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Adelaide South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Newspaper) - January 23, 1886, Adelaide, South Australia National Library of Australia Rii our Anglo colonial letter. From our special correspondent London. December 11, 1885. Thank goodness the elections Are nearly at. An end perhaps All the candidates Are not prepared to Echo that sentiment. Sir Samuel Wilson for instance who since i last wrote has had it demonstrated that the Possession of Niord Beaconsfield place at Hughenden is not considered a qualification for his place nor any one else a in parliament. With sir James j 3?, or. Howard spender or. A. C. Corbett. Or. Alexander Mcarthur sir. J. E. Gorst not to mention or. Howard Vincent sir. Octavius Vaughan Morgan and other j englishmen with colonial knowledge and sympathies the colonies cannot be said to be with out representatives in the new parliament one or two of whom May be calculated on to at any Date make their voices heard. The bight honorable w. E. Forster you will regret to hear has had a serious relapse and is condition causes considerable anxiety to his friends. Before you get this it will of course be settled a whether an australian Cricket team Are coming Over next year. Although our county fixtures were drafted at the meeting of county secretaries held at lord on the 8th december no doubt the arrangements will be sufficiently modified in the event of your team coming Over to give them a fairly Good list of matches. Still they can hardly Tail to suffer to some extent by the advanced state of our arrange j in tits especially As the county programme is j an unusually full one and it is a pity there has Oceen much dilator iness in coming to a decision. Or. S. Fairbairn rowed no. 7 in the winning boat in the Cambridge trial eights. The race was an unusually stubborn one and was Only von. By a length. There is said to be plenty of Good material for a Crew to oppose the to ionians next Spring and Fairbairn who in the trial eights scaled 14 . 1 lb., is reported retain All his old form and to be therefore certain of his seat in the boat his absence from Schich this year was severely Felt. You be spoilt an epoch j the to irks says at least this is How one of its leading articles commenced on the 9th december this is an epoch in australasian history. To Day the federation of Victoria Queensland South Australia West Australia and Tasmania is com plete hardly had this Leader appeared when you sent us a Telegram saying that the Bill authorising South Australia to join the Federal Council has been withdrawn for the present session an intimation which appears to Post Pone the federation for an indefinite period since the terms of Victoria local Bill far. As they Are known Here at present seem to preclude her joining a Council with representatives from Only Queensland tas mania and the two Crown colonies Western Australia and Fiji. Although the times has proved to be out in its opening statement the result would appear to justify the expression of opinion Given further on that australian federation has been born perhaps rather pre maturely and australians do not know very Well what to make for the moment of the new institution the times is of opinion that the absence of enthusiasm on the subject of the Bill is due to the mitigation of the alarms As to foreign annexations and French penal settlements and that the course of Circum stances is bound in the future to prevent the advantages of federation with irresistible Force to All the australian colonies. The times sums zip its conclusions in the following words confederation in some shape or other is in dispensable for the colonies both that they May show a common front to common enemies and that they May be saved from wasting their own strength on House hold bickering. Vastness and unlike Ness of natural conditions Are As is proved by the United states no bar to National Unity. Englishmen in the Pacific Are made to be one people because they Are englishmen and British Australasia if it have a nationality of any kind must have it by becoming one j nation. The colonies would have found that out Long ago if they had been More or the Empire less powerful. As they begin More fully to occupy up to their own frontiers they j will perceive the inconvenience and even the Absurdity of boundaries which turn Foi Ethren into aliens. The More that other races give Token of their con j Tigu Ity will great Britain in the Pacific comprehend the growing expediency of being Able to act As from a Centre. Modest As will he the Early jurisdiction of the Federal coun j Eil and almost unnoticed As has been its birth the Day May not be far Distant when the Sepa rate British communities will recognise that it is precisely the voice they require Aud Marvel Tiow they can have Ever existed without it Imperial federation is Likely to gain an impetus from next year exhibition As professor j. Seeley it is said has consented to write a general introduction to the official handbook. Ithe professor will thus have an Opportunity of drawing attention to the expansion of England in its most practical and striking form. The moral effect of the Soudan contingent As becoming evident amongst other ways by its recognition in our popular publications. The graphic Christmas number has a full Page allegorical picture of Britannia and her boys with the motto no distance Breaks the ties of blood Brothers Are Brothers evermore and i have a song before me now entitled ? our colonies written and composed by w. 33. Long. The music is spirited but not very original Liberal use being made of chords which though effective strike one As having done duty in patriotic songs before. The sentiment however is unexceptionable and being aided by a Good chorus would very Likely arouse enthusiasm if Sung say at Wimbledon Volunteer Camp next year. The following axe the words of the first verse Yeav n Prosper Britain colonies the Leal the True the Brave whose ready hands and Patriot hearts came Forth across the wave. Each briton thrills with honest Pride where e or the tale is told of fair Australia Gallant sons in Britain Aid enrolled. On the 18th december the times published an interesting communication from a Corres pendent with ref Erenesto the loss of the p. Ando. Steamer Indus. The correspondent Calls attention to what a disastrous coast that of Cutey Ion has been to the p. And o. Company and gives the following list of disasters by which the company have been sufferers first in order of Date was the Erin which in june 1857, when conveying general Havelock and troops from the persian Gulf via Bombay to Galle in route to Calcutta ran in the night on the South West coast of Ceylon near Kakutara and became a total wreck the troops being landed safely and sent on in due course from Point de Galle. Next there was the Ava wrecked on the East coast of Ceylon near Trincomalee when bound in april 1858, from Madras to Galle. Thirdly there was the Malabar bound for China with lord Elgin and suite and a valuable cargo totally lost inside Galle Harbor through a Monsoon storm burst. Fourthly the Rangoon on november 3, 1871, also lost at Galle under the circumstances mentioned above and now fifthly the mail Steamer Indus homeward bound from Calcutta which after leaving Madras at 1.40 . On Satur Day the 7th of november instant ran ashore on the Mulle Ivoe Shoal on the North East of Ceylon on the Early morning of sunday the 5th instant. The Indus left Madras at 1.40 . On the saturday to pick no the australian China Straits and Ceylon mails Aud passengers at Colombo on monday. From the account Given she appears to have got into a Strong southerly current which carried her Twenty Miles out of her proper coarse and at Daybreak on sunday she was found to be that distance nearer to land than she was supposed to be and Between 6 and 7 grounded on the Mulle Ivoe Shoal going at the rate of eleven or twelve knots an hour the Indus appears to have driven Over the