GREAT BRITAIN. THE CONDITION OF IRELAND. TERRIBLE CYCLONE AT SHANGHAI. SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN LIMERICK.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, 17 October 1881, Page 2

GREAT BRITAIN. THE CONDITION OF IRELAND. TERRIBLE CYCLONE AT SHANGHAI. SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN LIMERICK.

London, 25th September. The opinion is general here that Mr. Bennett's Arctic exploring yacht Joannotto was caught in the ice, and the crew perished. Ihe Porte has returned a favourable answer to the request for a piece of land in Syria for the persecuted Jews of Russia and Germany. Speakman and Son, stockbrokers, of Manchester, have failed tor .£BO.OOO. Tenant farmers in County Down express satisfaction with tho Land Act, and bonfires were lighted in a large portion of the North of Ireland as a mark of gratitude to Mr. Gladstone for it. The Duke of Marlborough, needing funds, is selling his famous Sunderland library. A fearful cyclone occurred at Shanghai, during which many vessels went a3hore, destroying .£600,000 worth of tea. The Trades Union Congress sitting in London has condemned any return to protection. ' In a railway collision at Patrick's Wells, Limerick, on September 14th, fifty persons were ii'jured. i The Methouist Oecumenical Council has adopted resolutions against the opium traffic, and calling upon the Government to suppress it. Lefroy, the Brighton murderer, is ¦writing his own obituary. • : At Tinbei curry, Ireland, the police wero stoned by the people. They fired on the latter, wounding several. Tho Times, of tho 24th Septembor, says there is no sign of improvement in the affairs of Ireland, aiid calls upon the Government to defeat, by nny means, the Leaguers. ' It saya if the Land Act is insufficient, let it be supplemented with other legislation. ~