General News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 404, 7 January 1881, Page 16

General News.

sa'SyrsMSfir^S"™ i2 - co ° a-. »«— wl,io^ h? 0 EU + f ian ,-° apital iS ]^ 8t now the scene of a Judicial investigawhich is attracting general attention. Sixteen Nihilist prisoners a £wVf al ' aßd .^.indictment read against them is said todisclose SflTr ? If or f an j s^ lon and . movements of the revolutionary party, ™ i°? at lb com P" ses a n «^er of resolute men, to whom every political crime committed or attempted during the last two years is to be traced. The particular case^nder TvesUgatio^ Ms week has been the assassination of General Kraptokine, the Governor IS 5 hC Chc T£ e bein / based u P° n the depositions made by S2£ g ' «* generals murderer, who committed suicide during the t P he e aX a riL^S^ mmatiOn ' • a *™°*>»*> a confessiSn to

tw™!>fm + f a S W £ ajS a Pi he curious circumstance that since wWnW« ? a? r - F^ter's Elementary Education Bill in 1870, which was loudly lauded as casing aa era of iliiberality aud exclusiveness about one hundred appointments of Inspectors of Schools in England and Scotland had been made by successive Governments, and yet not one sing c nomination by any Lord President, Liberal or t?^ rr w IVe ' ha ? GU tO , a C « b »fo- A correspondent points out tZ^ Tl & i Ir ] Sh^ e^ h&Ve been appointed to be her Majesty's Inspectors of bchools m Great Biitaio. Thus Mr. Barrington Ward MrV E dd ' fl bl " Otbe f ♦? Mr.Moicna Ward, the BelfasTpuSlSr; Mr* T r" PnlY'ir T °-, the kc of Devon shire's agent at Lismore Mr. J. O. Colvills family reside near Dublin, and Mr C H C Guinness is a scion of the family of onr eminent and now ennobled brewers, 'fuere arc other names in the list h uggc b ti?e of an Ir sh aXttS? % ?°Ki ?? y LUL UC ' ™«naurice, Fionth Graves, Synge and others. \et all their bearers, without exception, are Protestants SSi^S^ o^ EV^ y '^ oiutrac » t "> an'Bnglihd^St Ztal ZVr, tbe Lord Chan cellorship downwards, is fSSnS tl^, talent , ed Ismail, provided only that he be not a Catholic. If he professes the religion of his forefathers, every opening ton ThS CXCept the narrOW **> o£ competitive y examh ia ? rSmnJ?f mot to «f our countrymen should obviously be « Free Sned M cTJI ° ? at ™ n^-" »■* while patronage is still main' tamed, Mi. Gladstone s Government in all its dealings^ with Catholics i^tSs? to imitate tbe suitau ' 8 treatme^ *« & cbSSs An action has just been heard before Vice-Chancellor Malms on demurrer in which two labouring men, named Bayliss and W llis laid claim to arge estates held by Lord Howe, which they Siege had been obtained by a former Earl Howe by a " concealed f rand T The

It is announced from Berlin that the war which is being waged between Prince Bismarck and the Socialists is becoming more serious every day. The state of seige is being extended from one town in Germany to another, and the Socialists are being turned out by the score. It is expected shortly that the list of towns in a state of siege will be very considerably increased. Many of the expelled Socialists are expected to emigrate to the United States. — Nation, We have to report this week another series of magnificent land meetings in all parts of the country. The most important of the demonstrations were those at Athlone and Belleek, at which Mr. Parnell attended, and that at Killaloe, at which Mr. Dillon delivered one of his best speeches. The Belleek demonstration was especially significant, inasmuch as it was attended by a large number of Protestant farmers, who cheered Mr. Parnell and Mr. Dillon as heartily as any Catholic audience has done in the South or West. This incident is a pretty comment upon the challenge of the extreme Orange fanatics to the Land Leaguers to go into Ulster, and also upon the lying manifesto of the Orange executive in Dublin, which has this week declared that the land agitation aims at the destruction of Protestantism in Ireland I—Nation,1 — Nation, November 13. The volcano of Vesuvius is reported to show signs of activity. The Superintendent of the funicular railway, Signor AJeotti, was lately attacked on the road leading from the Observatory to the lower terminus, and robbed of 1360 francs and his gold watch and chain. His assailants were three armed men, who threw him down and gagged him.

The total winnings of Robert the Devil during bia turf career amount in the aggregate to £20,926. Mr. Brewer gave 2500 guineas for him at the close of his two-year-old career. As a three-year-old he has won £18,647, so that the owners of the horse made a good investment.