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Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1646, 23 January 1883, Page 2

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' Received January 22,fe.ik'45 a .m.] J' "" V' ' '\) Iro^DOx'TJanuary 20. Thl Marquis of fiarfcington, Secretary of State for war, iv the course of his speech at Manchester last night, stated that the present Government would never grant law-making autonomy to Ireland, although it was proposed to grant the Irish people certain measures of selfgovernment. In an address delivered at Blackburn, Lord Hartingtou announced that the evacuatiou of iSgypt by the' British forces would take place as soon as a stable Government had been established, and added that the action of the British Q.overnmont had received the approval ot most of the Powers. , ,

Euiopean (. r PAPvis, January 19. In ,the Chamber of Deputies to-day M. Failluies, Minister of the Interior, ■introduced a bill to provide measures to prevent the issue of mauifestos by the Bonapartist pretenders. The measure provides for the punishment of offenders by imprisonment instead of by expulsion from France. A report is current that a widespread Legitimist plot is now in existence in France, under the leadorship of M. Charrette. The reports current yesterday regarding an alleged widespread conspiracy plot, under the leadership ot M. Charrette, have been generally pooh-poohed by the French Press, and have received little credence. No arrests have been made, Prince Krapotkine and the leaders of the Socialist movement have been sentenced to five 3rears' penal servitude, and various terms of imprisonment have been passed upon other Socialist prisoners.

[Received January 22nd, 12.30 p.m.] Wreck of the Cambria. The steamship Cambria was bound from Hamburg to New York. There were 400 souls on board when she sailed. Up to the piesent only oG have been saved, and the worst is feared as to the tate of the remainder.

Fatal Railway Accident. New York, January 21.' Intelligence is to hand of a serious railway accident on the overland line between San Francisco and Omaha. The train bound for the former place slipped while ascending a steep gradient, and rolled over the enbankment. The engine and all the carriages weie shattered to pieces. So far as at present known twenty passengers have been killed, and a number of others -ire seriously injured.

Death of Prince Frederick Charles. Bkblis*, January 21. The death is announced to-day of Prince Frederick Charles, brother of the Emperor William. He was bom in 1801.