GENERAL SUMMARY.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 217, 6 September 1878, Page 7

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, July 18. The Queen leaves Windsor for Osborne to-morrow. Considerable emigration is probable from Malta to Cyprus. Russia is making great military preparations in Turkistan. Numerous proposals are started for British enterprise in Asia Minor. Ten pilots were drowned off Queenstown during a gale by a vessel foundering.

Several Lancashire rioters were sentenced to 15,. 7, and 5 years' penal servitude.

The second reading of the Bill to create four new bishoprics was carried by 188 against 60. Zorilla, late Spanish Premier, was arrested near Paris, and conducted to the French frontier.

Sir Coutts Lindsay opened the Grosvenor Picture Gallery on Sunday afternoon and evening.

The Winter Gardens at Blackpool were opened by the Lord Mayor in the presence of 60,000 spectators. A breach of promise case at Dublin, Fitzgerald v. Gubbins, resulted in the defendant paying plaintiff L 2500.

- Mr Roberts, a Liberal, was returned for Flint borough by 1636 votes. Mr Penant, a Conservative, polling 1511.

The Cape war is concluded. General Thesiger proceeds to Transvaal, the Zuzu King's attitude being uncertain.

The new Turkish frontier in Armenia is easily defensible, as the ends ot the principal passes remain in Turkey. The Anglo-Turkish Convention was communicated to Prince Bismarck a month ago, and he highly approved of it Mr French, at the request of the United States, invited the Foreign Powers to an International Monetary

Congress.

Sir Capel Fitzgerald, Bart, was committed for trial for stealing L4OO worth of jewellery from a woman whom he accompanied to Paris. The Cape Parliament is granting L 15,000 as an annual subsidy to the telegraph cable from England, via Natal, Zanzibar, and Aden.

The Duke of Sutherland, With influential allies, is taking the lead in a movement to construct a railway from Scutari to the Persian Gulf.

The Prince of Wales was chosen President of the Agricultural Show to be held in London next year. The Show is intended to be international.

GTeig succeeds Reatom as Minister of Finance in Russia. Tt is understood that the late war necessitates additional taxation in Russia of L12 7 000,000 annually. A man and his wife were found murdered in a bog hole in County Monaghan. The bodies were tied with ropes, and heavy stones fastened to them.

Sir Tinfiorn Simmons, InspectorGeneral for Fortifications, and Mr Kirby Green, have been appointed British Commissioners for organising Roumelia.

Several London vestries have commenced an agitation for an inquiry into the property of fche City Guilds, with a view of seeing if it cannot be directed towards the relief of ratepayers. The Prince of Wales proceeded to Paris this day. He visited the Agricultural Show at Bristol, and was enthusiastically received. He was present at the grand review at Alriershot. Mr Edward Jenkins brought forward a motion for a Royal Commission to inquire into ritualistic practices of the clergy, but after considerable* discussion he withdrew it at the suggestion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A frightful murder' was discovered in Wales. A farm labourer, bis wife, and three children were killed, it is supposed, by two tramps, who then unsuccessfully attempted to fire the cottage. Official statements published confirm the accounts of frightful outrages committed by Bulgarians even now on Turks. Consul- General Fawcett reports that in no instance hare the Russians punished the offenders. Consul-General Fawcett and other Commissioners of Great Powers will leave Constantinople for an enquiry into the Rhodope Mountain disturbances. The Russian authorities have been ordered to follow their recommendations. The Eurydice, frigate, was raised by the united action of several men-of-war which were partly sunk. Steel hawsers being fastened to the Eurydice, she was then pumped out. The Thunderer was towing, and the strain was so tremendous that the capstan was broken off, springing into the sea. It is known that a despatch from Lord Salisbury accompanying the text of the Berlin treaty reviews the concession forced from Russia compared with the Treaty of San Stefano, and showed that Congress having prohibited further territorial indemnity, pecuniary claims must stand over indefinitely until Turkey's other creditors were satisfied. On account of their connection with the Berlin Congress, Prince Hohenlohe aud Count Von Bulow have received the Grand Cross of the Legion of! Honour,- and Rudowitz Holetstin, of Busch, have received minor grades of the Order. Their appointments are regarded as indicating, good feeling between France and Germany.

Locusts are ravaging Madras. Proposals will be made to erect Servia into a kingdom.

The London Times writes severely against Mr Gladstone.

Russia is still buying- the German Lloyd's Hamburg steamships.

Public opinion in America favours General Grant as the next President.

Prince Bismarck has been asked by Greece to induce Turkey to come to

terms. Kelly, the Fenian, has been liberated from Mountjoy prison on account of illhealth. Heavy fighting has occurred at the Transvaal, with losses to the British forces. Great fires are devastating Thessaly. They are supposed to be the work of incendiarism. Count „Hatsfeldt succeeds Prince Henry, Russia's German Minister at Constantinople. The Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs bas gone to St. Petersburg by request of the Czar. The Vera Zasoulitch feted at Geneva turns out to be an imposter. The real

woman is in Siberia

The Cologne Gazette publishes a rumour that King Alphonso threatens to resign the throne of Spain. George M'Neill and Co., of London, have failed for L 240,000, which involves Buddecott and Co., brokers.

The weather is very hot in England and in France. The temperature iv the Exhibition is almost unbearable.

Eight thousand lazis, displaying the British flag, have concentrated to prevent the Russian entrance into Batoum.

Gambetta . congratulated France on the enlarged policy adopted by England consequent on the Berlin Conference.

