HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7194, 2 November 1888, Page 5

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[PBB PRBBB ASSOCIATION.] Beceived November Ist, 10 a.m. STANLKY. London, October 31. It is considered doubtful whether any credence is to be attached to the rumor of Stanley's death. LOKD NOiiMANBY. The Marquis of Norrnanby is anxious to get the Governorship of Western Australia. RE LEASE OF MR J. E. REDMOND. Mr J. E. Redmond, member for Wexford, who was seutenced to five weeks' imprisonment for conspiracy in September, has been released. ABOULANGER DEMONSTRATION. Paris, Ootober 30. A daughter of Ueueral Boulauger was married to-day, and the celebration of the ceremony was taken advantage of by his admirers to give Boulauger an immense ovatiou. It is estimated a hundred thousand people took part in it. • Received November let, noon. THE EMPEROR AND THE PRESS. Bertjn, October 31. The Emperor, while receiving a deputation who waited ou him to welcome hie Majesty ou hit) return to Berlin, took occasiou to deliver a strong rebuke- to those writers in the Berlin Press who have been making capital by promulgating btatemeuts concerning the private duiugs of the Rojal family. bUEZ CANAL CONVENTION. Lohuon, October 31. The Suez Canal Convention has been aigued by all the Powers. THE FRENCH NAVY. Paris, October 31. AJmiral K rantz delivered a speech iv tue Chamber of Deputies yesterday, on the French navy. He said that in consequeuce of its present weak state new cruisers and gun boa ta were beiug constructed with the utmost expediency. Received November 1-t, 12.15 p.m. THE LORD MaY(.R KNIGHTED. London, October 31. Mr Polydore De Keyser, Lord Maytu of Loudon, has beeu kniguted. SEW GUINEANew Guinea has been gazetted a British possession. Received November 2nd, LlO a.m. INDECENT LITERA'I UxtE. London, October 31. M. Vizetelly has been fined £100 for publishiug obscene literature. [The defendaut Is a well-known publisher of English'translations of French novels. The particular work In respect of which action wu taken was one of Zola's novels.]

v- EiTHER-BOUND WHALERS. Washington, October 31. . Infortn&tiou has been received that thirty whaliug ships, with 500 souls oa board, are believed to be weather bound off -the north coast of Alaska. The crews have little hope of release unless they can continue to subsist till next summer. BOYAL DEATH. Bkrlis, October 31. The Princess of Waldeck-Pynnont is dead. She was fifty-seven years of age. Her daughter, the Duchess of Albany, has left for Germany to attend the funeral. f Her Serene Highness the Princees Helen Wilhelmina Henrietta Pauline Mariana of Waldeck-Pyrmont was the wife of Prince George Victor of Waldeck-Pyrmont, Count of Kappolstein, &c, to whom she was married iv 1853. There are live daughters of the union, the Duchess of Albany being the third.] FRANCE AND GERMANY. The German Press is much enraged at the statement made by (General De Mirabel during a speech at Nancy, that revenge on Germany would not long be delayed. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. St. Petkrsbuhgi, Octobei 31. Twenty-one pasaeugers were killed by the train being thrown off the line when proceeding to Azoff. The Minister of War is among those injured.