GENERAL SUMMARY. A SUBSIDY FOR THE CANADIAN. PACTFIC MAIL ROUTE.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1887, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY. A SUBSIDY FOR THE CANADIAN. PACTFIC MAIL ROUTE.

LORD LYONS GIVES UP THE FRENCH EMBASSY. ARISTOCRATIC WEDDING. Sm W. V. HARCOURT ON LORD HARTINGTON'S DEFECTION. HEAVY STORMS IN ENGLAND. BIG PRICE FOR A MEXICAN MINE. FATAL COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL. THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. AN ENTHUSIASTIC ASTRONOMER. LoNpox, 25th August. Tho Government li'a'a dcoided to subsidise the Canadiap-Paoific route for tbo transportation of English Trans-Pacifip mails. Lord Lyons proposes to resign the Paris Embassy with,ra a few weuks.. Sir Edward Mallet, now at Berlin, wil) succeed Him. The Queen left'fpr Balmoral on, 23nd August, to' be thoro pfl tho '26th,, tho arihlver.sary of th^p Ppnep.' Consort's birthday. Thp movo js', under present circumstances, a troublesoma ono for the Cabinet. Tho Cecjl- Wijbraham wedding (tho son of the Prime Minister to tho daughter of tho Lord Chamberlain), on 15th August, is yot the talk of London aristocratic circles. An open-air meeting was held at Westminster, on the evening of tho 24th Augnst, for tho purpose of denouncing tho Govornmont's action in proclaiming tho Irish National Leaguo. Sir William Vernon Harcourt addressed the meeting, and after dealing soverely with Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and Mr. Jesse Collings as to their relation to the coercion movement, closed with a reforenco to Lord Hartington. He rogretted to hear, he said, that Lord Hartington's absorption by the Tory party had already boen arrangod for, but hoped ho would bo warned in time by tho sad fate of Mr. Goschen. Mr. John Palgrayo Simpson, the eminent author and playwright, is dead. William S. Came, M.P., tho Liberal Unionist whip, left London on 22nd August for a voyage around the world. His colleague, Mr. Craig Sollar, has alep gone ibroad ft* his hoalth. Young Lord WAimer, Karl Selbourne's son, who married Lord Salisbury's daughter, will act as his substitute. ' Thunderstorms were general throughout England on 27th July. In London the storm was of great severity, the thunder roiring and the lightning flashing constantly for two hours. Thp. Mettopolitanroad was flood.e^ and traitio was interrupted. An English detective has boen despatched to New York to quietly find out the facts of- the recent attempt to dynamite the ocean stoatnor Queen. Tho bodies of six persons drowned in the Tharnos by accident at a boat rapp we'se rocpvored next day. ' The f)rin£O qf Wales has ma.de a tour of t^o Cpntinent. A French woman, named Nille Drum, was arrested at tho Islo of Wight on 12th August on suspicion of being a dynamiter, and was imprisoned from, Saturday till the following Wednesday, whpn it was discovered that the supposed explosive in her possession was only modelling clay, which she carried in her satchel. The local superintendent and the policeman who mndo the arrest will bo prosoqiitec}, Lqr4 and. lady Ba"ndQ}ph, Oh.urohill aro living in retirement near Vienna. Thp British Government has made an arrangement with the P. and O. Steamship Company, by which the company would have three new steamers and seven others ready for use as armed cruisers. For this service thp company will bo paid .£75,000 annually. A oompany has reoontly been organised in London to buy the famous Real Del Monte mines, oelebrated in the history of Mexico. The price to bo paid is stated to be from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 dollars. The Welsh " Eistedffodd," held in London this year, was not a success financially, and not very lively in its exercises. Tho chief ceremony of ono day woa the ohairing of the Bard whose ode won the Queen's prize of .£SO. . ¦ ' -A collision between tho British fjteamer Norbjtbii add {he 1 Qi'oek Btekater; A'ndrpt Vaghan^ occurred off tho Lizard Point on, the l3th*Augnst,'and resulted in the dfbwn : ing of seven persons. Lor.4 aiid Lady Aberdeen propose to pnblis]) i} I>oqk deepripcive of their recent tour in Austplia and United States. Tn th/o total epljps.e qf iho sun on 19th Angust, the linp of totality passed aorosa Asia and Europe. In Berlin tbo oooultation as spen was nroqoded by deeply coloured oloudß, The eolipsp was not observed at St. Petersburg owing to tho clouded oonditjon of thp sky. At Klein tho sun was obscured, but an aged professor named Mendeliff made a balloon ascension alone so as to get above the olouds and take observations. As there was some hitoh in the filling of the balloon, there was considerable doubt as to iti ability to carry the aeronaut ; but the asoansion was successfully made, and the professor descended safely near Moscow, 40 miles distant. At Dartmoor and Torquay, in England, the eolipse was observed for a few minutes. Clouds interfered with the view at Paris and Vienna. At Jergeurtz, on the Volga, whero Professor Vogel was stationed, the sky was overcast, but the Russian observers successfully obtained numerous drawings of the corona and its spectrum.

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