ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3281, 12 August 1872, Page 3

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NOTES.

, (Spectator.) l'[ '. ''Il. ;■'.';■' Th. c hurricane in Zanzibar, the accounts of'which we at lirst believed tfv have been exaggerated, appears to" have been of the., 'i,:osl frightfulJdnd. Not5 only were the' Ssiltan'B vessels all , wrecked,, andlso loaded dhows or nativdcoaaCers,. but .the tempest ruined the clore and cocoa-nui; plantations, cutting the trees down;.aa it Bometnnes in" India;<?ufar down a jungleV The cloro cultivation is believed ;to be :uv reparabiy destroyed, as the; natives ;ivil! i scarcly *ephmfc sucVsloiv-grdwing tfees Jr and the snffcrings of the'people will-! l)e terrible; They have -'lost their 'house/, their cultivations, and ;their littlejcapitals .all in a night, nnd will'" only escape a famine by a miracle.;' ■• ;: "' •'*;'; ';■.'*»'■,"-;'-{'";u ':' Hojb M. Thiers" lost ; all ~conirul--v'of his police ? :He promised- not: to send any, ( nwre destitute ComVrmniats to' ; ,E»gl'tttd, • but they :a*e ''iiliipped hither every wcdk= in batchesj the capt-iins ot the .steamqra receiving tlieii' pay 'direct from the police. "No less -than twelye ; «'U*nyed..on; \Ve<bie3r jdayj without a shilling, and.weje sent on to iiondon, footsore, &tnr\'ing, and■ unable ;to spealc a word of English. These, more--•o'vefj arc,aiilyiwrt<»f this shipments, prir-; ties of twos and tlirees arriving constantly, and dispersing through thp. country :to beg. ' Thfcy have for some time past qtu^c. Jy'Wth Es3ex: v Nd'6n6 desires to' add to M. Thiers's embarrass'rnentsV but it is liigh time he should be told that Eng-^ land cannot be turned into a penal Colony iriere'ly to nu-.ke matters smooth.for his ■police': 0 i , .-; ~■ -,;.-, ,-.:..-■■. i>.-:. ;--- 'A Parli.amenfcary: return -has .just-been issued 'about absenteeism. It appears :'that'le's3 than 20,000 persons own the soil ;6f Ireland, of whojn 5082 own less than lOa^icre^ These, of course, are resident, '-mtfpp'hxe 5580 more,, owning an average •of 1600' acres apiece, while^only., 1443, ; Owning Jiltpgether'3,l4s:sl4,: ncres r orj a 'seventh of tlai soil, are nsually tesidenf outside tlUislfuid; A: conMaera^le^nmbcr away from tlxeir properties; brit still in Irelajid, ? and the remaui- ' &<* Ve'w are occasional visi tovhy Ahb'Jni&eHsm' 4 therefore not among the grand "rievances of Ireland, more esjpecuOLy.as 4>Kny of the richest absentees are among the most, spirited and lenient landlords. Lord Palmerston, for example, was a much better man to live \inder than any resident squireen. The Huntingdon farmers are not apparently very wise folk They have ap-

pealed to force against their labourers,' who.'piitriiiniber them,by .ten, Jtp- we. ■ A ndeeting 6T labourers was called at Yaxlcy, ' and attended by about a thousand men, who assembled on the green; and proceeded to discuss their .grievances soberfy enoogh: ''The fanners','however, resolved to silence ihem, and to Bhow their scorn .of the meeting as a sort of crows' Parliament, kept shaking .the wooden birdclappers with which boys- frighten the crows. The men bore this insolence for a little while, but at last rushed at the farmers. ( thrashed- them soundly,. <an<l drove'tnem into Yaxley, where the shop" keepers turned -out to' protect their customers.,, The labourers? wives'/itte etated, were especially "roused, and