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perienced cultivation andimperfect methods of extracting the poppy juice, but these defects are being rapidly corrected; and, according to MR. Acuzsos, who compiled the report for 1880, "it would seem only to require the removal of official prohibi- tion against the cultivation of the poppy in China to gradually deprive Indian opium of its market through mere absence of de- mand." Another authority, the Commis- sioner for Newchwang, asserts that the | much-condemned culture is nevertheless certainly destined to retain the high place it has taken in the agricultural economy of the three surrounding provinces." This may afford pleasant reading to the well- meaning enthusiasts who see nothing lut moral degradation in the opium trade; but to the Indian Government, who have to raise a vast revenue out of insufficient ma- terial, the future is fraught with grave per- plexitles. Sooner or later-not from sense- less agitation, but from changes in the economical condition of China-this fruitful source of revenue seems destined to vanish,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE Viceroy of Canton, who was to have embarked to-day forthe North, has postponed his departure until next Thursday.

We are informed by the Agents that the Ancona, with the incurning English mail, left Singapore for Hongkong, at 8 o'clock this morning. THE Russian frigate Duke of Edinburgh, Capt. de Giers, arrived from Singapore this forenoon, and exchanged the customary salutes. A HAWKER who admitted stealing six dollars' worth of clothing from a widow living in Second Street, and three previous convictions, two of which were for larceny, was sent this morning by Mr. Wodehouse to six months' hard labour. AFTER all, Mr. Thomas Ide Bowler and Chan Atai are not one and the same person, as the veritable Chan himself, a gentleman of the pure Mongolian type, answered this moraing at the Police Court to the summons charging him with obstructing the footway. The case was of no interest, and we simply allude to it in order to set the public right as to Mr. Bowler being Thomas Ide himself and not Chan Atai.

Tur steamship Belgic telt San Francisco for News by the French Mail arrived too late for to- Hongkong on April 19th.

day's issue.

THE steamship Gaelic left San Francisco for Hongkong on the sed instant,

We are very pleased to hear that the use of the Cricket Ground has been granted for Chiarini's

The Egyptian Government, in replying to Italy's note, asserting her right to Sovereignty in Assabs llay, has referred the Italian Government to the Sultan.

PARIS, April 14th. Mr. Pamell, in answer to many applications,

LONDON, April 15th. elected, unopposed, for Meath.

Mr. Shiel, the Home Rule candidate, has been

April 17th. In compliance with the strong wish of the United States' President, Dr. Lamson has been fly sited until the 28th instant, pending the receipt of affidavits,

PARIS, April 18th. time quietly in the country.

Mr. Parnell has left Paris, and is passing his

NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL.

has refused to be interviewed here.

We take the following telegrams from our American exchanges, received this morning by the P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamship City of Tokio, Captain Maury

LONDON, March 26th.

In spite of the unfavourable weather that pre-Circus, the formal sanction of the Government to vailed yesterday evening, a considerable crowd the erection, which we understand has been ap- of residents were assembled in the Public Gar-plied for, being all that is needed. We are in- dens to listen to the fine Band of the Buffs, led formed that Chiarini's agent has undertaken to by its able conductor, Bandmaster Quinn; and restore the Cricket Ground, when the Show notwithstanding the drizzling rain that continued is over, to the condition it was in before being to fall at intervals, they stuck to their post with used by the Circus people. In such a favorable praiseworthy tenacity and perseverance.

