NEWS by the ENGLISH MAIL.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1677, 5 April 1883, Page 4

NEWS by the ENGLISH MAIL.

The following 1 items 01 news by the EttgHsh koail? Vhiolt arrived»by tho 8,8. Zealokudift at Auckland on Saia?ay|,jrt^ifig; fr& from files 'tot AMnortrijiiquieibing dUcovBry,,wa« lately madrfiiiiyiVfiw. A dispenser at, the Children's HoapiMJUQfcigetl that tb'e r powder on tho bottom of an empty quinine-box presented, a- different appearance from thafc-whioli ho had taken out of tho box. An examination sh6tfed that there was (sulphate of quinine nt the orifice and centre obfch'o J>oxes, ,biit< that the rest tyas filled with sulphate of cinchoninc n(i'>'ettlpnato of cihehonidine. InvestiEatfdns at other hospitals and in several Srabgists' shops gave the same result. Tho' (wholesale houses protest that they deliv«fi the boxes just as they receive them, and that the sin lies at the door, of they, ■foreign manufacturers. However thas may be, it is hoped that somebody cither in America or France will be sirfartfy' punished , for thus tampering wittijmen^ lives, for the typhoid fever, so'qjtjmm'on in, Paris, is invariably treated withiduiuirie. ' Lord' Dufferin has make excellent progress in giving Egypt a stable and constitutional government. His proposals hayq been all adopted. They consist of thFcc'parts: The Khedive is to be furnished, first, with twelve responsible Ministers ; second, with a Legislative Council of fourteen, half of whom are to be nominated, and half to be " chosen by a system of double election"— possibly by the .provincial councils ; and, third, with an' elective Chamber of forty-four nietnbers, to be convened occasionally for strictly consultative purposes. How this popular Chamber— an Egyptian counterpart of the ancient Zemstro Sobor of Russia— is to be elected is not stated, but by no possibility could its election be more farcical, according to Western ideas, 1 than tho system by which the late Chamber of. Notables was got together. The precise value of this suggested constitutional apparatus can only be realized in the future, For the present, itis sufficient to note that the English Gpvernment is anxious to piovide institutions through which hereafter the views of the Egyptians on the Government of Egypt may find adequate and legitimate expression. The latest information in regard to the Panama Canal is contained in the JNcw York World's correspondence of February 23. The writer says a despatch has arrived recently from the company's office, at Paris, fixing the Pacific month of the proposed canal somewhat to the east of the site previously selected at the month of the Rio Grande. The Canal says the Franco-American Trading Company have signed a contract for cutting seven miles of the Panama side from the new outlet to Paraiso. Charles de Lesseps was expected on the 28th to inspect work done. His visit, no doubt, will lead up to another call for 10,000,000 francs gold. Of the 30,000,000 francs already paid in it is said, but little remains, and not a foot" has been cut out for the canal proper.' An English dredger has been deepening the canal in Fox river. The Times oi March 10th says; "We have good reason to believe the inquiry now proceeding will implicate the Land League beyond doubt m the immediate patronage of crimes in Ireland, even if it does not establish its direct connection with the principles, The flight of Patrick Egan, unless explained, is a moral acknowledgment of guilt, from the damning consequences of which none of his associates can escape, unless Egan can clear his own and their characters. We (shall not be surprised to learn that the leaders of the Land League who still remain in the United Kingdom m«ay shortly firfd it convenient to follow Egans example Eight dagger knives were found in Ringsend Basin, Dublin, on the 6bh March. ' Geo. W. Foote, editor, W. J. Ramsey, proprietor, and Kemp, pi inter of the Freethinker, London, found guilty of blasphemous libel, were senteused on March 5, as follows :— Foote, twelve months' imprisonment ; Ramsey, nine ; Kemp three. Foote's sentence provoked a storm of yells. The (Society for the Suppression ot Blasphemous Literature propose to get up cases against Professors J^tuxlcy and Tyndall, Herbert Spencer, and John Morley and others, who by writings have sown widespread unbelief, and in some cases rank atheism. Herbert Spencer, answering a critique in the Edinburgh Review, denies having any sympathy with communism and land robbery. He repels the Review's attempt to connect him with Henry George, whos>e book entitled, "Progress and Poverty," the philosopher contemptuously dismisses as filled with visionary ideas , On the 19tli of February a deputation of working-men presented a memorial to President Grevy protesting against the political instability of Fiance, which, they say, injures the interest of labour. They declared the prime causes of the condition of affairs complained of arc toleration shown pretenders, and overpliancy towards foicign powers. The House of Commons parsed a Bill on the 7th instant to prevent the shooting of trapped pigeons. John Richard Green, LL.D, author of a History oj the English People and numerous histeral essays, died March 7. He was examiner in the School of Modern History, Oxford, . Mormom