ENGLISH MAIL SUMMARY. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1545, 30 May 1882, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL SUMMARY. [BY TELEGRAPH. — OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Auckland, Last Night.

The following is a summary of news received by the English mail steamer to-night :—: — The City of Sydney was detained at San Francisco till the 6th, owing to the non-arrival of the English mails :—: — Scoville has withdrawn from the Giuteau case, because his client, in his opinion, did not receive fair judicial treatment. Epping Forest has been dedicated to the lull use of the public. A million persons were present at the opening ceremony. Asiatic plague has broken out ia Persian Hindostan. The Indian army has been reduced to 31 regiments of cavalry and 113 regiments of infautry. The Corporation of Marseilles have sued the Empress Eugene for the recovery of the chateau they presented her with under the Empire. The Mayor thinks the chateau belongs to the town. No interest was excited in McLeans case which soon settled clown, before the Crown Solicitor's admitted prisoner's insanity. The defence stated that McLean had homicidal mania —and it could be proved ho had been confined in an asylum. A verdict of not guilty was returned on the giound of insanity. V Dr. Darwin had suffered some tim^ before death from weakness of the heart, but it was believed he was in a fair way towaids recovery. He was fully conscious till the la&t quarter of an hour. About 3592 persons were evicted in Irelaud during the first quarter of 1882. Mr Smythe, M. P. for Tipperary, violently denounced the Land League in the House in answer to a vote of censure passed on him by the priests of Tipperary for not supporting that organisation. The Princess Theatre at Portsmouth was burned on the 23th. Twenty-three persons were killed in an explosion in the Blackhouse Colliery, Sunderlancl. April 10. Engineer Melville, of the ill-fated Arctic exploring vessel Jeanette, who had been searching for Commander De Long and his party, telegraphed to the Navy Chamber from Lena river delta that he found De Long's party dead. He also tound all the papers and books. No hope is entertained of the rescue of Chipps party. Danmen, however, a survivor of the Jeanette, reached St Petersburg!! from Trkustk, threatened with the complete loss of his eyesight. The yacht Kara, owned by Sir Henry Gore, is preparing to go to the Polar regions to render assistance to Sir Leigh Smith's search expedition. The Cotters of the Isle of Skye have become defiant, and have refused to pay rents. Fifty policemen have been sent theie from Glasgow. Mr Bi ad laugh complained in the House of the existence of slavery in Hong Kong, on the Gold Coast, and in the Malay ■States of Borneo. He said the slave market at Hong Kong supplied women to California, Australia, and China. The Under-Secretary denied that the British officials sanctioned slavery. Sir Allen Young has chartered a steamer to go after the South Artie expedition. Gookin defeated Budear in the sculling race on the Thames river.