ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6569, 6 December 1882, Page 6

ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

The following interesting and important terns of news are from our flies and correspondence by the Suex mail which arrived yesterday with London dates to October 21st:— TIIE EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN. THE FICIIT AT TEL-Ki.-lvKltlll. Colonel Talbut's description of the moonlight cavalry charge at Tel-el-Kebir is worth transcribing -.—" We marched aljng the line of sand-ridges, an occasional order to trot alone breaking the silence. We must have inarched five or six miles, when it was broken by the boom of a gun, fo'lowcd by the hissing of a shell. General Lowe shoitly ordered our guns to unlimbcr and repi}, and the 7th Dragoon Guards to clear the front ot our guns, which they did by retiring, making US the first line. The Household (_a\ .ilry continued to advance at a walk, when m a moment became visible a whito line ot infantry in our immediate front, which opened a tremendous fire upon us. Not a moment was tobelost': 'Form front in two lines! ljraw swords ' Charge !' and we were upon them. Until we got within a hundred yards they continued to fire ; but in one moment the brilliant light from the firing line, the rattle of the fire, and the whirring oi the ceased ; the white line had faced about, and ■was in flight. We rode them down in solid rank ; but, as they dispersed, we opened out and pursued. They fell like ninepins, many Ot them unwonnded, who fired and staboed our horses as we galloped past them. \\ e charged for three hundred yards; then Ewart called out, ' Rally 1' and we set to •work to collect our men. ... I can imagine no tnore splendid sight than this moonlight charge of our fine fellows on their dark horses against the suns, supported by the white line ot infantij, whose fire was so brilliant in the night that it looked just liko the lighting of some grand pvroteclinie display. ' The following is a letter from a youugster who had not been gizetted more than three months Just as the sky was beginning to gray, some Bedouins were seen in lull fight in front of the 74th, who immediately fired on them. '1 hen, all of a sudden, tremendous fire was opened on us from along the whole liue at about SOO yards. We advanced as fast as we could. At 1100 yards there wa3 no holding the men. We charged, cheering as loud as we could, and reached the whole line. Just iu front of my company was a bastion of eleven Krupp guns. We crossed the ditch, and climbed the parapet somehow—l don't know how. We found about 100 gunners inside, fully armed. They only lived about three minutes. I killed four myself, and have been sorry for it ever since; but if_ I hadn't they would have done the same lor me, and 1 preferred the former. When we got through the bastion we found little opposition, the enemy being in full tlight. TKINCB BISMARCK AND THE BRITISH VJC-

TOKY. The Berlin correspondent of the Standard writes : Immediately after the battle of lei-tl-Ivebir Prince Bismarck telegraghed his congratulations from Varzin to Lord Granville and the English Ministry, upon the success of the British arms. The statement that SirGarnetWolseley received a congratulatory telegram direct from the Emperor Williain is entirely groundless. A communication of that kind would constitute a gross breach of ali established diplomatic usage and Court etiquette, such as any member of the German Imperial family •would be the last in the world to commit. I have reason, however, to believe that llis ifajestv, iu conversation with Lord Amptliill, desired the latter to convey his congratulations to the Queen, and that in doing so he added some gracious observations on the manner iu which the British Commander had acquitted himself of his task.

Tilt: BRITISH INFANTRY IN' ACTION. In his despatch giving an account of the battle at Tel-el-Kebir Sir Garnet Wolseley says :— 44 X do not believe that at any previous period of our military history has the British Infantry distinguished itself more than upon this occasion. I have heard it said of our present Infantry Regiments that the men are too young, and their trainin;; for mauceuvring and for lighting, and their powers of endurance, are not sullicient for the requirements of modern war. After a trial of an exceptionally severe kind, botli in movement and attack, I can say emphatically, that I never wish to have under my orders better infantry battalions than those "whom 1 am proud to have commanded at Tel-el-Kebir.

THE STATE OF IRELAND. JttlOllAKL LIAVITT AT WEXKUHD. At an open air meeting held in \\ exford a few days ago, Mr. Michael Davitt made a long speech, in which he expressed his regret at the results achieved by tile Laud League, which lie said had been arrested in its career of success by coercion. There had, he said, been a mountain of agitation, and only a mouse of a land measure. The entire Irish people throughout the world, he maintained, rallied to the cry of •' Down with landlordism, tie land for the people," His remark that outrr-cis had been instrumental in suppressing ti.o Laud League elicited groans from his audience. He denounced the Land Act as valueless to the Irish tenant, and said it was passed to dsfunri landlordism, remarking that Mr. Gladstone had done nothing to solve the Irish social problem. He added that he had trustworthy authority for stat ing that Mr. Gladstone did not intend to bring forward any measure for Ireland iu the next two sesciona, MR. T. P. O'COXNOJi, 31. T., OS CHIME. Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., iu a recent speech, said crime .in Ireland should be put down, but iiot by crime. The man who shot his landlord from behind a hedge was a foul assassin *, but the Court of justice whicn, by packed or druuken juries, seui a man to the gallows was not, he thought, iu the eyes of heaven, much removed in moral guilt from the skulking assassin. (Cneers.) Could any impartial and sensible man deny that there had been iu Ireland withiu the last three or four weeks jury-packing so gross, open, and shameless that similar practices iu England two centuries ago would have brought down the immortal hate and contempt of Englishmen !