advi&ed an attack on the homesteads : but quieter counsels/prevailed, and the labour era only resolved to Btand out for two more shil-, jjnga than they would previously, to, the* outrage have accepted. A woman-has made" by far the^ most touching and natural speech'on agricultural* wage» that .we have yet seen, ' At a meeting near Calne, called by, Lord ,E. Fitzmauricc, the wife of, a labourer, named Anne Atter, naked leafe to sajr her, say, nnd Raid It in,this 'curiously resigned yet plaintive st.lo":—"She had eight children, but three of them 'were now out. Iler husband used to get Ds a week, but they weremuch better off now,' niiice !i<S'h:id been, ,fk .milker , and worked Sundays. -He now got 12s a week.. But still she foll'tliat the poor were screwed down too hard. 'They had £l a year to pay house runt,, and it had often gone to her heart when she had only a bit .of bread • with nothing bn't to, part out among bee 'children. She was thankful her husband I got his 12s a week through- being a milker, but she thought the poor man was screwed down,, too bird." Even, that woman'/ however/ would!'h'ave been roused by the /bird-flappers. ' , , The "Claimant" is'amusing himself, pe«din&-bia--t»ial^>for-;pwjur^,;'Vy:"..»tar;, - . among.the'ifdnfiiitry,of the : Ticliborn'd estates. On Tuesday, he: wa« at Alreifrircl,:, "attended," as tho; Court Circular says, by Mr Guilf.ord Onslow, 1 .•rrni made a speech, curiously. well delivered,1, about his;wrongs,;,'and his first solicitorj Mr Hopkins,--and'the-tiittomrig -'evidence, which 1 especially '^nnoyfl 'him, ;>yej suppose because it. seemed» so con,'ciukive. He denounced, that as a conspiracy, to,the Ji.ugc, dejligbt of his, audience, who appeared"; to •■'believe in him with tho heartiest ehthusiasrp. Tlie,;ob-: jeefc of all this sowe.whit'impudent dis.play appears to be to'collect funds forth.c :defence, and perhaps;t6.Vdeepen the .curious; impression among the populace visible ;during the whole process of.the ease, that I&eJ Claimant was somehow being "done." _ It arises,;!we: imagine; frbmHliat'liuifger for: romance which lias preserved the name of the Shepherd Lord; -All the, greatr Cliffords' i are forgotten; 'but hV is" remembered in CumberlHn'd'.because lie was for a few years one of, tlie people., ;; The Lord Justice Christian,' the second of thp, Irish Judges,-has just given Dublin a sensation. '".- The .Lord-.-Chancellor had dismissed a suit brought, by & tenant ligainst the Marquis of Hertford without coste, and "the tenant appealed, whereupon the Lord Justice tpok^the opportunity to deliver a violent philippic against 'Lord O'Hagan, who was sitting with him, for ihis partiality, to tenants, declaring that, if the tenant had been defendant he woiild have had costs, repeating )w old.objections to tlie Land Act as a law of plunder, sand severely animadverting on; Gladstone for his " newfangled and most nnccjnstitutional assumption of a right '"■ o|- censorship" overj \ jndicial'proeeedi ngfl. The attack on the Premier does not matter ranch, and indeed he in some .degree, brought it oil. himself^ b/ut the direct .-im-.? pnfcatipu against a superior judge of want of impartiality'between' rich; and poor is in Ireland'a Thost'serious matter. Law is t not rauchj respected, ; %erps as iMs^/and if "tHe" highest"Judges are.to1 accuse'each other of-deliberate- unfairness in' favour of & Class, it will yqryMoQ3a^JW^-be re- ! spected at all. Englishmen aTe jealous"" of censure on Judges -but their practical ■-.