ENGLISH NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 387, 12 February 1880, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

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. A railway collision occurred at Southport, Lancashire, by which three persons were killed and twenty wounded. ' Gas properties have recovered much ground recently lost by the Edison electric light scare. Mr McCarthy, M.P. for Mallow, has resigned, because he was resolved to have no connection with Parnell's policy, and was disgusted by the bickerings of the. Home Rule party. A number of unemployed laborers have plundered bread and meat stores, and scores of people in the County Limerick are clamoring for bread.i, . Process-serving has been violently resisted in Gal way and Maye, the priests in Galway and Killarney taking the lead, and'ririging'the chapel belL to 1 give notice of the approach of the officers. Serious collisions have taken place, "arid Americans, suspected to be Fenians in disguise, have been arrested. : ■ -

It is now thought certain that the Government intends to proceed with the trial of Davitt, Daly, Killen, and Brennan for sedition,

The distress in County Kerry has reached-a state of famine. •

In Mayo a policeman escorting a pro-cess-server was severely handled "by the peasantry.. .'.l A woman is reported aa having been starved to death in Kilkenny! A large influx of tramps lias taken, place to that town, and excesses are frequent, The Dempsey family, who were evicted at Balla, have been restored, the rent being paid by public subscription. There is afresh movement regarding the Channel tunnel, Railway people think it' may be completed within the next ten years. The Queen has sent £SO to the Duchess of Marlborough's Irish Relief Fund, which has reached £IO,OOO. The Lord Mayor's Fund for the same purpose had reached £20,000 at Christmas. To the former the Rothschilds subscribed £2420; the Barings, £968; Coutts & Co., £968; the Irish Society, £'726; Right Hon W. E. Forster, £242,

Eleven men were wounded and nine killed by a colliery explosion near Bolton. ■

The ironmasters of North Staffordshire refuse further orders at current rates. The trade is in a flourishing condition.

Mr Spurgeon has made an impassioned appeal to the Christian sentiment of the English people, endorsing Mr Gladstone's position.. He warns Englishmen that under such tutors as the Times tliey are creating anation of- demons." The Bishop of Manchester has married Miss Duncan, of Bath. The Duchess of Marlborough's .Irish Relief Fund has reached £20,000. • < A in the Times indicates the probability of the, appointment of Sir Garnet Wolsely as Commander-in-Chief in India on his return from the Cape.

Lord Penzance has issued a fresh citation against' Mr' Machonochie, the celebrated JElitualist clergyman, who disregarded the last'sentence of suspension. The: Vatican.is at present engaged in discussing certain proposals which have been submitted to his Holiness the Pope, with the view of promoting the union of English Ritualists' with the Roman Catholic' Church.

Terrific gales have occurred over all parts of Great Britain and Ireland. In the week ending 31t December a storm of rain, accompanied by lightning and snow burst over London, and did much damage. The circuit of the gale embraced Ross Castle, Edinburgh, Greenock, Yarmouth, Liverpool, and Plymouth. At the latter place a French barque was lost with all her crew.