English News.

Clutha Leader, Volume VIII, Issue 408, 5 August 1881, Page 3

English News.

' On Thursday Mv Daniel M'Sweoney, 'Garrowcanrion' House, J FnlcHrfaufh, 'County/ Donegal, president of the Gloughance.ly Land League, was arrested as suspected under the Protection" ; Act by Sub- Inspector Alcock and, a number of policemen. Mr M'Sweeney, is an American citizen and it is said he will claim 'the protection of the" American Government. A ludicrous scene is said to have followed' tlie arrest.' ' : A son,' ten years' old, r ran" tip the 1 American : flag/ on , a pole, . exclaiming', ' Father, behold the flag of your' adopted country ; : trust' to"' it' tor protection arid" speedy deliverance.' ; An omnibus run' by electricity is ani nounce.d.to ply between Zehlendprf and . Teltpw.atJEierlin. The authpritieshave granted permission for the erection of the necossaiy apparatus, wHfch I :: consists i of. a conduct'irio;."wirp, on' which; runs the electfical apparatus, this being- connected, with..'tb.e..amnibus by. means of a j Itliia chain. . The yetiiole is simil.ar'toa !four-\vheeled,'bus, with, room [for 10 people/ A 'guiding 1 wheel ;is placed in front.' /Between the hind- wheels is placed the driving apparatus, which is connected by -a thin" chain with the electrical apparatus. . Two sirpn'g 1 endless chains 'run.fr om the "driving I " 'ap : -'' pafatus to'ya'cK o ? f the hind "wheels 1 cause them, to revolve, ft is' calculated-" rHat f his -omnibus will :> d'Q the, 'distance beWiien ZHh'lpfifioi'f'ana Teltibw in 12| ( minutes.;, The distance is ; iik.ilpmbtrGS. ' ■J— Tlie Electrician..

