MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5658, 16 March 1887, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

The United States Senate passed, on Feb. 7, without debate, Bills appropriating 21,000,000d01s for modern ordnance and coast fortifications.

The British born residents of San Francisco are making elaborate arrangements to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee on the 20th June next. The "Sons of St. George," a new and exclusively English order, headed by Burnsby Lodge, will lead the demonstration.

The workmen's movement in opposition to the Knights of Labor is largely increasing in the United States.

Considerable excitement has been caused among navy pensioners now residing in Canada, both seamen and marines, by the receipt of a circular from the British Admiralty calling upon all under 50 years to hold themselves in readiness for active service.

Three princes of the House of j£ala« kaua, King of Hawaai, arrived in San Francisco on January 22. They are lent to attend the Military Academy in order to be schooled in army tactics. Sir W. Vernon Harcourt invited Mr Gladstone to meet Lord Hartington and Lord R. Churchill at dinner at his bouse ▲ on February sth. Lord Hartington andjfl Mr Gladstone sent excuses. The invita- V tions caused a slight sensation.

Acting upon his physician's advice, Mr Parnell intended going abroad to recruit his health. He is said to be suffering from pulmonary disease, Jand to be dangerously ill. In case of his retirement Mr T. M. Healey is spoken of as his sue cessor.

The Parnellites will oppose in Parliament all projects relative to the liquor traffic in Ireland, on the ground that the question should be reserved for an Irish Parliament. • The striking miners at Blantyre, Scot* •land, engaged in riotous demonstrations on February Bth. They looted 8 number of shops, and the police had to be called out. The miners' strike was reported spreading in Scotland. Latest despatches speak of it as abating.

An amendment to the Queen's Speech, offered by Mr Esselmont (Liberal) in faror of an inquiry into the conditions of the farm laborers of Scotland, was rejected oa February 14th by a vote of 98 to 96. At Killarney 100 starving laborers, headed by a priest, appeared before the Board of Guardians and prayed for work or relief. The Board gave the applicants a hearty meal, and agreed to apply to the Government for assistance.

At Joung Hall, on the 16th Jan., 15 children left school in a body singing " God Save Ireland," because of the presence of two children whose father is an

" emergency man."

Mr T. M. Healey, who was defeated during the recent election by Mr Thomas Lea, who was the only candidate for the South division of the Londonderry County, was elected unopposed to fill a vacancy in the North Division of Longford County, caused by the decision of Justice McCarthy to occupy a seat belonging to Londonderry city, to which he was elected as well as to the seat belonging to North Longford. In Ireiand the interest in the trial of "the plan of campaign" is increasing. The Dublin Court was crowded on Feb. 16. The defendants were around the town smoking and amusing themselves, and.apparently attached no importance to the proceedings. The trial had a farcical appearance.

The Corporation of Belfast awarded £5511 compensation for damages inflicted by the recent riots in that city. The Supreme Court of Missouri granted, on January 31, to H. M, Brooks, alias

Wax well, a reprieve until April 1 next. Brooks is in prison at St. Louis, and was ordered to be executed on February 3. Michael Davitt has undertaken to champion Dr M. Glynn's case, as against the Pope and Cardinal Siraoni. At a meetiDg of 10.000 people held in New York on January 23, he made a ferociom attack on the latter, the Pope's Secretary. General Phillip Sheridan has outlined a plan for harbor defences, the chief features of which are sunken forts, disap* pearing ordnance, mortar batteries, and mines. The material named for the proposed series of defences can be produced without delay by American manufacturers, and without extensile plants. General Gene, the Italian commander, telegraphed on February 13 that Mahomed Bey, who incited the Abyssinian leader, Kas Alouli, to attack and massacre the Italian troops, to prevent, as he said, their invasion of the country, has been im. prisoned, and will be punished. Recently, a riot at the DemidoiF Spinning Mills was occasioned by the discharge of 2500 women and children in accordance with the new law. The Chief Orloff, and his assistant Sahkaroff, were murdered by the mob, and other officials had narrow escapes. The mills and entire plant were destroyed. The Socialists fomented the outbreak. ;

The Dakota School of Mines, located at Eapid City, in Dakota Territory, was formally opened on the 12th of last month, under the charge of F. R. Carpenter, a mining engineer and expert of high reputation. It is the intention of the trustees, if the Legislature will make sufficient approbation for the purpose, to connect with the institution a plant for the testing of gold and silver ores, after the plan of similar institutions in Europe The Lord Mayor of Dublin announces the receipt of §10 from a New Yorker which sum, the sender said, was to be applied "in any way that will armor Great Britain. J

One of the shortest bills, if no t the shortest, ever introduced r u any Legislature » that recently * resen ted fe? Mr Grover of Maine, w ah £ readfi . .^ «J enacted by the Senate and House of as follows : Sec. 1. The dog is hereby declared a domestic animal. Sec. 2. That this Act shall take effect when approved." John Bright has written a letter on the foreign affairs of Britain, in which he derides fears and jealousy of Bussia. He says: • Britain seizes Burmah; yet she menaces Russia if she approaches Afghanistan. Britain has denied Bussia's right to enter the Mediterranean from the Black Sea, and has treated her always as. an enemy. It is not unnatural, then, that Russia should retaliate. No couatry in iiurope would more readily resntwd than she to offers of friendship fron» Britain " Mr Bright, in conclusion, expresses tb® hope that no Minister mil be able to drsar Britain into another war

The St Petersburg papers contain offerg for tenders; for the delivery of enormona quanti.^B ol war material. Among them a*e SO.OOO tents, 500,000 soldiers cloaks gunpowder and bullets, and 2,000 pai-g of boots-all to be delivered at the toe**. py April 1, '