’FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 24 July 1888, Page 3

’FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

(Per Press Association.)

GENERAL SUMMARY

Dates from Europe up to Juuo 30. Government hare decided to close Parliament about tho middle of August. Mr Balfour will introduce a bill extend-

ing tho operations of the Ashbourne Act, by including a provision to enable land commissioners to continuo operations. On Juno 29 lire London Courts refused to grant an application for summonses against Mr Matthews (Horne Secretary), and Sir C. Warren (Chief of Police) for preventing meetings in Trafalgar Square. The judges decided that no right existed for holding meetings which interfered with the passage through tho Squaro of the people. The rumor is revived that Prince Albert Victor is to marry Princess Anahalt of Dessan. The Princess ot Wales has made a special visit to Dessan to see the young woman. Alarming advices were received from the Capo on June 29. All tho available troops in Natal wero ordered to proceed immediately to Zululand, as an outbreak was feared among tho Zulus. These reports wero corroborated by despatches on Juno 30. The Zulus arc gathering in formidable numbers. All tho troops in Natal have been ordered to proceed to tho frontier, urid messages have been received by tho War Department asking for immediate reinforcements. Orders had been sent to Capo Town, and the local scout regiment, with artillery, 18 officers, horses, and supplies for the voyage, embarked for Natal on tho 30th. Tho immediate causo of the outbreak is not stated, Trouble has been brewing for a long time. At a sale on Juno 30, tho Queen’s yearlings sold at an average prico of 474 guineas. The majority of tho Itoyal Cominitteo on Education recommend a greater amount of teaching of tho Christian religion in board schools, also increased aid from rates to private schools over which the ratepayers liavo no control. An influential minority opposes tho recommendations.

Lord R. Edward Grosvenor died at Constantinople of typhoid fever on Juno 17, aged 19. Ho was tho third son of the Duke of Westminster.

It has been decided, because the British Government refuses to pay a pension to Matthew Arnold’s widow, to solicit funds for a bust in Westminster Abbey, provision for Mrs Arnold, and also a scholarship in English litcraturo at Oxford.

The division in the House of Commons on .Tuno 19 on tho question of tho control of the police resulted in the defeat of Government Lord Hartington and tho whole body of the Liberal-Unionists voted with the Opposition. Tho proposition on which the Government was defeated was to have tho appointment of chief constables by quarter sessions placed in tho hands of a central government. The Liberal amendment which prevailed places the appointment under the control of new couuty councils. Tho Liberals propose to follow up this victory by challenging the wholo administration of affairs re Ireland. Mr Gladstone, on Juno ‘2l, asked the Hon W. II Smith to grant him a day for that purpose. Hot. George Trevor, author of many theological works, died in London on Juno 30.

Dr Martin Law, a leading Unitarian, receivod tho degreo of Doctor of Laws from Oxford on Juue 20.

Mrs Boueicault (Agnes Robertson) obtained a divorce from Mr Dion Bouoicault in London, on Juno 21, and was awarded costs, bio witnesses were called for tho defence. Tho respondent’s counsel contended that there was no marriage between the parties. Tho ship Dothoboys Hall, from San Francisco, arrived at Liverpool on June 28, and reports that tho captain was fatally stabbed by the steward. Tho appeal of Mr Dillon against the judgment under tho Crimes Act was dodecided against him on Juno 19, and his sonteuco of six months’ imprisonment confirmed, Mr Dillon protested, on tho ground that tho appeal was tried without a jury and there was no evidence called. Mr Condon, M.P., was rcleajed from gaol in Cork on June 20. Father Gilligan, who was tried under the Coercision Act on the charge of attending a proclaimed mooting, was on tho 21st Juuo adjudged guilty by the Dublin Court, and sentenced to imprisonment.

Dr Mackenzie left Berlin suddenly on Juno 20. Ho asked an audience of tho Emperor William, and was refused. This is regarded as significant that tho anti-Knglish fooling is becoming intensified in tho Emperor’s mind. Tho Into Emperor Frederick, by will, bequeaths tho Castle of Charlottsberg and tho palaces in Berlin and Hamburg to DowagerEmpress Victoria. An Anarchist plot against tho lifo of tho Emperor William is reported to havo been discovered on Juno 30, but the Socialists declare tho report to bo an invention of tho police. Thcro is an extraordinary increaso in tbo precautions for the Emperor’s safety, however. Bismarck has had tho guards reinforced around tho palaces at Potsdam, and tho building is practieally isolated. Several persons have been arrested for throwing petitions into tho Emperor’s carriago. For some time menacing letters have reached Bismarck and tho Emperor, warning them that the beginning of a reign of suppression of tho people would bo signalised by an act of retaliation. It is said that tho Emperor authorises some striking act of severity against tho Socialists, tho leaders of whom resent assassination reports as a mere pretoxt for reactionary measures. A great sonsation was caused in Berlin’ on Juno 21st, by tho publication of tho lato Emporor’s private papers. They discuss family and political affairs, including overtures made to tho Emperor Frederick to induce him to abdicate in favor of his son William. It is asserted that tho notes are genuino. They show that William urged his father to coment to a regency. The intrigues of Paator Stocker and Goneral W&lderner to get William into tho Pietestic movement are

ilso revealed. Tho Empress Victoria is ihought to have consented to the c-x----josures. ’ The Emperor William opened tho TT'hstng on Monday, June 23rd, with giv.tp ceremonies, similar to those attend’... opening of tho .Reichstag in IS grand-sire. Nearly all :hc G\rnia p r ; [lCOS v/cre presented, and ad'ie- _. il) 9 brilliancy of affairs. Thu 1 °r l n % ot senc ‘ an address. i -W 111 * says tho Emperor aou 1 5 sort will bo crowned in tho autum _ ■,'yoeuigsburg. The date is 110 vet, but it is thought that T C -™;c"aml\ nnivei ' sar y of the battle of nrot S he birthday of tho late Empnm i K wM Prince i ~,p p.xleral (\ ami many members of V?»irhsiag at til; 1 ?' orc Present in the The President the .... Emperor's sfl address-in-reply to unanimously- iW * was adopted 17William 11. fieers were given "president Carna\ from Emperor Vi a telegram hanking him for V *> th > lienee,' and of con<3 ••'-I diona will be\e liopo .hat Vrauce and Germany. Wd between