GREAT BRITAIN.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 22, 26 July 1881, Page 2

GREAT BRITAIN.

RETURN OP GENEKAL VALENTINE BAKER. WALKING CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WOELD. DISSATISFACTION~AMONG ENGLISH TELEGRAPHISTS. DEPOPULATION OP IRELAND. [UNITED PBBBB ASSOCIATION.! London, 3rd July. Considerable interest has been excited in tho clubs by the reappearance in London of General Valentine Baker, formerly of tho 10th Hussars, and there is muoh comment on the fact that he was at once taken up by the Prince of Wales, after his return from Turkey, and invited to dinner : a oiroamstanon which is regarded as intended to pare the way to his rcadmiasion into tho Army and Nary Club, the required number of fifty members having Binned a paper expressing their opinion that the " cause of his quitting tho service does not offoot his Btanding as a gentleman." The Beaconsfiold Momorial Fund makos slow progress. William Ponn's rolatives in England will not permit the removal of his remains to Pennsylvania, as proposed by the Americans. The New York Herald put* forth, as a solution of tho Irish problom, the establishment of a Grand Imperial Parliament, in* eluding representatives from Australia, Canada, the Capo, and Ireland and Scotland. The walking match in London for tho Championship of the World was virtually ended by Weston's siokness. He beoamo light-headed and was put to bed. Dwyor, of New York, offered to match Rowell, Western's opponent, against any other man in tho world tor 10,000dols. The Great Eastern steamship will be offered by pnblio auotion on the Ist of October nnxt. The postal and telograph omployees, numbering 1200 in London, called a national OOnferenoo of telegraph clerks at Liverpool * but it did not take place. General dissatisfaction among the oporators was tho original onuao of the trouble, together with low wages and unpaid overtime. The New York World has the following details of the recent census in Ireland : — In some districts in Connaught and Munstor, whole villages are almost depopulated, and in all the population is terribly thinned out. In West Cork, on tho vast estates of tho Countess of Kingston, two hamlets have been absolutely deserted. The little villago of Knock, County Majo, where tho Virgin Mary ia said to have appeared, contained 600 souls in 1871. To-day, exclusive of pilgrims, there aro not 30 all told. Limerick returns tell a similar story. In tho baronies in the West and South, nearly all the young men and women have gono to America. The treasury of the Land l<eaguers is bankrupt, and strong appeals for funds are made, ospeoi&lly to the Irish in the United States. Henry Bangman, Henry Street, and Edwin Street, known as betting men, have boon arraigned in the Lord Mayor's Court, London, on a chargo of passing a number of forged cheques. They are stated to have been accomplices in tho notorious Bidwoll forgeries on the Bank of England, and in tho great turf frauds. They were remanded.