NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1930, 18 November 1884, Page 3

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

The R.M. s.s. City ot Sydney, ariived at AucklanJ fiom San Fianeiseo with the English and Ameiican mails* on Satuiday afternoon. We clip the following fiom our late English files :—: — tub ci \m.\vr. The Tichborno claimant was secretly brought to Pcntonville prison on the night of October 20th. He was d-s-chaiged the nc\t moining quite unexpectedly to himseU, as Ins tune had still three days to run. At Scotland Yai d the Claimant leccncd a tLUet ot leave, lequiring him to icpoit monthly by lettt r to the authouties. He appeared to be in good health, and will leniain quiet for the presi'iit, keeping his> lesidcnee stciet. ULTIMATUM TO Tllb BOKKS. An ultimatum has been sent to the Transvaal Government by Gieat Britain. It recalls the repeated "violation of treaties, and the acts of violence w Inch have been committed by the Boeis beyond the boundaiy lines of the Tiansvaal country. It demands of the Transvaal Government due satisfaction for these acts, the repicssion of the Boei filibusters, and athoioiigh observance of the articles of the last Convention entered into by both countries. LAND UUTVriOX IN LVILAM). The delegates to the Faimeis' Alliance will hold a conference in London in November, on the agricultural oiisis. The programme of the meeting includes a proposal to lefer questions of 1 eduction of rents to courts of aibitiation. The Scotch Farmeis' Alliance has received favouiably a repot t of the deputations sent to lieland, advising the application in Scotland of the lush Land Act, with fixity of ten me, fail rents, ftee sales, and i emission of aneais. According to a London despatch of October 12, the English landowneis aie'menaeed with impeciunoaity, for no less than 30,000 acies \ ainly demand tenancy m E^ex, within thnty miles ot London. Lately 170 act es weie'sold for £2ioo, for winch iMi.OO was lefused some years ago. The low pi ice of wheat and cattle, with the high lents left by the Land Comts, have impovenshed the InMi faimeis. THE GARMOYLFv JJHI' U H OI PROMISE CASU Like inan> preceding statements which have been published lespecting this, case, «i leccnt repoit to the effect that Miss Fnnuy— or as the lady is professionally known, Mi*s Forteseue— had agieed to a settlement of her action out of Court upon payment of £2.3,000, is altogether unfounded in fact. Messis Bolton and Mote, solicitors foi the plaintiff, who claims 130,000 damages fiom Loid Uarmoyle for In each of promise of mairuee, state that the case has not been settled, .and that it will come on for heanng in its turn as a special juiy case vciy eaily at the Michaelmas sittings of the Court of Queen's Bench, which commenced on the 2oth of October, Counsel on both sides have been briefed, heavy letaining fees paid, and eveiy needful picpaiation for the pieparation for the tnal has been made. Mi C. Russell, QC, M.P., and Mi R. S. Wiightvill appear for the plaintiff; and the Attoiney-Geueial, the Hon. Beinaid Coleiidge, and Mr H. Winch foi the defendant. Miss I'inney is not now less desnous than pieviously to havcafiuided her an oppoi tunity of publicly explaining the encumstances of the case as far ah she is concerned, and her legal adviser*, aie wholly at a loss to i imagine the soiuce win nee so many absurd and untiue upoits lelative to the action have emanated. Till; M IGNONI.TTK DisVSThB. Mr.T. Matthews, of Itchen Feuy, the fostei -father of Kichaid PaiUi, the victim of the Mignonette di*abtcr, has been in London with lefeienu- to an oiler to erect a memonal to the niemoiy of the deceased. He was accompanied by WilHam Parker, " Dick's Biothei," and Mr \V. Thompson, and it was decided to accept a bead-stone and footstone. w Inch, by the consent of the \icai w ill be placed in Pear Tiee-gieen Clvuchyaid. The msciiption agieed upon will notify the name and age of the deceased, and will state that he died at sea on July 25th, 18S4, aftei nineteen days of tenible suf fenngs in an open boat in the tiopics, after being wrecked in the Mignonette. The stone will also bear the text from Job, "Though he slay me yet will I trust in him," suggested by the vicai, and, by the lequest ot the poor lad's friends, the ptayei of the maityr Stephen, " Loid lay not this sin to then cliaige." Theie will al&o be a memory-poitiait inserted, executed from a photogiaph of the brother, William PaiUcr, at the age of 17 years, he bearing a stiong resemblance to Richard.