first Sandbank on which he touched that her egress to the open sea was blocked and All efforts to get her free were ineffectual. She was kept bumping and straining by the beam sea which was on and eventually had a Hole knocked in her Bottom by one of her own anchors on which the Rise and fall of the swell let her Down heavily several times. Commander Breeze is described As having been still anxious to proceed to Trincomalee trusting to his watertight compartments but was compelled finally to abandon the Effort by the Indus getting fast on the Bank. The times narrator says sunday night was passed under these circumstances the vessel continuing to Rise with the swell and bump ing on the and. Fortunately the night continued Calm with the alternate pleasantly Cool Breeze off and on Shore night and Day. The Indus had Only a few passengers colonel Atkinson and three children one a baby Only a few ebb old my. And mrs. O Farrell or Chisholn major Abbott or. Fitzgerald and or. Darreu besides servants and a few in the second class Cabin whose names i have not got. Early on monday morning Captai Breeze withdrew his opposition to the Pas sengers making for the Shore and arranging for a code of signals with them in Case he should get his ship off he placed a boat at the disposal of colonel Atkinson and or. O Farrell with some of the Crew who soon found Landing was easy and that thai was a Cavil station close by. They immediately re turned and by noon All the passengers were Dis embarked and established in the Oak Bungalow or Public rest House the medical officer at the station or. Wyt Elings a tamil gentleman showing them All the attention in his Power and explaining that no native boat had gone off As no gun bad been fired or other signal of distress made. The Ensign of the Indus had been Hong upside Down but the distance was too great in the hazy atmosphere to be seen from the Shore. The news of the Accident was conveyed to Trincomalee about noon on monday and the civil officer at the station at once telegraphed to the governor and p. & o. Agent at Colombo and the detailed account of the measures taken brings out More clearly than Ever the excellence of the company organisation. At Colombo the experienced p. & o. Agent Captain Bisley at once took Steps to Send assistance getting permission from the governor to have the Harbor divers apparatus &c., telegraphing to London for permission to take round the steam ship Clyde the Steamer which had brought the australian mails and arranging for the steam ship Ohilla from China to take on the mails and passengers at the hour appointed on tues Day just As if no Accident had happened. He also telegraphed to Bombay for the company powerful tag the Timsah to come Down and permission being Given by the directors he himself started in the Clyde on tuesday morn ing. The Indus had to be abandoned hurriedly on monday night none of the baggage or effects of passengers or officers being saved. The _ passengers and Crew were taken Back to Trincomalee where they were hospitably entertained by sir f. W. Richards k.c.b., the Admiral of the East India station. When the p. & o. Agent arrived in the Clyde on wednesday there was nothing for it but to take on Board the Pas sengers and Crew and proceed to the scene of the Accident to consult with Captain Breeds who continued to stand by the wreck in boats As to what could be done. A native Brig was chartered from Trincomalee to proceed to the spot in Case the Monsoon began to blow and Captain Breeze should have to give up his watch. The agent arranged that executive officers and picked men of the Crew should remain on the spot with the Captain and then the Clyde returned with All possible Speed to Colombo and left for Bombay at 9 . Yesterday the 14th, to take up its place in the Mai service. Mulle Ivoe with diving gear a in order to Endeavor to save such cargo As May be Worth recovering the indigo especially. The agent will accompany the Timsah. A Box of specie supposed to be the Only one on the Indus has already been saved. At the official enquiry it is said that the passengers will Endeavor to prove negligence As their ground for claiming compensation for their lost Luggage and other property. One result of the Accident is not unlikely to be the placing of a Beacon near the sandbanks where vessels Are stated to have previously been stranded. At the annual meeting of the p. & o. Company on. The 8tb december or. T. Sutherland m.p., the chairman of the company stated that owing to the manner in which they had written Down their ships the loss by the Indus would not be More than �26,000. At this meeting or. Sutherland referred to another subject which has lately been attracting a great Deal of attention the subject of freight rings. He said that owing to the co operation of the regular liners on the Indian China and australian trades a certain average of rates had been maintained at which however it had never been found possible to obtain full cargoes that from London to Australia the rates had varied from 40s. To 60s, and that from Australia the rates had been very Low for it had not infrequently happened that after paying the expense of stowage the rate for cargo had not exceeded 30s. He maintained that it was impossible for shipowners by any combination to Levy More than an exceedingly moderate rate of freight and he protested against the outcry raised As based upon the idea that it was the shipowners proper duty to Cut each other throats As much As possible for the Benefit of the Public. In the meantime the Wordy warfare on the subject is being con ducted m the columns of the times with undiminished vigor. The Only moral of All which appears to be that those who Are trying to fight the ring have a very Good Chance of Burn ing their fingers. The English elections. London december 1l 18s5. The press association learns from an authoritative source that the conservatives Are far satisfied of their ability to carry on the government that they have already formulated a programme of business which they propose to carry out on the assembling of parliament next month. The conservative leaders will meet parliament on the opening Day and submit what they consider to be a Complete and comprehensive scheme of Legisla Tion for the session. This will in All probability Deal with the education question in the form of a Bill to Amend the education act of 1870 As regards the payment of fees by the working classes the proposal being to Render less onerous and exacting the payment of school Pence by those who Are not fairly in a position to pay them by providing the Money where necessary by other Means. The important question of county government will a dealt with it is understood by the introduction of a county government Bill the pro visions of which it is proposed should a extended not Only Over the United kingdom but also to Ireland. Further Irish legislation will probably be proposed in the form of measures devised with the object of bringing about a Radical change in the administration and composition of the institution known As Dublin Castle and of substituting a More popular system of administering the functions of the Irish executive. In regard to the land question it is understood that a Bill will be at once submitted As drafted by the lord Chan cellar for facilitating the Transfer of land the special object being to reduce the Cost of Transfer while it is proposed to still further simplify the Sale and Transfer by the establish ment of registration courts. In connection with this subjection also there will probably be a special clause embodied in the Bill to enable the ecclesiastical commissioners to sell their land and to free them from the restrictions hitherto imposed on them in this respect. The proposal is in accordance with the policy indicated by lord Salisbury and it is calculated that if the clause can be carried it will place a considerable Quantity of land in the Market which will be available for allotments and for other purpose. Another