ARRIVAL OF THE P.M. S.S. AUSTRALIA, WITH THE English and American Mails, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 265, 14 November 1885, Page 7

ARRIVAL OF THE P.M. S.S. AUSTRALIA, WITH THE English and American Mails, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London', 24th Oct

THE English Farmers' Alliance adopted a resolution stating that to avert L ruin of tho farmers the landowners must forthwith reduce the rents, and fhat tlic Government must formulate , measure which will prevent the raising of rents on the improvements! of slrs. Weldon, who recently competed' six months' imprisonment for libelling Riviere, manager of Covent Garden'Theatrc, j iaß a g a j n t, cen coln . fitted to trial on a similar charge made by tho same complainant. She accused him of stealing documents belonging to her. A bill will be introduced into the next Parliament placing low-class stock exchanges, better known as " bucket shops," outside the pale of the law. Ifoss Winans, a millionaire Balfcinioreitii, owning a large urea of land in Scotland, and whose persecution of tie peasantry has mado him hated, is in trouble. He undertook to prevent excise officers from searching his extensive deer forests for illicit stills, and this defiance of the crown oilicials led jpary of excisemen to assemble and patrol the forests in every direction. The AujfloTurkish Agreement. A New York " Herald's" special from Constantinople, October 10, says Sir Henry Drummond Wolffs mission las been crowned with success. His understanding with the Porte on foyptiau affairs is complete, and an imperial decree will shortly be issued sanctioning the arrangement, the principal points of which are as follows : — Turkey appoints six commissioners, tiro for finance, fctvo for military organization, and two for general administration ; England will appoint a similar number. When the labours of these men are completed, and Egyptian affairs placed on a satisfactory footing, British occupation will cease.

The Glasgow Presbytery voted, on October 12th, in favour of disestablishment and disendowmeut.

Lord Salisbury has* officially announced that Parliament will be dissolved on November 17th.

The race for the Czarewieh Stakes was run on Oct. 12th. Twenty-two horses started. It was won by the three-year-old filly Plaisanterie, Xenia second, Postscript third. Plaisanterie, the winner, was bred in France.

John Euskin, in reply to an appeal in favor of the study of female models, fays that an artist can do much better mthout them.

The English Government has prelented anote to the Spanish' Government, demanding reparation for an insult to the British Consulate at Havana.

A fire broke out in Aldersgate Street on the morning of Oct. Sth, in the Charter House Buildings, within a stone's throw of the celebrated Carthusian Retreat for Pensioners. The Charter House was almost totally destroyed. Damage, ,£3,000,000.

The Right Hon. George J. Goschen (Liberal), Member of Parliament for Rip, speaking at Edinburgh on the '(Tuning of Oct. 7th, said that he was opposed to free education. He would lot vote for the disestablishment of the Scottish Church, unless the proposition was a Government measure. If the Liberals, were returned to power they would be justified in appealing to fcTories for help to fight Parnell. A new crusade is threatened in Londoa against the employment of female . models in artists' studies.

British Politics. Late dispatches say Ih'at Prime Minister Salisbitiy has got the Tory paty in good trim for the campaign, "Me Gladstone has net succeeded in laying the Liberals to the extent exP«t*d. He proposed to work through »taupaign committee of twelve gentlewn, three .to be elected from each fat representative Liberal Clubs in Won, in order that all shades of liberal opinion might be represented. His operated well for a time, but »different state of affairs soon developed. Such a number of provincial andidates have absolutely refused to" abide by the decision of the com"*ee that the trouble became serious, : ?»i a second committee, composed of W Harfcington, Joseph Chamber- :™. Hon. (Samuel Morley, and Sir Henry James was appointed to adjust weulties growing out of refusals to "We by the decision of the larger weral Committee. Notwithstanding % numbers of candidates refuse to tajitthe Committee's decisions, and Nat in their candidature. Cardinal Manning has written to ..»».Dublin "Review" showing how wtholics -ought to vote in the coming , jWion. He defends Parliament and fa Constitution, even though oppresH Catholicism, praises Liberalism, purges Catholics to place the reli)m question foremost. Cardinal *jttan a i so mac j e an &^ross on the w& in London, in which he said the "Want Church of England was the ■ ; ,?™J bulwark of that country ogainst f ttieism. Ho wished all success to H°!\ efeudin S the Church, and said P * ne and his friends would join in r pending it. These utterances are ; Tiered the most extraordinary of chhi Tory Poatical agents through- ■ 2 , Wintry generally report a ■'m tavourable prospect for their Ctfh ■y io nofc Preclicfc a victory ; '™v' assurance is that in no event lies Serais wm ty large majori-

