Mail Summary.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 221, 17 September 1887, Page 2

Mail Summary.

London, Augus'- 20. The Government has decided to subsidise the Canadian Pacific routo for the tr.mEPacific mails, .Lord Lyons proposes to resign the Paris Embassy within a few weeks, and Sir Edward Malet, who is now at Berlin, will succeed him. The Quean left for Balmoral on August 22, to be there on the 26th, the anniversary of the Prince Consort's birthday. The move is, under the present circumstances, a troublesome one for tho Cabinet. The wedding of the eon of thf> Prime Minister to a daughter of tho Lord Chamber* kin on August 15, is yet the talk of London in aristocratic circles. An open air meeting was held at Westminster on the evening of the 24th August, for the purpose of denouncing the Government's action in proclaiming the Irish National League. Sir W. Harcourfc addressed the meeting, and after dealing severely with Mr Chamberlain, arjd Mr Collings as to their relation to the coercion movement, closed with a reference to Lord Hartington. He regretted to hear, he said, that Lord Hartington's absorption by the Conservatives was being arranged for, but he hoped he would be warned in time by the sad fate of Mr Goschen.

John Palgrave Simpson, the eminent author and playwright died in London on August 29.

Mr William S. Caine M,P., the Liberal Unionist Whip, left London on the 22nd August, for a trip around the world. His colleague, Mr Craig Sellar, has also gone abroad for bis health. Young Lord Welter, Earl Shelbourne's son, who married Lord Salisbury's daughter, will act as his substitute.

Thunderstorms were general throughout England on August 27. In London the storm was of great severity, and thunder was pealing and lightning flashing constantly for two hours. The Metropolitan Road was flooded, and traffic interrupted. English detectives have been despatched to New York to quietly find out the facts of the recent attempt to dynamite the ocean steamer (jueen.

The bodies o£ six persons who were drowned in the Thames by an accident at the boat race were recovered on the 25th August A French woman named Mdlle. Dunn was arrested at tho Isle of Wight on August 12 on suspicion of being a dynamiter, and im! prisoned from Saturday till the following Wednesday, when it was discovered that the supposed explosive in her possession wns only modelling clay which she carried in hor satchel. The looal superintendent aud the policeman who made the arrest, will be prosecuted.

Lord and Lady Randolph CJhurolrill are living in retirement nour Vienna. The British Government has mado an arrangements with iho P. & 0. Company by which the Company would have thrc» new steamers and seven others ready for us 3 as armed cruisers. For this service tbe Company will be paid £75,000 annually. A Company has recently been orgauised in London to buy the famous Real Del Monle mines celebrated in the history of Mexico. Tho price to be paid is stated to be from 400,000 to $00,000 dollars,

The Wel«h " Eis'edffodd " held in London this year was not a success financially and not very lively in itß exercises. The chief ceremony of one day was the chairing of the Bard whose ode won th3 Queen's prize of £50.

A collision be'wcnn the Briiish steamer Norbitoon and the Greek steamer Andrew Vagalang off L'zud Point on the 13th of August, resulted in the drowning of seven persons.

Lord aiid Lady Aberdeen propose !o pubis!! a book descriptive of their r<cent tour !n Australia aid t,hn United Sfatfs.

There was a tc'nl i-elipte of the sun on the 19th of August- , \hc line of totally passing aoios} Asia tul Europe, In. Berlin the occultation, an men, wns f receded by deeply color, d clouds. The eclipse was not observed at St. Prterhburg 1 owing to the cloudycondition of the sky. At Klein the sun was obscured but an aged Professor named Mendiliff made a balloon ascension alone so as to get above the clouds and take observations. As there was a hitch in filling the balloon there was considerable doubt as to its ability to carry the aeronaut, but the ascension was successfully made by the Professor, who descended safely near Moscow, forty miles distant. At Dartmoor and Torquay, in England, the eclipse was observed for a few minutes. The clouds interfered at Paris and Vienna. At Jergeurtz on the Volga, whore Professor Vogel was stationed, the sky was overcast. Russian observers successfully obtained numerous drawings of the corona.