important subject which it is believed will be dealt with at an Early stage will be that of the mercantile Marine and it is probable that a new shipping Bill will be introduced framed on a basis that will be satisfactory to All parties and at the same time attain objects which Are sought by the promoters of reforms in the _ shipping Laws. Several minor questions calling for additional legislation will also be dealt with among. Them being the Laws re lating to electric lighting which it is proposed to modify in order that they May be More advantageously applied than at present. On the great question of the future government of Ireland the conservative leaders have not put Forward any proposal As yet. It is anticipated that on the opening of parliament or. Par Nell will propose an amendment to the address to the Crown in which he will Call for a measure of Home Kule the nature and extent of or. Parnell demands will it is believed alone decide the action of the govern ment on this question the pail mall Gazette says that the forecasts that Are put out concerning the programme of the conservative party Are very interesting and ingenious and have Only one fault namely that they entirely leave out of count the one Quarter where political pressure will come from. The tories and their friends in the press May propose As Many things As they like but it is or. Parnell who will dispose. No doubt it would very Nice for the government if it could Bury its head in the Sand or As sir Algernon Borthwick in his Appeal for a plumbers parliament has suggested in the drains and go on tinkering Here and testing there. But then to whose interest is it to make things Nice for them they can have a plumbers parliament if they like but Only by mating it a Home Rule parliament first and even this resource will if the liberals Are Wise be de Nied them for already or. Parnell has stated what we had surmised that while perfectly ready to make Over his Many legions to the highest bidder he will gladly give the Liberal the first refusal. Lady Randolph Churchill knows How to handle an interviewer. She was asked what arguments she employed in her canvass for her husband at Birmingham. Well i Tell them what our Side thinks of the question of the Day it May be the Church it May be fair Trade or it May be the land and they agree with me or not As the Case May be this did not convey much information to the interviewers and lady Randolph probably did not intend that it should. She has even More than the usual endowment of feminine tact. An amusing Story is being told of lady Randolph Churchill and a Westminster elec Tor. Her Ladyship met the elector at dinner and asked him How he was going to vote and he replied that his mind was not yet made up. Of then you must vote for or. Burdett Coutte she said. Well said he i can not Promise but if i were treated As voters used to be treated by lady canvassers in the old Days in Westminster 1 should very possibly give in of thank you much. I will it the Baroness know at once replied lady Randolph As the ladies Rose from the table. Of All the misfortunes which have rained on air. Gladstone head of late perhaps the heaviest was the unseating of or. Childers at Pontefract and of or. Shaw Lefevre at heading. Both stood High in. Or. Gladstone Confidence. As for or. Childers he was by far his most confidential Friend in the late Cabinet and first lieutenant of the ship As Long As Gladstone was Captain. To lose him was to lose his right hand Man and even his enemies must condole with or. Gladstone in a loss which was personal no less than political. Sir Charles Dilke return for Chelsea is in the fullest sense of the term a pyrrhic Victory. It is a moral defeat of the most crushing kind. Only those who know the unceasing labor be stowed by sir Charles Dilke in the organisation of the division can Realise what his miser Able majority Means. It is another instance of the Power of the Irish vote. But the experience will doubtless not be lost on sir Charles Dilke. He won t be found advocating coercion again in a hurry. The times bib that the liberals cannot have a Clear majority in the new parliament. The one certain result of the general elections is the commanding position secured by or. Parnell. This is not an inference but a fact and a fact which concerns both parties alike. Lord Hartington sees clearly enough the difficulties and possible dangers which this state of things involves but beyond bidding us be of Good courage he does not go very far towards suggesting a Way of escape. Or. Parnell has expressed himself As being highly satisfied with the results of the Irish elections. He states that the English allies of the Irish landlords supplied �16,000 to Start bogus candidates with the Plain object and Hope of emptying the nationalist exchequer. This �16,000. The Hope of the landlords had. However been Defeated by the Large and opportune remittances from new York san Francisco Chicago and other parts of America. Referring to the great preponderance of nationalist votes in Many of the elections or. Parnell said that these results in the hands of the English Leader who May propose a Constitution for Ireland can be handler1 with enormous effect As showing the overwhelming preponderance of the nationalist party in Ireland and the utter insignificance of the minority to the defence of whose unjust privileges the forces of the Empire have been directed for Many centuries. He was of opinion that the next parliament would not be a Long one and that the Irish question would be the question before it unless foreign complications arise. He did not think it probable that a coalition government Between the liberals and conservatives could be formed. Replying to the question from which party do you expect the settlement of the Irish question or. Parnell said i expect the settlement to come from the liberals. Assuming that they will be about equal to the tories and nationalists combined it would be in our Power on their acceptance of our terms to give them at once a majority of 170 votes which even making allowance for considerable defections from their own ranks would be amply sufficient to enable them to Deal with the Irish question and every other question where As the conservatives cannot even with our Aid get More than a Bare majority and would be always hampered by the action of their eighteen or Nineteen followers from Ireland death of or. Vanderbilt. Or. W. H. Vanderbilt the Well known owner of railways and Speculator in stocks died at new York suddenly on december 7. The Standard correspondent states that at breakfast on tuesday or. Vanderbilt health and spirits were better than usual. He spent the Forenoon in the studio of or. Ward the sculptor who is executing a bust by commis Sion of the new York medical University to commemorate a Liberal gift it recently received from or. Vanderbilt. On returning Home he had luncheon and laughed and chatted plea Santly during the meal. He said he intended to go for a drive but instead of doing went to Theof Nee of or. Garrett the railway presi Dent. He had been upwards of an hour with that gentleman when he suddenly fell from his chair and died in three minutes from apoplexy. The sad event occurred just before the close of business on change but too late to influence the prices of the Day. Or. Vanderbilt death it is stated will have no effect upon the financial undertakings in which he was interested. The times gives the following particulars of or. Vanderbilt career some years ago before the great War of rates in 1881, or. W. H. Vanderbilt a was certainly the richest Man in the world. The exact amount he was Worth was not of course known but the general belief was that he had inherited pro Perty equal to something like �16,000,000 Ster Ling on his father death and had since doubled it. No doubt the events of the last four years have materially reduced the enor Mous mass of wealth but it is certainly much larger than the sum bequeathed to him even now. Whatever the