NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1838, 13 January 1880, Page 4

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

SUMMARY OF NEWS. [BEirTER’9 TEIEGEAM3.] LONDON, Decimber 21. A Calcutta despatch says executions continue in the palace at Mandalay. Five princesses were recently murdered. The Burmese Ambassadors are still at Thayetmyo. Press prosecutions and rioting prevailed at Madrid.

The floods in Hungary and Transylvania have done great damage. A severe frost aline prevented Groswardein and adjacent pillages sharing the fate of Szegedin. Temesrar, Arad and several Transylvanian towns were suddenly inundated, and many towns in the level country were submerged. The distress is extreme. Thousands of the inhabitants are fugitives, and many perished. The famine extends to four provinces of Silesia. Bread riots occurred in some parts. The Rev. Arthur Wagner, of St. Paul’s Church, Brighton, joined the Church of Horae.

Excited meetings have been held all over the country, at which pikemen paraded in atroi.g force. No overt act was committed, however. Evictions continue. The agitation in English and Scotch towns proceeds, and considerable sums of money are being raised. About 40,000 people attended the Hyde Park Sunday demonstration in favor of^ Ireland. The assassin who fired at Viceroy Lord LytlOß, in Calcutta, was a native of Bengal, and had a grievance against the Government. He was recently discharged from Allahabad lunatic asylum. The Irish agitation continues unabated. Mr Parnell delivered a highly inflammatory speech at Liverpool, amounting to a challenge to the Government to arrest him, but no notice was taken.

The Grand Jury at Carriok-on-Suir found an indictment against the accused agitators, who were tried in Dublin.

Wesley’s morning chapel, London, was seriously damaged by fire. The frescoed ceiling was irreparably injured. Wesley’s pulpit was saved. The London branch of the firm of Goddefroi and Son, Hamburgh, failed, the liabilities being £BO,OOO. The firm offers all the Samoan property to Germany on condition of receiving the Imperial guarantee, or an equivalent in money. The Crown Prince is ■in favor of the project, and a talk of annexing Samoa is prevalent in Berlin, owing to the advantages that England acquired by Sir Arthur Gordon’s treaty. Contracts have been let for three sections of the Canadian Pacific railroad in British Columbia. The line is to be pushed forward yigoroua’y at both ends. Three Transcontinental roads in the United States are progressing at the rate of two miles a day. The Northern Pacific will have its termini in Oregon and San Francisco. A Californian colony is being established at Hawaii for sugar cultivation. Several families have already left the State for the islands.

Do Lesseps has sailed for Aspinwall. The Government accept the presidency of the Nicaragua Canal Company when formed. He visits Nicaragua during his West Indian and Central American tour.

General Ignatieff’s appointment as Russian Ambassador at Rome created great excitement in Vienna court circles.

The new Spanish Government adopt the Cuban Reform Bill of their predecessors, which will pass without amendment. The political situation is very critical in Madrid.

The steamship El Dorado with ninetyfive passengers and a crew of seventy Lascars put into Plymouth to repair damages from a storm in the Bay of Biscay. The crew were paralysed with fear, abandoned duty, and the male passengers worked for thirty hours bailing which saved the ship.

The winter palace at St. Petersburg was illuminated by electric light. Several military officers were arrested for complicity in the attempt at the Czir’s life at Moscow when his baggage train was blown up. The police are powerless against the Nihilists, who are found in the highest social circles of the Empire. The Czar has appointed a commission to consider what reforms are practicable.

British funds are being applied fer to relieve the starving Mussulmans in Eastern Boumelitf.

The Rhine is frozen, and people cross the river on the ice at Bingen. The Seine is frozen also. A motion was made before the Lords ■Justices of Appeal for the release of the Tiohborne claimant. Seven years having expired of the first sentence, it is claimed that the other sentence of seven years should run concurrently. A ruling by the New York Supreme Court on the Tweed trial, regarding cumulative indictments, was accepted by the Lords Justices as a precedent for opening the case.

Gordon Pacha is still detained in Abyssinia. A Catholic Vicar Apostolic has been imprisoned by King John. The latter will be released owing to the representations of the Pope. Active preparations for war are going forward between Egypt and Abyssinia. The French Chamber appointed a committee to inquire into disciplinary punishments in Now Caledonia.

Twenty-six peasants, recently tried at Kieff for forcibly occupying land not belonging to them, were sentenced to periods of imprisonment ranging from fourteen to four years. Baker Pasha has fired the Turkish force in Asia Minor at 60,000, to be used as a reserve in time of war.

Irish relief meetings have been hold at the large centres of population in the United States and Canada,

San Francisco is organising a powerful committee.

Mr Parnell ha* received a public ovation in New York. Resolutions denunciatory of the land system of Ireland, expressing sympathy with the Irish people, and requesting the President to represent the wish of the American people in favor of a peasant p prietary to the British Government, have been introduced in Congress. Congress will authorise tne resumption of 100,0.0,000 acres of forfeited railroad grants, which will then be open for settlement and homestead entry. One thousand pikemen surrounded the platform at an anti rent meeting in County Mayo recently, at which Daly, the agitator, was present. An International Exhibition will bo held at Rome in 1882.

The Duchess of Marlborough has written to the “ Times,” appealing to England for funds towards the rehef of distress in the West of Ireland. The ‘‘Times ” warmly supports the appeal. The Presbyterian Synod of Long Island, by a two-thirds vote, sustained Dr. Talmage by dismissing an appeal from the decision of the Presbytery in bis case. The Vatican has congratulated the Irish clergy on their attitude with reference to political agitation in Ireland. The Government bae granted pensions of £3OO to the widow and £IOO to the mother of Sir Louis Cavagnavi, murdered at Oabul. An Englishman won the seven days’ bicycle race at Chicago. Three men were killed and seven wounded by a boiler explosion on her Majesty’s ship Pelican

The Imperial Government is forming a reserve of 10,000 men in Canada, composed of the Dominion militia, for service at home or abroad.

A brigade cf pioneer? and surveyors left France to prepare for cutting the Panama Canal.

The General Council of Switzerland were memorialised to take steps to repress Morrnonism, but dec'ined in view of the promise that the American Government will suppress poly gamy at Utah. The weather is severe on the Continent. Wolves are appearing in many parts of France and Germany.

In England the Farmers’ Alliance demand the reform of the land laws. A speech of the Duke of Richmond admitted the necessity for revision of rentals, if the distress continued, the Government remitting the income tax where agricultural depression has caused an abatement of farmers’ rents. Mr Lea, a Liberal, was elected for Donegal, replacing a Conservative. In 'consequence of the revival of the cotton trade weavers are demanding increased wages.

Lord Napier, of Magdala, is coming to Eng’and to participate in the final deliberation j of the Army Commission. By an explosion of dynamite in a salt mine at Wurtemburg twenty persons ware killed Cinjured. Lord Dufferin has returned to St, Petersburg.