GREAT BRITAIN.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5541, 19 November 1879, Page 3

GREAT BRITAIN.

.Levy Lawson, editor of the London Telegraph, thrashed Labouchere, editor of the London Truth. The cause was < m attack in Trnt7i on the family of Lawson. Subsequently Lawson brought an action against Labouchore for statements in Truth growing out of the affair. A party of armed and masked men attacked two land agents named Smith, father and son, near Castlebar, Ireland. Several shots were fired. Young Smith shot dead one of the attacking party. The body was found in a bog ho]e, and was recognised as that of a militia man. The Lords of the Admiralty have given instructions to make a handsome piece of furniture, as a present to Mrs Grinnell, the widow of Henry Grinnell, of Boston, from the timbers of the exploring ship Resolution. Grinuell fitted out two expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin. The cotton operatives of "Wigan have resumed work at 5 per cent reduction. A meeting of delegates of all counties and of several boroughs in Ireland was held at Dublin on October 21, and organised an Irish Land League for the reduction of back rents, and to facilitate the transfer of the ownership of the soil to the cultivators. Mr Parnell was appointed President. The meeting repudiated the charge of terrorism, deploring the fact that threatening notices had been issued. The Land League will defend tenants who may be threatened with eviction. Count Minister, German A.nbassador at London, had several interviews with the Marquis of Salisbury, explaining the political situation on the Continent. England is strongly favorable to th*e Austro-Germanic alliance. Prince Bismarck is anxious that England should join the alliance. The shipwrights at Grimsby, England, have struck against a resolution of the employers to extend the working time from 54 to 58| hours weekly. Sir Francis Wyatt Fruscott has been elected Lord Mayor of London. The Marquis of Salisbury, at a banquet at Manchester on October 16th, delivered an important speech relative to England's foreign policy. After twitting the Liberals for their inconsistency in relation to the Berlin Congress, he referred to the fact that Turkey had not occupied the Balkans, and said there are other points of the Treaty of Berlin besides the occupation of the Balkans. "If you do not trust a Turkish sentinel on the ramparts," he remarked, <f you may trust the Austrian sentinel at the door. Since the Austrian occupation of Novi Bazaar, the advance of the Russians beyond the Balkaus and the Danube has become impossible. In the independence and strength of Austria rests the last hope of European stability." The English miners are organising a great emigration scheme to America and Australia. Hundreds of skilled operatives are leaving for America under special engagement. Affairs in Ireland are greatly improving, but the anti-rent agitation continues. In the second week in October 5000 tons of iron were shipped from the river Tees to America. The orders that are being executed include 45,000 tons of pig iron ; also puddled bars, manufactured bars, scrapironand steel. Prices have advanced. Lord Derby joins the Liberal party. The short time system will be continued by the Oldham mill owners for another month. The Cyforthfa ironworks, the largest in Wales, are about to be re-opened. Adolphus llosenbury, of " Town Talk," charged with publishing defamatory libels on Mrs Cornwallis West and Mrs Lang try , was convicted in London of publishing libels knowing them to be false. Sentence was deferred. The Empress Eugenic intends sailing next February for Africa, to pray on the spot where the Prince Imperial fell. Dion Boucicault is ill with paralysis. The failures are — James Barbnur, son, and Co., bankers and merchants, London, liabilities, £50,000 ; Hall and Company, Polesworth, colliers, £20,000 ; W. T. Tomlinson, and' C, cotton brokers, Liverpool.