position, the enterprising Circus propiletor ought THE Press Association learns that the Govern that the Show will be largely patronised, the to be able to make a "pile," and we doubt not ment have made arrangements for the appointmenagerial attractions being considerable. ment of three additional sub-Commissions to deal with the long list of cases which are waiting for adjudication under the Irish Land Act in Tyrone, Armagh, and a group of smaller countles where claims for a reduction of rent have accu- mulated. These extra Commissioners will begin their work immediately after Easter, and continue regular sittings until the August holidays. HO YAN, master of the fishing boat Hing A MOST impudent instance of malicions prosecu, was, with eight others, comprising a steersman, tion and wilful false testimony came before the

a seaman, three boatmen, a.salt broker, a shop

particulars of which will be found in another this morning before Captain Thomsett with at- elsewhere. At present the vista is endless. place. There is little doubt that the three car-tacking and pirating the Cheung ip Li junk on The eye can discern no single object giving penters were suborned by some one to bring the 9th March, on the high seas. Inspector hope of speedy relief. . Perhaps the best false charges against the master bricklayer, and Corcoran said that a special piracy report was chance lies in the gradual development of we think there should be little difficulty in dis- niade at the Central Police Station on the 1th [7 India's resources, but the partial destruc. covering the suborner, who should be made an of last March, the vessel attacked being the tion of a great industry like opium-growing example of The carpenters, we think, have rea-Cheng Ip Li, a junk licensed for fishing at looks more likely to contract than expan? Son to congratulate themselves upon gelting off Aberdeen. From information he received, be THE Chinaman who took the daring jump from

so easily as they did.

yesterday, about 8 am, boarded the Hing Lithe upper storey window of a brothel in Square HAPPILY for himself, Luther cannot pay a visit to arrested the defendants, who were all on board 21st April, when the police were called by the salt junk, lying off the "Sailors' Home" wharf, and Street at half past seven on the evening of the Persia has likewise become a powerful this troubled world again. What would be the at the time. The salt-broker and the shop inmates in consequence of the man striking one Permission to be present at the.division and had Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The competitor with India inthe China markets, feelings of the great refor.mer if he could read keeper were then purchasing the salt. The three of them on the leg with an iron bar, having been action and surrender after the division. Sexton

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COLIN MCKENZIE, described as of England, but apparently, from his cognomen, hailing from the land o'cakes," which, perhaps, he did not like to throw any discredit upan by acknowledging, was up this morning at the Police Court for assaulting Sikh Constable No. 547 yesterday. The constable advised him to pay his 'ricksha with his fist, and tore his uniform cape, being at fare like an honest man, when Colin struck him

the time well over the line dividing sobriety and inebriety, in the direction of the latter, of course,

sance of a European Constable before Mac could be induced to take up free quarters at the station. The defendant was fined five dollars or 14 days, having besides to pay a dollar amends to the constable for his disfigured cape, or undergo a further two days' seclusion.

and its loss will have to be supplied from Magistrate at the Police Court this morning, the keeper, and the wife of the boat master, charged The Punjanbee was obliged to invoke the assis-

the revenues from other channels, at least for a long while to come.

graph will always be open for the fair discussionable figures have more than doubled since...ed a mum, and set himself to declaim against

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natural causes.

appears to be gaining ground. In a long article on the subject, the Goles points out that Russia the Berlin Treaty, of submitting to the other has the right, as one of the Signatory Powers of European Powers the question of the non-fulfil mert by Austria of the provisions of the treaty, In view, however, of the fact that Austria has al- ready sustained great loss by the occupation of the provinces, and probably will have to make still greater sacrifices, it is not the interest of Russia to take the initiative, but if any other of the Great Powers should raise the question, she will, of course, take part in the deliberations which

may ensue.

IN Thursday's issue of the Daily Prers we were informed that "the Capital of Tonquin had passed into the hands of the French with the fall of its citadel." It has frequently been our painful duty to bring this would-be instructer of the Public, on matters relating to China specially, and the Far East generally, to task, for misleading the Public, and again we are compelled to show up his ignorance. Hue,

der what would be the fate of an Editor of a re- Podger, who informed his constituents in a leader presentative Daily paper in Norwich, or Slocum that Lincoln, the Capital of England, had passed into the hands of the Turks. We have a shrewd idea that he would be laughed, or booted, out of the place. In Hongkong the Public are more charitable. The genius and enterprise of our contemporary would, in some places we know of, consign his publication to the seclusion of and land it, not on the drawing room table, but

of the Saveloy vendor. on the counter of the butcher or on the rattle trap

discharged from hospital, was up this morning at the Police Court on the charge of assault. The Magistrate, thinking doubtless that the fellow had been sufficiently punished by the fall and the

membered, to the constable who found him lying resulting confinement in the Civil Hospital since, discharged him. He complained, it will be re-

on the ground in a helpless condition, that he felt, as If something had been broken in his interior. His inner man, however, would seem to have escaped material injury.

