ENGLISH NEWS

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 8, 28 June 1887, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS

(COMJOBD FBOM VABIOUS SOUBCZS.) The amount of the forttine recently kit to 8k Charles Dilke is £134,000. The Gladstonien Liberals here won the last three elections. G.O.M. not dead yet. Viator Bago, the great French poet, tfius* have done well out of literature, for his English estate has just realised £93,000. Sir John Mellor the celebrated Q.O, and judge is dead. He was one of the judges who tried the famous Tichborne case. Poor old Tapper, the author of" Proverbial Philosophy," is now a broken-down man of 77 years of age. His friends are getting up a subscription for him. Irving, the great actor, is delighting Lon dsn nightly with the two utterly diverse representations of Matthias In ** The Bells" and “ Jingle ” from Pickwicks, The Maharajah Pertab Singh, a great Indian swell, who was on the Tasmania, when that vessel was wrecked oil the Corsican coast, lost £40,000 of jewellery, Mr Rider Haggard, the clever author of ** She ’• and “ King Solomon’s Mines ” is conducting ajwordy warfare in the London papers with those who accuse him of plagarism. The life of the late Lady Lytton just published is causing great excitement at Home. The great writer seems to have behaved like a perfect beast to his wife, kickfog, biting, and maltreating her conlineally. The London Royal Statistical Society have Smtly been enquiring into the relative th rates of London’s occupations. The healthiest calling is that of a clergyman, the most unhealthy that of an inn or hotel servant. Cheap whisky is more deadly than cheap sermons evidently.

Speaking at a Press Club dinner the other day, Lord Wolsely said "He believed himself that the country—he would not say was in danger of invasion, but was open to invasion. It was an operation which had been planned by the greatest soldier that ever lived in the world; and as it was possible then, he believed it to be still more possible now; and therefore it behoved us to set our house in order.

The Transvaal Advertiser recently drew attention to the disciplinary correction of women in the Pretoria gaol. On the occasion cited the Landdrost attended in person to witness the punishment, which was inflicted with the “ cat’’ by the official who performs such duties in the case of men similarly sentenced. The Port Elizabeth Telegraph has suggested the abolition by the Government of the South African Republic of the practice of the application of the “ cat ” to women for trivial offences.

To show that eviction is not yet a thing of the past in the Green Island, we may quote the following list for the last quarter of the year Familes Persons. Ulster..,. 143 619 Leinster 143 390 • Connaught 189 953 ’ Munster • 531 2,880 1,008 5,042 • In Kerry alone 306 families, or 1,766 persona were evicted. Comment is needless.

Respecting the attempt on the life of the Ciar, the Morning Post says It was even a more desperate affair than was supposed. The three bombs contained from 8 to 7 lbs of dynamite apiece, and from 86 to 261 small hollow leaden cubes filled with strychnine, end they would inevitably have shattered everything within a distance of six yards and the cubes would have been driven for 30 yards in every dinotion. One stands aghast before a conspiracy in which some 80 people simply lay down their own lives in executing a deed which they have risked their lives dally for months in'preparing, and doom hundreds of others with them to a sudden and tearful death.

With regard to the unfortunate Duchess of Camberland who went mad upon hearing of the attempt on the Csar, her brother-in-law, ths Vienna correspondent of the Standard ■aw that when the Queen of Hanover's sixty-ninth birthday was celebrated, on April 14, it was not anticipated that the unfortunate Duchess would remember it, but, to the astonishment of the party at Gmunden, a messenger arrived from her, bringing a beautiful bouquet of lilies of the valley,'with a message to the effect that " the Ducheee deeply regretted to be unable to present the flowers herself, but that she sent as many kisses as it contained blossoms." The Queen was affected to tears, and said to the Princess "We shall soon have Thyra back

Englishmen and the Times who are always crying oat about crime in Ireland, with big letters always added to it In the newspapers, should note the following paragraph from the Pall Mall Gazette, of April 28. It is apt and to the point When Mr Balfour and others are holding up pious hands of horror over the (cooked) statistics of outrage in Ireland, why do they not pause for a moment to look at the calendars for the Old Bailey, and some of the English Assizes? At Manchester on Tuesday there were no fewer than 70 prisoners returned for trial—ls of them on charges of murder ? The Old Bailey list for this month is also heavy, with bloody and revolting crimes. But there is no such Pecksniff as John Bull whan he is bent on doing wrong. Nor can any one so sedulously turn a blind eye to facts which he does not wish to see.

.Cardinal Manning, who was one of the sneakers at Grosvenor House, in support of tne Boyal Victoria Hall, related the following anecdote in his interesting and sympathetic address. His Eminence dwelt chiefly on the temperance work done at the "Vic," being, as be' apologetically stated, somewhat mad on the subject. One evening Cardinal Manning was walking in West London, and passed a labouring (man, who with a pipe in his month was walking along. “ Good night,” said the prelate, by way of beginning a conversation which before long turned on the temperance question. The workman, it appeared, had not taken the pledge, having having consulted a friend about the matter, matter, who thought there was no need for him to do so, as he was no drunkard. The Cardinal, probably thinking that example is better than precept, told the man that he had taken it, wherepon the latter promptly replied by asking, “ Did you want it, your reverence ?

A grave scandal, similar in some respects to that which recently took place at Chatham, has just been brought to light in the Boyal Arsenal at Woolwich. Her Majesty’s War Department appears to have had reason to suspect that important information relative to the latest improvements in modern warfare was finding its way from the Orddence Select Committee at Woolwich to’a foreign Government. Tests and inquiries were instituted, resulting in the arrest, by the military authorities, of an non-commissioned officer who was a confidential clerk in the office of the Select Committee. He was conveyed at the office of the District Staff to which he belonged, stripped of his uniform, and discharged from the army without trial by court martial •, a civilian, who was a colleague of the accused, being summarily dismissed. The former had been in the army a considerable time, was much respected, and would shortly have received a commission. He has a wife and several children, with whom he has left Woolwich stating that he was going to emigrate.