ENGLISH SUMMARY.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 68, 19 September 1881, Page 2

ENGLISH SUMMARY.

THE DYNAMITE SCARE IN ENGLAND. MORE OUTEAGES IN IRELAND. LAND AGITATION IN ENGLAND. FRAUDS, FAILURES, AND FLIGHTS. THE DYNAMITE CONVENTION. BRADLAUGH'S TORN COAT. ENGLISH ATtTILLERY BEATEN BY COLONIALS. WELL-DRESSED COWARDS. London, 23th August. Mr. Herbert Gladstone has been re-elected for Leeds alter his appointment as Junior Lord of the Treasury. A bill haa been introduced this session for "the relief of contumacious prisoners." It is intended to effect the release of tho Rev. Mr. Green, a Ritualist, imprisoned at Lancaster. A new company will shortly be formed with a capital of -£4,000,000 to reclaim the waste lands of Ireland. The dynamite scare in England is increasing, and all sorts of rumours are ciroulated, among them being one that the Duke of Edinburgh was specially marked out for assassination. Mr. Bradlaugh is suffering from erysipelas from wounds caused in ejecting him from the House of Commons. Iho subscriptions to the Land League for the year were 700, nearly all being from America. Only £81 were collected in Groat Britain and £ 102 in Ireland. A mob smashed the windows of the Beciiory and those of other respectable inhabitants in Tipperary who did not illuminate their houses in honour of Dillon's release. The Supremo Council of the Fenian Brotherhood have split on the dynamite question, some favouring and others opposing the scheme. Colonel Clongh, who distributed stamps for the Irish Law Courts, and who defrauded the Government out of .£lO,OOO by forging stamps, has been sentenced to ton years' penal servitude. Dutch is the official language determined on for tho Transvaal. The new American cable will be in operation on Ist November. Serious conflicts have occurred between Eoldiers and civilians at Now lioss. The latest phase of "Boycotting" haß occurred at Templemore, Tipperary. Mrs. Lallor evicted tenants, and the people of the district have placed tho evicted men for tho last two Sundays in Mrs. Lallor's pew in tho parish chapel, built by herself. Tennyson is preparing another drama. Stanley, the explorer, is lying dangerously ill in Central Africa, and is not expected to recover. JohnSkittandCo., London, oil merchants, recently failed, and the business passed into the hands of the present sole partner, who has absconded to Spain after putting into circulation .£20,000 of forged bills. The Daily News says it has become evident that English tenants mean to bestir themselves to obtain a redress of their legitimate grievances, and that various agencies are co-operating to bring about legislation regarding English land laws. Mr. Gladstone recently expressed his opinion favourable to such legislation. The London Times of 26th August aays : — " It is the opinion in best informed quarters that the American gold drain will continue, and if it does there can bo but little doubt of a further rise in the rates for money." Landlords in the South of Ireland have permanently reduced rents 25 per cent, in compliance with extensive appeals to them. The harvest prospects in Great Britain grow more and more desperate. Grain that has been cut is turning black er is sprouting, and standing wheat is being thrashed out by the heavy rain. The rape crops in some districts iv Ireland are under water and seriously damaged. Farmer* everywhere are disheartened. Marnott and McKinnon, file makers, Sheffield, have failed for .£BO,OOO. The British Consulate at Philadelphia haa telegraphed the Home Government tho substance of the address of the so-called Irish Revolutionary Convention, which has been holding 1 secret sessions in that city. The address, without the slightest qualification, proclaims its intention to destroy British vessels wherever they can be found, and declares that it is just as well to begin work which is most easy of accomplishment, and by the time a few English merchant vessels are destroyed, the world may witness the beneficent sight of all the shipping merchants and insurance companies of England presenting a petition to Mr. Gladstone to reconsider the Irish question. Miss Braddon's proposition to publish a penny edition of Scott's novels has raised a howl of indignation. Crowe, the infernal machine man, will, it is said, go to Ireland as agent for an American dynamite firm iv Limerick. Offers for Bradlaugh's torn coat are said to be numerous. One person offerß £20, another £10, and a third suggests that it be raffled for. The owner, however, replies loftily, "We are conscious of the very kindly feeling which prompts those offers, but the coat is not for sale. Payment will be made by-and-bye by our foes, and until that payment is exacted the coat has a very special value as a reminder." Great preparations are being ma^ie in Japan for the reception of the Royal Princes and the Detached Squadron. At the weekly meeting of the Laud League at Dublin, on 9th August, subscriptions of .£2579 were announced, the whole amount being from America and New Zealand. At Shoeburyness the Canadian team won the prize given by the Marquis ef Lome for a detachment that could mount and dismount a cannon in the least time. The Canadians defeated eleven teams of British Artillery Volunteers. A Protectionist meeting has been held at Exeter Hall. One of the resolutions adopted was for a tax of one shilling per quarter on corn. Mr. Parnell is agitating for the protection of Irish manufactures. Trelawney, the friend of Byron and Shelley, has died in London. Much indignation has been expressed through the London Press at the conduct of some fifty well-built and well-dressed men, who stood unconcernedly around a basin in Kensington Gardens while a girl four years old drowned in two feet of water. The coroner said ha was utterly ashamed of their inhumanity and cowardice.