NEWS BY THE INDIAN MAIL.

We take the following telegrams from our Indian exchanges received this morning by the steamship Aratoon Ağcar, Captain A. B. Mactavish:-~

LONDON, April 4th.

posing a penalty for corrupt practices at elections

It is said that the Attorney-General's bill im

Macclesfield, Oxford, Gloucester and Boston of will disfranchise Sandwich, and deprive Nestan, one seat each in the Commons,

March 27th. In the Commons this evening Gladstone said the liberation on parole of some of the "suspects" to attend to private business, farms no precedent for liberating Parnell, Dillon and O'kelly that ture. Thirty-three Home Rulers promise to op they may participate in a division upon the Clo- pase the Cloture.

The proposed rules of. Parliamentary proceed. ing were again debated. Gladstone said he be lieved it was the general feeling of the House that a division should be taken on Thursday. batc. Thomas Sexton thereupon announced that John Bright moved an adjournment of the de-

O'Kelly, stating that they had naked Forster for he had a telegram from Parnell, Dillon and

undertaken to refrain from any other political asked whether permission would be granted.

The Speaker ruled that the question was dig orderly.

...

motion for adjournment, declaring that if fair play The Parellites continued the debate on 'the was not granted, they would use all the forms of the House to obstruct the debate,

Finally, the House adjourned without action.

PARIS, March 28th. ber of Parliament for Gravesend, and formerly Sir Sidney Hedley Waterlow, Baronet, nem Lord Mayor of London, was married at the British Embassy to-day to Miss Hamilton of San Fran cisco. Rev. Mr. Ayr, Presbyterian minister of Napa, Cal., officiated.

LONDON, March 28th.

In the Commons to night Gladstone, ridiculed the idea of allowing the imprisoned Irish mem-

ministering the Coercion Act bers to come to London to vote on the cloture. The Government would be consistent in ad-

March 30th. In the House of Commons to-night, the debate on the Cloture resolution was continued. John Bright said there could be no doubt that unless its difficulties, it would stand before the country something was done to deliver the House from as having neglected its duty. If the proposed resolution erred, it was in not being aufficiently

the discharge of its duty. severe. He concluded with an appeal to the members generally to assist the Government in

In the Court of Queen's Bench, Clark, plaintiff in the case against Bradlaugh, applied for a judgment, notwithstanding Braudlaugh's appeal to the Lords is still pending. Justices Grove and Huddleston gave a judgment against Bradlaugh, which is destined to force Bradlaugh into bankruptcy so as to vacate his seat in the Commons.

March 31st.

denied emphatically that the Clature was intended Gladstone, in closing the debate last evening, to prepare the way for coercion. It was crime, not the Cloture, that makes coercion possible. The Government only asked the House, by not passing the amendments, to shut the door against a principle which will defeat individual folly and the darker danger of those who would stand be. tween the House and the discharge of its duties. mented favorably upon the other rules.

Northcote, in the course of his speech, com-

John Bright, like Gladstone, commented illustrated by quoting the proceedings of tho severely on the designs of the Irish, which he Chicago Convention."

