ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1617, 14 November 1882, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

Auckland, Last Night. The following is a summary of news by the mail ; — Mr Dillon will not press the resignation of his seat in Parliament just now. The Castle and Military Barracks at Buiafallen were seriously damaged by fire on the 2nd October. The non-commissioned officers of the Indian regiments are to be brought to Ktu'land from Egypt so that the Queen j may present them with medals. j All the liiah suspects in custody were released on the 29th ultimo iv view of the expiration of the Coercion Act. . The brother of Walsh, recently hanged at Galway, has been found guilty of the murder of Constable Kahaghan at Letter Sact, and sentenced to be hanged on October 28th. Mr Henry Edmund Knight, Alderman of Cnpplegate Ward, has been elected Lord Mayor of London. Sii Garnet Wolseley and Admiral Seymour are to be raised to the peerage. The Utter is said to be personally unwilling to accept the ele\atiou. In ordering the release of Mr Dwycr Giay, the Judge pointed out that a change had taken place iv the tone of his paper, the Freeman" b Journal, since his incarccrnation. Sir S. Northcote, in a speech at Glasgow, declared the Egyptian^ war to be unnecessary and unjustifiable. It could have been aw avded by u firm stand at the beginning. It is reported that the authorities of the Suez Canal have prohibited the employment of anyone who worked for or assisted the British troops. Consequent many are thrown out of employment. Bremations and Co,, London, merchants, failed on October sth for £120,000. MvDiUon replies to the Livorpool Land League that nothing but ill-health could have caused him to quit politics. Professor Biackie, of Glasgow, and others arc about to start a fresh land agitation in the Highlands. The movement is wholly independent of the Land League. Reports have reached London that both the Danish and Dutch Arctic expeditions are in danger, beset by ice in the Kara .Sea, about eighty miles from the Continent. Barry Sullivan, the actor, has consented to be nominated to Parliament by an Irish constituency, on Home Rule principles. The Lord Lieutenant has commuted the death sentence of Walsh, convicted as an accessory to the murder of Constable Dahanagh, to poual servitude for life. De Lesseps has claimed that Ins company possesses for 99 years exclusive right to maritime communication between the Gulf of Pelusurmn and the Bay of Suez. The Tioif> doubts the right. Mr Gladstone reiterates the declaration that he is unable to interfere with operations of the Mormons in England, as he presumed that the converts go with them willingly. Flannighan and wife, suspected of being concerned in the murder of Lord Montmorris, at Clonhur, County Galway, on September Bth, ISSI, were arrested in the county named on October 3th. Six hundred Dervish families have left Pre&burg on account of the riots there. Floods in the Tyrol have reduced hundreds of wealthy landowners to poverty, and the approach of winter greatly aggravates the situation. Oveulank, a man arrested in Tiictc some time since while manufacturing bombs, was sentenced to death on the lf)th inst. '1 lie diffeicnoe between Russia and the European Danube Commission, threatens to assume the propoitions of a serious conthct, and may lead to complications. Engestrc Hall, scat of Earl Shaftesbury, was burned on October 12th. The loss is put down at €300,000. The piospectua of the Irish Banking Company has been circulated, the pioposed capital being -C 1,000,000., 000,000. Owing to the alarming increase of pauperism in South Ireland, the Dublin (jnion has taken the lead in a proposal to send one thousand able bodied men and women to Canada at a cost of £7000. Galbraith's spinning mills, Glasgow, were burned on the 14th October. The loss was £30,000. A Paris newspaper credits England with negotiations for the purchase of 200,000 Suez Canul delegation shares. The Rcpiibhf/tio Francos refuses to believe that Lord Granville will set aside the Egyptian control without consulting France. Mr John Bright has been sharply attacked by the leading radical journals for declaiing the Egyptian war to have been unjust and unnecessary. It is said that at the next election he will lose his seat for Birmingham. It is rumoured he w 1 retire from public life at the end of the year. In Ireland the closing of the Land League iv America is regarded as a victory for Gladstone's Land Act. The agitation in Ireland will cease to be formidable the moment American supplies are cut off. The miners of Lancashire, Berkshire, Derbyshire, aud North Wales have decided to give notice of a demand for au I advance of 15 per cent, in their wages. The Irish farmers aud peasantry assembled at Curraghmore on the 12th iust to forcibly put a stop to the hunt. Despatches from London on October Bth say that the comet is all the talk in scientific circles, the preseut being regarded with considerable apprehension. Mr Richard Proctor denied that it was the comet of 1843 and 1880, and now finds that he has made a mistake in his calculations, and so has withdrawn his statement. More cautious astronomers than he lnve no doubt of identity of the comet, and believe that it will return at the latest in October, 1883, and will then fall into the sun with results that will dispense with the future publication of the newspapers of the world. It is said this is the opinion of the most eminent scientists of the clay, Mr Piazzi .Smith, Astronomer Royal of Scotland, in particular, having made no secret of his belief that, the end" of the world ia at hand. , , By a dispatch, dated October 13th, it appears that the committee under General Sir Archibald Alison, appointed to report on the Channel Tunnel, cousidcrs that the exit of the tunnel should be commanded by 'a' foi tress of the firstclass ; that the 'tunnel should be provided with port cullis. and with an. arrangement for filling it for 'sufficient space with irrespirable 'gas, 'and tljaV measures should'be taken for diminishing' of land portion for tempdi ary flooding dt the main tunnel, and also for its total 'destruction by mine! ' Th'dse arrangements, should be controlled by separate p.aths\'b6th inside and outside < commanding ; fortress, but when all this is done the committee Minit tHa^'il'wduld.be preauniptupUB tp y pla*ce 'absolute 1'!1 '! ?reliance.> upon ', evep Tthe T niost comprehensive ■> arrangement, j< A memo from-ISif; Q-^WOlseleyiand 1 Ithe,

Dukl bf C^ffiMlll^K^peuiied to the report, ccmcerntrig thejsroposed tunnel in even stronger teflons* The Times considora that 'this report has settled the question of the channel tunnel adversely for a long 'time to come. "" ,-* A despatch from Dublin, dated October 4th, says thai the police believe that the murderers pflio'rd Frederick Cavendish and Under-Sccretary Burke, numbered 10, and are still in Ireland, but that unless the aiii of some informer can be secured the crime cannot be brought home to the guilty parties. Three London detectives arrived at Dublin on the 13th of October with three of the crew of the Gladstone ; one of whom was Westgatc, the self-accused assassin, who, it \\ a mentioned before, had sailed for the West Indies. The sailors were subjected to searching examination, and the authorities are thoroughly determined to sift Westgate's assertions, in order to quiet the pablic mind. The police firmly adhere to the belief that Westgate is crazy, and that his assertions are unworthy of belief.