ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 939, 1 November 1879, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

GREAT BRITIAN. A lire m Belfast destroyed the business places of Messrs. Develin and Co., druggists 5 Mortimer and Son, umbrella makers; McGinigal and Mack, and Young and Anderson, warehousemen. The aggregate loss is £80,000. Mr. John Henry Puleston, M.P., goes to the United States to study the modes of agricultural m connection with British interests. The British ship Langdale, which sailed from San Francisco on June 4, has been wrecked near .Carnsore Point, Wexford. The captain, his wife and and three children, and four of the orew were drowned. Wages have been reduced 10 per cent, (by notioe dated September 28) m all earthern-ware and China manufactories m the Staffordshire Potteries. A steamer took 30 engineers and machinists from Bradford to Philadelphia. A firm m the* latter city has engaged 100 Bradford riveters. Two Americans have been tried for forgery at the Central Criminal Court, London. Bingham was acquitted and Fortescue was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude* The ship carpenters of Dundee have sttnck against a reduction of wages. The husband of the famous London beauty, Mrs. Langtry, sues for a divorce. The Prince of Wales is set down as oo« respondent. Curries distillery at London has been burnt down. Loss nearly £400,000. The iron-clad turret ram Agamemnon, carrying four 38-ton guns, 6,000 horsepower, was successfully launched on September 17. The European beer sugar crop will be 1,610,000 tons, against 1,500,000 tons last year. A considerable portion of the Irish harvest has been lost. Potatoes are short ; on many farms whole crops are gone. The Mayor of Middleborough appealed to the Home Secretary to relieve the distress m and about that place on account of the depression m trade. He received the reply " No funds," but that the letter would be laid before the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 3,000 persons are utterly penniless. The cotton operatives at Ashton-under-Lyne are on strike. It is said to be one of the greatest struggles ever known m the trade. Fifty companies at Oldham, operating 2,000,000 spindles, have resolved to go on short time immediately. An explosion at the Crew Colliery, Wales, killed seven persons. The rumours of the British occupation of the fortification of Tangier, m Morocco, are pronounced to be false. The losses sustained by the English farmers this season are estimated at £25,000,000 on corn ; £15,000,000 on potatoes ; £15,000,000 on hay ; and £1,250,000 on hops. The Chairman of the Annual Congress of Trades Unions states that four of the principal Unions have spent £260,000 m relieving members during the past year. The Marquis of Hartington, speaking at Radnorshire, m South Wales, declared the laws tending to the aggregation of vast properties m the hands of few persons should be carefully enquired into. Speaking at Newcastle, the Marquiß of Hartington said re-distribution of seats m Parliament local-government law reforms must soon be undertaken. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has requested the police authorities at Limerick to make a special report upon the circumstances under which Mr. Charles Stewart Parnel, M.P., at a recent banquet, suffered the hissing which greated the toast of the Queen to pass unnoticed. Lurgan and several surrounding districts have been placed under * the provisions of the Peace Preservation Act. Mr Parnell and other Home Rulers propose to issue an appeal to the Irish

people m all parts of the world to aid m .the creation of a clasß of peasant proprietors m Ireland, and also intend to appoint a coramitte to arrange calling a popularly elected Convention of 300 menbera — the same number that composed the former Irish Parliament — to discuss the Irish question before next session of Parliament. Mr Mitchell Henry, Home Ruler and M.P. for Galway, declines to have anything to do with the Convention. He says the Home Rulers League party will commit suioide. Mr William Shaw, M P. refuses to participate. The proposed boat race, between Hawden and Kempstone is declared off. In the match with J.M. Kelly, over the Tyne Championship course Kempstone won easily the stake of £200. < Elliott challenged Hanlon, the Canadian, to row over the Thames or Tyne course for the Sportman's Challenges Cup of £200 aside. Hanlon still purposes to surrender the Cup nncontested. The fustian weavers at Oldham have resumed work ; the spinners are likely to follow thair example. English farmers are leaving home, bound for settlement to the Western. States of America. The American steamer Breslau, conveying 330 Jpassengers— ltalian, Swiss, German, and French— from Havre to Liverpool en route to New York, went ashore at the Lizard. Five persons are missing. . An order has been received at Middleborough for 60,000 tons pig iron for the United States. Lord Napier is seriously ill at Kis* sengen, Germany.