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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1153, 17 May 1870, Page 3

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London, Feb. 28. The House of Lords to-day had a brief debate on the Sunday Trading Bill. In the Commons, Mr. Gladstone piomised an early introduction of a practical measure for education in Ireland and Scotland. Mr. Childers laid before the House estimates for expenditure of the navy, which amount to nine and a quarter millions sterling. He proceeded to explain and justify the estimates, laying stress on the outlay required for building ironclads. When all vessels now in process of construction were completed, the ironclad fleet would consist of two broadside ships of the largest size, six second class, nine third class, eight fourth class, four fifth class, and two sixth class. Of, turret "ships there would be two first class, five second class, and two third class, besides a number of smaller iron vessels. This fleet would place England on an equal footing with the highest naval power in the world. He proposed, in order to keep its strength up to the standard, to add yearly 20,000 tons to, the navy. The Times criticises the vagueness of Mr. Gladstone's remarks in Parliament, last night, on the proposed action of the Government in relation to the bill for reform of the land system in Ireland. It does not believe there can be any boroughs so long as the Government fails to assert the majesty of the law. Crimes are still unpunished in Ireland. Disorder is. rampant. The Government can never pacify or control Ireland, or re-establish a decided policy, till it asserts its power. The Times demands the adoption of such a policy without delay. A meeting of Irish members will be held on Monday,. for the purpose of taking action with reference to the Irish Land Bill. The Liberals will endeavour to add an amendment extending the system of the tenant rights of Ulster to the whole of Ireland. A great many Liberals, especially the Whigs, will resist the amendment. The Irish Liberals do not feel satisfied with the explanations made in Parliament in reference to the treatment of O'Donovan Rosa and his fellow convicts. The whole subject will speedily be brought to the attention of Parliament. Mr. Bright is convalescent. The death of Barbara Übryk, the iucarcerated nun, U announced. It is said that Lord Hatberley will shortly resign the Chancellorship and be succeeded by Sir lloundell Palmer. The news of the running down of the American corvette Onei.da, by the P. and 0. Companyls s.s. Bombay! and the want of humanity shown by the captain of the Bombay, in not attempting to save any of the crew, has caused a great sensation. The Prince of Wales has twice lately been hissed in the theatre. Bull fights have been inaugurated at theAgricultural Hall. The horses were of 1 wicker work, and the darts of pasteboard, smeared with glue. The steam trade between Liverpool and Bombay, via the Suez Canal, is daily increasing. The Magdala, a new monitor for the defence of Bombay, (a sister ship to the Cerberus,) was launched lately from the slips of the Thames Iron Works. She will be rigged and fitted with temporary bulwarks. It is .intended to take her out to her station by way of the Suez Canal. Three large steamers are loading at Liverpool for India by the same route, and freight from Bombay is down by it to £3 ss. per ton. The furniture of the " Countess " of Derwentwater has been seized under a writ from the Sheriff. . A sum of nearly £500, which remained unexpended from the Highland Emigration Fund, has been transferred to the British and Colonial Society, ." to be applied in aid of the emigration of entire families from the Western Highlands and Scotland to a British colony ;" and any further repayments which may be received from the colonies will be appropriated in like manner. A meeting, called by the Emigration League, was held in the Town Hall, in Birmingham, on March 1. The Mayor presided, and there was a crowded audience, principally of working men. Sir George Grey, Mr. George Duddell, of Victoria, Mr. George Potter, Mr. Edmond Beales, and Mr. Jenkins, the Hon. Sec, attended as a deputation from the League. Sir George Grey spoke of portentous signs which indicated the necessity of extending a helping hand to, the suffering poor. Emigration was a speedy, and to a great extent, aii effectual remedy for the sufferings of the English people from poverty. Messrs. Potter, Beales, Jenkins, and Hibbs, spoke in favour of the objects of the League. In charging the Grand Jury of the county of Meath; the Chief Justice of the Irish Court of Common Pleas expressed his alarm at the number and magnitude of the offences which had been committed within the past few months. Pour ov five men had been brutally murdered in open day, yet no one has been made amenable to justice. Sixty or seventy threatening letters had been sent since the previous assizes, and in no instance had the offender