NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. GREAT BRITAIN.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 141, 15 December 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. GREAT BRITAIN.

CONDITION OP IRELAND. WORKING OF THE LAND COURTS. CONFEDERATE BOND SWINDLE. THE PRINCLSS BEATRICE'S BOOK. fßr Telegraph.] (united frspS association.] London, 20th November. On 10th November there wer« over 50,000 applications before the Irish Land Commission. In fact, there 13 not a countj in Ireland but baa sent applications, and among the later arrivals i 3 a pile from Parnell'a own cotmty, Wicklow. t Postmasters and Post Office servants in Ireland have been warael by the PostmasterGeceral not to join the Land League, which has been declarel an illegal organisation. A pugilist named Carney and four others have been arrested in London on a charge of manslaughter, for causing the death of Ireland, the champion of the light weights. The winnings of American horses in England and France this year amount to .£30,01)0. Kelly, of Dublin, has refused to allow the ladies' branch of the League to moet any longer on his premises, as he was threatened with arre3t. It is whispered in London Clubs that the Government intends shortly to sell Gibraltar to Spain. Mr. Gladstone has allowed his hand to be outlined for a book concerning hands of distinguished men, which is about to bo publ shed. Effigies of Gladstone, Parncll, Biggar, and others were burned in the poorer districts of London on oth November, according as trie English cr Irish sentiment predominated, while at Lewes one pt Guitcau, the assassin of President Garfield was consumed. The New York Herald's London correspondent haa made extensive enquiries among London bankers about the Coutoderata bund mania, and finds that not a penny has been invested, and certainly not in the name of the Confederate Government. the suppression of the Land Ijeaguq, several local branches continue to nicet "secretly. The police wer<r^hst*ucfced to Be more active in reporting participants' An influential meeting of the Central Chamber of Agriculture was held in London. A motion in iavour of Fair Trade was rejected Confederate bonda are at 12s 6d 1000 in London, as at the last accounts it was said that one Felix Payton, ot Salt Lake, admits manufacturing Confederate bonds amd shipping them to Philadelphia for' Eastern parties who wanted thorn to Bell as souvenirs of the Rebellion. Mr. O'Connor, M.P., a prominent Land Leaguer, is addressing large audiences in the United btates at 25 cents admission. Princess Beatrice has given £2000, out of the proceeds ot the sale of her Christinas book, for the support of the Belgrave Hospital fur Children. Ihe new Cunardcr, Sorvia, on her trial trip, attained 2t>£ knots per hour with 2500 tons dead weight on board. 'lhe Land Leaguers are still hesitating whether or not to transfer their headquarters to Paris. They have a shrewd suspicion that the French Government w>ll not allow it A large meeting of tenants on the estate of Sir John JKnnis, Athlono, unanimously resolved to demand all abatement 'of rents, and, in the event of a refusal, will apply to the Lan 1 Court, 'i here ara 5000 tenants on the estate. Landlords view the great reductions in rents made with alarm, and numbers who are ruined beliove that the principle which the Commission adoptod at Belfast in fixing rents will hold out a premium to indolent and incompetent f arinera to visit indulgent landlords with penalt cs.