The French Go\ciiuncnt, whuh has intioduced a ileet into a foitified ih ci in time of peace, and taken adsantage ol this pioeecding to rii^tu-y the aisenal and fleet ot a powei with winch it ib not at wai, illicit with advantage study the following extiact fioin a gieat Fiench wiitei on mtei national law . " Tlie inhabitants ot Geneva, after defeating the famous attempt to t.iUe their city by escalade (m the >e.ir lt»02), caused all the pnsoncrs whom tiny look liom the Savoyards on that occasion to be hanged up as lobbeis, who had come to them ■without cause and without a deelaiation of war. Nor weie the Geneveseoen&uied for this ijioceedmg, which would Jia\e been detestable in a formal war.— Tiuth. The coining session of the Fiench Chambeis piomises to be a particulaily lively one. The second thought of many of the Fiench political leadns is beginning to realise that the Feny Mmistiy, in its management of public affairs, lias led tlie n ition into a \ei \ ii 11 safe position It hat antagonised England and othei lnm-lly nations, and has pitched up a soi t of quasi-hiendship with Gei many. Now that the loaction has come, BimiuicL's honesty ot (impose is doubted 1-y many of the countiy's rrost piomineiit men— and then nobody wants to give "Ueimany a <[iiit claim deed to ANace and Loiraine. Tlie consequence is the Ministiy will ha\eto face Uhambeis containing many dissatisfied statesmen, and e\en within itself the leverse of harmony prevails. Since the adjournment of Pailiament the Fianehise Bill has been veiy elaborately discussed before the people throughout the United Kingdom, and the popular demonstrations in its favour have been many, imposing and important. It can scarcely be doubted but that, if submitted to a popular vote, at least twothirds of the people would support it. In a country, therefore, which is ruled by a representative Government and free institutions, the ultimate passage of this admirable and popular mea . sure is a foregone conclusion, and those who are attempting to defeat it are only taking occasion to exhibit a \ icious, impotent and malicious disiegard for common decency. An atrocious crime was perpetrated recently on a boycotted farm a few miles outside of Cork. Eight cows were mutilated in a shocking manner. Three had their tails cut off, three were hamstrung, one was killed outright by a blow with a heavy instrument, and another was stabbed in different parts of the body. In several instances the wounds inflicted were nine inches in depth and three inches wide. Butchers' knives appeared to have been used. Theie were thirtysik head of cattle grazing upon the lands, and these were driven in by the bailiffs aud placed in a field adjoining the house. The miscreants, in order to carry out their work more effectually, removed seven of the cattle to another field, and there mutilated them. They then crossed a stream to a .farm occupied by a gentleman named Lewis, and finding one of his cows, they inflicted injuries of a horrible character. Mr Lewis had purchased a quantity of hay which had been grown on a boycotted farm, and this is supposed ttfUe the "reason for the outrage on his o/ittle. „ 3 The Pope haB written to his Secretary df'Stattf, Cardinal' Jacobini, saying that, to meet the,aontjugency y of the cholera rareadiDg w Rome, bo'haa determined to

open a lazaretto in the neighbonihood of the Vatican, where ho could tecoive and visit the sick. For this object ho says that, trusting to Providence and to the i^eneiosity of the Catholic wOl Id, he has set apart §200,000. Should this hospital not suffice, he will open another in the Lateran P.ilace. The Uapitale, comment- . ing on the fact that the Pope- passes by a soiely stiicken town like .Naples to confer his benefits on one which does not need them, and is not likely to do so, icmaiks : "This action ib pinery political What does the Pope caie foi Naples and Italy ? lie caies ior Rome, whicu he has lost, and would like to recover." In England cricket is apparently gaining in popularity with the ladies. A match between ladies and gentlemen, which took place teocntly, was witnessed by a large and enthusiastic concourse of opectatoia. The ladies played with unusual pluck aud skill, but, although the conditions of the match obVged the gentleim.ii to bat with broomsticks and to field and bowl with the left hand, the latter weie viotoiious by sixteen iuiis. Other contests w ere ananged for, and a match between two teams of ladies ia announced to come off shoitly. The report that the American Minister to Cnina, John Russel Young, was endeavouring to mediate between the two belligerents, is, notwithstanding the p.ntial aud somewhat oihcious denial of the Ficiich Government, appaiently quite true, and theie is no doubt but that his actions have the sanction of, if, indeed, they weic not inspned by the French Ministry. It seems somewhat childish for the French to be posturing as the implacable foe of mediation in this matter, and in the same breath admitting that they aio anxious for a settlement. The fact that Fiance is exceedingly anxious to settle, upon her own teims or as near to them as she can get, is too palpable to admit of this somewhat consequential denial of the authoi ity | of a lriendly minister to mediate, looking graceful. The accounts of the piecautions taken foi the safety ot the (J/ai on his journey to !Skiunie\ ice aie \eiy gum reading. The lailway lino was guarded by Cossack pickets e\ cry eighth ot a mile along its entire length ; aud in the iear of these theie was a line of police disguised as peasants. \\ nerc the lailway passes through a, \ illagc, the ciowding people were kept at «i distance ol 000 yards or moie by the Cossacks ; and w heie piivate gardens and entiies abut on the line they wei c sti ongly guai (led. A coi i e.ipondent says he saw a soldier loisc his rifle to fire on some guls who appioached too near in their own gaiden, wheieupon they hastily letreated into the house. It seems like the veiy mockery of the stage to read that afterwards, on the anival of the Emperor at the castle of Skiernie\ice, "a beautiful welcome, ai ranged by Polish peasants and their cluldien, awaited him." Peasant gnls, holding oak gai lands, foimedan alley up to the lesidence, and at each side of atnumphal aich stood school cluldien singing the llussian national hymn, led by their own brass band. Tub Royal Humane Society have, on the recommendation of the Colonial Ollicc, awaided bion/e medals to Emosi, a, native of Nasilai, and liatu Joshua, .Swam, and Aprann, membeis of the Fi|ian police, for services tendered at the wieckot theSyiia. on the Nasilai Reef, Fiji, on May 13. Emosi saved a woman who had fallen in the wreckage and Lioken her leg by carijmg liei aoro<--. a dangeious passage o\ei which the sea was bieaking fuuously ; Ratii Joshua sa\ed the last man who was taken oil" the ship, when the breakois weie dashing over ; Swam swam out thiough the leet aud leseuod a woman and her infant who weie being earned out to sea ; and Apiaim earned a child under each arm aud .1 woman on his back thiough the breakeis.