■■•■■. jjfottehill ami Chamberlain. (C V' "Post" London telegram of J7 r 20th Says : Greek joined Greek ; -jw electoral campaign last night. Jpolit,cal England is ringing with : £«™» of their blows. ChamberI bL-T SBed a political association at KWT am' and Churchill spoke at ffl? Dn' Chamberlain referred to JU as "the author of that exrigmarole, his electoral k«*f ~~a, Penny novelist and an Er^oolboy.'1 Churchill charged *ith k •w^ mterested motives, ■'k_J, 8u!g intensely dishonest and C' ""moral, and said his Radical , nE 10? 8 were utterly hopeless and : ttimef urd ' thatt"eyhad no more jjL. .°t Success than a project for ;'%tt if moon- Seven hundred ■'■(khSi- workmen marched to Vchi f s residence on the 20th. Hoi t a po^ce learning tneir inkf. ncl faring violence, sent a H^X P°llt;6 by a shorter route, Vilseijr r Protession arrived at the I WjcomX' 7 >d ib surrounded mtli ■* w i deputation of three of i:.;:?J^oyed was adiaiued to see

Mr Chamberlain. They flatly accused him of making a combination with the wealthier classes to alienate sympathy from the suffering poor for his own personal and political aggrandizement. Ihe men returned to their place of meeting, howling against the Liberal leader.

Lord Salisbury's Address

( The Premier spoke at the National Conservative Conference at Newport on October 7th. He thanked the Conservative Union for exposing the tine nature of the gaudy promises of the seductive programme of the Liberals. He urged his hearers to continue their efforts in behalf of Conservatism, which, ho said, was growing and had a glorious future, and then proceeded to enunciate the policy of the Conservative party. Referring to the disturbances in the Balkans, the Premier said : " It is no part of the duty of British statesmen to interfere in tho affairs of Eastern Roumelia. The treaty of Berlin has not, been frustrated nor has the San Stefano treaty been restored. The policy*of the Government is to uphold the Turkish Empire, and whenever it is possible to do so, genuinely and healthily, to uphold, cherish and fosterstrong, self-sustained nationalities that have an important bearing on the future of Europe. For the present I have hopes that the powers will confine the disturbance within the limits of the Roumclian territory. Russian in-

flueiue would have checked the political growth of Roumelia if the latter country had united with Bulgaria in 1876." He favored great changes in the present measures for local selfgovernment. To decentralize authority

in London was an indispensable part of the now Government's policy. People having wealth should boar the

burden of the expenses of the country, and not alone those having houses and lands. The Premier, in answering the question as to what extent local government authority should be extended to Ireland, said : "An extension might give more facility to the majority to do justice to the minority. Conservative traditions," he said, " were clear." He regarded the integrity of the empire above all other political constitutions. He favored the imperial ' federation

movement, but his plans in regard to the matter have not yet been tangibly fixed. The Premier believed in the closer union of England and her colonies, with the view of proving the real strength of the nation in European councils, and said it was one of the most important questions of the

future. He favored the measure for cheapening and simplifying the sale and transfer of lands, lie stated that

the Government had received returns showing . that general crime in Ireland had decreased. Boycotting was amenable to the ordinary law,

which would be sternly enforced. Thirty-five prosecutions, he said, had already been started. Extending selfgovernment to Ireland, he declared, is an open question, but it is desirable, as

far as possible, to give Ireland the same benefits as are enjoyed by the rest of the United Kingdom.

