ENGLISH MAIL SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1511, 11 March 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH MAIL SUMMARY.

The following is a genoral summary of news received by the E.M. s.s. Australia, which arrived in Auckland on Thursday ;—; — Active war preparations are going on in Austria. Regiments inarching south paaa through Vienna daily, and soldiers are paid the same as in time of actual war. The Novo Vrcmya (Russian) says the Jewish question is an internal one, and no foreign inferference will be permitted. Tha Sultan has determined to proclaim the d»*nfall of the Bey of Tunis and his dynasfcry, and will place AH Ben Khalifa, leader of the insurgents, in his stead. A conspiracy in Nepaul, against the Prime Minister, resulted in the execution of 21 military officers. The Porte has informed the Ambassadors that Turkey rejects the arrangement of the Greek frontier, as settled by the Commission. The Pap.\l Nuncio at Madrid, has advised the Spanish Government to prohibit the proposed pilgrimage to Rome, on account of the difficulties connected therewith. The St. Gothard Tunnel Railway will be opened on July Ist. It is rumoured that the British Naval attache at Washington is to be recalled, and no successor appointed. General Garibaldi is lying helplessly ill at Naples. The Earl of Lonsdale is dead. Tobin, the Fenian, on trial at Leeds, has been sentenced to seven years penal servitude. ! There is an important uprising in j Herzegovina, which Austria is making I stupendous efforts to crush. A contract has been signed with the Austiian Lloyds j to transport 30,000 men to South Dalmatain points, and nine large steameis are continually employed. Calling out the Dalmatian Landwchr has been postponed on account of their known disaffection. Several sharp engagements had taken place, with losses on both sides, and the rebels have been reinforced by desertions from Dalmatian regiments. The Egyptian crisis is becoming daily more acute. A Liberal paper defines it as really a struggle between the Comp-troller-General, backed by England and France, and the Nationalist paity, supported by the .Sultan, with Germany and Austria in the background. LobanofF, Russian Ambassador in London, declined to send the RussoJewish memorial to the Czar, piotesting against the outrages. It was signed by N. Rothschild, as secietary of the committee. The Loid Lieutenant of Ti eland has refused to allow the pi esentation of the freedom of the city of Dublin to Mr Parnell. The returning pilgrims fiom Allahabad Fair, India, are scattering the cholera in oveiy direction. The Russian Government contemplates the annexation of Coiea, on thegiound of the insecurity of Russian possessions in the Pacific, and the wailikc disposition of China, Japan favour* the plan. John Dillon has wiitten the following letter to Secietary Jb'oister ; — "Dublin, February 1. — I have received your message, that if I desii cto go to the Continent the gates of Kilmainham prison are open to me. I do not know why the message \vas sent to me, as I have made no communication to you. If any rcpiesentations ha\ c been made by my friends, they aie without my consent and knowledge. I must request that you will not address to me any fuithcr communications." A ticaty, piolonging the existing Anglo-French Commercial Treaty till March 1, has been signed by Loid Lyons and De F) eycinet. H. B. Hotohkiys, the Ameiican inventor of revolving cannon, has received the Legion of Honour fiom the Fieneh Government. The Danish Government has also conferred on him the Cross of Denmark.