The latest- thjng in America- -is- a big •hailstorm. At Fayetteville, in Arkansas, for fifteen minutes a shower of ; hailstones descended, averaging, , be- ! tween two and three inches in circum- | ferenco. Oar Transatlantic cousins had 1 better not export such. weather as tins, | or, free traders a& we are', we shall be • obliged, to .demand", a prohibitory tariff. ' Replying in the Freeman to a letter j of Mr Egaii', "'Land -League ' sccrtitaryV : who compared to ) a; blackleg- on a racecourse those members of ' Parnellite ! party who "voted for fhe'seenn'd reading of the. land oil l,.<O'Gonnor Power, M.P., ■ says — c In my judgment the r«nl blsick- ': leg is the cad who bolt's with the stakes, ', and the real coward is, he who keeps 1 out of. the fight which r he, has himself pro'vdked, find who', skulking either' in London or Paris, tries to hide his own poltroonery by impugning the courage of others.'' ' " ' Preaching; ' at Westminster Abbey, Dean Stanley referred to "the revision!' of the' New Testament,. 'and said for the first time an attGrapt--had been- made, imperfect though it was,' to 'reach the original meaning of the sacred words. The version of the sacred text now presented to us enforced upon 1 us a,lesson which we were nl vyays apt to forget namely,' the' truth that the Scripture inspiration consists not in the letter but in the spirit ; not in apart but in the whole; "'riot '"in ia particular passage,' but in the general tendency and drift, of the completed words. In the Braye Chapel at St. George's Chapel, where the. memorial of the, late Prince Imperial has just been erected, two figures of angels, sculptured in white ' marble, ! have' been placed in the niches on each side of the central window of the south wall. Tho statuettes aro about three feet high, and face the recumbent figure of Prince .Napoleon, which lies beneath.upon the sarcophagus in the centre of. the little chapel. The figure "on the right clasps a wreath of immortelles on its-breast, while that on the left holds a skull in its hands. Both statuettes are finely sculptured, and greatly improve the appearance of the interior : oftlie ' Braye' 1 -Oha'pel- — '■ Times. ■ : - . - . •• Canterbury must be a lively city when the militia are" mustered for their early training.; A few nights ago the members of the officers' moss held a mock courfc martial' on' 6rie ; of "their "number, and condemned him to be striped .and huuted. The sentence was duly carried our, but in some "way 'th'e 1 hunted man managed to reach his lodgings. In the small hours of tho morning the rest went to fetch him out. After smashing Ms windows, one of them scaled a wall, entered the house, and opened the door for the rest. The bedroom door was burst open and "the hunted man was paraded up and down the street in his shirt. A citizen, who ventured to remonstrate from Tiis . window, was pelted with stones. A London correspondent of the Sheffield Independent is responsible for tho following: — It has long been "amongst the most interesting problems' which have troubled the vest of society whether after all Mr Gladstone and" the Queen would be brought into family relation- • ships like thoso which exist. between her Majesty and the Uuke of Argyll.- ' It is certain that Prince Leopold vw.as:accusr: tomed to show the most marked preference for' the company "of the Premier's daughter/ They ara : both very fond of music, and wore wont to- '■ practise together by the hour. Probably this is sufficient explanation' of the Prince's preference, and of the. apparent bond of union between the two. But society will have it that there was something else, and that if Prince Leopold had had his way Miss Gladstone would, not be about to marry a dean. Alluding to the 'crisis in the Free Ch.urch, Mr Spurgeon, in the June number of his magazine, says : — ' What are our brethren' at? Is it 'clear that there is really nonr.schief 'in the case? Then let the matter end, and all personal animosity 'Bo : dropped ;' but "if there be indeed a clear case of grievous error, we ., again say, What are our brethren at ? Are they about to follow the policy of inaction when.; the. daggeris set at the heart of truth? One tin-c-ompromising stroke may save the Church from year's of controversy ; but the slightest yielding" will work incalculable mischief; 1 Christian "love demands' that error;,, be no :longer salved over as if it were nothing, worse, than another form of' truth. '"'lf tutors 'of' colleges'.are not, sound in the faith, they have opportunities for spreading heresy which "nine but; Heretics' would' leaVeTir their. hands.'- >. -.-.-". ' ; : ■•■ The existence of a most reprehensible form of speculation has been brought' to light' by" a "case :heard\ before the Judge of the Stockport County Court. It appears that a Friendly Society car-, ryirig on a life" insurance business' among the humbler r "classes~requir'es'x'o" 'examination of f the person 'insured ? j 'where the amount is. under L3O. A^ person may therefore, it: will be" seen, •be. ,-' insured ', without knowing it — a -possibility which" might he productive' jot" the worst abuses. It; was, all<?ge"d in' Ithe case uuder .inquiry, that f an agent of jthe ( Society had made"a''pfaefic'e of aliow- ; irig the same life'tb 1 be^Trisured'^'by-a jn.u ni her "of so"nl^ anclTtllaTsuch"^ TTfiy^; knees'" liad 'anVongsf l a 'certain' cla'4s: (become a common -form of speculation. JThe ' society's '. ile.gal ■ rreprp'sen\a»ive:>r»fiformed the Jud^e thfyt.it. was (ioAcvr jmined as far aß^possible to put a stop" 'to ihis '."speculative trftile. J "

