GENERAL SUMMARY.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 21, 25 July 1881, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

A FLYING MACHINE. THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY MYSTERY. THE SUPPOSED MURDERER AND HIS VICTIM. STATEMENT OF THE PRISONER. THE HARVEST IN IRELAND. THE AGITATION ABATING. THREATENED WAR BETWEEN FRANCE AND ITALY. London, 3rd July. In Spain tho Free-traders and Protectionists are holding large meetings. The former cite with approval the example of America. Baron Magnus, who was recalled to Berlin from Copenhagen, for attending the banquet to Sarah Bernhardt, has become insane. The master shipbuilders of Londou havo yielded to the demands of tho mon, and a strike has been averted. Thirty thousand Staffordshire nailworkers have struck f0r.30 per cent, more wages. Mr. Galling, a well-known correspondent of tho Times, left England on the 26th Juno, for the purpose of penetrating Siberia and describing the oondition of the exiles there. It is said that Parnell crosses tho Atlantic to avoid making speeoheß that would land him in gaol. Lord Granville has sent a doßpatoh through Sir Edward Thornton expressing the conooin of tho Government at the attempt on President Garfield's life. Tho American Consuls throughout Iraland havo boon instructed to report carefully to Washington concerning tho character and tho extent of the disaffection, particularly relative to the prudonoo and oonduot of the Irish-American element. Ex-Alderman Clanoy, of Ottawa, Canada, exhibited a flying machine oa the 28th inst. At an average height of twelve feet ho mado a flight of a quarter of a mile. The maohino is the rosnlt of 30 years' thought and labor. A man named Arthur Lofroy was found in one of tbe carriages on tho Brighton Railway on the 27th June, wounded on tho head, and bleeding. He reported that his fellow-travellers were a countryman and an old gentleman ; that shortly alter passing Croydon he heard a shot and was stunned. The polioe found Beyoral bullets imbedded in the oarnago, and in Balcombe tunnel they fonnd the corpse of Mr T. J. Gould, a retired business man, who had been in London to oolleot dividend?. His throat was cut, and he was stabbed in various places ; only a pocket-book containing cards was found on his person. Lefroy, after having his wounds dressed, started fi r London. He is a newspaper reporter, aged 22, and has been arrested for the murder. The London Times, commenting on tho reassembling of tho Monetary Conference at Paris, advises the withdrawal of the British representatives in a body, as there is no expectation, in any case, of England agroeirg to anything whi-jh will affect her adhesion to the siuglo gt>ld standard It views the presence of English delegates in tho Congres3 as most unfortunate, and calculated to injure the reputation of the English Government. I reland is quiet. Sexton , the manager of tho League, " took the stump " on Sunday, tho 27th Jane, in King's County, but, in a sweeping indictment against the Government, made no attack on the Land Bill. Meetings were also hold at Cork, Watorford, and Mayo, but they dealt almost exclusively with the Coeroion Act and assailed Mr. Forstor. Agrarian agitation is nearly extinct. Tho hay crop has jtist been harvested, and is tho best Ireland has had since before the groat famine The potato crop promises to be extraordinarily abundant, and the fisheries were novor more profitable. In Kinsale the people are using cart loads of fish for manure. Then again landlords havo withdrawn ejectment writs in hundreds of caeos, and for the Sake of peaoo and quietness aro taking Griffiths' valuation. A boat's crow from Carnell College (America) has arranged to row in Vienna on Sth August. Bismarck is ill again and confined to hia residenco in Berlin. A Paris despatch announces the death of Jules-Armand-Stanislas Dufaure. Russia will endeavor to re-open negotiations with the American Government, looking to rof.triotin<j the right of asylum. Tremendous storms havo ravagod the east and western American States. They wore particularly severe in Illinois, Ohio, Mis* Bouri, and New Hampshire. Horses and mon are reported to havo been killed by lightning : wires wore overy where prostrated. In tho Monetary Conference, tho Austrian delegates aro instructed to maintain a friendly interest toward bimetallism, but not to depart from the reserve hitherto displayed. The disturbances by the French and Italians at Marseilles and in other parts of Franco, and also in Italy, aro likely to lead to national complications. An article in tha Liberta (Rome) says Franco is anxious to retrieve the shame of her defeat in 1870, and is convinced that she is not sufficiently strong to measure herself with Germany, and seeks in every way a pretext for picking quarrels with Italy. Tho writer advises patienoo and foresight, and says it mnst bo for Italy to choose tho occasion of going, to war with France, and not leave tho lattir to force a war when she finds it most convenient. A contagious malady like leprosy h=a appeared at Toulouse, France. Parnell'B visit to tho United States in tho autnmn will have tho twofold objeot to " pass round tho hat " and induce a more moderate tone among the Irish- Ameribanß. O* Donovan Rossa, and others of the same ilk in New York aro, by the violence of their utterances, makinsr Parnell's position exceedingly uncomfortable. A process-server, named M'Auliffo, was shot dead at his house, noar Castle Island, Kerry, on the night of the 28th. The Now York Herald's London' special correspondent gives tho following particulars of the murder on the London and Brighton Rxilway, referred to above :—": — " Tho act was committed in ono of the most frequented roads leading out of the metrop>lis, and excites the keenest interest everywhere. Lefroy, tho suspected party, told a strange story to the railroad officials how, after leaving Croydon, h« heard a shot fired, and felt a blow on hia hoad, upon whi"h he became insensible, and only recovered consciousness on reaching Preston Park. Ho Baid he found himself the only occupant of of the compartmont, with a pool of blood at hi 3 feet; ho could not tell who fired tho shot. Lerroy was taken to tho police station at Brighton, whero ho gave the above particulars, and had his wonnds dressed at the County Hospital, when ho was permitted to loavo for home. Hia real name is Henry Mapleton, aud he claims to be tho author of the play " Pins and Noodles;" now being performed in the United States, artd a' so tho author of several burlesques and ope-as-bouff es now being played in Melbourne and oth-3r parts of Australia. The murdered maa Gould was in tha habit of travelling on the train in question. Some articles wero found on the person of Lffroy, and also beside tho murdered man, which it is thought will implicate the former.