The Irish Situation

A Convention of the Land League at AVieklow, on October sth, unani-

mously selected William James Corbet, present member of Parliament for

Wicklow, and Garrctt Byrne. Panioll, speaking at the open-air meeting after

the Convention, said Home Rule would stop all disloyal proceedings and outrages and thirst for disunion. The Irish, he claimed, would then become

like their countrymen in the British colonies, loyal citizens and props to the Constitution. The " Daily News "

blames Parnell for not denouncing boycotting, but admits that his speech otherwise was fair and moderate. It is possible, the " News" says, the tone with which he spoke was as much Churchill's as Pamoll's. The "Tele-

graph" said Purncll had almost a royal court at Wioklow amid the frantic adulations of his followers, when lie successfully inaugurated the first of the series of conventions. " What we witnessed at Wicklow," it continues,

" is a conspiracy to paralyse the Parliament of Great Britain in order that the Irish House of Commons may taxBritish products and maintain a host of police volunteers in armed menace ot British peace and security." The " Times" says it is impossible to disguise or palter with the fact that the Government of Ireland has passed on, and is rapidly passing out of the hands of Her Majesty's Ministers." The London "Post" (Government organ), writing on the same theme, says, bluntly, " independence of Ireland, as shadowed forth by Parnell, will never be granted by the British Parliament, and it would be a cruel kindness for any Government in this country to abstain from saying so in the firmest and most unequivocal terms." John O'Connor, speaking in Cork »n October Bth, said many candidates were coming forward in the interest of Parnell, expecting they would be paid out of the fund now being raised in America for Irish members of Parliament ; but they would be disappointed. Only those called on special occasions and men of transcendent ability would be compensated. Richard Lalor and Arthur O'Connor have been named as Pamellite candidates for Queen's County.

At a recent funeral in Macroom County Cork, a boycotted relative of the deceased joined the procession with his family, whereupon the priests and mourners withdrew. The obsecmies were finally performed by three Catholic priests who were unattended. At the Armagh Court of Sessions on the 19th, John Howard Paruell, of New York, a brother of Charles Stewart Parnell, sued several of his tenants for nonpayment of rents for seven years. The magistrate remarked that the defendants had evidently obeyed Unas. S Pamell's injunctions instead ot the plaintiff's. A verdict in favour of the plaintiff was rendered in each ease. Pyne, the Parnellito candidate for Waterford, is to be prosecuted forja seditious speech made at Clonmel. The tenant farmers at Westport met on the 18th and passed resolutions demanding that the Government introduce in Parliament a bill similar to the American Homestead Law. A powerful committee composed ot Lords Bandon and Castletown, aud other prominent gentlemen, has been formed in London to assist people of every class in Ireland who have been boycotted, and to advance funds to persons and corporations willing to oppose boycotting. At the same time a syndicate in Liverpool has offered to start a fleet of packets in opposition to the Cork Steam Packet Company to carry cattle from Cork to England for the Nationalists. The Nationalists of Cavan have selected Joseph G. Biggar aud Thomas O'Hanlon as their parliamentary cancliaThe "difficult" districts of Ireland engaged the attention of a conference

of the Parnellite leaders on the 20th, at Dublin. Thomas Sexton was named for Londonderry, "Wm. H. K. Bedmond for Fermanagh, John Francis Small for Down, Timothy M. Healy for the northern division of Mouaghau, Wm. O'Brien and Timothy Harrington for Tyrone, and Arthur O'Connor for the

northern division of Antrim.

The Nationalists have decided to contest every Irish Parliamentary seat except twelve.

The Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland have passed resolutions condemning acts of violence and intimidation, ami warning their respective flocks that in indulging in such acts they are certain to bring the anger of God upon the evil-doers and their families, besides disgrace upon the Irish people in tho eyes of the civilized world.