exact sum May be it is Safe to say that no other wealthy Man even in the United states was nearly As wealthy As or. Vanderbilt. It was generally reported and we believe correctly that he invested ten millions Sterling in United states government Stock about the time when he ceased to be the nominal president of the new York Central possibly As a precaution against a Rainy Day. Many men who have a great reputation for wealth would find it difficult to Realise in solid Cash All thy Are supposed to be Worth but probably or. Vanderbilt proportion of found investments to total property was higher than that of most american rail Way Kings. Or. William Henry Vanderbilt was the second son of or. Cornelius Vander bilt. He was born about 1821, on Staten Island. He received Only the Ordinary Educa Tion of an american youth and did not show much ability until he was approaching thirty years of age. His father had regarded him As quite unfit to follow in his own footsteps Bat the commodore1 found out eventually that Bis son was by no Means stupid though h e had developed slowly. Or. W. H. Vanderbilt had the Good Fortune to marry miss Sissum a lady of dutch origin who used her influence Over him to arouse his ambition and when his father obtained control of the new York Central and other railroads he placed or. Vanderbilt in positions of responsibility connected with them. For Many years he was one of the vice presidents of the new York Central and gradually became under his father teaching a Clever operator in Wall Street and quite shrewd enough As it turned out to keep and even greatly increase the vast sum left to him. Malicious rumours were indeed current that the Commodore never had entire Confidence in William Henry Vanderbilt and that on More than one occasion his father used him As a Blind instructing him to sell and buy at the wrong time in order to mislead the Public. But Cornelius Vanderbilt will showed plainly that he believed in. William Henry for he left him four fifths of the total estate of �20,000,000. This disposition of immense a property wa3 not Likely to pass unchallenged by my w. H. Vanderbilt elder brother and Sisters who endeavoured unsuccessfully to set the will aside on the ground that William Henry had obtained it by the use of undue influence Over his father. Or. W. H. Vanderbilt was not often been in Public and was averse to mixing in general society but those who knew him Well describe him As genial in manner and generous in disposition. His Public spirit was shown in More than one instance especially in tie foundation of the Vanderbilt University in the state of Kentucky which Cost him a million dollars but he never meddled with politics. His chief amusements were horse trotting and cards. The former was an old Pursuit of his for when still Young he had paid much attention to it. When a Rich Man he was very proud of owning Maud s., that famous Trotter of whom it was said that she did not strike the observer As at All remarkable for Speed but nevertheless passed everything in the Road. The bulk of or. Vanderbilt property will we May a Sunie go to his eldest son Cornelius. It does not seem Likely that his death will produce any financial trouble. A year ago it would probably have led to grave disasters. Miscellaneous. Or. Poland q.c., has received a Large number of letters in reply to his recent Appeal on behalf of the Armstrong family and a considerable fund has already been raised foe their assistance. The girl Eliza Armstrong was recently placed in the Princess Louise Home at Wam Tead for the Protection and training of Young girls. It is intended to give her two and a half years Good schooling Ana training and then to get her into service. Her father has been presented with two new sets of sweeping machines and or. Poland has further apportioned a part of the funds to furnish a new House for the family and a certain sum will also it is understood be set aside for the girl to receive when she comes of age. Advices from new York state that Early in december the mormons in Utah assaulted an officer of the Federal government who had made himself conspicuous in the prosecution of leading polygamists in the Church of the latter Day saints. The officer defended him self and killed one of his assailants he then fled to the gaol followed by the mob and from the gaol to fort Douglas where the soldiers easily succeeded in driving the angry people away. The excitement arising from this incident has led to orders being Given for three regiments of infantry and a proportionate Force of artillery to be stationed where they can readily support the troops on the spot if required. It is not expected that serious trouble will occur. Twenty eight Scot a fishermen from Berwick who had for some three months past settled Down at Dunmore East Waterford Harbor and had been successful that thirty Tiro others with eight boats were actually on the Way to join them from the same place have left Waterford in the Clyde steamship company Steamer Copeland alleging that the Dunmore East Fisherman stole their fishing tackle and boycotted them to such an extent that they were unable to live in the District. They allege that the herring fishing of the Harbor is such that they had determined at once to erect curing Bouses on the spot As thousands of pounds Worth of fish were lost during the past season for want of such establishments while the lobster crab and ground fishing was quite a mine of wealth if worked. They allege that their lobster pots were Cut and destroyed that persons who supplied them with bait were intimidated As to ref use to do any longer and that they had from these and other causes no option but to Clear out and return to Scot land. The work of preparing the colonial courts for the next exhibition is proceeding satisfactorily and the several agents general and those concerned in making everything neat and Spruce have been very Busy in connection with the arrangements while sir p. Cunliffe Owen has been Ever at hand with advice and assistance when needed. In exhibition matters he in of course an expert of no Ordinary calibre since perhaps he has had More experience of exhibitions than any Man living. Quick to see everything he has put his hand to in this connection has turned out to be a Success. As everyone knows writes the some Jve ios the exhibition will be purely colonial and Indian and nothing of British manufacture save the nails and the paint and some of the cases perhaps will be seen there. But possibly everyone Don t know that there Are very Many manufacturers Here who would give a High Price per foot of space if Only it could be got Tor Money in order to have the gratification of exhibiting Side by Side with their colonial Brethren. On this score sir p. Cunliffe Owen has been bored to death and All manner of Dodges have been tried on to entrap him but without Success. For ourselves we do not doubt that As a whole the exhibition will be unique and what is More we Are con Vinced that when the colonies come to know each other better than they do now As they will Ltd this show is in full swing some thing More than a feeling of Surprise will arise in rtt pct of the resources that Are available within our own dependencies for the world use which would probably have been lost to us but for the Enterprise of our pioneers 1 the Echo Des a pcs publishes an interesting statistical summary of the fatal accidents that have occurred since 1809 in climbing the Swiss Alps. During this period there have been eighty such a dents whereby 134 persons lost their lives. Of these forty were guides or porters eighty tourists two monks of mount . Bernard eleven were workmen journeying Over the mountains and one was a Crystal seeker. In six cases sixteen persons perished from exhaustion cold or some organic Taihia Tion in fourteen accidents fifteen persons won killed by falling into crevasses a. In ton Acci dents fifteen person b were killed by Juliji Piff on ice and in thirty five cases forty Ono portions were