GENERAL SUMMARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 193, 22 August 1885, Page 8

GENERAL SUMMARY.

[EVKOI'EAN D.YTJTH TO Jui.V BIST ]

Tun " Standard" of July 31st, the accepted Tory organ, made a savago attack on Lord? liandolphGluuchill, Baying: "If bis pranks be cne.ouraf.rod much longer ho will pmtph tlio Government and the Conservitivo party. Wo will follow Salisbury, but wo ] will not follow this overdrawn schoolboy, who is without knowledge sullifirnt to fQlhniu his own ground of pt'vtesmnu-hip " The Common?, o;i tho 30th, rejected by a vote of 10S to 62 tho Po'tma-tor-Oenoral'o amoudmont to the, sixpenny 'I'olegraph Bill, The bill of tho Into l Jo?tmastnr-<3cnoril (Mr LoFcvie), making tho cost of a twelve-word telegram (including the address) sixpence, was passed in Committee.

Tho Chairman of tho Commit! go appointed to inquire into ilio condition of [rwh imlnstrios presented nn informal report to I'nrliairi nl on July 20th. It is stated that nil Irish industries, with tho singlo exception of linen manufacture.?, are af present in a deplorable condition. Tlio 1 sport recommends tlio improvement of tlio railway furililio* of lieland, the introduction of tho teaching of a cour.-o of peionfios relatin;; to industri-1 work in all national school*, and a comprehensive system of drainage, without which, tho report declare-, the proper cultivation of tho soil in Irelnud nn a sufficiently extensivo plan is I Ul possible.

liladstonc writes, July "'Si toaManchcsrer elector, expressing bis conlidont belief that the non-ly-cnfranchfood electors "ill show their preference for Liberal men and Liberal measures, lie looks fowrard with us'Stircrl eontidonco to tho result of tlio general election.

The lladicnl papors wo abusing Iho l'rinoe of Wales for going in for v racing .st ml ami refer to many scandals w liich liavo recently hoon exposed in connection with tlio English turf, for reason,

Owing to depression in trado, thousands of colliers nt Morthyr Tyilril, Wales, woro idle in (lie litter part of July,

(■onoral Booth made a grand parade of Iho Salvation Army in London on tho'27th July. The object wai to inllucnco Parliament, in view of the revelations by tho "Prill Mall Gazette,'' to past) tho proposed Ciiminal Amondmont Act, Social ostracism of several well-known noblemen ha? followed the " OazettuV" oxjiOHures. The Queen has personally writton to Mrs Booth, wife of too Salvationist leader, conveying the troupes! sympathy with the reform woik. ' Mr Spurgeon addressed an audioiico of 4.00J at ttremerton on L'Tth .July, his subject being lliol.ruUicinyauii(; K [rlß,'ard the Iniquity ofit. [11 consi(|iience of these revolutions of vice in London, mcotingj were being held all ovor the country in favour of a Ciiminal Law Amend men t Act raising tho "ago of consent "to sixteen yenw. The [<roviuci.il papers give, elaborate reports of the-u meetings, of which nro notable from the eminence uf the speakoti' and the high el'ar-tit-ter of tho audiences, but Uielvm lon |.ie-s c.'H'-ptotely ignores them. Several eminent diviiic?i have protested against this silence,

?riru!ng that ignoring tho fael furni.-he-encourejjoment to ovil-doeiv. 'i'hc outcumo of tho meeting of the members of Parliament, which wa* presided over by S.amucl

Morkv, and the attcmlaiitunt which pledged thcniHclves to remain in London to support I ho Criminal Amendment Bill, is Ihoappioval of the bill by Sir Asht n Urnw, the Homo Secretary. Tha Ijuocn'a letter to Mr. Booth, referiing to this bill, fcays she feels deeply on the subject, but acting under

advico must refrain from exju'ts-ing an opinion on tho subject, because it is a matter before Parliament.

A fearful wave of heat extended over the L'nited Kingdnm on .My -Jl -JS. In London the cllcetsof the long -pell of torrid weather was appalling, ai d every one was more or less effected. Children diid by hundreds. Scores of men were piT.itrated by sunstroke each day, and the rials were tuu-ii blocked by horses faHing dead. A new I error was added by tho prc?f u.-e 1! hydrophobia. Indeed, tho slrouts were ahs ilutely unsafe, owing !u the number of nud doga running at laig.i. mid many persons who never carried weapons bef.ll- h night revolvers.

A movement has 1.011 started to organi.-c I'.ariH Clubs throughout tho world for the purpose of holding a centennial celebration in honour of tho Seotuh bard at Kihnarnurk next veur.