been detected. He attributed the " reign of terror," existing in " the country, to the unwillingness of witnesses to come forward, but expressed his opinion that this feeling of fear would in time pass away. The Irish Land Bill (the Times' correspondent says), is still receiving a rough handling on all sides! Its provisions are analysed and dissected with unsparing minuteness, and all parties profess to regard it with dissatisfaction. Conservatives condemn it as an insidious measure of confiscation. One of the grounds upon which they rest this charge is the fourth clause, which, as they construe it, will entitle a tenant without eviction to demand compensation for alleged improvements extending back to a period of twenty years. They think it a great hardship that such a power should be given. ,; bl<Dn February 28, all the medical men ;c6ftViected ; with J the 1 Welsh " fating girl " case appeared before the Justices for the

Llanfibangelar-arth division, Llandyssil, to answer a charge, of " wilfully killing and slaving " Sarah Jacobs. This prosecution is instituted by the Government, who are represented by Mr. Coleridge, of the South Wales circuit. M. Balfe, the opera composer, has been made a Knight of the Legion of Honour by the Emperor Napoleon. Mabel Grey, the queen of the demi-monde in London at present, has been sued by. her costumier, Mr. Simmonds, for £46, for dresses supplied to enable her to appear in the part of " Sardanapalus." The fair defendant stated that she never received any salary, nor ever expected any, she having acted only as an amateur. It was proved that she was a minor, being only nineteen years of age last November. Verdict — Not liable. The late Mr. Charles Egan, wholesale woollen merchant, of High-street, Dublin, by will bequeathed £240,000 in personal and funded property, and real estate of the value of £1800 per annum, to Cardinal Cullen, for Roman Catholic charities and other purposes. The will is not unlikely to be contested by the relations, for whom slender provision has been made, and the point to be raised is whether the gift of personality is or is not void for remoteness. The regular forces for 1870-71, are 179,758 ; the reserve forces number 344,530. A sum of £12,0013 appears on the estimates for the pay of enrolled pensioners in Western Australia. A disease, resembling Asiatic cholera, has broken out in the parish of Bullington, near Wragby, Lincolnshire. Several deaths have occurred. The fatal cases lasted about 30 hours. March 5. A project is on foot of laying a transAtlantic cable smaller and lighter than those heretofore used. The estimated cost of the cable is not to exceed £250,000. A scheme for connecting England with all her colonies by telegraph is talked of. Mr. Gladstone said that the bill for enforcing the laws in Ireland would contain the provisions of several Acts passed in former years for the preservation of the public peace. It would empower the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to suspend the habeus corpus, provides for summary trial, without jury, of certain offences created by the bill, such as the possession of powder, prowling by night, or travelling without a destination or purpose. It would compensate the victims of violence, and increase the powers of the officers of justice for obtaining evidence. The bill was to remain in force for a limited time, and could be applied only to districts in which the Lord Lieutenant had proclaimed the suspension of the Habeas Corpus. The press, in the districts under the operation of the law, would be held answerable for offences against order. This statement was received with uproarious applause from both sides. March 8. A private despatch is alleged to have been received to-day by an. influential house, announcing the failure of four or five leading cotton speculators in LiverpooJLand Manchester, w.ifcbrliabiHfctcs "estimated at a million pounds. In the House of Commons to-night the debate on the Irish Land Bill was continued. Mr. Maguire, member from Cork, attacked the measure, declaring that it fell short of the exalted expectations of the Irish people. He advocated the repeal of the law of distraint, and concluded by expressing the opinion that the bill, if properly amended, would prove a benefit to the country. Mr. Hunt, member from Northampton, was rejoiced at the good temper shown in the discussion, and commented at length on the provisions of the bill, approving some and censuring others. He thought the defects might be remedied in Court. The Attorney-General made an elaborate reply to these objections. Mr. O'Donoghue thought that the last undertaking was really the reorganisation of the general system of Ireland ; there was one hopeful augury in the fact that his voice, hitherto unheard, was now heard. Mr. Henry, member for Oxford, discovered a source of endless litigation in the bill; Mr. Berry, in a speech full of humour, foreshadowed that the tenant system of England favored the tenants, while that of Ireland