NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL. General Summary.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1557, 27 June 1882, Page 3

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL. General Summary.

Fuom files received by the P.M.S. Australia, we take the following i'ems: — The Jeannotte survivors, Lieutenant Danncnhower, Dr. Newcomb, Jack Cole, ami tlie Chinese Tom Sing, arrived in Now York by the steamship Celtic, May 28. There were aitecting scenes between the returned explorers and their relatives and friends. Damienhower is almost blind, and Cole has been crazed by his suffeiing, He was in a straightjacket. Newcomb and the Chinese appear to have come through the fearful ordeal imharnied. Both the Lieutenant and the Doctor defend Engineer Melville against the charges preferred. Among the visitors was Mrs De Long, widow of the lost commander. She was almost overcome by her emotion, and Dannenhower was scarcely less affected. A public reception was given the party at the American Geographical Rooms on the 30th. Captain Burton and Commander Cameron bring to England such accounts from tne Gold Coast of Africa, that geographical and scientific circles are interested. They report the presence of gold in such quantities that Western Africa must repeat the auriferoul histoiy of Australia and California. One of the most destructiva cyclones on record occurred near McAllister, Indian Territory, May 10. One hundred and twenty persons were killed, and numbers more or less injured. All the buildings were levelled, and railroad trains blown off the track. By a recent bulletin from the Census Bureau, the population of the United States is set down at 50,103,750 ; total area of country, 2,970,000 square miles ; total number of families, 9,945,916 ; total number of dwellings, 8,955,812; number of persons to a square mile, seventeen and twenty-nine one Jumdredths. The " Irish Republican Brotherhood," of Dublin, has issued a proclamation which, in effect, calls upon " all our brethren in America, particularly advanced Nationalists, to aid by every means in their power those who have carried out this execution (Cavendish and Burkes assassination), and we hereby further declare they deserve well of their country." Michael Davitt telegiaphs that he expects a sacrifice will be demanded to satisfy the vengeance ef Irish landlordism, and that he has private information he himself will be the sacrifice selected. In the suit bi ought by the Municipality of Marseilles to recover a chateau given the ex-Empress of France during her Regency, the verdict was in favour of Eugenie, and the Municipality was saddled with the costs of the action as well. It is stated that a mairiage has been arranged between Princess Beatrice and Lord Frederick William, eldest son of the Landgrave Hesse. The Stanley Memorial Fund amounted to £5200 on the loth ult., including £1100 contributions to the American windowThe speedy return to America of the survivors of the Bennet Jeaunette Arctic Expedition prevented the Royal Geographical Society entertaining them. Two associates of the .society, Colonel Grant and Sir Henry Gore, are about to undertake a voyage to the edge of the ice in search cf the Leigh Smith Arctic Expedition. Tlio Norwegian walrus hunters will be asked to look out for the boats of the missing Elva. Brennan, secretary of the Land League, made a speech in Kilkenny on the '3rd, in which he attacked Messis Bright, Gladstone, and Chambei lain -\\ith gieat acrimony, and assorted that Michael Davitt was the mil mler of Irelaud. In addition to mutilating the Jews at Odessa, the Russians tortuie them by pouring petroleum into their wounds. 125 were .so served, and arc now in the hospital. 'Die Russian Pi ess has been ordered not to leport the massacres of the Jews, and not to discuss the question. Imorgoni, between Vilna and Minsk, was burned on the 23rd ult. It is reported the populace burned children and pioperty placed for safety in the Jewish cemetery. The land agitation in the Ible of Skye is again assuming a serious aspect. The pool house of the town of Pesthammer, Sweden, has been burned. Twenty persons perished. A great Canadian colonisation scheme has been announced by the transfer to the Duke of Manchester and associates of 11,000,000 acres of land belonging to the Canada Paah'e Railroad Company. At the port of New York, the United States marshal, assisted by a number of deputies, lias been on constant watch, boarding incoming ships fioin (iieatßiitain, in search for the Cnendish-Buike assassins, who were supposed to have escaped to America. A subscription, started in Dcs Moines, Indiana, " for information leading to the arrest of the Irish landlords \\ ho hiied the murdciers of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke in Phoenix Paik, Dublin," had reached 2300 dollars. The latesb Arctic exploration scheme has been ventilated by a man named Palmarts, in Washington. He is a member of the Belgium Geographical Society, and is now on a visit to the United States. He has devoted much time to Arctic study, and proposes to explore the Polar regions in a cigar-shaped steel vessel, running under water, and obtaining oxygen by aqueous decomposition. Palmarts says the experiments he has made develope the practicability of the scheme. He proposes a sixty days' voyage north of Spitsbergen. A man named Davison, who anived at St. Petersburgh on the 28th from Stockholm, was ai rested on suspicion of being one of the Phamix Park assassins^ He was recognised by a scar on his left cheek. William Hanna, of London, an eminent Presbyterian divine, and Edmund Hoefer, German writer, d'ed on the 24th. Three hundred and twenty Herefordshire farmers had left England for Canada. Albert Young, indicted for writing a letter threatening the life of the Queen has been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. . The Tribunal of Commerce, Paris, have delivered judgment in the case of the Union Geueraie Bank. The last issue of shares is declared to be illegal, and the Bourse sales thereof are annulled. The unpaid iustalments on old shares are ordered to be called up at a rate of 250 francs per share. Jean Gustave Walton, the French philosopher, is dead. The English Postal Department has declined the use of telephones. Lawrence Oliphaut's arrival in Bacharest has been hailed with delight by the Jews of that city. There is no feeling (according to the World's London cable) in favour of emigration to America, but a very strong desire is manifested to return to the Holy Land. It is Oliphant's mission to promote the Palestine movement, and he is regarded in Buckarest as a second Moses. Cheering crowds surround him whenever he shows himself in public. . At the statutory meeting, on May 12, of the New Zealand Grain Angency and Mercantile Company (Limited), Mr C. T. JUtchie, M.V., the Chairman, said that

