NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4543, 15 November 1882, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

(Per b.b. Oity of New York, via Auckland.) [Fib Fbbis Association.] GBEAT~iRITAIN. ; EIBB3 AND WBEOKS. THE CHANNEL TDNNIL. THE FIBST CREMATION IN ENGLAND. The Directors of the Irish Exhibition Com' pany held a meeting at Dublin on Oct. 4, and recommended that the present building remain another year, also that a series of class exhibitions be held similar to those arranged at the Agricultural Hall, London. The Committee advised holding exhibitions in various places in England and the Umited States, with a view to popularising Irish manufactures. They urge, in addition, the forming of a new association to aesist manufacturers. 1 Sir Stafford Northcote made a epeooh in Glasgow on Oct. 4, in which he deolared the Egyptian frar was unnecessary and unjustifiable, and that it oould have been avoided by a firm stand at the beginning. It is reported that the authorities of the Suez Canal have prohibited employment to anyone who worked for or assisted the British troops. Consequently many are thrown out of employment. Cremede Soni and Co., London merohanti, hare, failed, for £120,000. The National Conference of Miners have deoided that there was not sufficient unanimity to admit of a national strike, but ua an alternative the eight hours' system would be i generally adopted. I Mr Dillon replies to the Liverpool Land League that nothing but ill-health could bare caused him to quit politics. Flanagan and his wife, suspeoted of being concerned in the murder of Lord Montmorrea at Olonbur, County Galway, on Sept. 8, hare bsen arrested at Cong, in the County named. Thomas Ballan and Co., cotton spinners, of Blaokburn, have failed. Liabilities £33,000. Charles Ghabot, a well-known London expert in caligraphy, ii dead. Mr Morley s retirement from the Fortnightly Review elicits regret from most opposite quarten. Henry George, correspondent of the Irisi World (New York) in Ireland, where he was wrested and detainsd some thirteen hsurs as a suspect, has written a letter to President Arthur, in whioh he poies as an Amerioan martyr. It has created much laughter in Irish oiroles in Ireland. Tke closing of the Land League in America is regarded as a viotory for Mr Gladstone^ Land Act. Agitation in Ireland will cease to be formidable the moment American supplies are cat. off. The returns issued by the Board of Trade on Oct. 8 show that during September British imports hare decreased, es compared with that month last year, £55,000, while exports hare increased £22,060. Mr John Bright is sharply attacked by the leading radical journals for declaring the Egyptian war unjust and unneceisary. It is even said that at the next eleotion he will lose his seat for Birmingham, just as h« lost his seat for Manchester at the Crimean war. It is rumoured he will retire from public life at the end of the year. Tempting offers hare been made to Mr Matthew Arnold to engage in a leoture tour through the United States. He hesitates because he doubts whether he has enough to interest the large and miicellaneous audiences whioh would there greet him. The West Concert Hall at Brighton has been burned ; lobs, £43,000. Baker's flour mill at Bristol has been destroyed by fire ; lots, £50,000. Ingestre Hall, the seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, has been burned down. The loss is estimated at £500,000. The prospeotus of an Irish Banking Company has been circulated, with a proposed capital of £1,000,000. The new Bteame.r Belgium, 4000 tons burthen, built at Aberdeen for the American trade, was totally wreoked on her trial trip. Tenders for £2,000,000 worth of Indian four per oent debentures were opened at the Bank of England on Oct. 10. The loan was covered twioe over at about par. Owing to the alarming increase of pauperism in the south of Ireland the Dublin Union has takon the lead in the proposal to send 1000 able-bodied men and women to Canada at a cost of £7000. Galbraith's spinning mills at Glasgow have been burned. The loss is estimated at £80,000. A commercial traveller named Brooks was committed for trial at th» Bow street Police Court, on Oct. 14, for threatening to murder the Prince of Wales unless he received money from him. Tue threat was contained in a letter to Colonel Teesdale, the Prince's equerry. The prisoner, who is considered to be mentally affected, claimed to have served several years in the United States army. The Convention at Athonry, Galway, on Oct. 13, adopted resolutions declaring the right of the country to national independence, and accepted the principle of the land for the people, approving the system of piasant proprietary as oontained in the amendment of Mr Bright's clauses to the Land Act. Resolutions were alio passed