GENERAL SUMMARY.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9234, 11 October 1895, Page 6

GENERAL SUMMARY.

LONDON, September IS. Robert Coombes, of London, the thirt__u-year-old boy who, with his brother Nathaniel, aged eleven, was arrested list July on a charge of murdering his mother while she lay in bel, was, on September 17th, adjudged guilty of the crime, but declared insane, and condemned to be imprisoned iv an asylum duriug the pleasure of hor Maj'sty. Henry M. Stanley, M.P. and explorer, has accepted the appointment of associate editor of Bishop William Taylor's monthly pictorial publication, Illustrated Africa. Mr Hall Came, the novelist, sailed from London for Canada on September 18th, carrying with him letters from Mr Chamberl.in, the Colonial Secretary. Mr Came goes to Cauad* and the United Slates on the subject of copyright law. News of the death of William Honry Hurlbert, formerly of New York, aud later of L >ndbn, at a town'inltaly, has surprised his English friends. Truth says Hurlbert was assisted to leave England on account of the Evelyn scandal, by his friend, a late Premier of Great Britain.

German firemen on board the American liner steamer Louis mutinied at Southampton recently, because an English co*l trimmer had beeu taken on. They stabbsd thb man and threw him overboard. Mr Dv Maurier, the author of " Trilby," was at Folkstone on September 15th, putting the finishing touches to a novel. Nasrullah Khan has left London and is now in Paris, where he is annoyed by the rudeness of the Parisians. Hespentsome£loooiu parting gifts. The son of the Ameer will m ike a pilgrimage to Mecca and return to Cabul by way of St. Petersburg, New York aud Sui Fraucisco, if he doe* not die of cholera by the way. Lord Archibald Campbell and his Highland pipers marched through Gleucoeon the night of September 7ih playing a dirge. Lord Archibald desired this project as an expiation for the historical massacre of Glencoe by the Campbells. The McDonalds resented the intrusion at first and threatened to break the Campbells' heads, but the inarch was finally accomplished without disturbance.

The London Chronicle of September 3vd comments upon the increased emigration to America as pointing to another trade boom there. Ib is certain, that paper thinks, that if there is a healthy industrial revival there more tinkering with the tariff, oue way or the other, will follow.

Burns, Broadhurst and Tom Mann were excluded from the Trades' Union Congress sitting at Cardiff, Wales, on September 3rd. Although persoually affected, Burns up proved of their action. Mr Bernard Shaw, the well-known Socialist and novelist, who reported tho Cardiff Trades' Union Conference for the London Star, says the American delegate- were almost ignored by the leaders of the Congress, upon whose invitation they had come. Their reception, Mr Shaw says, compared very unfavourably with the re ception given Holmes and Burns in America, iv fact, he adds—" We cannot do these things well in England, and even when the formal reception came on September 6th, the Congress sat solemnly with the au* of being in church, while the guests carried off the occasion much better than the hosts."

Tbe Emperor William, it is nowsaid, was in danger during his visit to London, from German Socialists, . The London police authorities seat detectives to watch, under his windows and patrol the grouuds all night.