ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 638, 29 March 1870, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL

GENERAL SUMMARY.

{BYELECTBIG TELEGRAPH.) (PROM OVR OWJf COBKESFOSTDENT.) Bluff, Monday. Tbe s.s. Omeo arrived at the Bluff yesterday. Parliament opened on the Bth of February. The Queen is indisposed. The speech was delivered by commission. Foreign relations are friendly. An Irish Land Bill is to be brought in for the amelioration of the condition of tenants. There will be no strong opposition. The English news is unimportant. There has been a conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor of the French. Lord Cairns severely criticised the Queen's speech. He chiefly condemned the proposed policy with regard to Ireland, which he said was uncound, unsatisfactory, and calculated to excite discuiHtsnL and discord. Mr Gladstone announced his intention to introduce a bill, having reference to the Irish Land Question, on the 10th. Mr Disraeli declared that the Government was responsible for recent agitation and excesses in Ireland. Mr Gladstone defended the policy of the Government. The House of Commons annulled Donovan Eossa's election for Tipperary by 301 to 8 votes. A great fire took place at Teddo, Japan, in January. Over one thousand houses were destroyed. The Great Eastern ai'rived at Bombay on the 29th January, and was engaged laying the cable at Aden. The Duke of Edinburgh visited Agra and Benares. The Duke's tent was robbed of 15,000 rupees. The passage of vessels by the Eed Sea and Suez Canal increases daily. The CEcumenical Council continues sitting. The fathers are not so tractable as they were expected to be. The Council has not yet come to any definite conclusion on any question. It is considered a failure. They are now discussing the infallibility question. There is great depression in the flax markets. Sales at £2O to £42 only. Small quantities are priced. It is doubtful whether it would answer in place of manilla. Sir Charles Darling is dead. The Queen is suffering from neuralgia. Lord Carnarvon has protested against the withdrawal of the British troops from fhe Colonies. Earl Granville has declared that there was no desire to sever the connection between England and her Colonies. He says that the withdrawal of the troops is only intended to enable them to learn habits of selfdefence. In the case of an attack from without, England would defend them with her last man, her last ship, and her last shilling. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Mr and Mrs Charles Matthews have arrived in Melbourne. Harris and Hewitt are to run for the championship of the world.

[The foregoingitems are from a correspondent of our own, as, in conformity with others of our contemporaries, we last month ceased to accept the Government telegrams. The following items are from our Charleston contemporary, whose arrangement with the Government is still in force. In future, under the new telegraph tariff, we hope to have concise summaries at reasonable rates, instead of the pre sent costly and often unintelligible" conglomeration of intelligence]. A dreadful accident happened in a Catholic Chapel at Liverpool. A man

while in a state of intoxication obtained admittance during the service, I and raised an alarm of fire. Immedij a tely a panic ensued, followed by a I rush to the doors. After some difficulty I order was restored, when sixteen perf sons were found to have been crusoed [to death. Serious colliery riots have taken place at Shorncliffe colliery, near Sheffield. The riot commenced last Friday, when unionists attacked the works, also the dwelling-houses of nonunionists destroying or wrecking them. Services of the police and military were called in, and the riot was ultimately quelled. The ringleaders were arrested. The old Star and Garter Hotel at Richmond was burned on the 12th January, resulting in the death of the manager. _ A. private meeting of influential London merchants was held at the London Tavern, to discuss the proposed steam communication scheme to Australia, including Milford Haven, Portland, and San Francisco within forty days. Sir George Grey in the chair. The meeting was numerously attended, and passed resolutions in favor of a company. Harriet Beecher Stowe'e vindication of Lady Byron, just published, has been received unfavorably by most American and English papers. Trapman, the Panton murderer, was executed on the 14th. He made no further confession, aud lost all courage before death. Mr Peabody's remains arrived at Portland on the 25th January. Great preparations were made to receive them befittingly. At the instance of Mr Motley, the Government has consented to transfer the Alabama negotiations to Washington. The Porte received letters from the Viceroy of Egypt intimating his willingness to surrender his iron clads and breech loaders as ordered. He explained that the delay in so doing merely arose from a desire of the Egyptian Government to ascertain the cost of the breech loaders and iron clads. The explanation is stated to bo perfectly satisfactory to the Sultan. Latest cable news from New Tori; states that Princn Arther visited the Treasury and other departments at Washington on the 25th. Mr Belmont and General Dick have invited His Royal Highness to a ball to be given is his honor. Disturbances still continue in Ireland. At Limerick two policemen have been shot one, mortally wounded. A British Australian Telegraph Company for laying a sub-marine cable from Singapore to Port Darwin in T*Torth Australia through Batavia and thence to Bourke Town, Queensland, has been organised. Obituaky.-—General Sir De Lacy Evans, Major General Sullivan, John T. Pratt, R. H. Bernard, Dr Young, R. E. Foster,Dr Rolland Williams (one of the authors of Essays aud Reviews), Major General J. Hoclgeson. Henrietta Maud Colquhon, May Frances Campbell, Mr Chambers, Sir S. T. Seymour. Slight disturbances in Paris are reported. M. Ollivier, while replying to Keratry, said that preparations were being made to rescue M. Rochefort. Subsequently eight barricades were erected, and a number of gunsmith shops pillaged. A considerable number of people have beon injured, and over two hundred men arrested. Thirty-five were arrested for plotting against the Government. The Times has published a letter from Captain Tain, of the ship Petrel, stating that Dr Livingston has been killed and buried by natives, whose place is ninety days' journey from Congo river. Sir Roderick Murchison contradicts the report. The Red River rebellion is subsiding. The man Dyer who surrendered to the police on a self-accusation of having murdered his mate, named Nelson, in 1855, at the Loddon diggings, Victoria, is believed to be of disordered mind. He has been remanded pending the result of inquiries in Victoria. Martin, the Fenian candidate, was hopelessly beaten at the Long>ford election by Mr Greville Nugent the liberal candidate who polled 1287 voter against 444. A serious strike has taken place at the Artisans' great iron w„orks, Crustol. It was instigated by an agent of the International Association which supplies funds from England and Switzerland. Three thousand five hundred soldiers were sent to protect the town. New workmen were introduced, and after a time the dispute ■was amicably settled and the strike terminated.

A collision occurred on the 24th of January off Yokohama between the P. and O. steamer Bombay and the U. S. corvette Oneda, which was leaving Japan on her homeward voyage. The Oneda sank almost immediately, and only fifty-six out of a hundred and seventy-six were saved. A severe cyclone visited the Bay of Bengal. One ship went down with all hands. Mr Gladstone introduced the Irish Land Bill to the Commons on the 15th. It denounces the perpetuity of tenure and proposes prompt sales between landlord and tenant, by giving power to the landlord to sell the fee simple. It also empowers landlords to advance money to the tenant, such money to be re-payable by annual instalments, and provides for the establishment of Courts for arbitration in civil cases—such Courts to settle all differences. Landlords restricting tenants without being able to justify the step, will have

to pay compensation varying from two to seven years' rout. The tenant may claim compensation for permanent improvements. Landlords granting leases for thirty-one years are to be exempted from claims for compensation. The second reading of tlie Bill is fixed for the 7th of March. The opposition promised to deal with the measure in a conciliatory spirit.

An amhitious fellow in Connecticut appeals to the " mechannicks and laboring men of my native town. I will reprizent you in the Stait assemblee irrespectif of pollytics, relijion, or eddicashun." A clergyman told an Indian he should love his enemies. "Me do love 'em," replied the latter. " "SS hat enemies do you love most?" "Rum and brandy."