A XKvr NATIONAL LEAGUE. A meeting of the National Conference, called to deal with Irish questions, and to establish a new national organisation, was opened in Dublin on October 17. A large number of ex-suspects and members of the Jrish Parliamentary Party took part in tlie ■proceedings. A letter from ill*. I'a.triclc 'iiV.in resigning the treasurership of the Land League, having been read, Mr. Parnell proposed the formation of the Irish National League, whose object was, he said, to make a clean sweep of the present system of Government, winding up with the abolition of the Lord Lieuteuauey. The following is the substance of the constitution of the new organisation, which v/ac submitted to the meeting by Mr. Parncll :—That an association be formed to art lain for the Irish people the following objects 1. National self-government. 2. Land law reform. 3. Local self-government. 4. Extension of the Parliamentary and municipal franchises. 5. The development and eccouragement of the labour and industrial interests of Ireland. J'hat this association be called " Tlio Irish National League. '• The objccta of the league include the restitution to the Irish people of the right to manage their own ullairs in a Parliament elected by the people of Ireland ; the creation of a peasant proprietary ; the .substitution of local for Imperial control in ■the appointment aud management of the jpolice ; tire .abolition of the olliee of Lord Lieutenant -cf Ireland ; the extension aud .assimilation o: the Irish Parliamentary aad .municipal franchises to those of Kugland.

41' HUSH MUUDKK. A correspondent telegraphs from Clonliur •that the constabulary have just made an important arrest in connection with the murder of the two Huddys, Lord Ardilaun's bajligq, whose bodjss were found in Lough Mask. The prisoner's name is Patrick Higgles, and his house is situated near the path or boreeu wbi ;h leads to Kerrigan's house, where it is the Huddys were murdered. A magisterial inquiry into the case was held the next day, when Kerrigan, the approver, and .-liis wife were the riucipal witue sses. Their evidence has not been made public, but it is understood that it was to the efieut that the elder Huddy was suddenly stunned by a blow from a stone a3 he was serving his last ejectment process, ant! was then severely kicked. A woman who was present advited him to pray for mercy on his soul, when ope of the assassins stepped forward and fired four rounds from a revolver, killing the popr man on the spot. When young Huddy Bfiw Jiis grandfather murdered he ran for his life, fcv-t | was captured, seixod by the neck, and his Jiead dashed against a heap of atonea, He y§B then shot in the came way jui the eUI-t

victim. A crowd of villagers was standing by, but none interfered. Two sacks were, procured, the corpses placed in them, am taken to Lough Mask. On the way the assassins met a man, who is now one ot t Crown witnesses, and they made lum lend a hand iu carrying their dreadful burden, it is believed that the principal participators in the crime arc two men now m gaol.

death of m. chabot. The dsath is announced of M. Chabot, the well-known e\pert in handwriting, *or the nast 20 years he has been a familiar figure m the criminal Courts throughout the United Kingdom, occupying as he did the unique position of being the only living professor of this branch of the ancient science ot chiromancy. He was engaged in the celebrated Koupell forgery case, and also in the Tichborne trial, and, indeed, in the recent causes celebres in which any question of the identity of handwriting was involved. Occasionally his evidence was somewhat discredited, but, as a rule, there has been no reason to doubt the justice of the decisions iu which convictions were obtained through his agency.

COLONIAL ITEMS. Colonel C. H. Page, half-pay, late in command of the Kingston-on-Thames Brigade Depot, has been selected for distinguished service reward. Cokuiel Page, whose war service was as a subaltern with the late oSth Regiment in the New Zealand campaign of 1843-47, has been iu the army since April, IS4I, and is a colonel of March, 1872. He was Deputy Quartermaster General in Australia from 18G7 to IS7O, and Deputy Quartermaster-! ieneral at the Cape of Good Hope from IS7O to 1572. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Drcsing, oftno Hon. Corps of Centleinen-at-Arms, has just died at Croftou, near Fareham, aged 64. The deceased served with the oSlh Regiment in the ew Zealand and was present at the storming of Kawiti's Pah at Kuapekapeka ill January, IS4O, after which he proceeded to the valley of the Hutt, and served there during different operations (medal). He was appointed one of Her Majesty's Bodyguard (the Honourable Corps of Uentlemen-at-Arms) in ISfi). Scientific men at Home are i.iuch i a teres toil in the fact stated in a late number of the Melbourne Argus, that a pair of satin* salar or English salmon, hatched at Sir Samuel Wilson's salmon pond at Ercildoune, and the ova of which were sent out by Mr. J. A. You l , four years ago, have lately produced 1000 ova., and that 500 of these are good and likely to survive. The parent fish have never been to the sea, and this is the first instance of the reproduction of the salmon in Australia. " What have the Australian cricketers made by their tour ?" is a question frequently asked, but'one which will never be satisfactorily answered. Striking a probable sum, however, it is believed by one who is likely to know, that the net gain at the close of the American matches must have reached £16.500. Mr. G. H. Swan, of the White Swan Brewery, Napier, New Zealand, who has been in England on a visit of inspection of breweries, brewing appliances, Ac., and requiring larger premises for his connection in Napier, lias decided on the erection of a complete additional brewery, and has entrusted the preparation of the designs to Mr. VY illiam Bradford, of London.

The North German Gazette prints a letter from a German business man in New Zealand, who writes to say that on an average each mail brings him a dozen letters from manufacturing countrymen beggihg him to secure agents for the sale of their goods. But that the German business man is rarely able to do, from the fact that most of the houses there are more or loss dependent on English traders, who do not like to see German "Wares introduced. "As long as we do not possess a large German firm in New Zealand," concludes the German business man, " it will be impossible to establish any paying trade rel.ii.inns between Germany and New Zealand." Selwyn College, the latest addition to the academic institutions of Cambridge, was inaugurated the other day, and is in all ways a litting memorial of the lirst missionary Bishop of New Zealand. Dr. Selwyn was the true type of what the modern missionary should be" and it is gratifying to know that the new college is to be made a special trailing ground for missionaries.