Ihe cattle-men have refused to ship on the boats of the Cork Steamship Company, because tho managers permitted the carrying of boycotted goods. The landlords, learning of this, sent a deputation to the Company, and informed its officials that they would .start an opposition line if the Company refused to carry boycotted cattle. A Landlords' Defence Union against boycotting has been formed at Cork,' and boycotted persons poured in demands for assistance. Drovers were shipping cattle to Bristol via Waterford. At a meeting of the cattlemen in Cork, on October 11, O'Cconnor read a telegram from New York dealers in hides, saying they would not purchase goods carried by the Cork Packet Company. Tho attempt to boycott the steamship people failed, however, and this fact, has spurred the Loyalists to increased energy in their fight against the Nationalists, and they intend to contest every Parliamentary seat in Ireland at the coming election. It is denied that Mr. Parnell has been converted to Catholicism.

The Dungarvon branch of the Irish National League has notified the masters of foxhounds that hunting in Ireland must be stopped.

Trouble had occurred on the Duke of Devonshire's estate in Callow, County Waterfowl, in connection with tho eviction of certain tenants. The tenants and their friends made a determined resistance, and attacked the police with stones. A sheriff's posse finally dispersed the moli at the point of the bayonet. The district is "black-flagged." A body of moonlighters raided a farm, from which the tenant had been evicted, in the County Kerry, on Oct. 10th. They slit the caretaker's ears and cropped his hair.

Several prominent Nationalists in Ireland and America have written James Stephens, now in exile at Brussels, urging him to contest a seat in the British Parliament. Stephens is un-

decided

Parnell talks confidently of carrying every Parliamentary seat in Ireland in

the interests of the Nationalists, except one division in Dublin and ten in Ulster, where the Orange Tories are

too strong for him. These seats the Nationalists will make no struggle for. Parnell and John Deasy will oiler themselves for re-election for the city of Cork. .Mr Clancy, editor of the "Nation,'' and Sir Thomas Henry I!rattan Esnionde have been nominated for Dublin city. The latter gentleman's mother was a grand-daughter of the Right lion. Henry G rattan, who brought forward in 1782 the famous Bill "of Rights, asserting the right of Ireland to self-government.

Boycotting Mrs. O'CoiuicH

The widow of Morgan O'Conuell, Daniel (/Council's nephew, residing at Kildysart, has been interviewed in regard to the attitude of I lie neigh-

boura and peasantry toward her. " 1 have seventy tenants," she said, " and six of them hold leases. The rents arc absurdly moderate, and many of them arc in arrears. Maurice Walsh, president of the local league, is a yearly tenant on my land, and now owes two and a half years' rent. The tenants demand a reduction of 25 per cent. I am willing to reduce rents 15 per cent. and no more. My duty as the guardian of my only boy, Juhn, prevents my giving more, even if I were so inclined. I have many retainers, most of whom are aged and totally unable to provide lor themselves, formerly

I bought everything at local shops ; but the tyranny of the league now compels me to go or send to Limerick, :!0 miles away, for everything I need. Local tradesmen refuse to sell anything, even bread, to myself, my servants, and my dependents. Even the priests have joined the tyrants. It is untrue the police are protecting me. I protect myself. Some of my labourers have been coerced into desertion, but others remain, and are now saving my crops. They have not been molested." A Dublin dispatch of the . r)th says a notice was posted the day before at Mrs. O'Connell's gates ordering the members of the league to shun her at mass, and not sit in the same gallery with her. Mrs. O'Conncll attended mass, and was the .sole occupant of the gallery. Mrs. O'Connell is a lady of great intellectual attainments, and she herself attends to the education of her son. She is also an authoress, having written a popular memoir of her father. She is known far and wide for her broad humanity and generosity. She faces her dangers straight, and drives and walks in Kildysart and vicinity without guards and apparently without fear. The agitation is expanding, but is peacefully conducted in comparison, with previous movements in that neighbourhood. The New York " Herald's " Dublin special of the . r)th, however, says the point is reached where maids and women of boycotted men's families arc beaten and insulted, their hair cut oil', aud the like.