Immigration is going on from Egypt to Cyprus. A large line of steamers is to be established between the twoplaces.

Fourteen children and three teachers were drowned by the capsizing of a boat on the river Blackwater, in Ire-

land

Mr Gladstone has declined the leadership of the Liberal party. He called the convention with Turkey an insane covenant.

An abortive attempt has been made to enroll volunteers at Ravenna and Geneva for the annexation of Tyrol and Trieste.

King Humbert has been telegraphed to by his Ministers to return from Turin, as a hostile attack on the British embassy at Rome is feared.

The Prince Imperial recovered LBO from a Parisian newspaper for libel. The paper charged his father with appropriating Crown property.

A pigeon-shooting match between Captain Bogardus, ofthe United States, and "Mr Wallace, of England, resulted in a draw, each man killing 97 birds.

The obsequies of Qneen Mercedes of SiKiin were celebrated with great pomp. Fort)- thousand persons were present, and nine bishops assisted at the requiem Mass.

Two parties of railway experts, under the direction ofthe British Government, will examine the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys for the best railway route to the Persian Gulf.

Captain Webb attempted to swim in the Thames for thirty-six hours eontinously, but, owing to the high wind, he left the water after completing twenty-two miles in nineteen hours.

The Vatican proposes to remove Catholic churches in Great Britain and America from the control ofthe Propaganda, and place them under the immediate control of the Pope.

The ceremonies in honour of Lord Beaconsfield and the Marquis of Salisbury, at the Guildhall, were interrupted by a person who denounced the plenipotentiates as traitors to the Constitution.

Tbe British Commission at the Paris Exhibition have formally notified to the other Commissioners that an International Exhibition is to be held in Melbourne in 1880, and have invited them to be present.

A Berlin dispatch announces that Russia proposes to appoint diplomatic agents at various points in Asiatic Turkey to watch Russia's interests. Russia is also making an effort to secure the early construction of the proposed railway from Orenbergin Central Asia.

Five hundred peers and commoners were present at the banquet of the Carlton Club to the English plenipotentiaries at the Congress. Lord Beaconsfield spoke of Mr Gladstone as a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and egotistical imagination.

General Wolseley, the new Governor of Cyprus, has already under consideration a scheme bf a financial company for railways through the Island, which Will be permanently garrisoned by some small number of troops, militia doing the rest. General Wolseley will divide the Island into five districts, and decide land titles by a mixed commission. The Queen has issued a proclamation declaring her interest in the Islanders and their progress.

A meeting- is being held at Rome favouring the annexation of the South Tyrol to Italy. The Ministerial journals of Vienna warn Italy of the danger of playing with fire, and that Austria is taking timely precautions against Italian aggression. Prince Bismark emphatically informed the Italian Ambassador that Tyrol and Trieste can never become Italian. Garibaldi approves of the agitation, and recommends rifle practice throughout Italy.

The Sultan ratified the Treaty of Berlin.

The railroad labour troubles in Washington are ended.

The exporb of fresh meat to England has greatly declined.

The Orangemen's day passed off quietly in Ireland.

Reinforcements of French troops are to be sent to New Caledonia.

The French Press attacks England for the acquisition of Cyprus.

Railrond freights between New York and San Francisco are doubled.

King John has resigned the crown of Abyssinia in favour of King Meneleke.

Prince Milan has issued a proclamation declaring the independence's !; of Servia.

The Kansas army of tramps is committing excesses in the western part of that State.

In a miners' strike in q France, over 500 pariicipated, and numerous arrests were made.

England has formally assured France that she will take no independent action about Egypt.

•The English residents at Sanj.Francisco are subscribing to the Beaconsfield testimonial.

Bismarck wanted a Supplementary Conference in the autumn, bufc the British Commissioners refused.

The Porte has expressed its willingness to enter into a convention with England for the abolition of the slave trade.

House property in Beyrout and other Syrian towns has risen highly in consequence of the English occupation of Cyprus. The Treaty of Berlin is to be printed on parchment in antique type, each signatory power to receive a copy signed by the plenipotentiaries.

At the final sitting of the Congr-rss the Sultan was ordered to guard the rights of the Turkish bondholders and to regulate his finances.

Great indignation is felt in St. Petersburg and Moscow at the result of the Congress the Russian diplomatists in general being spoken of with contempt.

In the House of Commons a mofion by Mr Mitchell Henry, on the appointment of a royal commission on the treatment of Feman prisoners, was rejected.

Safvet Pasha has demanded the expulsion from Constantinople of M. f-alenga, the Times correspondent. Mr Fawcett, Consular Judge, advises Mr La yard to refuse.

Prince GortschakofT now declares that had he known ofthe Anglo-Turk-ish Cyprus convention before the Batoum matter he wonld have made no concessions. The Russians near the Gulf of Snrgo fired on a boat of a British man-of-war flying a white flag. The act has been reported by special messenger to Constantinople. Official reports from the Bosnian frontier stare that- the followers of the Turkish agitator who raised the insurrection against the Ottoman authorities at Serajilio deposed the civil Governor, and stormed and plundered an armoury, after a sanguinary conflict with gendarmes.

A despatch from Frankfort confirms the report about the Papal Nuncio. There have been several interviews with Bismarck at Kissingen. A correspondent states that direct negotiations between Germany and the Vatican will soon be opened. The Government is apparently bent on effecting a reconciliation, though it is impossible to say whether it is sincere.