killed by slipping on rocks or Frahs in four cases four persons lost their liven by Hio Udu falling upon them Twenty to von Liv a worn lost in even Avalanche accidents and in four cases sixteen persons perished by falling through frail ice or Snow. From Ali in it a apr Arn that accidents from slipping on Rock or in wait Are the most numerous probably Tum Tablit boots Are the most frequent causes. But in Loo Many cases imprudence or Carlos Nokhm thu source of mischief. In sixteen Accident the climbers were not roped together in Twenty eight cases the tourists were alone or unaccompanied by a guide unfavourable weather caused fourteen accidents in nine cases the climbers were fastened together at spots where the fall of one would be sure to bring All Down and in Twenty two cases com plete ignorance of the condition of the Snow was the main cause of Accident. During the sixteen years from 1859 to 1875 there were c73 ascents of mount Blanc Twenty five of which ended fatally that is at the rate of one death to every Twenty six ascents. English commercial news. London december 11, 1885. The fifth and last series of Wool sales for the current year which commenced on november 17, were brought to a close on december 4. Throughout the series there has been a Large attendance of buyers both Home and foreign and at no time has any Lack of animation been witnessed. Less irregularity has consequently occurred in values than for Many months past and withdrawals have been far less frequent. Prices at the outset were quoted As firm and As the sales progressed this firmness became a decided improvement and the following changes May now of quoted As compared with the closing prices of the preceding series Greasy Merino australasian a. To id. Per la. Higher scoured combing do., cd. Do. J medium inferior and faulty scoured do., cd. To id. Do. Fleece washed do., id. Do. Greasy crossbred australasian a. Do. Scoured do. Do., id. To id. Do. Superior Snow White Cape unchanged medium inferior and faulty Snow White and country scoured Cape and Natal a. Per la. Higher Greasy do. Often 4d. Do. Messes. Charles Balme & co. Remark that the chief feature of the series has been a marked return of Confidence on the part of foreign Consumers the re action of whose operations during the pre ceding sales mainly contributed to the disastrous decline in values then established. Though no general or material Advance in quotations can be recorded the resumption of a healthier and score Normal state of demand affords Assurance that for the time at All events the cheapening tendency of prices has reached its limit and a More or less widespread conviction that a stable basis of values has been touched a apart from any question of prospective improvement sufficed to restore a degree of tone to the Market which for some time past it has conspicuously lacked. During the auctions about 23.000 Bales of the new australian and some 400 Bales of the new Western Cape clips have been catalogued. The australian wools for the most part Are very disappointing and How As regards condition and growth at a disadvantage As compared with the preceding season produce which it will is recollected was decidedly under average a few riverine and Adelaide brands form an exception to tie Rule but the Queensland clip As Well As a Large proportion of that from new South Wales Are especially poor. The new wools from the Western province of the Cape Colony show intrinsically no marked change from those of the previous year growth. Messes. Willans & Overbury state that far As can be judged from the Quantity of the new australian clip offered it does not give Promise of much if of any improvement on that of last year. Some of the South australian flocks exhibit better growth and rather lighter Condi Tion and a few of the Chalky descriptions from new South Wales Are drier but Many of the Queensland Marks Are extremely Loose Mushy tender Send heavily weighted with soil. \ victorian wools from the riverine District show for the most part the effects of drought the Staple being tender and the condition decidedly below the average and although somewhat less Burry a falling off in Quality is frequently apparent. The colonial Wool merchants association have fixed that the London Wool auctions for 1ss6 shall be distributed into five series As in the past year the first series will commence on tuesday january 19 next. The total fresh arrivals to Date Are ,844 Bales. Messes. Birkett Sperling & co., in their Corn Market report dated London december 10, say without evincing any activity our Wisest Market has during the last few Days assumed a firmer tone owing a doubt in a great measure partly to the unsettled state of affairs in Eastern Europe further complications being feared and partly to the increasing firmness of the american Market where after a spell of dullness prices have again risen to a High level and with the higher freights customary at this time of the year and the closing of the canals a breakdown in values is hardly to be expected. Our Home grown wheat is still offered at Mode rate prices last week average Price 30s. 9d.and holders of foreign find the demand for same interfered with in consequence. Off coast supplies have been Small especially of colonial and Sellers have succeeded in obtain ing a slight improvement upon rates current a fortnight ago. In Indian descriptions a fair Trade has passed in the old crop but for new Sellers and buyers ideas of value do not seem to assimilate. Our visible Supply on passage consisted at the end of last week of 1,443,500 qrs., As compared with 1,683,000 hrs. At the same period in 1884, and 1,700,500 or. In 18s3. Of this total California sends us almost half her shipments being 682,000 qrs., India and Persia coming next with 510,000 hrs. Chili 55,500 hrs Australia and new zealand 55.5u0 hrs. From the Black sea ports ship ments Are moderate and especially from the United states Atlantic ports the total both direct and ports of Call being Only 13,500 hrs. ? since this estimate was made cablegram advise further shipments from the United states both from the Atlantic and Pacific Seaboard the former however continuing very Small and the visible Supply now stands at 56,995,000 bushels. The stocks in granary of Adelaide and Melbourne Are fairly Good but fresh sup plies Are almost nil a Small lot per John elder being the Only arrival since last mail. This parcel was not of Fine Quality and sold at 36s. Per 4961bs., sex ship better samples Selling at fe7s. To s7s. Id. Sex granary but the Sale at the latter figure is very retail. To arrive we do not hear of any transactions but for a parcel of new wheat december shipment per Iron Sailer a bid of 34s. 6d. Per 480 ., c. F. & i. To London has been declined. Off coast a few cargoes have changed hands at values the turn in Sellers favor sales being As follows polynesian 5.917 qrs., from port Pirie at 35s. 9d., for Londonderry River Ganges 4,788 qra.,from port Pirie at 36s., for Galway Deva 5,546 hrs. From port Adelaide Atsus. 