MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1243, 10 January 1883, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

Arrival of the City of Sydney. [united press association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The City of Sydney arrived from ’Frisco yesterday. The following is a summary of news brought by her :— LONDON, December 23. Lord Derby in a speech made at Manchester on the 13th, rejected the idea of a protectorate for Egypt, England, he said, ought not to remain in that country longer than, was absolutely necessary to restore Order. English influence in Egypt must preponderate, but it was not necessary to exercise it in an offensive spirit, nor exclude free and friendly consultation with France- towards Madagascar, The speaker said “ if amicable, mediation would prevent an inv Aston of Madagascar, we'ought to offer our services but if, as appears probable, the dispute is only a pretext for annexation of part of the Island we must abstain from mediating 'Madagascar,” Mr Forster delivered a speech on the 16th inst., strikingly in contrast to Lord Derby’s views on the subject of Egypt. Mr Forster argues that the process of extension is part of the law of existence as umpire, and considers England’s presence in Egypt the only guarantee of order, and' that it is impossible to say how long she wi ll remain. A despatch from Dublin, dated 17th Dec., says that applications to the Western Poor Law Union for assistants to emigrants number lOCtf). Many desire to go to Australia. The barque Langrigg Hall, which left Liverpool' recently, for a port not stated, was wrecked on the Tuscar rock, and all of the crew w ere drowned.

The British ship Glad Tidings from Calcutta, went ashore at Prowle Point, caught fire, anti was burnt; two of the crew were drowned. Sir T.hos. Watson, one of the Queen’s physicians, is dead. Messrs Parnell, O’Connor and Sexton were entertained at a banquet at Cork. During the evening a man proposed the toast to the Queen of the Belgians. He was promptly put .out, although he held a revolver to prevent it. The Hematite Iron Company, Mariport, has failed for £200,000. Also, Morris Smith and Co., Swansea Tin Plate manufacturers, for £lOO,OOO. A fire broke out at the Belfast Match Factory. Four of the employees perished. The following batch of failures is reported: —Morris and. Co., Brighton; Terry and Morris, Langenneck Tin Plate Workers, £150,000, and £14,000 respectively. These were involved in the downfall of Biddulph, Co., tin plate makers, £50,000. The CamJevons and Co. T Liverpool: and Forester & bria Tin Plate Society and Redbook Tin Plate Company, with large liabilities, have also failed.

Saunders, who threatened the life of Mr Gladstone, has bee n acquitted on the grounds of insanity. In the Bell libel case Alma Tadiner, and other well-known artistes were called, and expressed strong opinions that the bust which Mr Bell had personally executed in the room adjoining the Court, and exhibited in the witness box as a proof of his skill, was far inferior to any other bust from the same models which Bell was alleged to have executed.

Lord Derby in his Manchester speech, on Doc. 13th, said his personal opinion was that some millions spent in promoting immigration from Ireland would be profitable expenpiture. He believed in a few years, despite the Land Act, small tenants in Ireland would be just as dependant upon the forbearance of landlords. Thus the difficulty would recur, but he thought the Government should abstain from encouraging further proposals for legislation in regard to Irish land government. They should refuse to listen for an hour to the claim for Irish nationality in whatever disguise it was presented. An Irish Parliament would lead to separation as certain as 2 and 2 make 4. If they did not wish this to become a practical question, he said they must be careful to avoid giving vague pledges which would be construed as meaning more than they do. Hampton Court Palace has been damaged by fire. Twelve rooms in the east quadrangle were scorched, and two actually burned. The curiosities and tapestry suffered most, especially the tapestry representing Alexander the Great entering Babylon, and the Battles of Germanicus. In Queen Annes’s bed-room, the celebrated painted ceiling was damaged, the pictures by Rembrandt, Reubens and Koeller, and Lily’s celebrated “beauties” had a narrow escape. The rooms known as the Queen’s galleries, the King's and Queen’s private chambers, and private drawing room were partially flooded. One woman was suffocated. The damage is roughly estimated at £630,000. Mr Forster gives an opinion that Home Rule means absolute separation from England, and the great probability of a civil war in Ireland.