This evening Gladstone, replying to a ques- tion, said the Government had no change to announce in the Cloture resolution. He would

Ten years ago the Persian drug was

the following extract from a clerical catechism, hoatmen are cargo boatmen, and, he had disco scarcely known to the smoking Celestials. Possibly he would quote the first line from the applied for their discharge.

now circulating in France, we dare not conjecture.vered, did not belong to the Hing Li. He therefore Even so recently as 1873 the importation hymn most nearly associated with his name

The three boat only amounted to 550 piculs; in 1877 it had "0-Who was Luther? A.-Luther was a discharged, and the

men, the salt-broker and the shop-keeper were ether defendants re-

of inspector Corcoran, who said he wanted to be risen to about 2,300 picuts, which consider Augustine monk in Germany, who apostatizeti, manded till the 13th instant, upon the application the Catholic Church. After leading a scandalous able to procure his evidence, the Cheung Ip Li This article meets with support for two reasons. Primarily, it is cheaper than life, he died on rising from a meal where he had, being at present at sea. Malwa and scarcely dearer than the as usual, gorged himself with wine and food,"

THE tables were properly turned upon three car. the higher touches of Patna and Benares THE idea of submitting the question of the Aus penters at the Police Court this morning. One Advertisers are requested to forward all notices Opium, while its peculiar property of allow-trian Administration of Bosnia and the Herze- of them charged a bricklayer with stealing his Intended for insertion in that day's issue not latering ofits being smoked again and again, ren-govina to a European Conference or Congress jacket on the 11th of last month; and also with Ax entertainment, got up in connection with the than THREE O'CLOCK so as not to retant the ders it extremely popular with the poorer

stealing a dollar, the property of one of the other Royal Naval Temperance League, will be given early publication of the paper,

classes--the greatest consumers of all.

two witnesses. The first man said the defendant this evening at the Temperance Hall, commenc- Conteniling against such adverse condi-

upstairs, remaining there some time, and that right songs, four recitations, and one reading, came to his shop on the 11th April and went ing at seven o'clock. The programme comprises tions, there need he little surprise if this

after he left he missed his woollen jacket from enabling a graceful glide from "grave to gay, trasle should show a far greater falling off

the room above. When he saw defendant the from lively to severe" to be made. The enter- within the next few years. It seems im-

same evening, the latter denied taking the jacket, tainment lo-night will be in the nature of an ex- possible to doubt, from the evidence before

but promised to pay him for it. As he had not periment, and, should it prove successful, it is in- us, that the Chinese Government itself is

done so, he gave him in charge.-In answer to

tended to have similar cnes fortnightly, varied, if slowly awakening to the truth, and learn.

the defendant, witness said he knew that his found practicable, with instrumental music. ing how innocuous to its people is the use

(the witness's) master owed defendant some

Valuable assistance is anticipated from the men money. The second carpenter said that on of that much abused weed, the poppy. No

the 11th April he put a silver dollar on the bulk of the entertaining material. The ob of the Buffs, who are relied upon to furnish the long time will elapse, we may feel sure, HONGKONG, SATERDAY, MAY 6, 1882. before all restrictions are finally withdrawn.

top of a table in the room upstairs. He went ject, to our mind a very laudable one, Even now the Imperial elict, prohibiting

downstairs, but on going up again the dollar is to withdraw devotees of Bacchus from the TELEGRAPY-that astounding invention of its cultivation, is openly violated aud al-

was not there.-Carpenter No. 3 deposed that debasing influences of the grog shop and the the nineteenth century-has, says the Orer most universally winked at by the local

on the same date he saw the defendant take the rum mill, and convert them into useful members dollar referred to by last witness off the table, of Society. A certain writer has said that "there land Mail, plainly stamped its imprint on authorities. At times, it is true-as in

but thinking it belonged to him, he said nothing. is a glory in the conquest which overcomes an the Opium Traffic controversy, China, 1879, when, owing to official interferente,

The last witness told him he had lost a dollar evil passion, greater and brighter than the swords like England and India, is just now con- the cultivation of the plant was partially

In his defence, the prisoner said he was master of Alexander and Caesar ever won," and this con- siderably agitated in its solution; and, as abandoned in the provinces of Shansi,

of the Kwai--ti bricklayers' shop in Station quest those who are getting up the entertainments may readily he supposed, the reports on | Ilonan, Shensi, and Kweichow, &c.—the