6d., for Dublin Andes 6,030 qrs., from port Pirie at ocs., for United kingdom the last named cargo iss however on re Sale. Flour in spite of its comparative cheapness is still a very dragging Sale Consumers continuing Only to Suppis their in mediate without anticipating their future wants. In american brands to arrive there is very Little passing the general Dif Pauty Between the ideas of american i tigers and those of buyers on this Side being a hindrance to business. In australian to arrive there is also nothing doing nominal c f. & l. Value of superfine being 23s. To 24s., and 24s. To 24s. 6d. On the spot up to 25s. To 26s. 6d. For Patent roller process fines and households 2ls. To 23s. Superfine new zealand patents 25s. To 25s. Cd. Ordinary 218, to 24s., according to condition Call wornian and Oregon 22s. To 28s. English 21s. To 24s. American 15s. To 26s., up to 33s. For the Best patents All per 280 ., sex granary the mining journal of december 5 says the Copper Market has continued irregular and business has been transacted at repeatedly lower paces the tone becoming More and More sensitive and depressed As the week has pro Gressed and where before buyers were plentiful Sellers Are now to be found and recent operators have been freely taking their profits or cutting their losses As speedily As possible. The statistics which have been issued for the month of november appear on the surface to be favor Able for they show a reduced Public Stock of 2,063 tons arising mainly from excellent de liveries but this has not produced any beneficial influence upon the Market because As _ is Well know the reduction is due entirely to a Quantity of american Copper having been contracted for and con sequently taken out of figures but not actually consumed and further than this the Chili Charters for the last half of november have been advised As 2,300 tons a Quantity not taken any notice of in the present statistics. Prices Are being brought Back again to their former level by the Plain dead weight of the Market As Well As from various other causes amongst the most prominent of which is that the Market has during the last few weeks derived its support solely from speculation and strange to say Chili bars which Are the medium for speculation form the weakest part of All first because the enhanced prices pre vent bonafide buyers taking them for consumption and secondly on account of the Ever increasing Stock the addition last month being no less than 932 tons that the Prospect is anything but hopeful As the chileans continue More than Ever to Send Over their produce in the shape of Chili bars instead of ores and regulus own Reg to the better prices realised for them. As a very considerable Quantity of Chili bars has been sold for prompts falling due during the next two or three months in Many if not in most instances bought merely for Market difference it is evident that there must be numerous realisations daily effected and the sales for the week May be considered a the commencement of those realisations. the foretaste of what May follow. If the few Hundred tons that have Lien cold this week have caused much do Liat will be the probable a mint of Iliff realisations of the enormous that live recently been purchased in Mui Jiu Lorth operator to decide and it in not that them have been noun a Nair to off i Lin a and a disposition to Juji Akk Hutch we till in a remain at their or cheat itto Iri a. Tim i lev Rien for the last twelve Tuo Ullh Liall u la Nihoul io113 Lehu limn they went d ninja the pc violin twelve h onus not Mio total Kip Pioh have been Al Iii. J ,000 Lonn mom thumb cod a Liv Rijh i buy Hii Yuri Hulitt to my i a Tate of general Uniec the Quantity i incr i i luring tin Paul to Leo Monttie Lias Sci n Tiik thu r cd Nihon in the Trade in tit to much out of proportion to the Dimi nution in general big Inicis. Thu increased Fuji ply i a Linot entirely due to the extra quantities Bont from North America As Well an Hindry import in London and France from different places where except for the last few yearn we have not been accustomed to receive Copper. It is these new sources of Supply which weigh heavily upon the Market Aud prevents the maintenance of prices and until values touch such a figure As shall form an effectual Check to excessive supplies nobody anticipates that any Advance however excitedly promoted will prove More than of a temporary character -4 our american letter. From our own correspondent new York december 12, 1885. The death of or. We. H. Vanderbilt a has sent a distinct and perceptible Shock through the entire financial and Commer. Cial fabric of the country and has made every Man who has anything to lose take a close and searching review of the Situa Tion while even those who have nothing at All to lose have also shown intense interest in the news probably because great nines Nave a fascination Tor All men alike without regard in the words of the latest amendment to the Constitution to age color or previous condition it is computed that on the exchanges of new York Aud London the fact of this one death caused a fluctuation in values equal to 400,000,000 dollars a sum probably greater even than the colossal wealth of the departed Croesus. There seems to be Little doubt that or. Vanderbilt was the richest Man of his time three times Richer than the richest individual Rothschild and four times Richer than the famous Marquis of West Minster. Not very Long ago he had in government4perceufcs.worth25 per cent Premium 65,000,000 dollars but nearly half of this has been exchanged into More profitable stocks. The very lowest Esti mate puts his total wealth at 200,000,000 dollars and it was probably actually from 50tol00 per cent greater than that. The doubt As to the distribution of these marvellous accumulations May Well disturb the financial Tranquillity of the world at Large. It is More than probable How Ever that the dead Man has in his will followed the policy established by his father of providing against any sudden and violent change in the investment of his estate. His four sons even if they share and share alike will be precluded from hurriedly throwing Large blocks of one particular Stock upon the Market and thus breaking the Price. Those who look curiously upon the iive3 of their fellow creatures will find Little to really envy in the career of the departed millionaire. Until Middle age he was unable to acquire the Confidence of his father and was forced to Drudge upon a farm for a Bare living. When at last his Only surviving brother having turned out a hopeless drunkard and Gambler he was perforce adopted by the old Commodore As his successor he was snubbed and bullied Steve return. He was 58 before the death of his father gave him the coveted prize and made him practically the sole inheritor of a Fortune of one Hundred millions of dollars. Even then he was not at peace. His profligate brother who had been Cut off with a life estate in a paltry 200,000 dollars together with one of the Sisters contested the will and for a year washed the dirtiest possible of family Linen before the eyes of the Public. At last at great Cost a Settle ment was effected followed in a few weeks by the suicide of the bad brother after an unlucky run of Luck in an Ann Street Faro hell. Four years of life remained to him which were spent in building a great Palace on the Avenue in driving fast horses in undergoing occasional surgical operations for a chronic fistula and in conducting great operations on the Street. The end came with the swiftness of a lightning stroke. While discussing a settlement of a Railroad quarrel with his last remaining rival or. Garrett he fell suddenly Forward i a fit of apoplexy and in a few minutes was dead. His funeral yesterday was at tended by All the great Railroad magnates and Bankers and in a few Days More he will be absolutely for gotten. Hia Many millions live after him and it was really the Fate of these and the use that might be made of them that gave his death serious importance not any intrinsic weight in the departure of the dead Man himself. Another important death this month has been that of vice president Hen Dricks who passed away with almost equal suddenness. His decease left the country in a curious situation. The Constitution says that if the president Dies the vice president shall succeed him and if there be no vice president then tie president of the Senate and if there be no president of the Senate then the speaker of the House of representatives. But when or. Hendricks died there was r either president of the Senate the Senate having failed to appoint a president 2 r0 tem before its adjourn ment nor was there a speaker of the House the House not having yet me and organised. Some authorities hold that the chief Justice of the supreme court comes next in order of succession but this is not Clear As it might be and the fact remained that for All practical purposes if some crazy Lunatic like Wilkes or Tjui teau had chosen to remove