A later despatch, October Bth, says Mrs O'Connell had beaten her enemies and emerged from the boycotting contest victoriously. Several of the tenants backed down in the face of sheriff's sales and heavy costs, and paid up on the terms offered—"Walsh, the leader of the opposition, among the number. There mil be no more boycotting of the resolute Mrs O'Conncll. The Irish Government is making the most determined efforts to check, through the operation of ordinary law.?, this pernicious system. The licences of publichouse keepers have been revoked in a great many instances, and so offensive has boycotting become that the authorities have determined to revive the " White Boy Act." On the 17th, 200 respectable citizens of Stradbally, County Queens, were arrested for boycotting. They were all convicted, but elected to go to prison rather than furnish bail. The magistrate hesitated to commit them, and finally gave them a fortnight in which to consider the matter.

Obsequies of the Earl of s»kafte>lmry. The funeral of the departed nobleman took place in London, October 8. Religious services over the remains were conducted at Westminster Abbey. Hundreds of poor people stood outside

in the drenching rain during the entire ceremony, being unable to get inside the sacred edifice, so dense was the crowd which had gathered to pay their last mark of respect to tlio philanthropist. Large numbers of shoeblacks, with crape bands on their arms, and many other boys who have been benefited by the departed Earl, stood in line with the elite in the Abbey. The services were very impressive.

A Scene in Westminster Abbey. The " New York Herald's " London special dispatch of October 14, says :— Yesterday, being the feast of Edward the Confessor, was especially observed by the worshippers of the Catholic church of St. Edward. At high mass Cardinal Manning officiated, and the sermon was the consideration of the probabilities of the return of the English nation to the R.G. faith. In furtherance of this object, in the possible accomplishment of which His Eminence and other distinguished Catholics are confident believers, a [pilgrimage was organised to the shrine of the Confessor at Westminster Abbey to solicit his intercession for the conversion of England. At the direction of the Cardinal, the appearance of a demonstration was avoided as much as possible, but the sudden inroad of a band of devotees, indulging in adoration at the tomb of the historic saint and king, excited curiosity. The vergers and the authorities of the Abbey did not interfere with the devotions of the strangers. At last the crowd retired in good order. The question of the propriety of the proceedings was immediately taken into consideration by the Dean and Chapter.

Personal Mention

Cornelius AYalfor.il, the distinguished English author and publisher, is dead, Sept. 28, aged 58.

Alderman John Staples, F.S.A.. was elected Lord Mayor of London, Sept. 21).

The Earl of Shaftesbury diod in Lon .on, Oct. 1, aged 84.

ituskiu's illness is said to be acute uauia, and at last reports, lie was completely out of his mind.

Sir Charles Dilke and Mrs Pattison were married at Chelsea, Oct. 3. Col. Armstrong, a broker, gave the bride away, and Joseph Chamberlain acted as groomsman.

The Duke of Newcastle, according to a London dispatch uJ-Oct. 3, had joino d the Roman Catholic Church. Ilis conversion took place some time ago, it is said, but the avowal was postponed until the young Duke had attained his majority. The conversion has caused much annoyance in Established Church

circles.

Prince Jevome Napoleon (Plon-Plon) has started on a voyage round the world; anil the Compte de Bardi is also about to undertake a voyage from Paris to America in his steam yacht.

Charles Phillippe Roben, the wellknown French physician and scientist, and a member of the French Senate, died in Paris, Oct. 5, aged 6-1,

M. Roustan, formerly French Minister at Washington, has been appointed Governor at Tunis.

The celebrated bandit Jique has been shot in Santiago de Cuba.

Mr DonagTi, of Armagh, gave £25,000 to the Church of Ireland on Oct. 13, also perpetual annuity of £000.

.1 ohn Ponder, of London, has resigned as a director of the Amcricn Western Union Telegraph Company. Thomas Davidson, the well-known English scientist, died on October 16th. Hubert Ilorkimor, R.A., has been elected successor to John Ruskinin the Slade Professorship of Fine Arts at Oxford.

Mrs LangLry, ex-professional beauty and actress, has been sued for household expenses incurred while living with her husband. Her defence is that he alone is responsible. Laugfcry is now living very quietly at Belfast, on an annuity allowed him by his wife on condition that he keeps away from her.

The Duke of Abercorn and the Right Rev. James Russell Woodford, D.D., Bishop of Ely, were reported seriously ill on October 18th.