MAIL INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume X, Issue 2787, 3 January 1873, Page 5

MAIL INTELLIGENCE.

LATE ENGLISH. A London letter of November 20, says the London Times is one of the most cautious and circumspect journals in existence, but it haa printed a leader on Canada that has aroused universal British wrath. The obnoxious article was to the effect that the Canadians had been very badly used by the British Government during the whole course of the American negotiations; that their interests had been informally sacrificed ; and that as there was no hope of their evor having justice done by a Ministry in London, they had better cut the connection at once and set up on their own account. It aeoumed that the Canadians must of necessity be anxious to go. It urged them to go—to go at once and not to stand on the order of their going, and bade them Godspeed. The article had provoked a Btorm of protest and repudiation. The correspondent adds that there are two things about as certain as anything which is only a matter of opinion can be—first, that if the Dominion asked for '■ independence in a deliberate, authentic manner, it would get it for the asking; and second, that the Dominion will not be thrown off by England. The Common Council of the city of London voted resolutions of regret on the conflagration of Boston, and expressed the sympathy of the inhabitants of the city and for the whole American people, under what can be no less than a national calamity. The Pearsall coal mine in Staffordshire suddenly ignited while the men were at work. Eleven miners were rescued, but twenty-two remain in the mine, and there is but "little hope that they will be saved. The Royal Geographical Society has sent a letter of thanks to James Gordon Bennett for the part he took in the discovery of Dr. Livingstone, and voted Stanley the Victoria medal of 1873. The ship Sesostris was wrecked in the North Sea during the terrible gales, and fourteen of the crew perished. Eugenie haa held a fete at Chiselhuret. Many visitors were present from Paris. A number of regiments stationed at Versailles Bent bouquets. John Bright will resume his seat in Parliament in the coming session. Mr. Bailey, one of the speakers at the Fenian amnesty demonstration in Hyde Park on Sunday week, was fined last week for infringing the regulation for the protection of the publio parks. His counsel argued that the regulations were invalid, because Parliament had not sanctioned them, and an appeal has been taken to the higher Court. At meetings at Greenwich and Clerkenwell yesterday, resolutions wero adopted condemning tho action of the Government in prosecuting the Hyde Park speakers. Many of the police having expressed indignation at the suspension of eight members for insubordination, some two hundred more have suspended. The insubordination is spreading, and it is feared further suspensions are necessary, and there is great excitement consequent on the unguarded condition of the streets. The Strand has been without police protection ot eleven o'clock in the morning. By a later telegram we learn the police difficulties) continue unsettled. The policemen have joiued the movement for increase of salaries. Both bodies hold a meeting at Hyde Park, selecting Sunday as the day. Fire hundred striking stokers employed by the London Gas Companies were summoned before the Police Court on charges of conspiracy. The companies are unyielding, and the stokers will hold out until their companions, whose discharge was the cause of the strike, are taken back. Meanwhile, tho absence of gas is severely felt. Tho theatres are compelled to omit performances, and underground railways are in darkness. Two thousand printers have had a public parade. The reported loss of the steamship Dalmatian, with 300 people, i-i untrue, the Dalmatian having arrived at Liverpool safely. Robert Bowles was brought before the Lord Mayor to-day, and again remanded for further examination. Two thousand more emigrants left Liverpool in November than in October. Large portions of the city of Lonslon were in darkness on the night of December 4. The gas having been extinguished, many sections arc filled with consternation and dread, and the irritation against the striking stokers is groat. The steamship Cresswell, from Falmouth for Cork, was lost during the voyage. Thirty-one of the passengers and crevt perished.