THE HANLAN-LAYCOCK SCULLING

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 79, 5 April 1881, Page 2

THE HANLAN-LAYCOCK SCULLING

The steam whaler Mary and Helen had been purchased by the United States Government, and will be fitted out to £0 in search of tho missing Arctic exploring vessel, Jeannette. The scare about American diseased pork has reduced the rale in h'ngland to almost nothing. The same cliquo of spponlators who caused the mischiof aro now attacking American canned meats generally. The Archbishop of Dublin assails tho Land League in his Lentan Pastoral; also the ladies who aro associated in tho movement. The ladies intend to reply. Beaconsfield offers to cancel his " Fndymion " contract with Longmans, and instead of .£IO,OOO to take half profits. The offer was declined. Tho loss is now .£3OOO, but it is expected to be made tip by a cheap edition. Lord Derby denies that ho is to enter tho Ministry. Mahomet Jan, tho Afghan loader, has been murdered. It is rumored in Paris that Horbort Yon Bismarck, the son of the Chancellor, has eloped to Italy with a German Princess, wifo of a high dignitary at the Court of Berlin. Ashmead Bartlctt, the husband of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, is threatened with a broach of promise snit. Lord Roßebory has given an order to Bochen to execute a statue of Carlyle in marble. Mr. Faton (Conservative) was elected to Parliament for Coventry. A Fenian LoJge has been discovered in Lancashire, where arms woro secreted. In tho Lenten Pastoral, issued by the Irish Catholic Bishops, tho pooplo wero earnestly warned against joining illogal and secret combinations, while tho strongest sympathy was expressed for thoso on their trial for sedition. '1 ho Hawaiian Islands aro being devastated by emall-pox, recently imported by the brig Cassandra from Canton. The whito inhabitants aro flying in dismay, although the road 8 and paths loading out of Honolulu are olosely guarded. Tho mail steamers will not take anything on board except mails, remaining outside tho rf>ef to receive them. Mongolians are arriving in largo numbors, and appropriating native women. Tho islands are far from being in a satisfactory stato. Lingard is engaged at Baldwin's, S?aa Francisco. Tho trial of Isanc Kalloch, for shooting Charles Do Yonng, is now in its 37th day. Tho testimony is conflicting. Tho population of Canada is being rapidly decreased by emigration to the Unitod States. President Garfield's inauguration, notwithstanding tho stormy weather, was a brilliant affair. Nearly 50,000 pooplo woro massed in front of the Capitol at Washington, and the address is pronounced ono of tho most careful and statesmanlike documents over delivered there. General W. S. Hancock, tho defeated Democratic candidate was present at the head of his brilliant staff, and by tho attention paid him seotned to divide tho honors of the day with his successful rival. '1 ho Assembly of tho Stato of Maine has indefinitely postponed a resolution expressing sympathy with the people of Ireland. A cominittoo of New York rosidents, with Dutch ancoatry, was formed to assist tho Boors in tho Transvaal, but has disbandod, finding no sympathy or oncouragomont. Tho Porte has orderod 30,0u0,000 cartridges from tho Unitod States, to bo delivered in throo months from February. Tho Pacific Mail Steam Shipping Company at San Francisco is at pro«nnt ongagod in an active competition with the China Merchants Steam Shipping Company for tho China trade. Tho second vossol of tho latter line, tho Meo Foo, was in port in Fobruary, ana out down the fares and freights below lovying rates. Some of tho papers koo in tho contest retributive iastice, as tho Pacific inundating Oalitorma with myriads ot Chinese, who have roducod prices and remuneration for whito labour in nearly nvory branch of business. __ Many of the sugar plantations of Honolulu aro heavily mortgaged, and some of them will have to go to tho wall. The Chinese arc already maturing plans for tho puruhase of these estates, and a Chineso landed proprietary is not an ualkely possibility of the future. A Catholio orphanage- at Hydo Park, Sorunto' Pi . '—■ »n»«i< °<n--'\tepu