GREAT BRITAIN.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6075, 19 September 1881, Page 2

GREAT BRITAIN.

Mr Herbert Gladstone has been reelected for Leeds after his appointment as Junior Lord of the Treasury.

The bill for the relief of contumacious prisoners, intended to effect the release of the Rev. Mr Green, Ritualist, who is imprisoned in Lancaster, was thrown out.

A new company ia shortly to be formed, with a capital of four millions, to reclaim waste lands in Ireland.

The dynamite scare in England is Increasing. All sorts of rumors are circulated ; among them that the Duke of Edinburgh is specially marked out for assassination.

Mr Bradlaugh is suffering: from erysepelas, brought on by the wounds inflicted upon him. in ejecting him from the House*of Commons.

There is no general amnesty for the Irish prisoners. :

The subscriptions to the Land League for the year amount to £10,700, nearly all from America. There was only £81 collected in Great Britain and £162 in Ireland.

A mob smashed the windows of a rec<

Tory and of the houee3 of a number df respectable, inhabitants in Tipperary who 1 did not illuminate their houses in horidr of Mr Diilon's release. pe Supreme Council df the Fdniail — : Brdtherhopd ■ have split on the dynamite *m q'ue^tion, some favoring it and others op- ™ posing it.

Colonel Clough, who defrauded the Government out of £10.000 by forging stamps used in the Irish law cbuifst has been sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude. "

The new cable to America will be in operation on November the Ist. The latest phase of " Boycotting " has taken place at Templemore, Tipperary; Mrs Lallor evicted a tenant, dnd the people of the district placed the" evicted men for two Sundays in Mrs Lallor'spew in the pariah chapel, built by herself. Tennyson is preparing another drama. The Daily News says it haa become evident tha Ithe English tenants mean to beatir themselves to obtain redress for their - legitimate grievances. Various agencies are co-operating to bring about legislation regarding the English land" lawa. Mr Gladstone recently expressed ah opinion favorable to such legislation. ; The> London Times of August 26th sayii, "It istbe opinion in the best informed quarters that the American drain of "gold from England will continue, and if it does there can be but little doubt of a further rise in' the- rates for money." ,"/ =^4, : ? The landlords in the south of^lreland have permanently reduced their tenants' rents 25 per cent., in order to avoid expen 1 ' sive appeals tothe Land Courts. '-A-

Marmotfc and Maekinnon; file> makers;' Sheffield,,. have failed for £80,000. • - ?; ' ; The British Consulate at Philadelphia has telegraphed to the Home Government the substance of the address of the • socalled Irish revolutionary convention, which has been holding secret sessions in. that city. The address, without the slightest qualification, proclaims the .in-' tention to destroy British vessels wherever they can be found, and declares that it is just as well tobeginthe workwhichis most easy of accomplishment, and by the time a few English merchant vessels are destroyecUhe world may witness the beneficient sight of all the shipping merchants and insurance companies of England l presenting a petition to Mr Gladstone to reconsider the Irigh question. :-- :^*. Mr Johnson, the founder and secretary^? of the Irish Labors' League, will contest 3 Tyrone in the interest of the Irish' labor movement.

Mr Gladstone is said to be contemplating to offer the dignity of knighthood" to his publisher, Mr Alexander M'Millan. Miss Braddon's proposition to' publish a penny edition of Scott's novels has raised a howl of indignation. - Crowe, the infernal machine man, will, it is said, go to Ireland as agent : in. Limerick for an American dynamite, firm. Offers for Bradlaugh's tora coat-are said to be numerous; one person has • offered' £20, another £10, and a third suggests it be raffled. Bradlaugh replies loftily, < "We:are conscious of the very kindly feeling which prompts these offers^ but the coat is not for sale. Payment will be made by and bye by my foes, and until that payment is exacted the coat has very special value aa a reminder."

At Shoeburyness the Canadian team won the prize given by the Marquis of Lome. for a detachment that could unmount and remount a cannon in the least time. The Canadians defeated eleven teams of British Artillery Volunteers.

Protectionist meetings are being held at Exeter Hall. Atone a resolution was adopted for, a tax of one shilling "and: threepence on corn. , :

Much indignation is expressed in 1 the London Press at th.9 conduct of some fifty well-dressed men who stood unconcernedly near a basin in Kensington Gardens while a girl 4 years old was drowned in two feet of water. The coroner said he was utterly ashamed of their inhumanity and cowardioa.

The Cunard steamer Catalonia, which left Liverpool on the 6th o£ August, had on board a heavy mail for the United States, and also for Australia via San Francisco. She became disabled through the breaking of a shaft, and at last accounts her captain had not decided whether he would continue under Bail' for New York or return to the nearest port. The Catalonia is the last Cunard steamer built. Her mails arrived and were de- U spatched from San Francisco in time.