GENERAL SUMMARY.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8534, 14 July 1893, Page 5

GENERAL SUMMARY.

LONDON, June 22. The seventy-fourth birthday cf Queen Victoria, although the anniversary occurred on May 24th, was by formal order-officially celebrated on June 3rd. The Honra Guards paraded, aud trooping -the colours by. the Foot Guards was witnessed by on enormous crowd of people, including a large number of the Royalty and nobility, as well as aristocrats and titled foreigners. A priest and a nurse accompanied; Gilbert to London, and he was taken to a hospital, where a room was engaged for him_ by tho Irish Amnesty Association. Gilbert's appearance corroborates recent reports about his health. He moved in a feeble way, stoops greatly, and has aged twenty years during his confinement. He has arrived fit York.

The Duchess of Sutherland when released from prison, notwithstanding the medical report of the alarming condition of bar health owing to imprisonment, looked well. The Empress Eugenic returned to. Farnborough on June 14th, after an absence of - several months. She will visit the -Queen at Osborne towards the end of July.- Tbe Queen has offered to place Birk-h*.U House at her disposal. The villa which the Empress is building at Cap Martin,; sear Meutone, will be quite ready for her occupation in the autumn. The Bill concerning the Anglo-RcS-ian agreement fbr the protection of seals in that part of the North Pacific off the Russian coast and for the punishment of poachers iv those waters passed the second reading in the House of Commons without division.". . The question of the Armenians sentenced to death at Angora by the Turkish authorities came up in the Commons oh June 19th. Sir Edward Grey, of the Foreign Office, said the English Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople was instructed to use every effort to prevent the sentence being carried out pending a full consideration,of all the circumstances involved. The first of a series of meetings designed by the Unionists to rouse all London agait~> the Home Rule. Bill was held .in the Koy_ Surrey Theatre on the evening of June 12th. The Marquis of Salisbury was the mo— notable speaker. He illustrated hia opinion of Mr Gladstone's action towards IrelaS-. with an elaborate metaphor based on the recent disaster in Washington. The Premier,: he said, was digging a cellar under the ancient f*brie of the Empire. He was. working carelessly, as did the men under, the old theatre in Washington, and if h» should be allowed to continue his task, all three floors of the Imperial Buiidicff, Throne,. Church, and Parliament, wouM come crashing down around the heads of the Liberal patty. It was announced in the Dublin Court of - Bankruptcy that there is no estate to meet . the claims against Michael D_vitt, who wail compelled to go into bankruptcy on account of hfs inability to meet the cost of the proceedings successfully instituted against hira by Mabony, his Parnellite antagonist. The London Local Government Board hap cancelled all summer leaves of absence to its medical men, and ordered au unceasing watch at all British porta against the en- ; trance of cholera until tbe end of September.

A liquor veto demonstration of t.mpersßca people was held in Hyde Park on June loth. More than 10,000 persons were present, and speeches were made from twenty p_t» forms. *Mr Wtn. A. Astor, the American mnltfmillionaire, who has settled down as a hard Working magazinisi in London, is said to have made a hit with his Pail Mall venture, and London is taking to him very kindly. ; Mr Williams, Liberal Unionist, said is the House of Commons on June sth that be considered £2500 for the sake of Sir Charles Russell's service for a week as counsel for Great Britain before the Bearing Stoat—" tribunal was too much, and gave notice el motion to reduce it.

All Paris is laughing at the fact that women are making apparent fools of themselves over Alkivi, a Dabomeyan Chief, Who is now in the Champs Elyseea. Letters upon letters are written to him accompanied by flowers, boxes of sweetmeats and even pates and like delicacies. The writers clamour for all sorts of appointments. Meanwhile Alkivi's black wife ii furious.

James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald, was dangerously injured on June 7th, by falling from a coach is Paris. He contkutsd to grow worse on the * Bth, when s aurgicsl operation became nec*__srr. the operatioa ho had aomowhaft _»__»«* The operatioo was the opening of men tot Me if there was any ******iJ!3%* M «» aevarity of the exterior c?** 0 &lhe physicia-s to belief mmm made bU will previously to going SI The op*r»ttea took about an | bear JSd * telt, **i • chit, which had coiketed after profuse Intern— bl_edingv was removed. ... ... President Carnot, who has been Wry Hi, was reported on Juue 11th as rssraveriog. He suffered from the same cam plaiat that assailed Clemeneeau, gall straw** asd is now kept closely on a milk diet and Vichy water* He •xpre-ses desire to resign the Presidency, aad retire into private life. Despatches: of the l§th and 17th say ths Presidesf s cosdition Is far more serious than was stated in tfce orach.! reports of his illuess, TheSkcie says he is tutfering from lot—tinal-toppam aad a eonsulU _ioa of physicians on the 3.7—> resulted in doclariag the trouble anowjii-,

