MAIL NEWS. GENERAL SUMMARY. (London Dates to March 16.)

Te Aroha News, Volume 1, Issue 45, 12 April 1884, Page 3

MAIL NEWS. GENERAL SUMMARY. (London Dates to March 16.)

Mr Arthur Peel, the now Speaker of the House of Commons, is the youngest son of the great Sir Robert. The Prince of Wales made his first speech in the House of Lords on February 22, on the subject of better accommodation for the poor. Sir Hercules Robinson was to be banquetted by the Empire Club on March 3. Sir Arthur blyth, Agent-General for South Australia, denies that he intends contesting Palmouth. He says he considers it would be incompatible with his position of Agent-General. Bradlaugh, while delivering a lecture at Bridgewater on March 13th, against perpetual pensions, was attacked by roughs and driven from the platform by a shower of rotten eggs, fruit and fireworks. The roughs afterwards wrecked the chairman's house. A London despatch says the Arabs in the recent State raid captured 1,800 children. The shareholders of the Suez Canal Co. have ratified tho convention between De Lesseps and the English ship-owners. A duel with swords was fought in Lisbon between Viscount Roderico find Major Serpo Pinto. The former received five wounds. A mass meeting, W. E. Forster presiding, will be held on the 21st inst. in London, to oppose any legislative action that will increase the price of meat. The natives recently attacked the European factories on the Lower Congo, plundered the caravans, and killed several Europeans. Assistance has been sent to that district. Gladstone's indisposition is said to be owing to a disagreement with the Marquis Of Hartington, Secretary of State for War, that England must control the Red Sea ports of Egypt. A St. Petersburg despatch says that the | Council of the Empire approves by a large majority the proposed concessions to the Russo-Anierican Company, which contemplates the erection of grain elevators throughout the countiy. Marshal MacMahon paid a visit to Comte d i Paris at Cannes. The many letters the Comte is receiving, congratulating him on his escape from death from dynamite, is causing much disgust to the French Government. The Foreign Office has sent despatches to the British Minister at Washington in regard to the dynamite outrages. It Is supposed they are intended as the basis of overtures with the United States Government, but no communication on the subject of any kind has yet been received by Minister Lowell. Inspector Moser, of the London detective force, has returned from Paris. He failed to find evidence that the Fenians in Paris make dynamite or were implicated in the London explosions. He believes that nine men on board the steamer Danube brought dynamite to London, and these men the police are now tracking. There was an explosion on March 13th in a hotel at Fulham, a suburb ol London, which is believed to be another Fenian dynamite outrage. A box containing four packages, apparently of cartridges, was found on the premises. One man was blown to pieces. Port Spa 7 '". Trinidad, has been almost entirely desu jyed by fire. The loss is estimated at over $100, 000. The fire originated in the Union Club House, and in a short time the whole south-western portion of the town was in flames, sweeping away the principal hotels and dry goods establishments. The buildings were well insured in A English offices. There was no fire department, and the flames only subsided when everything was consumed. A despatch from Mandalay, Burmah, says the Shans, a native hill tribe in the north, have revolted and are devastating the lower plains. They have invested the town of Bhamo, from which the English and American missionaries have fled. Several registered letters were stolen from the post-office at the Place de la Bourse in Paris. A letter containing 50,000 francs was stolen between Paris and Toulouse. The postofiice robberies for the past week amount to 100,000 francs, The St. Petersburg Chief of Police has received a letter from Nihilists, threatening with death any one who informs against Degaieff, who was the leader cf the four Nihilists that murdered Colonel Sudeikin on December 28th. The steamer Juliett, which has arrived at Halifax from Newcastle, England, reports fearful storms and seas and revolving hurricanes, heavy fields of ice and innumerable icebergs. She sighted a two-masted steamer apparently hard and fast between two bergs, but could not make out the name. Later she passed an oil cake or petroleum ship afire. The crew are believed to have been rescued by a passing ship. A letter from Shanghai says advices are received of a great financial panic in Peking, in which many native merchants and banks have failed. The bank rates for silver were rapidly declining, merchants in the interior had stopped all trading ventures, and the populace of the country was greatly excited. The Duke of Marlborough testified in the Lady Aylesford alimony suit. The case then went to the jury, who found for the plaintiff the full amount claimed, and gave a verdict for defendant on the counter claim for molestation, which consisted in calling Lady Aylesford's bastard son Lord Guernsey. Bismarck had a narrow escape from a passing engine on Thursday while driving across the railway track. It is believed the Swiss police hold clues to an extensive conspiracy which would have sacrificed hundreds of lives. Advices from South Africa state the Boers in Stilla Land are advancing to attack Maukoroane. A British battalion has been ordered from Cape Town. Mai-tin Turner and Co., merchants of Glasgow, engaged in the East India trade, have failed. Their liabilities are roughly estimated at from £400,000 to £500,000. The failure is attributed chiefly to heavy losses in sugar sustained by the firm. It is believed a satisfactory settlement will be made. The correspondents of the firm at Singapore, Batavia, and Manilla are Martin Tyce and Co. The House of Lords agreed to Marquis Salisbury's motion to appoint a commission on the housing of the poor. The Prince of Wales addressed the House on the subject. He said he had been impressed, as all classes had been, regarding the condition of the poor, and he was gratified that a Royal commission had been appointed to look inta the matter. He took a lively interest in the question, and felt flattered at being appointed a member of the commission. The subject was not totally unknown to him. None could say that the labourers upon his Norfolk estates were badly housed. The Prince's speech was received with cheers. London, March 7th,— Chadoick's Park Mills, near Manchester, were burned.

Two thousand woavers have struck, owing to a threatened reduction of wages. British imports for February have decreased as compared with February of laot year, by £289,000. Exports have increased £627,000. In deference to the memorial of Irish members of all shades of politics, the Government has introduced in the House of Commons a motion to amend the purchase clauses of the Land Act. Mr Parnell is actively promoting a company to further migration from over populated districts in Ireland. A company has been formed with a capital of £250,000, with Parnell as Chairman, and Sir Baldwyn Leighton, Jacob Bright, and Edmund Dwyer Gray, members of Parliament, among the directors. The Redmond Brothers arrived in Qaeenstown on March Bth from New York, and were met by a number of friends. Michael Davitt read the address of welcome. John Redmond said his mission to Australia and the United States had been a success. The actress, Miss Fortescue, who was recently jilted by Lord Garmoyle, continues an object of interest to the London public. She is playing at the Court Theatre as Dorothy in "Daniel Deronda,' and although her parrot-like delivery and mechanical care are commented on by the Press, the house is nightly filled to overflowing, and the audience show sympathy for her position by frequent recalls. Hei weekly stipend at the Surrey Theatre before the Garmoyle incident was Jb'3 ; it h now £50. Despatches from St. Paul, Minnesota, te March 12, say that the Fenians are moving actively in the North-western States, wit! a view to take advantage of the dissatisfac tion in Manitoba, and foment trouble in thai part of the Dominion of Canada.