GREAT BRITAIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3949, 14 December 1880, Page 3

GREAT BRITAIN.

Garibaldi has declined an invitation to visit England. Owing to tho excitement in .tho district where the late Lord Mountmorris was assassinated, his household effects have been removed to Tuam, and the house is guarded by police. On Oct. 27 a fierce south-western gale prevailed along the const of England. 160 vessels of all descriptions were wrecked, and many lives lost. Much damage was dono inland by floods. In Sussex and Warwickshire long stretches of land were covered with water for miles. Charles Harcourt, the actor, died in London on Oct. 27, from the effect of a fall from a trap on which ho was standing during a performance. The British steamer Mildred, from New York to Marseilles, foundered, and everybody on board was lost. The last Australian mails arrived at San Francisco on Oct. 5, and were forwarded by special train overland, arriving m New York Oct. 12, and Queenßtown on Oct. 20. They were detained twelve hours, and did not get to London until Oct. 22. Had it not been for tho detention, the mails via America would have been delivered twelve hours in advance of the mails via Italy. Edwin Booth, the American tragedian, appeared as Hainlefe at the Princess* Theatre on Nov. 6, and was well received. The Great Shropshire Stakes were won by Meesino, Speculation 2, and Lionel 3. Pres-ton-Pans was the favourite. 'Ihe London Sportsman thus explains Trickett's defeat :— " We believe, firstly, that Hanlan is a far superior sculler to Trickett, and secondly, we do not think Trickett was at all as well as could be hoped. Weeks ago he made a trip to the Isle of Wight and France. He was over-trained. He nad worked himself up to a pitch of muscular tension which nature refused to sustain long, and a re-action ensued. Probably he was suffering from one of those relapses yesterday. It must be remembered that Trickett had always a bronchial affliction, but we no not hesitate to say that he would never beat Hanlan even in the best of healths. With regard to Hanlan, probably many years must elapse before such a perfect teuller appears again." The Marquis of Lome sent a despatch to Hanlan, congratulating him on his victory. The amount of money wagered on the event was tremendous. The backera of the Canadian in Toronto alone cleared over 300,000 dollars. The pedestrian contest for the championship of the world began in London on Nov. 1. There were six competitors — Littlewood, Pegram, Brown, Eowell, Dobler, and Howard. The start was made by Sir John Astley. Sowell and Dobler both beat the beßt times previously recorded for the first 300, Dobler by 45mins, and Bo well by much more. Blower Brown broke down the first day and retired from the contest. Rowell made 300 miles in 62hrs and 7mias, 24 miles ahead of any other record. Dobler went lame on the afternoon of the third day, and thenceforward waß out of the race. Howard also broke down, and drew out of the race, which closed on Nov. 6. Ho well mado 566 miles, beating Hart's time and distance at New York, Littlewood 470, and Dobler 450. Eowell quitted the track at 10.40 p.m. The London Board of Trade returns for October 6how a decrease of £4,881,000 in value of imports into the United Kingdom, and an increase of £978,000 in value of exports, compared with the same month last year. At Durham, many miners and their families were evicted in a snowstorm because they would not submit to a reduction of a shilling a day in their wages. The ship Galatea, from Bombay to London, foundered off Cape Clear, and twenty-one lives were lost. The American schooner Abraham was lost off Siberia and thirty lives lost. The coasting steamer Airsa was lost off St. Govern's Head, England, and thirty-four lives losfc. The keeper of a farm at Limerick, from which people had been evicted, was shot on the night of Nov. 18. The indicted Land Leaguers will enter pleaß traversing their indictments as soon as possible. The nephew of an evicted tenant has been identified as the man who shot the farm custodian near New Poplars. The man is not dead yet, but is likely to die. On Oct. 24, Mr Parnell addressed a Land League meeting at Galway, and in the presence of 40,000 people, said Government was responsible for the assassinations that had been committed, and maintained that the only remedy was the autonomy of Ireland. $oxhs}°*' ■**- ~-; u<Jll > . a w M ..» i _-» -»-~«i«w*y < i eaiane was convinced mat Ireland could obtain trained and organised assistance from America if there was a failchance of success in breaking the British yoke. The Times, commenting upon Mr Parnell'e speech in Galway, said — "It is impossible to mistake the meaning of such an argument, or tho purpose of the man who uses it. The condition of Ireland and the temper of the meu who are criminally misleading the people, calls for immediate attention." On Oct. 27, at a meeting of the Land League in Dublin, a resolution was adopted, calling on Irishmen throughout the world to aid in forming a resolute organisation, and requesting Michael Davitt to remain in America to direct the movement there. Ihe military system of signals by flashes is carried on at night by the League, particularly in the neighbourhood of Templemorc and Thursi3. An additional regiment of infantry has been ordered to get ready for instant departure from England for Dublin. The Magistrates of Ulster forbade a meeting of the League at Dungannon on Nov. 1, because they feared party disturbances on account of it being near tho anniversary of tho landing of William 111. nnd the discovery of the gunpowder plot. Mr Parnell spoke at Limerick on Oct. 31. He was escorted into town by an immense procession, including the Corporation oflicials. In his address he said Parliament would not reduce rents, but he said France and other countries had got rid of their great landed proprietors, and why not Ireland F M'Nalley, an agitator, has been indicted for conspincy. In a «peech at Tuam on Nov. 1, ho recommended tho use of dynamite and gun-cotton against landlords. Messrs Parnell, Brennan, and Sullivan were served with copies of tho indictments against them on Nov. 2, in Dublin. Charles S. Dungan, of Longford County, a magistrate, was fired at near that place. Subscriptions were started to help the indicted agitators in their trials. An outline of their defence was published, tho main point of which was to bo justification for all speeches made. A leaguers' meeting at Shamgry waß dispersed by a powerful body of farmers and landowners. At Athole, on Nov. 8, Mr Parnell made a speech to a League meeting, condemning Government in unmeasured terms for sending military and constabulary to a district where people wero starving. The whole assembly ot some 20,000 persons seemed to be moved by a feeling of defianco towards the authorities. At Dublin, on Nov. 12, Mr Parnell and his fellow prisoners wero given full particulars of the charges against them in tho Court of Q.ueen's Bench, but no information as to what evidence would be produced. Near Dova, County Limerick, a land agent, named Wheelor, was Bhot dead by unknown parties. The steward of Colonel Cooper, of Dublin, was shot und wounded at Dunbobcii by an unknown boy. Mr John Bright, in a speech at Birmingham on Nov. 15, strongly condemned the Land Laws of Ireland, which, he said, virtually gave landlords a monopoly of the land. Two brothers named Moore have been arrested at Cork on a charge of being concerned in tho murder of Wheeler. Michael Moore accompanied Wheeler when ho was killed. Wheeler was not a land agent, as at firßt reported, but a son of a Protestant farmer. Ho had taken a farm from which tenants had been evicted. Tho New York WorhVs London special says: — "Tho members of tho Land League, apprehending tho Beizuro of their persona and property by Government, have invested largo amounts of their funds in foreign securities, and lodged them in Continental Banks All their books and papers which might have low of immense service to Government in sceu.iig their conviction, have been removed