which is believed to be equivalent to cardiac weakness. At a meeting of the diplomatic circle at Berlin ou June sth, the hmperor remarked that under no cirenmstaucea would he countenance a proposal to limit the suffrage for tho purpose of strengthening the Government in tho Reichstag. The drought in Fiieburg and Breisgau continues, and the outlook is serious. There is Bcarcity of food and much suffering. In their desperation, the people of Alhuansmeor, a village, raided the Kispenheum preserves to capture whatever game was possible for food. They were met by the keepers, and a stubborn fight ensued, iv which many were wounded on both sides. While Archbishop Augeror was delivering the Benediction in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, on June 10th, a bookmaker named Mutzbiche, who was sitting near the middle of the building, shot himself in the head With a revolver. Baroness Helene Reden, widow of a millionaire and mother of the Imperial Privy Councillor Baron Redin, of Vienna, was arrested as a vagabond in that city on June 10th. She said she was penniless aud homeless, and neither her son nor her daughter would support her. After ascertaining the truth of her statements the authorities sent her to the poorhouse. Ignitz Abcles, a Jewish recruit, twentyeight years old, committed suicide on account of the ill treatment to whioh he was , subjected by petty officers. The authorities have ordered au inquiry into the affair. The Czechs have coucluded to withdraw from the Austrian Diet on account of their hostility to Germans. Two Czech newspapers were suspended on account of their seditious tone. An epidemic of suicide has broken out in Buda Pesth and other Hungarian towns. According to a telegram of June 22ud, seven cases were reported on the 21st at Buda Pesth. Cases of insanity are increasing, and the madhouses are full. This state of things is attributed to the poisonous concoctions substituted for wine, which has become scarce, owing to the' ravages of the < phylloxera. An official investigation into the bomb explosion at the residence of Senor Don Canovas del Castillo, Madrid, on Tuesday, June 20th, has led to the discovery of a plot, which embraces Anarchists in several European countries. Twenty-three arrests have already been made, and others are expected. Letters show the conspiracy to be international. A correspondent in Rome telegraphed on -June 14th that the Pontiff had given a long to Dr. McGlynn, the New York recalcitrant priest, who was enchanted with his reception, and announces his complete reconciliation with the Pope. He left Rome for America after a sojourn of a few days. The 'anniversary of Garibaldi's death was duly recognised on June 3rd in Rome aud at bis grave on the island of Capri. Four new cutters of the London season, -Mr A. Clarke's Latania, the largest of the four; the Prince of Wales' Britannia, victor In the preceding week's races, and designed chiefly to beat the German Emperor's p&feteor, and also to uphold the credit of England against the American cutter 'Navago; Lord Dunraven's Valkyrie, which tia to cross the Atlantic in August to endeavour to regain the America Cup;' and ; Coltuna, owned by a syndicate headed by Mr pPeter Donaldson, along with Mr Jameson's famous cutter I verna, started on a race at 9.30 <-on June 2lßt, from the south end of Harfwich. There was a brisk easterly wind, and the Britannia was in the lead at startling. Lord Dunraven's Valkyrie won the .race. Once she took the lead the other contestants had no chance whatever. The "Latania was second home, followed by Colluna was, however, given a ■place on time allowance. Southampton wail in holiday dress in fhonour of the arrival, by the steamship Taris, on June 10th, of the first American Ambassador, Mr Thos. F. Bayard. The authorities presented him with an illuminated address. Mr Bayard, in responding, said he valued his official designation chiefly as a means of giving greater to more perfectly bringing about .-the harmony of interests between the two ••great branches of the English-speaking race. Mr Bayard's manner and words captivated everybody. The Ambassador presented his credentials to the Queen on the 22ud. The new Austral-Canadian line of steamships will call at Victoria, British Columbia, going and coming. It was intended at first to give that port the go-by. The, magnificent Villa Marie Convent at Notre Dome de Grace, two miles north of Montreal, the largest establishment of its 'kind in America, was almost totally destroyed by fire on June 7th. The total, loss will amount to more than 1,000,000 dollars, with an insurance of 100,000 .dollars. The'. Caucasian fishermen of British Columbia are holding meetings with a view to influencing tbe withholding of fishing licenses from Japanese and Chinese. Whites are being crowded to the wall by these Eeople, and scarcely a white fisherman is eing employed by the canuers.