NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1522, 6 April 1882, Page 3

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Don Carlos has abdicated his claim to the Spanish throne in favour of his infant son. The Chinese Bill, limiting Coolie iaimigration to the United States, passed the Senate on the 9th— 29 to 15. The editor of the Xeo Logos, of Constantinople, was killed by a Greek mob on the' loth, and his office sacked. He had charged the Fatriachate with misapplying money raised for educational purposes. Warre and Brothers, wine merchants, of London, have failed for £120,000. The peaceful cession of Thessaly was celebrated on the 4th inst at Will's Rooms. Lord Roseberry was in the chair. Father Hugh Gallagher, a Roman Catholic priest of great influence, both in the church and in local politics, died in San Francisco on the 10th March. The chief of the section of the revolutionary party, known as the parti twir, has fallen into the hands of the St. Petesburgh police. Foreign correspondents in St. Peterburgh are now refused telegraphic communication witli the papers they represent. An inquiry is now going on as to how the report of the Nihilist trials was obtained for outside journals. A party of Americans, travelling from Brussels to Paris, on the sth, were brutally abused by the Custom-house officers, at the frontier station of Feignias. One lady was roughly dragged out of the sleeping car without bonnet or cloak, and exposed to the rough jests of the douaniers. When the male portion of the party resisted the violence done them, the gendarmes were called to the assistance of the officials. Three of the travellers were ariested, and sentenced to pay a fine of 500 francs each, with police surveillance for eight months. The cause of all the trouble was, apparently, that when the Americans were awakened to have their luggage examined, they did not respond with •ufficient alacrity. It is now discovered that General Grant is not the weathy man he was represented to be. The fund of 250,000d01. collected for him by Jones of the New York Timea, and others, has been dissipated by bad investments. Therefore the bill to restore him to his army rank is a sort of public charity, as he needs the pay to live upon. It is possible that Jones would be held responsible for the money entrusted to him ; but Grant considers the matter too delicate to press. An exciting sceue occurred in the San Francisco Police Court on the 26th ult. A policeman named Maroney, who was detailed to get evidence against a rich man, charged with an indecent crime, was so badgered and insulted by defenddant's attorney, I). J. Murphy, that lie drew a pistol and shot the lawyer in the neck, and immediately afterwards attempted suicide. Moroney is an Australian by birth, and is held in good estimation by the chief of the force. The Mormon young unmarried women have sent a long petition to Congress, numerously signed, asking that Government let them and their religion alone. In this petition the signers bay : '' We, the young ladies of Utah ten itory, do most solemnly and truthfully declare that neither we nor our mothers are held in bondage, but that we enjoy the greatest possible freedom, socially and religiously ; that our homes are happy ones, and that we are neither low nor degraded, for the principles of purity, virtue, integrity and loyalty to the Government of the United States have been instilled into our minds and hearts since our earliest childhood." The married women also send a petition to the effect that they are happy in their homes, satisfied with their marriage and relations, and desire no change. A memorial from Mormon citizens generally declares that the object of the present antagonistic movement from the outside is "persecution and robbery of the inhabitants of Utah, the utter ruin of her bright prospects, and ultimate anarchy and slavery under the plea of suppressing polygamy."