favored the landlords ; this inequality needed redress, an opportunity for which the bill afforded. He then proceeded to defend the bill in detail. In the Mordaunt divorce case, Lord. Penseance has consented to the hearing by a full bench, of argument on the right of Sir Charles to proceed with the. case, notwithstanding the decision as to Lady Mor« daunts insanity. Mr. Addington, formerly Charge d'Affairs at Washington, is dead. The Irish Times asserts that the Government will soon issue an order suspending, again the operation of the Habeas Corpus in Ireland: j Sailing vessels arriving report heavy easterly gales in the Atlantic, and vast fields of ice floating southward much earlier than usual. The Times' denounces the captain of the Bombay for proceeding after the collision with the Oneida, without positively ascertaining, the damage sustained by the latter. March 10. The Queen left Windsor on the Bth for Buckingham Palace. On the 9th Her Majesty held the first drawing-room of the season. H. R. H. the Prince of Wales returned to Marlborough House from Burghersh Chantry on the 3rd. The Princess visited the Queen on the 3rd. i Mr. Cardwell moved the Army Estimates, which he said were founded on his policy of the previous year. The total charge was £12,975,000, a decrease of £1,136,900 on the former year. Colonial military expenditure had been reduced from £1,838,000 to £674,000, and men from 49,000 to 20,941. The Marquis of Ailsa has been severely injured by a fall whilst huntingOutrages continue in Ireland. At the Mullingar assizes a woman was sentenced to 5 years penal servitude for writing a threatening letter. At the conclusion of the trial on March stb, concerning the Drumaloor affray, the Judge condemned the conduct of the priests, and the Grand Jury passed a resolution that permitting masses of. people to move in procession, with scarves and banners, endangered the peace of the country. At Waterford Mr. B. Osborne, M.P.,

waa attacked, but made his escape from his hotel through a skylight. The magisterial inquiry into the death of the Welsh fasting girl is being continued. Colonel Galloway presented the New Zealand war medal at Chatham on the .Ith to Major F. Mould, Corporals Kunus, Mant, and Johnson, Lance»Corporal Smith, and Sappers Graham and Heron, Royal Engineers. The Iron Duke, a new iron clad of 3,500 tons, has been launched from Pembroke yard. The resignation of the Diocese of Wellington by Bishop Abraham is confirmed. He will become suffragan to Bishop Selwyn. Mr. Sims Reeves is going to Italy. Covent garden Theatre will be converted into a central telegraphic depot. Mile. Patti is suffering from quinsy, induced by the excessive cold in St. Petersburg. Two keepers at the Lancaster asylum were sentenced to seven . years each for the manslaughter of a' lunatic. Tallerman's Australian meat was sold at 6^d per Ib. The Annual Rifle contest will be held at Wimbledon on July 11. Earl de Grey and Ripon is elected master of Freemasons in England, Vice Earl Zetland retired. " ' , -\ „ The Marquis of Bute hasjoined hia yacht at Gibraltar, and, it is said,' will visit Australia and New Zealand. "Eau de Nuit" is a new colour in Paris. It is a mixture of grey and green shot with silver. Charles Dickens had an interview with the Queen to-day by invitation. The Birmingham Post asserts that a tender of a Peerage or a Baronetcy will be made to Dickens. March 11. The Times suggests that for an experiment, the Atlantic Cable tolls be reduced for the month to ss. for ten words. March 20. A boat from the steamer Samaria, reached Queenstown at six o'clock this morning. It left the steamer 40 miles off, with her shaft broken. Two tugs have gone to bring her in. . . March 24. The turret ship Captain made a second trip yesterday a long way out to sea, and experienced rough weather. The trip was successful beyond expectation. In the House of Commons, to-night, Mr. Monsell, under the direction of the Colonial Department, read a dispatch sent to the Government from the Canadian Dominion. It contains no intimation that England proposed to concede Colonial independence. Mr. Gladstone repeated the solemn promises in favor of Ireland made during the canvass in Lancashire. ■ The House went into Committee on the bill for enforcing the laws id Ireland. An amendment reducing. the term of imprisonment for carrying arms to one year was rejected. March 25. The' Chancellor of the Exchequer, in replying to a deputation, discouraged all hopes of abolition, of the income tax. General Lendensoy has gone to Canada to organise the militia. Accounts from the principal ports of Ireland show that emigration to the United States has re-opened this season with great vigour. A letter from Earl Russell appeared in the Times, which is probably intended to offer Mr. Forster a loop-hole for escaping from the objections to his Education Bill. It suggests •an amendment for the new form of religious exercise for opening school. In the House of 'Commons to-night the bill for