GENERAL SUMMARY.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7225, 10 December 1888, Page 5

GENERAL SUMMARY.

(Dates from Europe up to November 17th.)

There have been violent gales and many wrecks on the west coast ot Great Britain. Despatches of the 16th say the Norwegian barque Byathia Thomasen was wrecked at Churchkay, on the we*t coa-it; no lives lost. At Glasgow the dome of the Exhibition building was demolished. The ladies' industrial department in the building was wrecked, and much other damage waa done.

The Pope has named December 31st for special thanksgiving services in the Catholic churches throughout the world for grace during the year of the papal jubilee. A powerful American syndicate is about to be formed for the purpose of building railroads in Siberia.

Brothercon's cotton mill at Preston was destroyed by fare on November 17th. Mr Wilson Barrett, the London actor, proposes another tour of America. Cardinal Newman was reported in a critical condition on November 3rd, but is now recovering. . Mr John Bright was also seriously til, and had not been able to leave his bed fox two weeks. His mind was, however, clear, and the reports of the Paruell Commission were read to him daily. "'' Lord Tennysou had- an alarming relapse on the 22ud, after his physician had pronounced him convalescent, lie Is suffering from acutci rheumatism.

Higginbothatn's spinning and weaving mills at Glasgow were burned on Novenv ber Ist. Loss £40,000. A report was afloat on November 13th that an attempt hod been made to assasnlnate Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. Russia is reported to be buying largely hay, grain, and other artnv provisions in Podolia and the district of KielF.

Mr Jasper D. Pyne, v well-known Nationalist member of Parliament, jumped overboard on November 14th, from tho steamer Shamrock, plying between Holyhead and Dublin, and was drowned. In an address to the Birmingham. Nationalises on November 4th, Mr Gladstone said the Irish cause was no longer dependent on one life. On his journey from Birmingham to Wolverhampton, accompanied by Mrs Gladstone, the exPremier was heartily cheered along the route, except at Suowhill and Oxford, where he was hooted. The crowd at the latter place was largely composed ol undergraduates. The Norwegian barque Nor, from New York to Stettin, with petroleum, collided with the steamer Sanumundham, In the English Channel, on tho morning of November 4th. The latter was sunk, with twenty-two of her crew. The barque was badly damaged, but was able to proceed on her voyage. Captain Jonness, of the Nor, disclaims all responsibility, and says the steamer ran into him, while the weather was perfectly clear. Signals of distress were made to passing steamers, but' they declined to render any assistance. Mr Spurgeon,. the London Baptist preacher, was reported to be dangerously ill on November 14th. He suffered from severe rheumatic gout complicated with other disorders.

The wages of the miners employed In the Lanarkshire Colliery have been advanced 5 per cent. The Trade Committee has advised the jute spinners of Dundee to make a similar advan.ce in the wages of employes. •' ■' ' ■■• ' ■-■■• •'-■'■:., The British steamer Black Watch foundered on November 12th in the Mediterranean. The fate of the crew Is unknown.

A sloop of large dimensions, to be named The Shamrock, is being built by the Jamie.sons, of Queenstown, Ireland, owners of the Irex, to contest for the America cup. Richardson designed her. A challenge will probably be sent by the Royal Irish Yacht Club, of jwliich Jamiesons are members.

The Russian Government, on the advice of the Commission sent to England to inquire into the pork market, proposes to assist importers of salt pork in order to encourage the trade. The steamer Nantz, and the German ship Theodore Huger, from Hamburg for Sydney, came in collision on November 9tb, thirty-six miles off Lizard Point. Both vessels sank; a portion of the ship's crew was landed at Trquvllle. The fate of the rest of the crew, and of the steamer's crew, is unknown.

The Vatican has authorised an expression of its satisfaction with the election of Mr Benjamin Harrison to the Presidency of the United States.

At a meeting of the Dominion Cabinet, held on November 10th, it was decided to invite Australia and New Zealand to send delegates to Ottawa at an early date, to consider trade matters and the proposed Pacific cable from New Zealand to British Columbia. The design is to divert travellers and traffic from Australia which now go entirely via San Francisco to Vancouver, British Columbia, and thence .over the. Canadian Pacific railway, and open up a market for Canadian manufactures, now possessed almost exclusively so far as the American continent is concerned by the United States.

R, L. Miller, of Virginia, sent as a special United States Commiseloner to the World's Exposition at Melbourne, re* turned to 'Frisco on October 20th. en route to his native State. Mr Millers special mission was to look into the tobacco interest of the colonies. '■' If experienced tobacco men had bold of business there," he told a 'Frisco editor," I aui afraid ib would cut in heavily on our production. I was really surprised at the quality of the tobacco which is grown in Queensland. In many respects it is superior to ours." Mr Miller considered the Exposition a great success.

While the Bridget of the Minister for Foreign Affairs was being discussed in the Chamber of Deputies on November' ISth an amendment was proposed to abolish the Embassy to the Vatican, but it vn» objected to b* a voteof 807 u>2l7. M.Gpblefe said—"As long as we live under the regime of the Concordat, it is necessary to maintain relations with the Vatican for the training of clergy and appointment of Bishops and Cardinal. The importance of our protectorate in Eastern edtttffcflea also requires the maintenance of frfeun'ly relations with the Vatican. It had beea said recently that that the Pope could no longer count upon any country out France —that does not mean Prance will intervene to restore his temporal power, but the more the Pope, having been deprived of that power, the more France onght to honor him by car:ailing nothing of her respect for the high authority he represents. .

The Bight Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., was married to Miaa Mary Endicbtt* daughter of the United States Secretary of War, at Washington, D.C., on November 16th. The ceremony was quiet and on* ostentatious.

China ban ordered £75,000 worth of arms and munitions of war from the firm of Ladwig and Lowe, Berlin. Princess Alexandra of Greece has been betrothed to Grand Dnke Paul of BuKsia. Negotiations for a Turko-Gonnan treaty were concluded on November 10th, and the draft submitted to the Sultan.

Cardinal Massottl died in Rome on November Ist.

The rumor that the pending Russian loan will be for £25,000,000 Instead of £29,000,000, together with the movements of troops on the western frontier, has created strong feelings of uneosinens at Vienna. The Duke Maxmilan, brother-in-law of the King of Bavaria, died on November A despatch from Sfcuttdgart of November 14th, mentions the official announcement that all of the King's American MwrUes had been directed to deport, and left Wartembersc at once. t . The Babylonian explorers sent pet by the University of Pennsylvania, heretofore reported as shipwrecked in the Mediterranean, have arrived safe at Sindh. A Paris Court has ordered the affairs of the American Exchange in that city to be wound up under legal supervision.

Colonel Prejuvalskv, Russian geographer and explorer, died at Tashkum on November 2nd. The Patriarchs of Constantinople and Athens have refused to set aside King Milan's divorce from Qneen Natalie. The Home Government has promised to strengthen the defences of Canada along the frontier by the establishment of garrisons and batteries, and also toiincrease the force in British Columbia. *he total strength of the force is now 3700 men.