iniluencc is being felt so extensive in the Pacific Coast states and territories as to lead to the belief the Saints intend eventually to control all the country west of the Rocky Mountains. Mr Trevelyen announced in the House of Commons, on March 10th, that the condition of Ireland was more tranquil! than for some time past. The "Invincibles' ranks are increasing in Dublin, notwithstanding the readiness of the men now in prison to betray each other. At Charing Cress, London, on February 15, a great popular demonstration was made in favour of the claims of Mr Bradlaugh to a seat in the Commons, to which he was re-elected from Northampton borough in March last. Delegates from London workmen's clubs, and others iepresenting four hundred pi ovincial towns, were present. The police authorities made arrangements to quell any disorder that might arise. About 7000 persons were gathered in Trafalgar Square, onethird being somewhat disorderly youths weariug Bradlaugh'a colouis. One hundred policemen were posted at the base of tho Kelsou monument. When Mr Bradlaugh arrived he was greeted with wild enthusiasm. A platform was erected, and resolutions unanimously adopted protesting against the exclusion of Bradlaugh. Order Mas well maintained, 'the police guarding Westminster ■Palace Yard gates, After the resolutions ■and speeches, Bradlaugh entered Westminister Hall, cheered by his supporters and the crowd outside. At 11. 30 .Bradlaugh was present in his usual seat .in the House of Commons. A correspondent writing to Tho Times from Dublin on February ]9 says there is little doubt the authorities will be able to connect the conspiracy with Rib-, bonism as well as with Fcnianism. 'The . Times further says suspicions are raised, by the evidence given by Carey on the 17th, that can only be allayed by a thorough disclosure of accounts of the' Land subject to independent audit. Until this is done, the League' will be under the suspicion of maintaining secret relations with criminal conspiracies of the foulest type. I Lady Florence Dixie, in a letter to IT/w Times of tho Bth, charges Biggar and Parnell with failure to account for! £152,000 of the Land League funds./ She claims that while this money remains „> unaccounted for, the parties name,d an y d their foUowers Uatfe no right to mock tho sufferings of th/ 3 djMreiised in Ireland by, their'sbani championship of the starving peasantry/ > ' ' '■ ! ' J j The British 6Qrornme.n>) has made <j demand, otf the imttwttiw »t WwbfogtW

for the extradition^' # .f .' Sheridan, and 01} Franco ,fqr the, extrnditioft of Frank plloity in the PhdSliiX ,P,ftrk, murders. The demand has givotl rise t<J a good deal •of? newspaper discussion. The London f 7Y»tf*' of T)h* liTirfat.' s^sT^'lf 'only Complicity in the organisation of n Hccret society is alleged -.against Byrne nnd Sheridan, thei^Wti-Aflition^ill'proUably bi rp(uscd." The Ml Mill Qazrtlo tukes tljd r «tin^' vie\V. 7 rHo f FiWeh 1 , kad,iM^ prqtfc'st 'rtjv'nii'i'-jt 1 ByrneV'e^trudittoti, l nud his 'frii'iiilij flSjacrt 'that he cn'ti 'prove a poift'ut (ihlil, ChcicH, mi 'eminent advocate ' will defciid Byrne, and Victor Hif&o'wlll write papers concerning the" hardship of his am:st when his innocence irf proved. "Rbgardliij; Sheridan, (GroVerho'r 'Uutlc'r and General 'Ko^et 4 A. Pryor hold' a cdiisnitktion over his ease; and' ex preteed' themselves satisfied the 'firitishGovernment h'aUnocase tinderthe treaty/

Mr Dewk, 'of Ottawa, has invented what he cflls a chromoscopc* and which will give to photographs nil the tinta ami sky colouring as depicted by nature at the time of taking a 'picture. A.cqntjbmi'OHAKY announces that Miss Ann R. .Koy has been summering in Egypt, and will go, to Ireland this winter.' , ' ' ' \ ' ! Tins' Australian Frozen Meat Company announce a loss of £3080 on tlie, ( halfyear," which is 1 ' 'explained by the exceptional ilearncss of meat in the' colonies and a rise in freight rates. ' A Sydney telegram, dated 26th February r in an Australian contempory, gi.ves the following startling piece of, information : — "Private letters received per last mail report the elopement of Mr 1 * St John, daughter of Sir Hercules Robinson, with Major Stephenson." A Fui.M'jt writer says that, although dogs abound in the Egyptian cities, there is no hydrophobia among them. Camels, however, safer from a frdm of madness at certain times, and the lutes from them during this stage arc dangerous, but . the diseases is not contagions. SrfrN-Oit,A.ss napkins are a iccent addition to the supplies of luxuries, which people who indulge a taste for oddities wilf piobably not consider too high-price at 100 dollars a dozen. One on exhibition in St. Louis is pearl shade, the size of an oidinary breakfast napkin, and almost aa pliable as 'silk. The frilling consists of minute glnss threads, crossed by a silk chain, and the fiinge of glass h'bie is a bout two inches long. Barlow; the Lancashire professional, objected to the fourth combined match against the Australians averring that the Englishmen had accomplished fche main object of, their visit — beaten the Australian Eleven twice out of three times, He fmfchor contends that "England v. All Australia'" was a misnomer. It should have been ,"Bligli'a English Eleven," for it is not a truly representative