EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume VIII, Issue 680, 18 January 1879, Page 3

EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

; JDEATH OP THE PRINCESS ALICE. \ ' December 13. !As early as Friday morning the ' physicians recognised the fact fhat^the condition of the Princess Alice was hope- " less, and sent & secret message to that effeot to England. Symptoms of suffocation appeared; at V o/clock.-on Saturday morning, but were; temporarily removed. The Grand Duke was then induced to leave the room, but his mother remained administering to the Princess, until tfie last. The Grand Ducal Court and Hesse Darmstadt generally will ( gp into morning for twelve weeks, i' '[}.■■ ' j TRIAL TRIP QF THE GLENELG. ! The,M(rew steamer Gl^nelg, built amid engi^ed, b'y^^wisodaildGordon, for^Capt4iiyi^r!^or,,p^jA(uckland, failed down. t% e ; <jfyde dty %yerajber $nd, ; ph her trial tripy'jap^ireturjied'in the evening. -After fcd Wemniyia-Bay* where she ranameasured njUehfo'ur^.different times: and attained -a*peed of ten and a half knots, which was satisfactory -t& both'owhera .and builders. The Glenolg proceeds under steam to Auckland, where she will be engaged in carrying cargo and passengers between . that port and Tauranga. i MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. Parliament assembled on the sth. The Queen's speech was unusually short, and referred "principally to the Afghanistan war. Earl Granville and Lord Hartington criticised, with some sharpness, JQord Lytton's course towards the Ameer, j both . .argued, however, that as 'war had been commenced ample- oncouragement and. support should bo given to the f invading forces. . ' j '. The Mah members were loud in their complaints because Ireland was not alluded to in the speech. ; < » OYAL MARRIAGE, j The I)uko of Cumberland and Princess Thyra, of Denmark, were niarried with great pomp at the chapel of iphristiansborg , .Castle on Saturday. evening, the 21st inst. i The Bishop of Durham has resigned from illJiealth. :.!■•.-.; ..-•..«■ :.. •-.•: ■ ■It ia rumoured that Alexandretta, a seaport of Ncfrtfr Syria, has been ceded ,My Turkey to England. •'• ;\ •■ - • ; The Derby Cottort Mill at Bolton #as bjuriit <& tWfttfj }o&, $25,000. . : ]V£r iba^c, ,^utt,' M.P;!,.' has been, denoiuicyd'by« Mr.O^Oonneir Power* as a, traitor Jp.^jßtomeJ,;. Rule, an,d the v lrish cause. ; Mr John Ruskin d<JcKne« & 'professor-' ship at Oxford^, a.. „^ > . . TERRIBLE MARINE DISASTER: ; The North Gerinan Lloyd's steamship Pomerania was sun: into, -..by a Welsh collier, tho Noel Ellian, of Carnavon, and sunk off Folkstone on the night of the sth inst. Ninety-four passengers were missed, and one hundred and sixty-two saved. . : Thomas Blight, a certificate^ officer, says the Pomerania was going at half to three-quarter speed ; that a good-look out was kept ; that the lights were- burning, and, it Was not foggy. He heard *no whistle or fog-horn.. Before the steamer sunk tliere Twas time to have saved every life if order had- been maintained. He heard no otders given til| il was too late fpr orders'. One ) Officer, told him the watery tigKt buj^e^?w;erejopen. There was no, more sea than iisual. All could have been saved' if the Bailors had not rushed to the boats. The Captain was 1 slaved by j means of a spar on which he floated till picked up by a steamer. The \ contractor /for raising the German, iron- | clad, Has signed a contract for raising the Pomerania also. i I POLITICAL, ETC, I ■ The British Government has abandoned 1 its intention to grant relief to the Bhodope ' fugitives. Air Tottenham, a Conservative, has k - been returned to Parliament for New | Boss, defeating Mr Delaney, a Home. t Ruler* t< ;. ,;,,:_. .;. , ;,, : ; _ -. ; ,• , . j itfr .Gladstone intends ip com© forward I as'a ; candidate for Midlothian* ] , , m „ i j. OBITUARY. ' ! George Henry Lewis, author; Alfred Wigan, the famous actor ; Mrs Tait, ,wife the 5 Archbishop of Canterbury ; : Captain , • Whyte Melville, the well-known novelist. - Ho broke 'hfe neck out buiitlntf, ■'■"■' > > , By aoolUeioh in the Mersey fifteen p^ri dtown^d :frotp- a feity tdiati-; ' L O'dohnorHne^on^icted Fenian haa Been . released from Spike Island. : / In the i«*ise of r Lady Annie Gopch, charged .with /attempting to pass off a spurious heir on her husband, Sir Francis Ooodh, the London Grand Jury ' refused to find a true bill. A Canadian loan of £8,000,000, at 4 per . cent., half guaranteed by the Imperial Government, has been placed on the 1 market, and allotted at the minimum price of nboty-tfix and a half.

GIGAHTIC FAILURES. The failures for "the "mouth are the Preston Loan and Discount Company, liabilities £60,000 ; Homy Taylor and Sirua, grain and flour merchants, Glasgow, £1,300,000 ; Fenton and Son3, private bankers, Rochdale, and Heywood, Smith, Memming and Co. , liabilities (failure announced October 3rd^ estimated at i £29,114,485 ; James Ramsey, Dundee* merchant,.£B9,ooo ; Galleymat and Weyland, NYsHaegland merchant, Stockholm. The Caledonion Bank, Glasgow, and .the West of England. and South Wales District Banl^s have suspended payment. [ They propose to reconstruct the Banks by ! assessing individual shareholders. The Odessa Commercial Bank went into i liquidation on the 15th ; Fox and Co. , \ Engine Works, Bristol ; Zubin and Co., iron ore. importers, of Cardiff and Newport, i Monmouthshire; Tibley and Co., merchants, Bradford, £86,000. Business in silver, is at a complete standstill. ' ; ' . The condition of the iron and' coal trades in the Soujih Staffordshire district is growing worse, and the closing of works; and reduction of wages are notified. MR GLADSTONE AT GREENWICH. Mr Gladstone, in a speech at Greenwich, formerly protested against the Afghan i war. . William King Palmer known as Stephen Heller the Magician, lately deceased, leaves £125 a year to Haidee, who assisted him in his performances ; £125 to hiß wife ; and ' the balance of his wealth to his brother, Angelo Hamilton, , of ; Victoria* Australia. „ . ■ . Mr McLeel, a Liberal, has been returned' for Londonderry, beating Mr Alexander, the Conservative. . .; „ , . •The Spanish Government is considering tnefeasibility of a cable between Manilla and Hong Kong. - " ; . ' ; ; . The • director of the French Mint at BbrdeaiiXj has been arrested for stealing silver bars amounting to 1,300,000 francs. The Due de Guise was married on the 6th instant to Mdlle. de Rothschild. An army of horses is arriving in France j from the "United States. ; Mr Kingake will not continue his history tof the Crimean War because he has not material. •