or. Cleveland the United states of America would have been a people of Over 60,000,000 absolutely destitute of any head. That we should have behaved with intelligence and self control under such circumstances is quite possible bub it would be far better to avoid such Contin Gencie for the future. exists even yet when we have once More a president of die Senate in the person of senator Sherman and a speaker of the House in or. Carlisle. This is that the death or removal of or. Cleveland would throw the control of the administration into the hands of a party which the people refused to entrust with Power the Senate still being Republican by a majority of eight and its president of course of the same political complexion. Here is a direct temptation to political assassination which though scarcely a great peril now might in some conjuncture of the future become one. So with a patriotism which is rare that it ought to be specially commended recognising the injustice of reversing the popular will by such an Accident the Republican Senate Are going to pass the Bill proposed last session for the authoritative regulation of the presidential succession and making the heirs of the president the members of the Cabinet at the time of his decease the Secretary of state coming first and on Down i regular order to the attorney general at the foot of the list. The assembling of Congress has created less stir than usual because the two houses being opposed in party politics there is a general conviction that neither of them can do any great mischief to the Public interest. The Tariff will have to remain undisturbed and will the Silver question and All the harm that can pos Sibly happen will be for the members to make the appropriation Bills a Little larger than usual. Or. Cleveland Mes Sage is a Good business like document which fills twelve columns of a newspaper and says scarcely anything that we did not ourselves know perfectly Well before. His Only escape from the strictest Bounds of political prudence is a violent attack on the poor mormons who have no friends outside of their own Borders. The general statement that polygamy is at War with our institutions and should be stamped out at any Cost is one that every right thinking citizen acquiesces in at once. But How to stamp it out 1 the Edmunds Law which two years ago was regarded As a certain cure for the evil has proved almost worthless. It has pub a few mormon elders in prison bub in doing this it Haa shown the world that tie mormon wives themselves degraded Aud oppressed As they May be prefer to perjure themselves rather than to testify against the husband in whom they have a limited right title and in Terest. Or. Cleveland advised Congress to pass an act to prohibit mormon immigration and far As american ports Are concerned this might perhaps be Man aged though Only with considerable difficulty. But what is to Stop the mormons from passing through Canada or making the journey without declaring their religious convictions through this country ? mormonism is probably like rum and most of the other vices As Long As people Are determined to sin a that particular Way it is hopeless to try to radically mend them by legislation. Something May be done to keep them within decent limits but that is All. The general condition of business keeps on steadily improving. Everybody is hopeful and contented and perfectly assured that we Are on the eve of be Cher times than Ever. Stocks have of course suffered to some extent by the loss of pronounced a Bull As the late or. Vanderbilt but the traffic returns of the railroads get brighter and brighter and a fact like that showing that such property is once More really earning a return out weighs All other considerations. The Cotton crop is very Large and no Small part of it will be consumed at Home As nearly All the Mills Are running full time and Hope with cheap Coal to be Able to make still further inroads upon the East Ern and South american Trade. Tiie mexican treaty will soon go into effect and will have = marked influence in extending our. Lamerce in that direction. For the moment however tha Holiday retail Trade absorbs attention. The Mam business avenues in new York City Are almost impassible in and the display surpasses in splendor and variety anything we have Ever seen the electric Light is lavishly used and heightens the effect materially. The principal stores Are often choked with people and in one or two Cates there has Alf Trost been a disaster owing to Causeless alarms. Thanksgiving Day was for the first time in three years really a festival deserving of its tide and in All probability the Christmas and new year will a celeb rated with equal enthusiasm. The completion at last of that great Enterprise the Canadian Pacific Railroad which for years has taxed the resources of j the Canadian government is one of the great events of the year. It May not pay As an investment for years to come but indirectly it will be of great service to the Dominion. Although finished it will not be regularly operated until next Spring because the Snow Sheds which Are absolutely necessary Over a considerable part of the line Are j not yet constructed. The notion that the j High latitudes traversed by the Canadian j and Northern Pacific roads Are Unin habitable is now seen to be absurdly in True indeed i Many sections both roads have a territory which is Milder than j Large tracts far to the South of them j this is because the Isothermal line largely dependent upon air currents is by j no Means identical with lines of latitude j for the present however the Hopes of the j new company Are mainly directed to get i Ting a share of the profitable trans con j Thien Tal traffic to China and Japan. A line of steamers will be put on Between j port Moody and the principal Asiatic j ports and another Between port j Moody and puget sound and this j Oregon ports. Both new York and liver j Pool Are several Hundred Miles nearer i in distance to China by this route than j via san Francisco. On the other hand j the Southern Pacific will be for the six j Winter months of the year a much pleasanter and More reliable route and j both the Southern Aud Union Pacific roads will run faster trams and Cut Down the tune from new York to about four Days j to australians who have had the mis Fortune to crawl at a Snail Pace through the great Alkali Plains this will certainly appear a desirable improvement. The new Road is Only 2,985 Miles from Montreal to port Moody however and ought to have Little trouble in ultimately going at least half a Day better than its rivals a favourable summer weather. No doubt it will be assisted As far As possible by the Dominion and Home governments and it is not impossible that it will ultimately be taken under the whig of the Imperial government. Sir John Macdonnell made a voyage to England this fall with the avowed object of consummating if possible such an arrangement and certainly the Road could at once save Many hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest charges under such a regime. For a direct return the Imperial government might have to wait the Best part of a generation but dollars and cents Are not always a controlling consideration. The United states government extended the same assistance to the Union Pacific and will now lose not one cent by the bargain while its revenues from the settlement and filling up of the primeval wilderness have be ii j enormously Large. That friendlier feelings tend to prevail in a constantly growing measure is Illus j rated not Only by such events As the presentation by France to this country of the statue of Liberty but by lesser incidents. A fortnight ago six poor children were bitten dangerously by a mad dog. The doctor attending them telegraphed to Pasteur whether he would treat them if they were sent Over to Paris and an affirmative answer in the kind Liest phrase was at once Given. But the children were poor and the doctor appealed through the newspapers for the Money necessary