.Is it~a, libel. to..sav.of,n gentlijmjinjtt a newspaper that ' he kiss«d his cook ?" The Bristol city magistrates think so, and in a case which was before them: ' raising- the question, they refused to. 'allow the prosecution to be withdrawn, 1 though the proprietor of the offendingjournal, had apologised', "given up the MS,s.and given, a donation to the. .infirmary. i An old woman named Robinson w ( as. burnt to death at Huddersfield. Sho went into the cellar wiCb/irl jirtrramn 7 lamp, and slipped on the-, steps .andstunn*sd herself. The lamp broke and set fire to her" clothes.- : Her screams,, when she. recovered . consciousness, brought the neighbours, and the firewas pu" out; but she 1 died in' a i'aw min.utesfrqm the injuries... ... , Amid all the turmoil and troubles m. Ireland the country- everywhere lookscharming-, the crops everywhere most promising 1 . ' Potatoes have not lookedso:wpU:for many yearsj ! ha'yl is= h mos'ttluxuriant crop, and, under the forcing 1 , influence of magnificent' weather, tue'-. cereal crops are repidly making- up thelittle leeway caused, by the somewhat?late seed-time* - - - To give our readers an iden of the - extent, to which the trainin^ofcarrierpigeons is carried' on in Belgium, womay state that on Sunday -we'ek-'fouV special trains left Namur. with.. lB3 car* riages loaded with pigeons, on their wayto France, to b<r released there 'the ri'oxV day, to find their way 'back to their Belgian homes. Large numbers,- -o£ these birds were also .sent the samVdayfrom the different stations ' in ' Brussels. — Belgian News. A coal-cutting machine has been., recently tried in' the 'United States,, which promises to relieve the.collie'rS'of the greater' part' of their' labour. Itweighs only about half a ton, and makes, a cut- three or four feet wide and : five feet deep in eight minutes. Sucti a. machine would dispense with the.labqrious \ hewing ' of coal, and would leave the miners the task of breaking 1 - it clown* and loading it into trucks. If the engines can bo worked by compressed air, as is not unlike'W, it wilt enable* coal to- be worked at much greaterdepths than has been deemed possible hitherto. -' : • ! ' 1 111" 11 " 1 A thunder storm of great severity passed over Dumfriesshire, travelling from west to south, between ,4 and-,8 o'clock p.m., May 28, and lulling a man in'tlitf open air three ' miles "trfim my'residenc'e.-. The thermometer^stood 5 about 70deg. all the white.', DupiHg. ■ the storm, and. even when the thuhde'tf ■ pqals wore loudest, the chaffinches kept* singing, and the blackbirds' motes;. air,' tcrnated with the thunder claps. The: rain was moderate, and aa the a'r filled" with insects and perfume, the swallows kept busily skimming, even while forked" lightening was flushing. Horses in , the fields, however, exhibited symptoms of terror. — Correspondent in "Nature".""" The Revised 'Testament is by "all odds the most successful new book ever published in tho IThitocl Statos. TliG book seems in demand everywhere j even in Wall Street sdwral hundred copies were sold, for the brokers,werenaturally anxious to loam whether tho i'atcot extortioners, as : defined in 4 tliri^ gldeditipn of the book,/ had beenmiti^ gnted to any extent by (he Committee of Revision.' Freethinkers r - and fJoli 1^ ticians. wero in hot- haste to ,-buj;-, jfor. i there had. been a rumour abroad that : hell was ; suppressed- by thn'ne'iv e'ditioiir ; Meanwhile modern authors are lnrde?; spair. Whn,t. r chanctf is there for a new^ j novel When the 'leading literary" attrac-'--:tion of the day can bo bought; at..- the? .cheapest pirated reprint— New York Heraldl '•■■''- - ■■■" '■• >•" ."•-' : : Jn: I860; Professor Crowley of ,the> Mount Auburn Female Coilpge ' in : . Cincinnati w'ds hssassitatbd on thtfsWeef- ; at night while • attempting; to ■ lady friends who had been' insulted by roughs.' The'iiien b'pc'aped, :: and^ tbe v murder has sinco remained a mystpvy.3 A man died in Nashville a few days ago; who, ort'his death- bed; for the' first time-told th« ; story ;of the murder.^.- FJje^ said himself and two companions met Crowley after the 'quaVrel. 1 ' r O"ne : ' 6f J ' • them stabbed Crowle.y, who placed.hjs^ ihand on the wound and exclaimed:'My God ! I am killed !*' and, 'tiirrii^g around three, times, -fell dead. This ;is verified by the accounts published at the time, and is all that was known.,. The dying man said he' and" his 'com- 1 :panions. escaped to the ; hills, hid.away r a-T, day or two, and shipped to N'ev^, Orleans. On -tho 'VeVy^nigbt 'dfi their jarriva], there tlip three," whilejjassing" an ■alley, were' accosted by ti'man'^precisely of. the same drpss,: size,, and. rappea^r^qejs of Crowley. The man stabbed Crow- ; ley's murderer in the same pla'c'p/as'ttld" former. had ;been wounded, and the.man ( j making Jhe .exclamation, 'My,, God"!' I'm' killed !' turned' routi'd 1 three 5 timisl and- fell ;dead, just as , did, Crqwley..;f jAnother of the party went Wes r t and-: |met M'horribl^'death, the third last b'mn'fr' ■the party: ; ;who, : dirtd at j^a^l{yil}e.;andf, itold'tbis. J story.