ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4241, 16 November 1886, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

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(Per B.M.S.S. Alameda at Auckland.)

ADDITIONAL SHMMAEY.

AUCKLAND, Nov. 13. THE OONSEEVATIVB POLICY, Lord S. Churchill’s speech at Dartford on Oot. 3 has created intense excitement amongst politicians, and beats everything since Gladstone’s conversion io Home Buie. He has put the Irish question in the background. The Tory party was opposed to that method of restoring efficiency to Parliament known as cloture , to land reform, to abolition of glebe lands, and tithes, to local Go* vernment reform, and the democratic solution of the licensing question known as local option, and to free education. Now, if Lord OharohiU’a speech means anything, every one of tbe reforms makes part of the Tory platform. His reference to foreign policy was equally bo’d. He did something more than tbe Premier in his speech, He pledged in express terms not only tbe sympathy but support of England to Austria in her anti-Eossian Policy. Sir Charles Dilke, who is again mingling in public affairs thinks Lord Chorcbill unwise. Conservatives will have no difficulty, io Sir Charles Dilke’s opinion, in remaining in power for at least five years, and, if nothing extraordinary happens, probably ten. fie thinks tbe Liberal party is not unitable at present, and tbe situation will not be improved when Mr Gladstone dies or retires,

EELIGIOUS EIOTS IN INDIA. Delhi, Oot. 9. Tbe situation which has grown oat of the religious rioting between Hindoos and Mahommedans is extremely oritioal, Eeinforcements have been sent to Delhi and Meerut to help to preserve order. The Mahommedans on the Bth attacked a small Hindoo temple. The Hindoos defended themselves, and a desperate fight ensued, iq which the Mahommedans triumphed. The victors besmeared the temples with blood, smashed the idols, and destroyed the outbuildings. Twenty Hindoos, were badly wounded. Seripus_ riots also prevailed all over the districts of Jeydkoor and Katty-war. The Bengal Government declined to interfere with the Natives’ religions customs by reforms looking toward tbe abolition of infant marriages and enforced widowhood. Government insist that the question of reform in these matters must for the present be left with the Hindoos themselves. CANADA. bailwav aocidbhx. A passenger (tain od the Canadian Pacific railway went through a trea{]Q

bridge 125. milea east of Winnipeg, on the of Oct. 5. Fire care, including the mail oar, and four passenger coaches, were badly wrecked, and afterwards destroyed completely by fire. Several persons were injured, some fatally. Valuable papers belonging to the President of the Hudson Bay Railway Company, who was just returning from England, were among the property destroyed. This is the first accident on the Canadian road. LABOUB TBOUBLEB. The Knights of Labour in Montreal were excited, because Dodd, pastor of St. Patrick's Church in that city, read, on Oct. 3, a circular of the Council of Bishops of the Province of Quebec, announcing an order declaring that they could not be recognised by the Catholic Church. The election of Oct. 16 resulted in the defeat of Government. THAT STORY OF THE CZAB. The story that the Czar had killed bis Chamberlain, Baron de Extern, at the Palace, with a sabre or pistol, is confirmed by despatches of October 23. The impression is that the occurrence was dae to the ungovernable temper and almost insane fite of passionate anger to which the Czar is notoriously subject, rather than to any fear of personal attack. De Reuters is broker of Mdlle Reuters,with whom the Grand Dnke Alexis contracted a secret marriage ten years or more ago. The marriage made the present Czar and the late Czar furious, and the latter finally declared it void. Other accounts say that de Rentern made an attempt to kill the Czar, and the latter fired in selfdefence*

SPORTING NEWS. Late despatches from the Eastern States and Europe say a number of athletes are preparing to etart upon a sporting trip to Anstralia. Fighters, wrestlers, sprinters, horsemen, and cricketers will be represented. Matthews, who recently left London for the colonies, proposes to get togeteam of cricketers to meet the Australian Eleven on their return from England. J. L. Sullivan, the American champion boxer, is threatening Anstralia with a visit, and H. Hutchens, Johnston, and other fast sprinters have determined to cross the ocean and try conclusions with T. M. Malone, the Australian champion. With the exception of Donald Dinnie, who, it is said, has made considerable money in wrestling and athletics, the American contingent of athletes have fared very poorly in Australia. A cablegram represents William Beach as saying, during an amicable meeting with Edward Hanlan at the Cambridge Music Hall, London, that he bad made £IO,OOO during bis brief career as a sculler, and be proposed, on bis return to Australia to devote himself to his farm, holding himself,however in readiness to accommodate anyone who might undertake to wrest the championship from him on the Parramatta. Ho made no formal response to Hanlan’s challenge. The London “Sportsman" of Oct. 16, has the following Mr Deeble authorises the Editor to state that William Beach has decided finally to retire into private life. The champion has beaten all the prominent scullers of the day, and therefore considers he is entitled to rest on bis laurels. His private affairs now claim a large portion of bis attention.

ME GLADSTONE ON IEELAND'S

FUTUEE.