to carry out the project. In forty eight hours this difficulty was overcome the French steamship company gave up the regular Hospital quarters on their next ship Aud on wednesday last the children sailed less than a week after the Accident if All goes Well or even if Only some of the poor Little ones Are saved a Good deed will have been accomplished and in any Case the tie Between the two countries will have been perceptibly strengthened. Tha doctor intends to bring Back a fall Assort ment of Pasteur graduated scale of rabies virus from the dog to the Rabbit and perhaps in time the salutary Law May be enacted that no Man shall be allowed to keep a dog which has not been properly inoculated with the Poison and is there fore protected from going mad himself or biting human beings and them mad also. Or. Tilden has just issued an open letter Assort of pronoun Cimmento on the subject of our coast defences. He tells us what every Well informed Man knew before that i the event of War even Chili could come up outside of Coney Island and hold the great City of new York to Ransom. This is an absurd situation. In twelve principal sea ports the property thus exposed amounts to at least five thousand millions of Dol Lars and those ports Are the centres not Only of foreign Trade but of most of our internal Trade and exchanges. Our Navy is hopelessly bad and in will be years before we can have even the beginning of a Good one. Our torpedo service is Good and might be very effective but taken alone it is a very week Reed to depend on. Or. Tilden therefore urges us to under take at once the construction of modern forts built on scientific models and armed with the heaviest and Best guns that modern science can pro Duce. Or. Whitney the Secretary of the Navy also suggests something very similar and appropriate legis lation May be looked for. The ludicrous Side of the picture however it May be feared is what strikes most forcibly the great mass of our people and they think they Are Safe from present harm because they know that ultimately they could take a vengeance More than equal to the provocation. But we Are really in tha game position As though with the whole City exposed to fire we had not a single engine with which to fight it. Canon Farrar has just gone Home to England again after what must have been a very enjoyable trip. His Eulogy in Westminster Abbey on Grant made him the favorite of the hour and in America that Means a very delightful time. In the great cities the leaders of society contended for the Honor of Felting him and his lectures were crowded with people who paid from 1 Dollar to 5 dollars a ticket to listen to him. Perhaps like professor Tyndall he will devote his gains to some Public purpose but they will compare in amount very favourably with those even of a Prima Donna or John l. Sullivan. In new York in one night his net receipts were 2,500 dollars. Then of course there has been a concurrent Boom in the Farrar Book Market which filled Robert Buchanan who was Here during a part of the same time with the blackest of envy. Only one trifling incident marred the completeness of the Canon Triumph and that was a second disaster to or. Field unlucky moan rent to poor major Andre following its re erection with an added line or two by Canon Farrar to the inscription written by Dean Stanley. American or Irish american patriotism could not endure this glorification of a British spy and a few ounces of dynamite toppled tha construction Over into a Heap of ruins. As is Well known even the Monument in Westminster Abbey is not Safe from attack and it has been several times mutilated. The popular american idea of who Andre was and what he did is very vague and not one Man in a thousand knows that Washington was affected to tears when he signed his death warrant. Andre execution was necessary because some american spies had been shot under similar circumstances but it was one of the Saddest incidents of the revolution. Dean Stanley lines go a Little farther than the facts justify and or. Field would have done far better to put up his Monument with the simple name and Date of death and a Short expression of pity and regret the latter preferably in Lathi or some other innocuous Tongue. Grant Book is already in its five Hundredth thousand and the total Sale will run up within a few years to a Milliou Maik Twain is the principal stockholder in the publishing company that issues it and he is i High glee at having done a profitable thing for himself at the same time that he secured to the Grant family a handsome Fortune. Opinion on Grant 3 Book is uniformly favourable. It makes no pretension to the dignity of history but simply tells the Plain facts within the general own knowledge in the plainest and most unaffected fashion. For that very reason it is As entertaining As a novel at least to those who Are inter ested still in the War of the great rebel lion. As Long As american history is written it will be consulted and if our estimate of the importance of the War is justified by the future the Story it tells will Rise into greater and greater comparative moment. Meanwhile the rascals who compassed the financial ruin of the Grant family Are one by one being put behind the prison bars Ward and fish Are already there Warner and some others have been indicted and will is Lucky if they make a successful defence. Canon Farrar has been followed by about a dozen other English episcopal clergymen who have come not to make Money and not to have feasts held in their Honor but simply to conduct a general Mission in the churches of new York City. Daily services have been held in nearly All our Many episcopal churches for two weeks past and have been very successful. Of course this is an innovation but Bishop Potter supported it very heartily and its Wisdom is now Plain. Or. Win. Hay Aitken who has preached mainly in Trinity Church has made a great reputation As a direct and forcible speaker and his midday services for business men have been crowded until every seat Aud every aisle were packed. The other protestant churches look on with Surprise mixed in most cases with approbation but also with a curious feeling that such methods ought property to remain their exclusive pro Perty. It was bad enough when in was discovered that the jesuits Ronny Catholic Church in sixteenth Street had adopted Many of the Best methodist tunes but this latest movement is a More serious change of front. Of course at the Bottom the Best of feeling prevails and on common platforms the various denominations will be All the More Friendly because of this assimilation of practical methods of teaching. The theatres Are suffering somewhat from the Christmas shopping but Are reasonably prosperous. Colonel Mapleson and the italian opera Are under a Cloud of debt and disaster. The colonel had a tilt with the Rev. Or. Haweis at the nineteenth Century club the other even ing and misbehaved himself sadly. Or. Haweis of course defended Wagner and smarting under recent wounds his Gallant fellow countryman abused Wagner and wagnerian roundly that the ame rican entertainers of both had to gently interfere. Or. Haweis has already be come a general favorite and can easily take such attacks at their True value. The German opera at the metropolitan is producing new works and is making Money. Goldmark Queen of Sheba is a conspicuous Triumph. The eternal Adonis is at the Bijou the 471st performance and the Mikado atthe fifth Avenue. Or. Morrishaw written farce roller skates for Nat Goodwin which has made them both a lot of Money and May even mildly for a month or rival Adonis As a paying attraction. Hoodman Blind a new English piece at Wallack a is like most of the recent efforts at that House Only a faint Success although the piece has considerable Merit. At Niblo a the Kiralfy have produced a grand spectacle entitled j the rat Catcher of Hamelin really splendidly mounted and with Good music and Well played and Sonz

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