MAIL NEWS. London, Mar. 12.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3027, 5 April 1882, Page 2

MAIL NEWS. London, Mar. 12.

Lovie and Falcon, Antwerp, engaged in the River Plato trade, have failed for two million poundi. Don Carlos has abdicated his claim to the Spanish throne in favor of his Infanta. Two persons have boon arrested at Ragusa for assisting the correspondent of the Manchester Guardian to spread false news of insurgent viotories. The failure of the Anglo-Fronch Commoiciul Treaty Cannes grievous disappoihtment in the manufacturing districts. England's woollen trade will Buffer heavily. The London newspapers say tho ninttor is of no consequence, but the manufacturers do not take that view. Vanity Fair says " poker " playing has reached such a height in London fashionable society as to bo a public scandal. Lieut. Danello\er has been forbidden to leavo Irkutsk till his eyesight is restored. The rest «f the Jeannette's survivors remain with him. A report is curront to the effect that unless the condition of Russia improves, the Czac will abdicato attor his coronation. Eight persons have been indicted in Vienna for criminal negligence in relation to the Ring theatre disaster. Among them are ex-Biugomaster Nevel Jennal, th ro.it re manager, and Lindsay, commissary of police. The editor of the Leinst r Leader has been arrested under the Irish Coercion Act. Madame Noilson's husband, who became insano during the excitement attending the recent financial chsis in Paris, died in the asylum on the 22nd, Wreckage from the City of London ■teamer, that sailed from L >ndon for New York on November 13th, and novtr reached her destination, is continually washing up on the Irish coast. Herbert Spencer will visit the United States in August. The Jaidtne do Mabelle, Paris, has been sold for building ourposes. Vienna is threatened with total failure of water supply. The Queen's monument to the lato L»rd Beaoonsfield has just been erected in Hughenden Church. It bears the fol lowing inscription ; '' This memorial i» pi iced hore by his affectionate Sovereign, Victoria." The balloon which ascended from London on the 4th March fell into the Straits of Dover, and the aeronauts perished. Jeisie blolfmuin, the Nihilist who, because of being enciente, was respited from the execution of the capital sentence for complicity in the assassination of the lato Czar, died at St. Petersburg on the 3rd, in eluldhirth. General Skobeloff has acquired such popularity by his Slavic speech that orowds cheered him wherever he appeared in public. One of tho wild stories afloat is a scheme under discussion in CUnada for the removal of the Pope from Rome to the shores of the St Lwronce. It is and that the negotiators on this side of the Atlantic pledged themselves to secure a grant of 8.000,000 dollars from the province of Quebec for the purpose of tho erection of a Papal palace. It has been decided by Judge Vowanoo, of Montreal, in the ciso of Fiske v. Fisko, that the divorce obtained in New York ia legal in CUnada. Tao decision has made a stir in social circles. Tue Act against polygamy pawed the Americui Senate on the 16th ult. By its provisions polygamista are disfranchised. Hugh Allan, and other rich youuu men of leisure belong ng to Boston, Mass., have organised a fox hunting club, and will import a pack of hounds, and professional huntsmen. They intend to wear the usual English hunting costume, scarlet coat and knee breeches. The American Government is urged by his relatives in California to move iv the matter of obtaining the release of Daniol M'Swoeney, an allogod American oitiz-iu, and now imprisoned by the British Government in Ireland. Rev. Mr Geo, Leetninj, D.D., Roman Catholic priest, late of Now South Wales, and now of Boston, Mass., made his debut as an actor in that city on the 19th, at the Gaiety Thoatro, playing " Othello." He assumed the professional name of Sidney Olitford, and, probably to conceal his identity, claims to be " Astar tragedian from Australia." It is said that Looming was born in England, and educated at Oxford. A year ago he was pastor of a church in New South Walei. A convention has been called in Utah territory to form a constitution with the view to admission to tho Union. The anniversary of the 102 nd birthday of Robert Einmett was celobrated all over tho United Statet.