declaring the prevalence of grass farming of land as tending to paralyse industry and increase pauperism, lha Convention further reiolved to prevent hunting until the extra police drafted on the county ware dispensed with. The miners of Lancashire, Berkshire, Derbyshire and North Wales have givon notice of a demand for an advance of 5 par cent in wage]. A number of Irish farmers and peasantry assembled at Gurraghmoro on Oct. 12, and forcibly put a stop to a hunt. By a despatch dated Oct. 13, it appoarj the Committee under General Sir Archibald Alison, appointed to report on the Channel tunnel, considers the exit of the tunnel should be commanded by a fortress of the first cljbs ; that the tunnel should be provided with a portcullis, and with an arrangement for filling it for sufficient space with irrespirable gas ; that measures should b§ taken for the demolishing of the land portion j for the temporary flooding of tho main tunnel, and also for its total destruction by a mine. Thete arraugenionta should bo controlled by separate psrtios, both inside and outside, commanding tho fortress, bat when all this is done the Committee admit that it would be presumptuous to place absolute roliance upon even the most comprehensive arrangements. Memoranda from Mir Garnet Woheley and the Duke of Cambridge are appended to tho report, condemning the proposed tunnel in even stronger tersng. The Times considers this report has settled the question of a Channel tunnel adversely for a long time to come. Bradlaugh has issued anothor address to tke English, people. He Bays : "In this Parliament I will sit," but he doaa not say how he means to do it. A severe hurricane was experienced in Ireland on Oct. 1. In Cork more damago was dono on land than by any storm for 20 years past. The American ship Harvey Mills from Liverpool for New York, lying at Queenstown, was driven ashore, and several yachts were sunk. Mr Henry Edmund Knight, Alderman for Cripplegato Ward, has boon elected Lord Mayor of London. U. Dnjer Grey, Bhoriff of Dublin, has beon released by Judge Lawson on payment of £500. In ordering his release the* Judge pointed out that a chango had taken place in the tono of his paper, the Freeman's Journal, since his incarceration. The castle and military barracks st Enniskillen were seriously damagod by firo on Oct. 2. | An account of the first cremation which has taken place in England, has bsen published. Tho bodios were those of Lady Hansham and Mrs Haneham, who diod in Dorsetshire, in 1877 and 1876 respectively. They both expressed a wish that their bodies i should be cremated. The remains were kept in the mortuary house until the preparations for the process were completed, and on Sunday, Oct. 8, the remains were enclosed in substantial coffins and placed in a furnace on plates of iron (fivo inch) and reduced to ashes. In an inquiry held on Oct. 12, into tho murder of tho process servers, named Huddyß, at New Loiißh Mask, a farmer natnod Kerrigan and his wife testified that the elder Huddy was stunned with a stone as ho was serving the paper, and ho was then kioked, while an assassin from a cover fired into his body, i killing him The younger Huddy's head was I then dashed against a heap of stones, and he

was afterwards flhot"in the presence of a crowd of villagers Smith's hosiery factory at Balbriggan, Scotland, has been burned down. Three hundred people are thrown out of employment. De Leseepa claims that his company possesses, for 99 years, the exclusive right; to maritime communication between the Gulf of Felusium and tho Bay of Suez. The Times doubts this right. " Mr QUdstone reiterates his declaration that he is unable to interfere with the operations of the Mormons in England, as he presumes that the converts who go with them go willingly. General William Booth, of the Salvation Army, in London, has somewhat surprised and grieved the judjoious by applying for a renewal of the danoing license of the Eagle Tavern. The magistrates refused to consider it. Some of the General's reoent exploits have not redounded to the honour of the Salvation Army. Stanley, the African explorer, returned to London on Oct. 18. He considers the work he undertook on the Congo for the Sing of the Belgians ia practically finished, and will not return to Afrioa for the present The belief is current among Mr Gladstone's friends that he intends absolutely to retire into private life after the autumn session. The Marquis of Hartington is regarded as the coming Premier. General Havelock Allen has written to the Times concerning the charge that English soldiers killed the Egyptian wounded. He begins by flatly contradicting the charges, and ends by admitting that the wounded were killed in some instances. The Middlesex Magistrates caused a sensation in London by re-licenßiog the well-known Argyle Booms.