Two important arrests were made in Dublin on the 14th December, in connection with the murder of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke. A private investigation was held at the (Castle. The persons arrested Bryne, printer, and Hanlon, a letter-carrier, are identified as having been seen near the car. Another despatch says the detectives believe they have at length unravelled the Phcenix Park Mystery. The police admit that in consequence of the free distribution of placards offering a reward for private information and of arrests of the following Fenian outrages, a number of informers, when they found the police already knew much were inclined by fear to tell more. The police, by putting together various items of information, have got what they believe to be a direct chain of informamation.The evidence begins to thicken. About the time of the assault upon Dennis Field, that affair was so similar in circumstances to the Phoenix Park crime, that from the first it would lead to a clue to the latter. Mr Jenkinson who directs the criminal inxestigation of the department, Mr Curran, Queen’s Counsel, and Mr Mallon, Superintendent of the Detectives, have been engaged for a fortnight previous in the private enquiry. Hanlon, one of the suspects is 29 years old, small in stature. The other prisoner, Brady, is 35, tall, stout and robust. They were confronted at the Castle on the day of their arrest with several persons, who, at the inquest over the remains of Lord Cavendiah, testified they had seen the Phoenix Park assassins drive away, Curran, however, did not deem their identificacation of Bradey and Hanlan sufficient, but the prisoners were detained in order that they might have an opportunity to see them. It is thought that further arrests will be made in connection with the murders. At the enquiry on the 15th, one of the witnesses was so astonished at the knowledge possessed by the police that he fainted on quitting. The room behind whose house were? found the knives supposed tn have been used in the murder was examined on the 16th. Two of the knives have bloodstains, The police believe they know the driver of the car that conveyed the murderers to and from the Park. They think he also drove the car on which Field’s assailants rode. The latest (Dublin, Dec. 17) received concerning the Phoenix Park investigation is to the effect that the Lord-Lieutenant has issued three new proclamations offering re-

wards for Information tending to the conviifltfon of the assassins, and the au» thorities premise to ensure that the names of informants will not be divulged j £lO,OOO to any accomplice in the crime, not the actual murderav, who will give information tending to the conviction of any of the actual murderers or accomplices : and £5OO for information tending to the identification of any accomplices, or of th e horse car on which the rode, or of. the assassin’s clothes or weapons. These proclamations, although only issued on the evening of the 16th, are dated Nov. 11th. The police believe that they have sufficient evidence to sustain a charge of conspiracy against the persons now in custody on suspicion. F itfe skaters were drowned in the Thames on Dec. 12 by the ice breaking. The thermometer registered 70 degrees below zero. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Mr Whalley, M.P., charged with obtaining £65 by false pretences from a Peterborough pub« lican. A severe snow storm occurred in England on Dec. 7th. A train was snowed up, but got through all right, The Cheshire passengers suffered acutely. The heavy storm caused many wrecks, and the railway telegraph was interrupted in Scotland in every direction. The Duke of Edinburgh has been appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Marines. Chadwick and Sons, woollen factors, Leeds, have failed for £70,000. The train in North Scotland, from Macduff, fell through a bridge at Fyfe, Aberdeenshire ; 14 were killed, and many injured. Cleveland Hall, near Bristol, has been burned. The library, one of the most valuable in England, was partially destroyed. The Albert Mills, Densbort, and the London and North Western Factory, Wolverhampton, were burned ; loss, £lOO,OOO. The remaining four prisoners of the Joyce murderers threw themselves on the clemency of the Crown, and asked for life. They were sentenced to death, but five are said to i be commuted to penal servitude. Latest American Items. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18, 2 p.m. A consigment of twenty-two ostriches reached ’Frisco from Cape Town on the 14th. They will be placed on an 890 acre ranch near the border of Fresno County, in the southern part of the State. The speculation of the ostrich farm is undertaken by Dr J. Brotherve, who went from England to Cape Town some years ago practising as a physician. Advices from Panama say cholera is raging fearfully in Chiarpas, Mexico, owners and laborers on plantations had perished in such numbers that it was not possible to bury the bodies, which were burned. Sixty deaths a ! day occurred. • Tonola Vanderbilt, a railroad magnate, is reported to have lost several millions lately ! through sharp jobs put upon him by railroad I speculators. ' The Secretary of the Brooklyn Board of j Education, who has defaulted to the tune of i 5250,000, has fled the city. Labouchere, who accompanied Mrs Langtry to America, has quarrelled with her over her flirtations with the gilded American youth, and in an interview with an American reporter said he had had enough of the Jersey Lily’s nonsense, and exposed the way the sensation of her arrival was worked. The general opinion is that Mrs Labouchere is piqued at the attentions paid to Mrs Langtry, of which she receives a scant share.