} rTCspdpibility- is an additional reason for the self-^ restraint in'which L<"ird JHistice Christian - would seem to be deficient.,.,,,.,; r In <;he Convocation of the TJn^yersity of London, Mr Lb:we declared'hiin'Relf on a. : sujjjeot which Jwl. engaged the attention pf,I t Cpnvocati6n on the previous day, and led to :a-very narrow diyisidh—tlie desira-' - .bility of dispensing^'with'a knowledge of ' 'Greokjafc the matriculation of'those students who proceed to degrees nob in. Artsbut in iSctence/ To! this: lie', ;jvasjfovoiirable,,.arguin!gi'that' !>the'very slight knowledge of Greek required at the matrictflation examination in: useful- only'for-those: '.who are'to pirirßtfe-thc:^dy,3ubsj|qui6apy;i —i.e., -for. students in"Arts-~oud ais-of iittfe value for those who really: look . tp Science as the ground and main line of ! jfehiipculture, wliib the.^t multiplication Vplaubjecte dyef ictrafifc from the possibility of reauifing tlioroughneKS of attainment \Vith regard to the argument that Or reek I is needful for the knowledge of scientihc ' I terimnology, he showed, by hits own ran* taken ihterpr/etatibn'olrthe meaningof thoword '? aneurism," « misleiuls- as leads rightqr»nd intimating •: fliatfii was quite easylo Isartfthejscientific meaning of such wi>rda*«rtliW>iitiituayjng the etymology, be» clinclmOr tbß:«rgiiK. !! inenanjone of Keely> oldgokos; "Ifyoir J-fenor what't' mean,'what does it matter wli^t J iay 1" Oonrocation.-bke aU new bodies, is raore'CoiirierVative.' ItMdeLcided for delay and further'cansVderution ' by 47 to 42 on the preVions-evemiig. J 1,. ;The Statute Holidays are burning ; a°r r ' ipular.;! \ The peopt6 X are willing on the •'tiifeß'laU of |hein^ whjch occur m sprui^, 'pinnuwm T ana autumn, to lose a days on Whit^Munday,^ %m\r O uf inJiondon was sfc'general as to reveal ' a now^ and unexpected dvftciiltv. . Th| • scale of WerytMh^^ri'London is so vast ithat-enjoymx-'nt becomes nearly impos I sible. An artisan, for instance, c^n find , -.! no better ■'■ .^c-a'Gkfdens-or the Cry.sjqfefWaj«l but II Tf all artisans, go .at-once,-each, might as i ;wfiU stand in a churcK^Toor-Hf wh<f a . i.i>pp,uliix preacherip Jecturin^ rFortyrfoup ii'lhoSianlP^ple went.^|hft.feS^»s d ; rfiffy-seven thousand^ tlie jQrysUl, Rv, 5 -, lace, and of course 'ebuld^careely move, "' hear/-see. or sit down. In- tbe>-Gardens v *hey werW packed like .sardines,- and but foriheir; perfect good-temper and' occa- . skmarooedicnccfco/orders, .there might: .■ h^e.b^eh a'catastrophe. R;s difiicu^. L to swßgcstany'rohedy 'for ,s}f*W, *ov » -tlje 'c^Wd already;dißtribhtes.i£aeUfairly, , well ov4r J vny-'^ila:blp i^cq-^ "^ 5 : stance, 3^OOo^ebplb^ent,.to ; :tlie Surrey ,' Zoological-and it' c^jiQfcifee-...fairly^ »: poctedtoj walk more than live miles out tf- Tlie.^vuways.'aro, very^ httte; r 'help^^They break ttown-Mfhen th^y-have ■ taken a fbw thousand Wrt - is a=few hundr6d t;thoi^d^ho r waiit^o -; !g|6.BuCfor the^d^* s^tfrfe I 'feidays needs terttti^fe^^miittrpar^,----i gardeii, ]forests, 3 aad^entertajittiicnts;as ; she has, W caniiot, o^courae, provide .them for three days. The mass of her i people seem therefore condemned to take - a long walk, stand a few hours choked m a crowd, and then take another long - walk—a rather dreary method of enjoying - aleisureday.