team, and could be very, materially strengthened. Tiik number of public-houses in Copenhagen is to be reduced from 1350 to 300. No showily dressed girl is to be allowed to stand behind a drinking bar to fascinate youtlis of the other sex. Landlords are forbidden to sen c out drink to any, person under eighteen years of age, male* or female, or to anyone already under the influence of drink. A drunken person is to be conveyed to his own dwelling in a cab or covered carriage, at the expense of the landlord in whose house he took the last glass. At an hotel recently a man and a woman of Milesian extraction took aeats at the dinner-table. Directly afterwards a young couple seated themselves opposite, and the young man took a stalk of celery from the glass in the centre of the table and commenced eating it. The Irishwoman opposite looked at him a moment, with an air of disgust, and then nudged her husband and said in a stage whisper. "Pliclim dear, d'ye mind the blackguard eating the bokay ?" Sosir. investigating- person has f urnished the New York Times with a brief list of patents on email things, which, in many instance I*,1 *, havo proved great mines of wealth lo the lucky discoverer. Among those trifleH is the favorite toy — the "return ball "" — a woodon ball with an elastic string attached selling- for 10 cents each, but yieldititf to itn patentooan incomoof £10,000 n year. The rubber, tip on the end of lead pencils, affords the owner of the royalty an inclopendant fortune. The inventor of the gummed newspaper wrapper is also a lich man. The ghnlit-point-cd frcrew has cnvolved more wealth than most bilver miucs, and the mau who thought of putting copper tips to children's shoes isaH well otfus if his father has left him £4000 in United States bonds. Thk Sweet By anm> Bye.— The author of the well known song, " The Sweet By and Bye," S. Fillimoro Bennett, of Elkhorn, Wis., denies in the Chicago Indirator that he and the composer were drunk when they wrote the woidsand music of that song, as has been charged. Neither of them was drunk. Bennett was at his place of business when Webster, who was lof a nervous and sensitive nature and easily susceptible to depression, came in, in one of his melancholy moods. "What's the matter now?" asked \ Bennett. " It's no matter," ho answered ;" it will be all right by and bye." " The idea of the hymn came tome like a flash." says Bennett, " and I replied: "The .Sweet By and Bye!' Why would not that make a good hymn?" "Maybe it would," ho said indifferently. Turning to the desk, Bennett then wrote the three verses of the hymn '• In the meantime two friends N. H. Carswell and S. E. Bright, had come in," says Bennett. " I handed the hymn to Mr Webster. As he read it his eyes kindled, and his whole demeanour changed. Stepping to the desk he began to write the notes in a c moment. Presently he requested his violin, and played the melody. In a few moments mote he, had the notes for the four parts of the chorus jotted down. I think it was not over thirty minutes from the time I took my pen to write the words, before the two gentleman before named, myself and Mr Webster were singing the hymn, in the same form in which it afterwards appeared. While singing it, Mr R. E. Crosby, now a resident of Richmond, 111., came in and after listening awhilo, with tours in his eyes, , uttered the prediction : ' That hymn is immortal.' I thinli it was sung' in public shortly after, for within two weeks almost every child on the streets was singing it." It is translated into several languages and " sung in every land under the sun." Everyone' who has read Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" will remember the manner of craft in which that marvellous journey was undertaken, and thougii that wonderful vessel was entirely a product of M. Verne's fertile imagination, the new scientific steamer Albatross seems in •m^ny ways a practical embodiment of the mythical Nautilus. We, all know that fish, like moths, are attracted ,b ( y light, and the Albatross will be provided, with two classes of electric light, the Brush for illuminating the3urface of the, sea, and the Edison for lighting up the, deep. Fancy the effect of those brilliant 1 rays, shining through the transparent, waters, and fading away in soft gradations, towards the lower depths. Imagine, the vast aquatic army, which ; will come 1 sailing through the illuminated sea,! visible iv this liquid crystal, as through; , tlie glass.of an inunence aquarium. The officers and crew pf^ttye; Albatross will, , nidged, be- able, to" call apivitjs from thel vasty , deep," , This' ,'upwj steamer hasj b,eeu prpyi^e^,, w,itli miscropeqpic purposes, .and .all the^fliost' novel and approval apparatus ' for. dredging, trawling, >and deep-sea ' sound-j ings. , She ha» also a new distillery; apparatus', arid an,, .[method, off ventilation. The Albatross has ' been designed for the ..United/ States. Fish Gojnmission, and, besides .ichthyology, drni-, tholpgy,wili also t . form a, jpartsof, a her researches, a room haying been fitted; up, ,wi£h , .every, arrangement- far , ,the .,, ,coa- 5 venience of the taxj[d.er ( mist.,f f , 1 S l bje,, ready, for sea ftbpuf December let. , a most wonderful; 'example,^! Jh^iprfigr^i oft science wthm % pa|t teg jearj, , |