ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1581, 22 August 1882, Page 3

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

The following general summary of news io up ttt the 30th «lt. :— ' 1 Benjamin Webster, the London actor, antf Hab'lot Knight Browne . (" Phiz ") illustrator of Dickens' novels, died on ttft^th'Jnly. • ••• '! • ■ •> Thirty persons were killed by a railway collision at Cork on the Bth. 1 The report of Mr Lowell's resignation of the English Ministry is denied. The "Athenaeum " announces the.publication of various letters and papers relating' to Byron, including the letter from Lady Byron to Augusta Leigh, showing how highly she esteemed her, and disposing finally of Mrs Harriet Bfeecher Stowe's article, published in the "Atlantic Monthly" in September, 1869. The Dutch ironclad, Adder, was lost off the coast of Holland on the 9th July, with all on board. Several bodies have been washed nshoie. The Adder was a steamer of 400 'horse-power. Nine thousand copies of a revolutionary proclamation, signed by Nicholas Constantinovich, cousin of the Emperor, having been discovered at the Ministry of Marina, St. 'Petersburg, the director of that department committed suicide. Charles JDawson, M.P., has been reelected Mayor of Dublin. iifeltft iJfc*sfta§Binate Cardinal McCabe ■hag lpeen discovered. C. Muller, one of the largest iron and steel merchants at Middlesborongh, England, ,haa failed. Liabilities are £150,000; A gas explosion at the Municipal Palace, on the night of the 12th, involved considerable loss of life. Prepara- ' tions were being made at the time for celebrating the national fete, the fall of the Bastile. A train with 217 persons on board ran off the rails between Echirnio and Bastiljeur, Russia, on the 12th, and 178 were killed. Egan, treasurer of the Irish Land League, believes Davitt's scheme of land nationalisation is the only scientific settlement of Ireland's troubles, but at the same time thinks Davitt's speech is premature ; the nationalisation of land in Ireland must be preceded by the obtaining of an Irish Parliament. The rifle contest at Wimbledon for the Kolapore Cup was won, on the 20th, by the Home team— score, 536. The Canadian score was 520. The Elcho shield was won by the English team. The score : England, 1556 ; Ireland, 1505 ; Scotland, 1495. John Bright intends to visit the "United States during the recess of Parliament. The Home Xews has the following:— The New Zealand Land Company was formed in 1880 for the purpose of acquiring land in New Zealand. An agreement was entered into for the acquisition of a large tract of land, but upon one of the directors going out to inspect it he discovered that it consisted to a very large extent of swamp and impenetrable bush, and was totally useless for the purpose of colonisation. A petition has been presented by a shareholder in the Court of Chancery to have the company wound up. After the presentation of the petition a resolution was passed for the voluntary winding-up of the company. Mr C. H. Palmer, for the petitioner, now asked that the voluntary winding-up might be continued under the supervision of the Court. Mr Justice Kay made the usual order. No successor to Mr Bright has yet been appointed. It is said Mr Gladstone's intention is to make no addition to the Cabinet till the iccess, when he hopes himself to resign the Chancellorship of the Exchequer. It is reported from Vienna that the Russian steamer Moscow was sunk by a boiler explosion, July, 24th, and 200 men lost. Three hundred houses and some large warehouses were destroyed by fire at Radosli Kositchi, Rus&ia, and 3000 people are homeless. The municipality of Marseilles will apply for a new trial in the case of the Corporation against the Empress Eugenie to recover control of a chateau given the Empress dining the reign of Napoleon 111. Judgment has once been given against the Mayor in this case. Lord Northbrook has expressed his sense of the excellent manner in which the gunboat Condor, Lord Charles Beresford, was handled at the bombardment of Alexandi ia. Beresford is to receive special recognition. A slight Fenian scare was felt afc Windsor Castle on the 23rd, when all the keys from the most important locks were found missing. Over 800 new locks for the entiie building were immediately ordered. The British harvest piospects are pro nouueed at last advices better than supposed. Everything now depends on the weathci. Arabi Pasha wrote the following letter to Mr Gladstone a few days before the bombardment, but the latter did not receive it until after Admiral Seymour had done his work :—": — " The Koran commands us to resist if war is waged against us, hence England may rest assured the first gun she fires against Egypt will absolve Egyptians from all treaties, their control will cease, the property of all Europeans will be confiscated, tho canals destroyed, and ' Jehad ' will be preached in Syria, Arabia, and India. The first blow with which England strikes Egypt will cause blood to flow through all Asia and Africa, the responsibility for which will be on the head of England. Egypt is ready to be a fast friend of England, and to keep her road to India ; but she must keep within the limits of her jurisdiction. Finally, England may rest assured that we are determined to die for our country." A desperate, but unsuccessful attempt was made on July 28 to assassinate the Recorder of Dublin at the Green-street Court-house, by a tutor named Fitzpatrick, nonsuited as plaintiff on a civil bill. The Recorder was shot at in open Court. A letter received from Sir Allan Young, dated Parsanger Fiord, July 11, engaged in the Eira search, says that the members of the expedition are all well. The Times thinks the address of the Canadian Parliament to the Queen in favor of Home Rule in Ireland, amounts to a vote of censure on the Government, and encouragement to its avowed enemies. A son of one of the Russian Consuls in Roumania has been arrested for supplying the Nihilists with dynamite. A Court of Inquiry concerning the loss of the Arctic exploring ship Jeannette has been ordered at the instance of Dr Collins, brother of Jerome J. Collins, who perished in the expedition. The Duke of Westminster was married , to Lady Catharine Cavendish, in London, on the 28th hist. '' The State of lowa has adopted a prohibitory liquor law. At Madison, Wiscon- ' sin, a mass meeting has been held, and - the same course advised for that State. The Mormons propose to make a combined effort to defeat the operations of . the bill to suppress polygamy. > /The weather in, Ireland had improved - towards, the close of July, but the potato blight had appeared in badly drained ' ground. , There ia a splendid crop in most „i s parts of country.* „ - ;\ . The American Tariff, . Commission is in -session at -Long Branch,,, New ~ Jersey. „ ,Oa the 25th. -Everett, P. r WHeeW < representing . the . New , York fFrie Tracle Club, made argument before the Commission in' favour of free ' tt^Von^w^iriatenals in order to en- ' Wiw^e manufacturing,

Among the numerous tragedies lately reported from tho south-western States is one of peculiar atrocity. ; A coloured boy named McTaylor, 14 years of age, had a quarrel with a white boy, McDonald, and gave him a thrashing, afterwards escaping into Arkansas. McDonald's father and some friends pursued and overtook the coloured boy, brought him back and shot him to death. The body was found on the 9th, and the bones were picked bare by the vultures.

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