the preservation of peace in Ireland was considered in Committee. The clause forfeiting the editions of seditious journals was opposed by Mr. Moore, member for County of Mayo. Several members made speeches in advocacy of striking out the term " seditious" from the clause. Mr. Fortescue, Chief Secretary of Ireland, engaged to omit the word and provide that each culpable journal be entitled to one warning. Lord Manners admitted that extraordinary powers were necessary, but argued that they were made so by mismanagement of the Government. Mr. Gladstone retorted by charging, the present situation of Ireland upon the Tories. The clause was revised by leaving out the word " seditious." Adopted by 277 majority. Mr. Downing moved an amendment to the clause where it speaks of seditious journals, requiring preliminary indictments, which was negatived. The clause as amended was adopted by 226 majority. Other clauses to the bill were considered and amendments adopted thereto. The English steamer Silesa, arrived at Plymouth to-day, from New York, reports, March 19, seeing a wreck of a barque, with two masts standing, apd.no one on board; there were no boats in sight. The name could not be discovered. The belief prevails in Liverpool that the City of Boston was sunk by collision with an iceberg. Out-going trans- Atlantic steamers are ordered to take a southerly course to avoid icebergs, unusual numbers of which are reported. The cholera has reappeared at St. Petersburg. The Bishop of Peterboro has placed his name at the head of the subscription for a statue to Robert Hall at Leicester. . . . March 2G. It is reported that John Bright intends to resign his seat in the British Ministry. The Irish Force Bill has passed both Houses of Parliament. In the Commons, Sir John Pakington said it was reported that the steamship City of Boston left America loaded twenty inches deeper than the underwriters allowed. He gave notice that he should ask Government to inform the House if there was any truth in this report. Gladstone's Land Reform Bill is not well received in Ireland, and its unpopularity is increasing. The weather has been very stormy for the last day or two. Several inches of snow fell last night, and it is still snowing. The telegraph is deranged. Correspondents of the English newspapers at Tours comment with singular unanimity on the subserviency of the Court to the Emperor's supposed sympathy with Prince Bonaparte. .... March 28. The Times reviews the proceedings of

, the High Court of Tours, and pronounces | Prince Pierre Bonaparte a creature not to be trusted with a deadly weapon, but to be kept like a madman, under constant watch. The Post urges the policy of extreme rigour towards Ireland. The acquittal of Prince Bonaparte is much commented on here. The Cuba Cable Fleet is nearly ready to sail. It is the most perfectly appointed expedition of the kind ever despatched. March 29. Green, the famous sereonaut, is dead. There was a grand banquet last evening at the residence af Mr. Motley, in honor of the Queen of the Netherlands^ Among the guests were Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Thos. Hughes, Robert Browning, Miss Caroline Norton, James Anthony Froude, Geo. Grate, and many other celebrities. At Portsmouth, yesterday, the largest armor plate of iron, thick rolled at cherry red heat, was tested with chilled shot from smooth-bore guns. They were fired with a charge of twenty-four pounds of powder a distance of thirty feet. The shot penetrated seven and one-fifteenth inches into the plate. Morris' Col. McGregor, by Macaroni, is now the favorite in the betting on the Derby. George Phillips has been appointed Attorney-General for British Columbia. A correspondent of the 2Ymef;squn'ds the alarm at the quantity of American railroad bonds coming over. The Pall Mall Gazette, accepting as semiofficial the New York Tribune's defence of Secretary Fish, for suppressing Lord Clarendon's comments on the Alabama Claims' correspondence, saya neither here nor in America can the excuse be thought satisfactory. In the House of Lords last evening the bill for the protection of life and property in Ireland, already passed the House of Commons, was read the first time. The other business was unimportant. March 30. The Globe intimates that John Bright will soon resign his place in the Cabinet. The University crews continue to improve in form. Misgivings are felt with regard to the new Oxford boat, which is thought too small. In the House of Commons, this evening, the bill abolishing the forfeiture of property of felons, passed a second reading. The party processions bill was also read a second time. The Times to-day, in an editorial, comments on the naval policy of the First Lord of the Admiralty. The Times regrets his reluctance to reduce the naval estimates, and ascribes it to the chronic error that England is responsible for the police of the ocean. The Post says Government is preparing an expedition, which will include a steel battery, with 1,000 