Street. The master of the three carpenters who hope to aid the victims of the passion for trade at the treaty ports of China for the edict is temporarily enforced; but invaria.not Hanoi, is the Capital of Tonquin. We won-

had given evidence, owed him $22.70. He went alcoholic stimulants in achieving, to his house for the money, and as he could not year 1880, recently issued by the Inspector-bly the next year witnesses a return to the General of Customs, Shanghai, are un-old practice, when in all probability a larger

Yesterday he was given in custody on the pre- get it, he took out a summons against the master, usually full of allusions to this vexed ques-expanse of ground is sown. This, at least,

sent charge. He denied stealing either the tion. If the opinions of the Commissioners has been the regular experience in the

jacket or the Mexican. A contractor appeared of Customs are deserving of attention, the above-mentioned provinces; while at

and said defendant was his sub-contractor, and ¦ opium dispute seems likely to settle itself Szechwan, where prohibition has never

had worked for him many years. He had now within a few years through sheer force of apparently been put in force, the outturn

$2,000 worth of work from witness. He knew

In the Commons this evening, the Premier made a statement concerning the condition of The first point of interest in 1880 was larger than ever known be

him to be an honest man. The defendant was Ireland. He described the situation acre as In the report is the sudden falling off in the fore. In the face of these unmistakable

discharged, and the three carpenters were fined without a paralled for the past fifty years, and Importation of the foreign drug. For signs, it would be both futile and the re-

$25 each or a month's imprisonment for malicious said that a complete social revolution exists. The constant occurrence of crimes was traceable to many years past the tonilancy had been verse of sound government to count upon

prosecution and falac testimony.

the influence of the Land League. Mr. Gladstone steadily upward, but in 1880 a serious re- any long continuance of our oplum revenue,

Ademt-mondian named Mary Robinson, resid-language, and said the Government, whilst

charged Mr. Healy with using inflammatory. lapse took place, and the first three quar- at least upon a scale of sufficient import- SHITS, says the Japan Mail, are the hobby of the Ing in Graham Street, charged her Boy this preciating the danger of the present state of ters of 1881 go far to establish the per-ance to warrant the Indian Administration moment in Japan. The country evidently means morning at the Police Cour: with stealing her affairs, would choose its own time for minking manency of this decline. From $8,817 in maintaining the existing monopoly, and wish it well over the preliminary stages. No and illegally pawning the articles. It appears

to do its own carrying trade in the end, and we gold chain and locket, valued at $100, yesterday, fresh proposals for the adoption of further piculs In 1870, the imports gradually rose in a measure subverting the leading prin- doubt, if the Treasury helps the project to emerge she gave the boy the locket and chain to take to (almost without intermission) to 82.927 ciples of economic science. Not for a speedily from its embrya condition, we shall hear jeweller to be repaired. The Boy not return pleuls in 1879, from which maximum they moment admitting that there is any moral a fresh outburst of hysterics in certain quarters ing, she went to the jeweller's, and found her fell away to 71.655 piculs in the succeeding wrong or injury of any klad wrought to about Government jobs, official protéger and the servant had not been there at all. She reported year; while, according to present ap- the Chinese people by this enforced like. For our own part, however, we fail to ap- the matter to the Inspector at the Station, who pearances, the figures for 1881 when trarle, it would be useless to prolong it prehend the difference between a road by sea sent a Constable to hunt up the Roy, who fully tabulated will show but small im- should the exportation of opium ultimately and a road by land, so far as the two objects af was brought back to her house. She asked him provement-if, indeed, they do not afford decline, as seems possible, to a compara-cerned. The building of railways and making of him drink and induced him to pawn the locket all roads-carriage and locomotion-ars con- for her property, and he said a man had given evidence of further decline, Several tive insignificance. All export duties or roads is held to come properly within the func and chain. Defendant had been in her employ causes are combining to bring about monopolies of any kind are erroneous in tions of a Government. Why not then the esta two years, and she always deemed him honest the annihilation of this trade. In the the abstract. They are defensible only on blishment of a ling of steamers? Is there some until now, when her confidence had been first place, the production of native fiscal grounds. Except for the purpose of thing peculiar about ships which precludes them rudely shaken in the genus Bey-Cheung opium has lately increased to such an ex-raising large revenues, it is impossible to from being called into existence by public money Ashing, an unemployed watchman or washer- tont as to rival the importation from India. justify their retention, as they are admit- any more than locomotives? "This sort of man, it is not clear which, said he was in a Although home-grown opium has not as tedly opposed to the laws of political econo- grotesque fallacy will be exploded one day friend's house yesterday in Graham Street in yet attained to the same favour with Chi- my; but where no better or casier method or another, and meanwhile we have to record dulging in a harmless game of dominoes, when nese consumers as foreign, a mixture of is at hand, and the article in question is which event took place on the evening of ceeded to try his luck, with the result of being

