MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5823, 28 September 1887, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

General Ferron, the French Minister of War, inspected the artillery school at Fontainebleau on August 12th. In a speech he said that the military measures recently passed by Parliament would partially remedy a serious weakness in the army. He intended to present further proposals dealing with the artillery and engineer branches of the service, and he was confident they would meet with the approval of Parliament. 'To raise the defensive strength of the country to the highest standard was, in his opinion, the best guarantee of peace. Belgian and English fishermen"engaged in a riot at Ostend on August 23rd. The gensdarmes quelled the disturbance, seriously wounding several persons in so doing. The Hebrew.Lipski, condemned to be hanged for murdering a London Jewess, was granted a respite by the Home Sec retary at the last moment. The Pall Mail Gazette says bis lawyer priwtely con-

vinced Judge Stevens, who sentenced the man, of his innocence, but the Secretary was with difficulty brought to stay the execution. Eventually Lipski made a fall confession of his guilt, and was hanged on August 22nd. Among the resolutions adopted by the United Labor Convention, held at Syi*« cuso, New York, r n August 19th, and at the head of wbiah movement is Henry George, is one favoring the Australian system of secret ballot. The Parnellites returned to Loadon and Were present at the debate in the Commons on August] 25th, when Mr Gladstone moved an address to the Queen on the subject of the proclamation of the National League, and praying that such proclamation shall not continue in force. Mr Gladstone's speech in support of the motion, in which he characterised the action of the Govern' ment as a mere farce, was a powerful one. Mr Balfour refused to submit documents asked for, on the ground that they were confidential. The Daily News says Messrs Chamberlain, Ceilings, and halt- a-dozen other Unionists will vote in support of the Gladstone motion. • United Ireland urges Irish landlords to accept Hooie Bute as inevitable. Contradictory reports are being received in regard to Henry M. Stanley. A dispatch from -St. Thomas, received iat London, August 4th, says that letters received at Stanley Pool announce! his arrival at Aruwhini Falls on Jane 18th, and that all the members were well and making preparations for the overland march. Following this, and received at the Foreign Oihce, Paris, August 17th, comes one as follows : " Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, h'as been killed %y natives, after having been deserted by his escort," London dispatches, same date, say neither the British Foreign Office nor the Emin Bey Belief Committee had received this" news. The officials at the office say that if it were true the British resident at Zanzibar would certainly have transmitted it. It is pronounces} absolutely false by the officers of th» Grigo Free State Association in Brussels. The fatrirt is a London dpspateh of August 17th confirming, that from St. Thomas, to the effect, that letters were received the previous jday from Gambruga, a village pear the rapids of Aruwhini, reporting Stanley atd party all well. The Pacific Mail and Oceanic Steamship Companies of San Francisco, having been aroused by the fierce struggle the CaW»n Pacific Bcntrottl Ommßf* is making for the Pacific Ocean traffic, are bringing pressure to beat on Coogrcasfbr a subsidy. The,recent bonus grated by the Imperial Government to tile Canadian Company has ahrmed-tlMmv "\ ,r r 8o Mrs Lasjtry is not ftoiejg ** A. VB" ! trafta after aIK Her euanM of f|ipL arises ' from the fact that she fiada sW will lose hrt Ameriflan oitiaeßshipt if «j|t of^the States for so long at the trip Would require. W«en, however, ane has«been in the State* ive years BCra Ltnglry will be free to roam as in diys of yore. ,