The Anglo Chinese treaty, by tho terms of which the interior ol China i« opened up to the Opium trade, was signed by the Marqui-i of Salisbury and the Marquis of l/.engon JulylSlh.

-"),000 cotton ojierativcsat Oldham.■-truck on July 20.

The National Portrait Cnlkry is to ' v removed to tho liotliimKir on MiiMiun Thi Londori Liberal pro«-rail tho step ..-ither

Tory bid for popular favour

On Tiie.»d«.y, July 21.-t, Home S-. ..-alary Cross, with a largo party of followers, made

n tour in tin-slums of Shaldwell and Hoiborn, distributing sixpences and good advico with great prodigality. An ollicinl

account of the tour was sent from tho Home Otlieo to the various newspapers The I undon liberal journals cull this posing m will tho masses

The police stationed round the London law courts wore largely increased on the '.'2nd July, owing to information received by the authorities (hat an ell'ort to destroy those buildings would be m.ido.

A sensation was cre.iteil in London fashionable circles on July _'-nd by tho report of a fistic encounter ban ecu Lord Lonsdalo and Sir (icorge Chelwynde. Tho tight took place in a well-known resort in Rotten How, and lasted ten minutes. A

ivoinnn was at tho bottom. Tho men woro jealous of each othor, as both woro paving attentions to Langtry, tho actress. Langtry explained to a concvpondent of the

'Hun" that tho men quarrelled because fiio of them po.iso.-sod a portrait of her painted on china which tho other thought ho ought not to koop, adding at tho samo time th.it " their quarrels aro nothing to mo " Tho " World's " cablegram says the trouble grew out of an experiment on Lousdale's part to divert Langtry s< affections from Chetwyndo, her lover of half-a-dozen yt nrs' precedence. Tho aetrcs left town to avoid the consequences of tho scandal. Tho London " Vanity Fair" denounces in effect Lonsdnlo and Chetwyndo as unworthy of toloration by gontlemcn. Tho article calls them titled blackguards, dodares they aro wor.-o than navvies, and that their conduct is a disgrace to modern manners. It laments, in this instanco, tho abolition of tho codo duollo, which would have put tho lighters on equal terms and given hopes to the world of tho riddanco of ono or both of them. Tho Radical journals aro making groat capital out of tho affair.

Tho Oxford crow started at 10.15 on July 2">th to row across tho Channel. They reached Calais at 2.42 thesamo afternoon.

Russia has nseontod to the Egyptian loan, and tho British (ioverninont has inetruclod tho Rothschilds to issuo it in August. This action on tho part of Russia is held to indicato a growth of friendly relation." with England, nnd has caused a rise in all international etocks.

Tho shooting at W'imblodon in tho contost for tho Kolaporo Cup closed on July -2nd. Tlig English team won with a scoreof u'f.o. Next bust scores were tho Guernsey toam, 039; Jersoy team, 812; and Canadian toam, 597.

Tho Marquis of Salisbury pronounced, on July 21st, in tho Uouso, a vory graceful oulogiutn upon tho high manly courage displayed by Karl Sponcer in tho performance of his duties as Lord Lioutonant of Ireland.

A lifoboat containing fifteen mon, that had put out from Yarmouth on the morning of July 22, to roeeuo tho crow of a brigantino, struck a rock and sunk. Eight of the occupants were drowned.

AdeH[atch roceived at London on July 21st states that tho King of Dahomey, with a largo army, had mafsacrod tho French in tho unpretocted villages (?) Tho King had also captured, according to tho same despatch, 1,000 French persons, and he and his followers proposed to oat them (?'-)

Tho Liberals are alarmed by tho report of the doctors who havo examined GladstonoVi throat to dl-covov the cause of tho failure of hid voice. Ho is pronounced to bo suffering from an obstinato catarrh of tho larynx, and enliro rest is onjoincd. His partisans aro afraid ho will not bo able to take part in the election campaign. On July 21st, the steamer llecln collided with tho Livorpool and London stoamor Cheerful in a fog. Tho latter foundered, and tliirteon persons woro drowned.

The Dilko Scandal.

Tho Now York "Sun's" London special of July 31st says :—"The scandal involving Sir Charles Dilko has boon settled, bo far as the Courts and English Press nro concerneil. Settlement was completed to-day by tho cashing of Sir Charlca'a choquo for £25,000 in favour of Crawford, the aggrieved husband. This puts it out of tho power of the papers to mention tho right honourable gentlomun's name in connection with the subject, without incurring heavy penalties for libel; and the British moral senso in appaased bocausa tho pinner, although guilty of *he awful crime uE being tonwl out, has paid handsomely for suppressing tho trouble, and thus shielding tho sacred circle of society."