men, to repress the revolt in the Red River country. A steamer service between Liverpool and Prince Edward's Island, is organising here. Tennessee and Georgia railroad bonds were introduced on the market here today. Mr. Ashbury, owner of tho yacht_Cambria, writes to the limes on the subject of the contemplated race. He says ofHbe six courses offered to Douglass, assuming to be within ten per cent, of the Cambria's size, by New York measurement, Douglass accepts that calling for three heats, dead to windward and back in the Channel, without any Allowances. At the Epsom and Spring Meeting the Great Metropolitan Stakes were won by Sabrinus, beating Jamie and Briton. Sabrinus is considered the best horse of the season, but is excluded from the great races because she is too young. March 31. The Times says the income of the Government last year exceeded the expenditure by £8,000,000 sterling. The House of Lords has rejected the claim of Mr. Howard to the Wyclow peerage. It is reported that Prince Pierre Bonaparte intends to reside in Brussels. The Post says the departure of troops and a steel battery, just organised, for operations in the Red River country, is delayed for a few days, the delegation from that settlement being now on their way here to lay an explanation of the situation of affairs before the Government authorities, and no action will be taken until this delegation can be heard. The flow of specie into the Bank of England this week is unusually heavy. The amount on hand is greater by £65,000 than at the corresponding time last week. The obituary for the month comprises the Marchioness of Tweeddale, Sir Henry Light, K.C.B. ; Lady Harriet Moore, Countess of Breadalbane, Lady A. M. Fermor Hesketh, Hon. A. Burlingame, Mr. G. F. Young, Admiral Sir 11. J. Leeke, Sir James Vallentin, Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons. April 1. The Examiner finds that the disconnected and contradictory discussions on Irish affairs in the House of Commons are proofs of the wisdom of the American system, which leaves local affairs to local legislation. The Atlantic Cable Company, after considering the proposed bill for the consolidation of the Anglo-American with the French Trans-Atlantic Cable Company, have given j it their approval. The visit of Sir Stafford Northcote to Hudson Bay is postponed. The police of Dublin seized a large number of revolvers and a quantity of ammunition, on the Liverpool steamer yesterday. April 2. The Rev. Dr. Pusey publishes a communication in the Record, arguing against revising the recognised version of the Bible. A committee is appointed to make arrangements for the visit of the English delegation to the World's Conference of the Evangelical Alliance at New York next autumn. The delegates will probably be Rev. Dr. Jobson, Prof. Blackie, Canon Freemantle, Dean Wescott, Rev. Dale Hoare, and Cairns Alexander. An unusual number of promotions were recently made in the navy ; to effect this, many senior officers were transferred to the retired list. April 3. According to the Broad Ari'oio newspaper, the expedition to tho Red River district will be composed of three hundred regulars and a force of Canadian militia, and be under the command of Colonel Wolsely. The betting on the University boat race is six to four in favour of the Oxfords. The Spectator comments on the utter

aridity of the debates id Parliament lately. The same paper thinks colonial independence would divert the tide of emigration now flowing strongly from Great Britain to the United States. April 4. The British, and Indian cable is completed throughout. The signals are excellent. Mr. Scudamore, Director- General of the Postal Telegraph Service, has entreated the public to avoid sending more messages than is necessary to Ireland. The channel cable from Wexford was broken, and until the fault is rectified, none but messages on urgent business, or matters of life and death should be transmitted. A man haa been sentenced at Gralway to five years' penal servitude for writing a threatening letter to a landlord at the instance of one of his tenants, and for a consideration of 15s. Mr. Loulherdi, book auctioneer, sold a copy of Shakespeare's works— the first folio edition — for £360. In the House of Commons, the bill requiring railroad companies to place footwarmers in all their carriages was killed by an amendment requiring them to supply hot brandy, rugs, and overcoats. The barque Mary Johnston, from Bakin, Brazil, reports that on the 13th February,, latitude 50deg. north, longitude 24deg. west, she passed a large steamer which was heading north-east, displaying British co-. lours, and a signal to denote that her machinery was broken down. It is thought she may have been the missing City of Boston. The gale was very heavy, and the captain of the Johnston was unable to stop or get near enough to make any other observation. The Times says Spain and other Catholic Powers have sent an ultimatum of disapproval of the doctrine of Papal infallibility.