ENGLAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3637, 9 March 1883, Page 3

ENGLAND.

English capital, attracted by the high dividends paid by the American land and cattle companies, is seeking investment in that quarter. The London and South-western Company's steamer Hilda, running between Jersey and Southampton, ran into and sank, on February 4th, a French ship, name unknown. The crew of the sunken ship were all drowned. The landlords and the Isle of Skvc crofters have decided to settle their difference hy arbitration. 'Cooper, Hall and Co., commission merchants and bankers, London, have failed for £2,000,000. Police Inspector Peel, who was niainly instrunicntal iv convicting Thomas AA'alsh, the keeper of a Fenian armory in Clerkenwell, was assaulted by a party of Irishmen iv London on the 11th of February, and knocked insensible. AVilliam AY. Foote, editor, AA r illiam J. Ramsey, proprietor, and M. Kemp, printer, of the Free Thinker, published in Loudon, were arrested on February 2nd on the charge of issuing blasphemous libels The Queen will probably open the Fisheries Exposition. Russia has asked for 10,000 feet of space. Every foot of the building will be occupied. The steamship James Gray foundered on February 2nd, aud the officers and crew were drowned. The Royal Geographical Society of London arc favorable to making Fraz Josef Land a base from which to reach the North Pole. Several wrecks are reported to have occurred on the English coast in the latter end of January. The barque Royal Tar, from Philadelphia for Liverpool, was driven into Penzance on the 29th of January with her decks swept and one man lost. Ten bodies were washed ashore at the same place. ' It is supposed that the steamer Black Watch foundered near point Hall. The Agnes Jack was wrecked near Swansea on her passage from Sardinia, and all hands perished, as the vessel was out of reach of the rockets and unapproachable by boats.