the launch of the brigantine Masashige Maru, defendant came in, with other friends, and proto press the discussion on the subject. The mo the two is found to suit the taste of many, essentially a luxury, even the most ardent the 19th inst, at the building yard of Mr, Kawa-plucked" to the extent of $28.40. Not having while the advantage in cheapness possessed economists are fain to confess that political saki, Tokiyo. Possibly the opening remarks of the wherewithal to square his account, he gave by the native article, allows the compound and fiscal exigencies are paramount to this paragraphs may lead our readers to suppose the locket and chain to the person in the room to to be sold at a price within the reach of mere principles of economic science. thousands who cannot afford the luxury of

that the Matatlige Maru was built with Govern- whom he had lost the dollars. The articles were ment money. Such is not the case, however, promptly despatched to the pawnshop, $28 being the pure foreign drug. Moreover, native REFERRING to reports published by some news though she enjoyed the advantage of official brought back as the net amount realized, which opium, if not so palatable as Indian, is papers of the insurgents in Bosnia and the superintendence that of the Marine Bureau of were handed to the defendant, who paid his losses declared to be entirely free from the minor herzegovina being aided by Russian volunteers, the Noshomusho, to which Captain A. R. Brown likeaman. Witness collected the $28.40 which had objections which may be urgöd against

the North German Gazette of Marchi z5th says is atraclied-during her construction, and in this been paid by the Boy, and handed the sum over other kinds,

"Up to the present the presence of Russian respect is noteworthy, being the first vessel con- to the Police.The defendant, who said he was Rightly or wrongly, the volunteers at the seat of the insurrection has not structed under similar circumstances in Japan. induced togamble, was sentenced to three months' Indian drug is charged with causing a been proved; and it can scarcely be conceived Werk of that sor: comes within the scope of the hard labour; the gentleman Cheung Ashing, the feeling of lassitude," and occasionally that if even a single Russian officer were in the Marine Bureau's constitution, as does also the watchman or washerman as the case may be, pool, Lord Salisbury and Sir. S. Northcote still present when he passed away."

At the Conservative Demonstration in Liver "leading to continual craving for further insurgent ranks the fact could be concealed from inspection, if desired, of any ship about to be who so ingenuously admitted having been play-slaught upon the policy of the Government.

continue delivering speeches containing an on- Indulgence. On the other hand, native the Austrian authorities. Reinforcements of purchased by a Japanese. The Marashigeing an innocent game of dominoes, and who so opium, it is said, produces none of these Russian volunteers might possibly have had to fare is the property of the Fuhansen Kwaisha, laudably exerted himself in the recovery of the command of the East Indian Squadron has been The appointment of Admiral Hewett to the results, "and a man may inhale it in

be reckoned with if the insurrection in the Herze- or Sailing Ship Company. She is about 300 spoil swindled from-the-Bay-was-sent to keep garetted."--~ moderation without running the risk of govina had assumed greater dimensions, or if tons register, and will carry 400 tons dead weight him company for a month, on similar conditions, becoming a slave to its sensuous pleasures."ing attitude towards Montenegra. These dangers presence of Admiral Kawamura, General Oyama, off a long way the best in the transaction, the Austria had been compelled to take up a threaten- The launch came off with great success in the

The Queen has returned to Windsor to-day as a rogue and vagabond; the Crown coming from Mentone. That the home-made article was unpopu have been averted by the success which has at their Excellencies Mataugata Shinagawa and $28.40 being transferred to its capacious pouch as European officials without giving them any notice,

CAIRO, April 14th. Jar hitherto may be traced solely to inextended the Austrian arms.”

