THE LATEST NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6118, 27 June 1881, Page 6

THE LATEST NEWS.

Sas , Fbaxcisco, Jnne 4. Lorillard won 2,000,000 dollars on Jroquois' success in the Derby. He gave Archer, the jockey, 5000 dollars. The health of Dillon, the Irish agitator,. is suffering by confinement. Participators in the Marseilles demon, stration, favouring the pardon of Hessy Helfman, the Nihilist, have been sentenced, to imprisonment and fine. Confederate landholders are moving, in. London, to get the value of their securities or a portion. A hailstorm in New York, June Ist, destroyed grain and fruit. The Mendelssohn Quintette Club, five accomplished musicians, will visit New Zealand and Australia by this steamer. The United States Polar Expedition will' be despatched from St. John's, Newfoundland, on July 4th for Lady Franklin's Sound, and also to find the whereabouts of the Arctic exploring yacht Jeannette. Josephine D'onr6, one time a celebrated pi-ima donna, died suddenly at San Francisco on June Ist. Cardinal Wiseman is sitting for hjs portrait to Millais, in London. Albion won the race for the French Derby, Patrie second, and Royamiunt third. One thousand six hundred cases of smallpox are now in the London Hospitals, and the epidemic is increasing rapidly. Dempsey, a farmer who took* land from ■which a tenant had been evicted, in Galway, was killed from behind a hedge. Prince Leopold, by the conferment of the Dukedom of Albany, will take a seat in the House of Lords. It is understood he intends to take an active part in debate. Sir Charles Dilke has accepted the Presidency of the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty Commission, and this, it is believed, augurs the probability of an agreement between the two countries.

The conviction of Herr Most, editor of the Frciheit, was based expressly on his distinct recommendation that the present JEmperors of Russia and Germany should be assassinated. The London Daily Times (Radical) says the condition of Ireland gives cause for greater anxiety from day to day. ""We seem," it says, "to be coming nearer and nearer insurrectionary outbreaks and serious collisions "between the soldiers and the people. Conservative hatred of Ireland is so great that they openly express a wish for war, so that the Irish may be bayonetted into submission." The London Press are in favour of President Garfield as against Senator Conkling. According to the recent census the populatiou of London is 3,514,571. Shocks of earthquake at Mount Vesuvius have been followed by strong eruptions. Streams of lava are flowing down the northeast side of the mountain. All the cattle by the steamer Phoenician, recently arrived at Glasgow from Boston, were found to be affected by the foot and mouth disease. They were slaughtered, and the carcases boiled down. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company has consented to make such changes in the sailing hours of their steamers leaving San Francisco for Australia, and China as will secure the prompt despatch of the mails. The Spanish Anti-Slave Trade Society demand abolition of capital punishment, and immediate liberation of all the slaves in the Antilles. The American actor Booth has been dined by the Prince of Wales. The Cape Colony loan of £2,000,000 has been covered thrice over. Wilhelmj, the violinist, is passenger by steamer to the colonies. Thirty houses and some schools have been, burned in the East End of London. The Count Von Eulenberg, German Minister of the Interior, is dead. General Grant has been successful in all his railway projects in England. The French Ambassador at Constantinople has informed the Turkish Minister for Foreign. Affairs that the despatch by the Porte of any armed force to Tunis would be regarded as a casits belli. London, June 3. The Glasgow Plate was won by Spurs, Chevreuil second, the Gowan third. The Acorn Stakes won by laccgnito. Ben d'Or' won the Epsom Gold Cup, beating Robert the Devil, Scobell, winner of the Epsom. Grand Prix of Paris on the 12th. -