ENGLISH MAIL SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1486, 12 January 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH MAIL SUMMARY.

Per P.M. s.s. Zealandia, which reached Auckland on Tuesday afternoon, having left San Francisco on the 20th ultimo, and Honolulu on the 27th :—: — At the Sunderland library sale, on the 7th, a Latin Bible, imprint of 1462, brought the enormous sum of £1600. Fierce competition in telegraphic communication with America and India may be looked for from the new company to be launched in London next month. Eleven persons, including a solicitor, have been convicted of bribery in the Macclesfield and Sandwich Pai'liamentary elections, and sentenced to imprisonment for six months. Lord Cowper takes a gloomy view of the situation in Ireland. At a banquet in Belfast he reiterated his intention to retire, and spoke of the deep-seated illfeeling and dissatisfaction in the country. ,-£BO,OOO worth of jewels were stolen from Lord Hill Trevors country seat in North Wales. An extra police force lias been stationed in JDowning-street, to protect Mr Gladstone's residence during his temporary so j urn there. Mr James Barclay, M.P., addressing the farmers at Birmingham, denies that American agricultural competition is ceasing. It has scarcely commenced. Mr Barclay had just returned from the United Stated. On the Western Islands and the west coast of Inverness, Ross, and Sutherland, over 300 fishing boats were destroyed by the late gales, and the nets of the fishermen washed away. Maloney, a wealthy merchant of Ireland, and active member of the Land League, has been arrested on a charge of intimidating tenants from paying rents, and circulating "No Kent " manifestos. Owing to heavy seas> it was found impossible to rescue the men on Calf Rock, who formerly occupied the lighthouse washed away, till Friday, 9th instant. A rope was dropped to them from a signal balloon, and then communication established by means of life rafts. Investigations into the recent catastrophe in Vienna show the number of deaths caused by the burning of the Ring Theatre has been somewhat over-esti-1 mated. The latest returns show the number of persons missing, and believed ' to have perNhed, is 805. i The Bishop of Manchester is in opposition to Moody and Sankey, and said in a sermon that he feared the efiect of . startling excitements passed away as rapidly as produced. Where, he asked, were the tens of thousands who rushed to hear Moody and Sankey at Man. Chester? They must not suppose that becau-e a man could cry "Glory, Hallelujah," he was saved. The practice of killing and maiming the cattle of landlords and rent-paying farmers is largely on the increase in Ireland. Three cows near Fearns, County Cork, were found rippcl open ; and Lord Doneraile discharged all the labourers on his estate, because he was unable to discover who battered an eutire flook of sheep to death. 200 cattle on a grazing farm at Carrowgill were mutilated on the Ist instant. At a recent eviction scene as Berehaven, Ireland, Miss Reynolds, a member of the Ladies Land League, preceded the sheriff, and advised the ppople not to conclude a compromise by whioh they would be reinstated, as in tliat case they would get no aid from the Land League. Her interference was successful. Miss Reynolds Wets afterwards arrested for conspiracy, Much damage had been wrought in Glasgow on the 22nd by a gale. Chimneys and roofs weie destroyed by the wind, and two persons killed. The btonn raged on the west coast of Scotland and in St. George's Channel with great violence. It was very severe in the Enghsh lnl?c districts. On the backs of Frith of Forth stretches of old soa-wall were blown away, between the lnne-kilns and Cult oss, where the breakwater was destroyed. At Oban, the esplanade was wrecked, and at Blackpool the promenade was destroyed. The storm was the fieicest known at those points In thirty ye.ns. In opposition to the pa idencc tendered by the prosecution from experts who had examined Guiteau, the assassin of the late President Garfield, and who declared him to be sane, the counsel for the defence lias brought forward experts who testify that Guitean is smftbring from de« lusions, and is not altogpthei accountable for hia actions, An outrageous scene occurred in Court during the time this evidence was 1 cinq given, owing to the excitement among the spectators. The words in whioh the Prime Minister described the present purpose of Mr Parnell and his adherents (says the Stan - dad) were as forcible as the occasion vermjiod. "They M'ish," he said, "to. march thiwigh rapine tq the disintegiation and dismemberment of the Empire." Mr Gladstone avowed his belief that with this programme the Irish people had no sympathy, and throughout the whole of his speech he repudiated the idea that thg chiefs of the League could be truly spoken of as the leaders of their countrymen. It would havo been bettor if the Government had more emphatically recognised this fact, and had more truly discovered the true drift and ulterior purpose of the League a little earlier. "Our opponents," he said, "arc not the people of Ireland. We arc only endoavoiuing to lelieve them from a tyrannical ,yoko,"

iefroy's Execution. Lefroy, Gold's miirtlerer, va& handed shortly after 9 o'clock ou the morning of November 29. He blepu v«fl the previous night, and was> alien i, on h's way to the scaffold, but hU e\pu':s"ca na. ghastly. The chop fell h.ji > fedi, a.itl death was instantaneous. Too sciicKl was concealed from <speJ.\lo s outs -de by ataipaulin, hung so as to intercept tlie view of those ovei looking iho v.vll o! the gaol. Manvood was the exociilioiicv, and had a scaffold of a new palLtni constructed. It ib dt; signed for the use of a long drop. One of the principal features was that the criminal was not obliged to ascend any steps, but vyalked direafely qn to the platform, where he was on a level with the spectators. Here he stood on a hinged trap, falling downward from the centre, and opened by a lever controlling a belt in front. Underneath was a cavity measuring 12ft. by Bft,, and nearly 25ft, deep, thus giviug a clear fall of over 12 feet, and obviating the danger of t :e cuiiiual's feet touching the ground. Afisi* tie execution, the pit was utilised as an ashbin. There was only a small crowd on the outside of the gaol. Shortly before hanging, Lefroy retraoted the confession of assassination of Lieutenant Roper at Chatham bamcks.

Gladstone on Free Trade. My Gladstone, addressiqgtbe Chamber of Commerceati Leeds,, made the following , remark's, ' showing that his faith in Free Trade principles remains unbounded and unshaken :—": — " One -thing I will say. As long as America adheres to its protective systenvyour commercial primaojr, is secure. 11.,1 1. , No people\in,:'ttie wofld.cant wfest r ,it, from],yottJ,.whiie|Ainerica'4ppn4 t tinuea to fettertiheribwn.ktroiig handji.andl» arms, "and df;Vtl^e^e^tered ( *hwdB>f%n^

free and neutral markets, you are safe as long as America follows the doctrine of protection, or as long as America follows the doctrines now known as those of fair trade, you are perfectly safe, and you need not allow even your lightest slumbers to bo disturbed by the fear that America will take from you your com« mercial primacy."

(For remainder of news see fourth 2Mcje.)