - ' Another half-lunatic has been captured " at the White House, Washington, with a ' revolver, evidently -intending Cto shoot someone. ,•, •- ", ■< The anti-Sunday HqudriJaw in being rigidly enforced in San Francisco. The U.S. steamer Rodger ha* returned. , after an unsuccessful search for the Aretio explorers in the yacht vje»nette,' i She circumnavigated WrangelLand and found it an island, r f -, ,u »' i., ,' •♦ ,- / About 5000 lives were lost by the fioodi in Spanish Honduras. The damage 'to the ., railroad amounts to twotmiUioß« dollars. v •