On Oot. 4 Mr Gladstone and bis wife received Mrs T. D. Sullivan, wife of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and a deputation of Irish ladies appointed by the women of Ireland, to present the exPremier with a mammoth petition in favor of Borne Bale. The petition bears the signatures of 500,000 Irish women. Great crowds flocked to Haw•rden all day in view of the event. Accompanying the deputation of Irish ladies, were deputations representing the Municipal Councils of Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and Clonmel. The place was perfectly alive with visitors, who were accorded the freedom of the town. Mr Gladstone, Mrs Gladstone, Mr Herbert Gladstone, Bov, Stephen Gladstone, Mrs Helena Gladstone, and the Bev Henry Drew (the ex-Premier’s son-in-law) met (be deputations as they entered the grounds, and conducted them into the library. When Mr Gladetone, with bis family, emerged from the house to receive the _ depute* tion, he was greeted by a multitude of visitors on the grounds. Arrived in the library, Mr Sullivan read the addresses of the Irish women, Mayor of Cork, Mayors of Limerick, of Waterford, and of Clonmel. He then presented Mr Gladstone with the freedom of those cities, and thanked him for bis splendid efforts to restore Ireland's Parliament, expressing the hope that he would soon visit Ireland to recive from the Irish people at their homes the thanks they all felt dne to him. When Mr Gladstone replied, his voice was somewhat husky, and be said be believed the deputations and the Nationalist members of the House of Commons truly represented the Irish as a people, “At my age, however,” Mr Gladstone said, in reference to the question that be should visit Ireland, “ the question of visiting Ireland is beset-with uncertainties, whether my bodily presence or absence among them, the Irish people will always largely share my interest and my affections.” Mr Gladstone added that be “most deny the statement that be bad renounced bis former attitude by supporting (he proposal to restore the Irish Parliament.” He said also “he was thankful for the share he took in passing snch Irish measures as had been made law during bis public career." He continued: “The whole character of Irish controversy has altered. We do not now contemplate the dreadful alternatives onr fathers faced centuries ago, nor the alternative Wellington faced when be said the pro* posed Catholic emancipation was the alternative to civil war, It was necer* sary that the late Government’s Irish policy should have been put forward in accord with the desires of the Irish nation, and also to make it clear that the proposals stood within the limit of the Imperial honor, safety and welfare, These items were completely attained, and they have been sustained by pingqlar mildness and temperance of expression, which have so far oharaotised t)}e conduct of Irishmen at every stage of the agitation until now. The esose represented by these depntations is the cause of order, of peace, of legality. 1 am in hopes of conducing to a settlement of this great qnee* tion. As to political affairs, I sm quite prepared to withdraw from public life if I could believe that it were better for Ireland, bnt 1 am unwilling to arrive at that conclusion. England’s interests are as much involved as Ireland’s. On the lowest ground of civil and military economy it is England’s interest to change in some way the present civil government in Ireland, which costs the British taxI layer nearly 16s per head of the popnation, while civil government in England and Scotland costs yearly but 8a per bead of the population. On fat higher grounds England ought to accede

to Ireland’s request. England’s character in concerned. There is a stain upon Eugla.d in r. spec; to hor relations tow.-rd< Ireland.. I deny that the term wh : ch our opp-..nen's uau to describe (ho meaning ot Ui« late Government proposal ia correctly applied in this case, The promoters of the Bill never thought of separation. Wo courted a careful comparison of Grattan’s Parliament with the Parliament the Bill proposed. The sphere within which Ireland derives free aotion, which is specially the sphere of local government, would have been attained under our Bill better than it was possessed under Grattan’s Parliament, The present Government encourages the Irish and the occupiers to believe that judicial rents will be reduced. This idea was embodied in tbegappeintment of tbe present Land Commission, also in the Marquis of Salisbury’s speech at the oommencemon of Parliament, and what he said concerning judicial rents. I do not accept bis statement to any great extent regarding tbe legislation which he said bis Government proposed for next session. I reserve judgment also on tbe wonderfnl encyclopedia delivered on Saturday by Lord Randolph Churchill, whose performances are less known than his promises. I am unable to gather from either of these statements a declaration of fresh concessions. Ido not wish to close tbe possibility for a future modus vivendi, but I am unable to gather that anything remains to bo done in that direction. It wonld still be wise to reconsider the pecuniary terms. Tbe late Government's Bill proposed fall justice to Ireland. This requires a careful investigation of her financial history before we reach conclusions as to what should be accorded her. 1 hope that Ireland's triumph will come with promptitude,, with cheerfulness, and with joy, and I hope that there will be no intervening period of gloom.” A SCENE IN COUET. The Belfast Riots Commission, appointed to investigate the circumstances causing the recent riots, is sitting at Belfast. On the opening day all the barristers engaged in the investigation, except two, insisted on an adjournment for a few minutes —15 at least—in order to decide on what course to adopt. Mr Justice Day refused to grant the adjournment, saying it would be a waste of time. The Justice, despite the protests of tbe barristers, proceeded to examine tbe witnesses, whereupon the barristers rose and left the Coart-room in precession, taking their bags, briefs, and books with them. Ssvearl solicitors, priests, and Orangemen interested in the investigation followed the barristers. Barrister O’Shaughnessy said he was indignant at Justice Day’s conduct, and added, “ The Irish bar is not used to such treatment.” A subsequent telegram states that the result of the Commission is to show that the Home Eule proposals caused the Orangemen to lose their heads.

MISCELLANEOUS. The “ Pall Mall Gazette ’’ of Oct. 31 published a series of memoranda addressed to the Admiralty by Lord Charles Beresford, Junior Naval Lord, in which he says be feels bound to put on record a protest against the entire unreadiness of England for war. He dwells at great length on the lack of arrangements for defence, and personally declares there is at headquarters absolutely no plan of operation in case of an outbreak of hostilities. Unless a man of famona energy and genins should be created by the need, England wonld be face to face with an irreparable calamity. Sir Charles Warren, chief of the London police, has matured his plans for guarding the public buildings against dynamiters. These are likely to prove very effective. The bulk of the guards are dressed in plain clothes, and work by special code.