HOME AND FOREIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 8716, 7 January 1892, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

[fiTELEOTBIOIKLEQaAPH.-CoPTBIOHT.] [Pes Pwaa Association. I LONDON^'Jandam 6. | (Reatlved January 7,1892, at 10 SO a.m.) j Mr Henry Irving'* revival of 'Henry Vlll,'at the Lyceum wa9 a great success. The piece was splendidly mounted, and the dresses are desoribed as the most magnificent wbioh Mr Irving has ever commanded. Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justloe of England, proposes that the Council of Judges should meet the President of the High Court of Justice and the Marquis of Salisbury to disonss desirable amendments in procedure and praotice in the Supreme Court, including a review of sentences imposed on criminals and the costliness of litigation and of expenses attached to an appeal to the House of Lords. The bomb used in the explosion at Dublin Castle is similar to those made by the Fenian dynamite school at New York, The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,468,000 quarters, Money is declining continuously, owing to the cessation in export of gold. Three months' bills are discounted at 2\ per oent. Bank of New Zealand shares, new issue, L 8; National Bank of New Zealand, 10s. SOFIA, Jandaby 6. Prinoe Ferdinand is joining the Greek Church in order to conciliate Russia. VIENNA, Jandaby 6. Influenza is ravaging Pressburg, and the mortality is equal to that from oholera. CONSTANTINOPLE, Javdaby 6. Influenza has made its appearance here. LONDON, Jandaby 6. (Etcelred January 7. 1882, at 8.10 p.m.) Three months' bills have deotiued 2 per cent. The American visible wheat supply is estimated at 69,200,000 bushels. NEW YORK, Notembeb 6, During a gambling quarrel in a bar in Georgia eight persona were shot dead. The ' Tribune' says that the settlement of the Behring Sea difficulty has been delayed owing to the demand by Great Britain for a modification of the agreement made in November last. (Special to Pbbss Association.] ATHENS, Januaby 6. (Beoelred January 7, 1892, at 10-40 a.m.) A serious outbreak of typhoid fever, attributed to the defective system of drainage, has broken out here. ROME, Jandaby 6. The sum of L 40.000 is being oolleoted in Italy for the purpose of giving a fitting celebration to the jabilee of the Pope next year. PARIS, Jandaby 6. Cremation is rapidly spreading in France. The lawyers and doctors are divided as to its utility. BERLIN, Jandaby 6. The printers on strike are being replaced by non-unionists. ST. PETERSBURG, Jandary 6, A largo number of Russian Methodists are emigrating to America, NEW YORK, Jandaby 6.

Information received here from Mexico states that the rebels under General Garza have disbanded.

The report that the Chilian Government have apologised for the attack on the American men-of warsmen is denied, and it is mentioned that some difficulty is being experienced in adjusting the dispute. The Governor of New York declares that the system of carrying out death sentences by means of electricity has been attended with suooess, and he favors the repeal of the ediot wbioh excluded the Press either from being present or publishing details of executions.

It is stated that a wealthy English syndicate have purchased the type foundries in the United States for L 5.000.000.