The Minister of Finance has dismissed four many others

and without any cause for doing so.

a

forfelted Mexicans.

then

measures.

درة

Mr. Gladstone said that negotiations still con suspects imprisoned in Ireland. tinue with America for the release of American

April 5th.

sion of the Channel Tunnel works, pending a The Government has demanded the suspen report of a military committee of enquiry on the subject

April 11th.

introduce the budget on the 24th of April.

Foster, in answer to a question, said he could not release Dillon on account of the state of his

health, but the doors of the prison were open to Dillon if he would leave the Kingdom. This reply was received with cries of "shame from the Home Rulers.] Foster added that the con- dition of Dillon's health at last accounts WAS satisfactory.

In the House of Lords to-night the Lord Privy Scal stated that the Government could not sus- pend trial by jury in Ireland, and no fresh legis. lation was proposed.

NEW YORK, April 2nd. The World's London cable letter says Public feeling in England is increasingly hostile

sent. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cam-ing the project to proceed as far as it has already day was a great success, 30,000 men were pre-

The Volunteer Review at Portsmouth yester to the Channel Tunnel project. The Government

is severely censured in many quarters for allow bridge, besides other distinguished personages, gone. The protest in the Nineteenth Century witnessed the mancouvrCE:

Easter Recess. In the House of Commons Mr.

April 18th. Parliament re-assembled yesterday after the Gorst Introduced a motion urging the release of Ceteways, Mr. Gladstone sald his restoration was possible, if enquiries how being made should prove that such a course would be beneficial to

tion was ultimately withdrawn.

Obituary-Major-General Charles Jackson. April 15th. Advices have been received that Ayoub Khan has arrived at Teheran....

Zululand. Meanwhile, he asked the House not

Ten arrests have been made at Cork for trea son, on the evidence of an informer. Tudhoe Colliery in Durham. 35 dead bodics A disastrous explosion has taken place at have been already recovered

Sic Charles Ellice has been appointed a Grand

April 14th.

Cross of the Bath,

has been signed by men of all shades of opinion, including

Herbert Spencer, Goldwin Browning and John Murray, and the opposition Smith, Holyoake, Alfred Tennyson, Robert

strength, In the opinion of eminent geologists, to the scheme is daily developing enormous

moreover, the construction of the tunnel is im. possible. Parliament is likely to put an end to the work it any moment..

In reply to a question of reference to the pro- Jected Channel Tunach, the President of the Board of Trade said the Chairman of the Southeastern- Railway Company had been warned that the Government claimed the bed of the sea for three miles below low-water mark, and hold them- selves free to use any of the powers at their dis- posal that Parliament may direct or the national interests may require.

H. Vanderbilt, shot himself at the Glenham Comelius J. Vanderbilt, brother of William

Hotel on Fifth-avenus, this afternoon-at two, and died from the effects of the wound at six o'clock. From the time of the shooting, until death, Vanderbilt was unconscious. Many friends of the dead man and nuembers of his family were

The motive for the act, given by his friends, is ... that it was the result of mental derangement, fila. No other reason could be given, as his finan brought on by years of suffering from epileptic

cial oilaite are said to be in the most priaporama. condition. Vanderbilt came to the Glenham Holel two weeks ago last Friday from Florida, where he had been spending several weeks. Ho

year had been very poor. He was accompanied had previously visited the Hot Spring of Arkansas for the benefit of his health, which for the past by his friend and travelling companion, George