NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1798, 15 January 1884, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Tin; R.iVr. s.s. Anstialia, with the English and American mails from San Francisco, armed at Auckland on Sunday morning. She blings English news up to December the 21st. The following is a j

General Summary. A grand banquet was given to Mr Parnell in the Rotunda, Dublin, on December 11, attended by poisons from all parts of Ireland and Great Biitain, as well as more distant places. Five hundred and eighty tickets were sold. .Vr Painr-11, in his speech, dwelt upon the "assisted" emigration question, stigmatising it as an indecent attempt ou the part of the Government to get quit of the liish difficulty by getting quit of the Irish people. He insisted that threelout ths of the emigrants of the last year or two had been compelled to find homes in miserable garrets in New York, Boston, and Montreal. The present Irish Executive was characterised as meaner and more incapable than any of its predecessors. Referiing to the Parliamentary position, he said, "If we cannot rule ouisehes, ■vve can cause England to bi> luletl as we choose." At the close of the speech Mayor Diwson, of Dublin, presented Mr Parnell with a cheque for 135,000 as a national tribute. Mr W. E. Forster, M.P., replied to Mr Parnell's banquet speech in an address to the people of Bradford on December 13. lie s.iid that in any franchise bill the Government might introduce into I'arliamont he infened they intended to include Ireland. If so, he agreed with them. (Cheers ) The more he thought of it, the moie cleat ly he was convinced that lieland should be included in the bill. He was not surprised at Mr Parnell's recent speech. He sometimes thought that Mr Parnell wished the Government Mould refuse Ireland the benefit of the Franchise Bill, in older that he might increase his followers. Mr Forster believed the inclusion of Ireland might, for a time, increase Mr Parnell's following ; but the Government would have the satisfaction that they would meet them in Parliament, and not in the country perpetrating outrages. Regarding the boast of the Home Rulers that they would be able to turn the balance of parties, Mr Foster said he felt if either party should coalesce with the Parnellites, the Government, when attacked, would only have to appeal to the country to defeat the coalition. Admiral Peyron, Minister of Marine, received the following despatch from Soutay, Tonquin, dated the 17th December : " Soutay is ours. The outer walls were carried by assault at six o'clock on Sunday evening. The attack began at at eleven in the morning, aud the assault was made at five in the evening, with a bravery above all praise by the Foreign Legion, together with the marine infantry and sailors. The flotilla assisted by bombardment. The citadel was evacuated during the night, and occupied on the morning of the 17th, without fighting. We do not yet know whether the Black Flags, rebel Anamites, and Chinese have fled. It is impossible to learn their losses. Our loss is about 15 killed, including one officer, and 60 wouuded, including five officers." A new king, Kienphua, has succeeded Heiphoma in Anam. A despatch from Zanzibar, December 21, says a letter from Admiral Giliber, French commander in Madagascar, states that on the night of November 16, the Hovas attempted to abduct the Queen of Sakalavas from Magungas, but were frustrated by the fire from a gunboat, and the landing of a party of riflemen from another gunboat. The condition of the French troops in Madagascar is good. Negotiations with the Hovaa were not resumed. Patrick O'Donnell, murderer of the informer Carey, paid the penalty within the walls of Newgate on the morning of December 17. The drop fell at 8 o'clock. Strenuous efforts were made, especially by Irish-Americans, to procure a mitigation or at least a respite, and delegations waited on President Arthur to ask that the United States intervenein the matter, which was accordingly done through Minister Lowell in London. For this action, as well as for the resolutions passed by the United States House of Representatives, the New York Times, Tribune, and Post have only language o! the strongest censure, and charge the

President with yielding to Irish clamom\ and thus patting himself in an absurd position. After Lowell had comunicated the substance of his instructions to Earl Granville, he was informed, consequent on due deliberation, that Her Majesty's Government found no grounds on which they would be justified in advising the Crown to interfere with the sentence of the law or its execution. The American lawyers, sent over to defend the prisoner, were not allowed to appear in Comt, and it would have been \i orse than useless for the prisoner had they done so Victor Hugo also wrote to the Queen, asking that O'Donnell be pardoned. Outside the Irish-American element in the United States there is no feeling in the matter whatever. Such American newspapers as discuss the sentence and its execution admit its justice. The executrix of the Dowager Lady Lytton threatens to publish 300 letters of the late lord, unless his son will do justice to the memory of his mother. Bradlaugh met with a cordial reception in Paris ; but he studiously avoided the anarchists. The refusal of Mr Goschen to accept the Speakership of the House of Commons is said to be the result of his aspirations to succeed the Marquis of Kipon as the Viceroy of India. Vice-President Welti (Liberal) was elected President of Switzerland on December 6 ; Schenck (Radical), VicePresident. — The Canton Valais has restored the death penalty for murder. A movement against secret societies has been commenced by the Chnstian League, embiacing the leading divines of the United States. The Convention met nb Philadelphia on December U). Resolutions were adopted denouncing all secret societies as subversive of both the Christian religion and free government. Monsignor Savarez, Doctor of Civil and Canon Law, and until recently the Pope's domestic prelate, left the Roman Catholic Church on December Bth, and was^ received into the Communion of the Episcopal Church by Dr. Neviu, of St. Paul s American Church, Rome. Despatches of December 12, describe the effects of the violent gales throughout England the proceeding day. Much damage was caused in London and in the piovinces. An organisation called the A B.C. Society was brought to the notice of the public in New Yoi k by the arrest of one of its members on December 5. The membership is 25, the president Christian Koioosc, a milkman. Each member, upon being sworn in, w as obliged to steal 125dollats a month from his employer (grocprs principally), and deposit 100 dollars with Koioose, who would keep 2.") dollars for himself, and place the rest to the credit of the union. At the end of the year each one who desired to go into business for himself would receive 100 dollais from each member ot the union, 2400 dollars in all, to start an establishment of his own. If any of the membeis were sick, after keeping up their dues for one year, he was paid 2 dollars a day by each of the other members, a total of 48 dollars per day, till his lecovery. A delegation of alleged French working men have recently been on a visit to the United States to extend the cause of internationalism. The Times, Heiald, and World denounce them as incendiaiies and impostors. A meeting of the sympathises with the movement was held in New Yoik on December 17, when the orator of the evening was Herr Most, who said, amid a frenzy of cheers, " Let us tear down, wipe out, and annihilate ! Then we can talk of building ! '' Ciies of " Vive la Commune ! " " Vive la dynamite ! " resounded thiough the hall. The delegation returned to Fiance on the 19th. Dr Wilson, curate of S. George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, has been dismissed from his place foy attending the Salvation Army meetings. The Dominion Government is being strongly pressed to take immediate action to prevent the influx of Chinese into British Columbia. Upwards of 9000 of these undesirable settlers are without woik in that province. They resort to all kinds of depredation to keep themselves alive, and several cases of murder have already been reported. Plundering is their sole means of support. _ Many of them cioss over to the United States teiritory, defying detection once they mingle with their fellow-countrymen. The Dominion Government has heretofore refused to interfere, on the ground that they are constructors of the Central Pacific railway, and that the contractors could not build the road without Chinese labour. The Provincial Government is moving in the matter, and Sir John McDonald will have to accede to the demands of the piovince. _