to a place of safety, but whether this place is in the British realms oron the Continent, is a matter of conjecture." The latest accounts received from various parts of the country by agents for property, represent its state as still more disturbed and demoralised. The combination against the payment of rents is extending into districts hitherto peaceable, and the terrorism which followed closely in the wake of the Land League i 8 steadily breaking down the opposition of the law-abiding classes. Tenants now pretend to be unable to pay their rents to the landlords, and defiantly refuse to pay more than two fifths of the valuation, and in some cases decline to pay at all, or demand an arbitrary abatement. Tho Cabinet Council at Balmoral on Nov. 20, further prorogued' Parliament to Dec. 2, but without summoning it to meet for the despatch, of business. Mr O'Connor Power, M.P., speaking at a public meeting in Galway, said that when the object of the Land Leaguers shall have been attained, the Irish people would have a more noble course in view —to wrench themselves from the rule of England. It is stated that the Eeform Club raised £270,000 for election purposes. It is reported that the Queen asked Mr Gladstone to propose in Parliament a vote of £40,000, to enable the Prince of Wales to pay his moat pressing debts, and the Premier refused. Fifty thousand delegates of all trades meet ia Glamorganshire to take action with reference to the foreign tariff. Mr Gladstone, at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London, said that possibly Government might have to ask for increased powers in regard to Ireland, but would not anticipate such a contingency. He eaid that no progress had been made in tho Greek question. Cardinal Manning opposes French Jesuits settling in England. Mr Gladstone refuses to support the scheme for an Euphrates railway. Eight thousand rifles have been received in Ireland from Italy. The Land Leaguers are tampering with the troops. Mr Gladstone denies that there are dissentions in the Cabinet on the Irish question. The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland passed a resolution to combat the agitation with all its power. Mr Foreter favours an overwhelming clißplay of power to overawe the Leaguers. Tho Czar is in a state of mental and physical prostration, and has lost popularity since his morganatic marriage. Another powerful Nihiliet rising is imminent.