the applications for shares had been of a most satisfactory character ; tlTe number applied for in tlie United Kingdom being 42,374, while the number available for allotment was only 33,334. In New Zealand the total number of shares reserved for the colony was 16,666, while the applications amounted to 39,599. He mentioned tliat the statements held out in the prospectus as to the earnings of the businesses the company had taken over had,froinsubaequentinvestigation,beenfar more than verified. With reference to the question of debentures, he stated that they were to be issued, bearing interest at 5 per cent, per annum, and that they were to be secured by mortgage on freehold and leasehold property, aud also by the unpnid-up capital of the company. He likewise stated that the debenture money would be invested under the supervision of the Advising Board, and be kept entuely apart from the ordinary mercantile transactions of the company. The new Bill for the repression of crime in Ireland, introduced by Sir Vernon Harcourt on the 11th, provides for special tribunals, consisting of those Judges, to be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant, to try cases without jury. The judgment of the Court must be unanimous. Appeal can be made to the Snpieme Court ; the judgment of the latter is to be given by a majoiity of the Judges. The Supreme Court may dimmish, but cannot increase the severity of sentences, and Parliament Mill be as> ed to provide special remuneration for special Judges. The Bill also gives power to search for secret apparatus of minder, such as aims, threatening letters, &c. ; power to enter houses by day and night under -warrant of Loid Lieutenant ; power to arrest persons prowling about at night and unable to give account of themselves, who are to be dealt with summarily ; power to arrest strangers, as crimes are generally committed by toieign emmissarics, the hospitality of England not being for such persons as O'Donovan Rossa ; and power to remove foreigners considered dangeious to the peaoe ot the Government, the Alien Act will be revived ; societies will be dealt with summarily, and members ship thereof- will constitute an offence ; cases of aggravated assault will be treated in a summary manner, unlawful meetings will be repressed, and seditious and inflammatory newspapers suppressed.