GENERAL SUMMARY.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 4 January 1896, Page 9

GENERAL SUMMARY.

«•},_ Gold Standard Defence Association v cuhlishcd a pair.rhlot, written by Lord J?\,-..r dealing with the position of the r*.led States in reference to the subject of ve-ali-m. Tho pamphlet declared that MhT Government which gives double value . roken silver dollar that can only cir'"i.te as » commodity at half its f«ce value , j undertakas a responsibility danu»' to it fl financial position and de£»li«ng to its population. Five f-iJw eß nere announced in the T„ n aon Stock Exchange on November 16th, I chief of them Doing Campbell and [imp-ell, and l'lulips and Brown. i'lank Slaviu, the Australian heavyweiuht, signed articles for a twenty-round (j a l,t fn'r £500 or £1000 a side anrl a purse villi I'eter Mahcr, i» London, on November «g, n xhe light will take place either in 'Knaland «r Cape Colony. Jlrs Keeley s ninetieth birthday was rtltbrated at tho Lyceum on November i■' _ml. It wus a most su.cessiul affair, and a n immense concourse of fashionable people «nd artists attended. John liedlern, the celebrated London tailor, and the author of the " tailor-made woman." died at his residence, near Cowes, Woof Wight. The Marquis of Salisbury, replying to a latter on November 27th, in which the writer points out that during the past ten years the country haa Brent £50,000,000 on imported wheat and flour, and that the import of flour instead of wheat had re'inlwflin a loss of £13,000,000, promises to comider the writer's suggestion regarding the payment of a bounty to wheat growers, and the admission of wheat while a duty j_ planned tor imported flour. {] Mr O. F. Watte, R.A., has made a gift to the National Gallery of portraits of Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Sir Andrew Claik, Sir Charles Halle (the pianist, recently deceased), Lord Lawrence, Sir W. Manning, John Smart Mill, Sir Anthony Panizza, Dante, Gabriel Roselti, Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Bherbrook, Sir Ueury Thyler, Lord Tennyson and Thomas Wright (the Jhmehestar philanthropist). The United States Ambassador, Mr Bayard, has raised a storm about hit ears by indiscreet speeches delivered at Boston, England, and Edinburgh ,on the policy of protection by the American Government. Demands for his Impeachment or removal have been made by Congress ou tho ground that he insulted the country to which he was accredited, but neither Mr Bayard nor his ataiF will talk to haunting reporters, nei'her will he resign, although tho St. James's Gazette of December 11th thinks ho may recigu after tuch an attack, and. if so, that his loss will

_«regretted. The Times says speeches such rit those made by Mr Bayard would uot ba mado by a European diplomatist, and even in Mr Bavard'a case they were ntber surprising. Nevertheless, impeachmeutsecma a very disproportionate punishment for what, at the worst, is au indiscretion. Ut William F. H. Leoky, the historian, hai been elected to a Parliamentary seat for Dublin University to fid the vacancy cawed by the elevation of the Hon. David A. Plunkett (Conservative) to the Peerage. Thin shown tho gain of a seat for the Liberal Uoioniits. The aoenes attending the election were most disgraceful. The College undergraduates assembled in crowds at the entrance to the polls and assaulted every voter impeded of favouring Mr Lecky, who was ■ the Professors' candidate. A recent suit which a girl waiter, aged eighteen, brought against toe proprietor of i London coifee tavern for wrongful dismissal, developed tho fact that waitresses worked twonty hours out of the twsnty-four for 12b a mouth, and were glad to get it, as many hundreds were ready to till their l>lacea if vacancies occurred. _ curious statement was made in London, on December 7th, that tho Japanese Governmenv had ordered 18,000 cheap watches from firms in Switzerland with the intention of presenting them iustead of medals to the Boldiors engogod in the war against China. Mr Jerome K. Jerome, the author, has wen agitating recently in London the ques> tion of child insurance, aud ia led to endorse tho startling statement that 28 per cent, of insured children who die are deliberately murdered or starved to death by their parents. Mr Joseph Chamberlain, Sccrotary of State for the Colonies, has attained such a great addition to his political power that ht« enemies aro bothered considerably. Mr ■ud Mrs Chamberlain are now visiting some of the hiost exclusive houses in England, a >T th ? Duko and Duchess of Devonshire *«1 visit them at Highbury next week. iney in compauy with «he Marchioness of Salisbury and Mr A. J. Lalfour, will be tho Jtoest, «,f xho Duke aud Duchess of Devonshire during the eccond week » December. On Thursday, Decemw sth, Mr and Mrs Chamberlain «|MU by invitation with the Queen at mnusor, to meet tho King of tho IJelgians, whom, with his daughter Clementine, ia ™HUng Iwißland. The visit of King Leo■>i ? Sfti<l, t,,e Wft y» to he conuected "Hh the financial affairs of the Congo Free ™c'e ' King Leopold has always been ?°pui&r iv London on account of his free W <l easy manner.