GENERAL SUMMARY.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6019, 5 April 1886, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

(Dates from Europe to March 12.) In the House of Commons on the evening of March 9th, Mr Dillwyn (Liberal) moved to disestablish the Church of Wales. Mr Gray moved to reform instead of disestablish. Sir William V. Harcourt contended that the questions of disestablishment of the Welsh and English Churches were involved and inseparable. Mr Gray's amendment v»as first adopted by 241 to 229, and then as a substitute for Mr Dillwyn's motion was rejactod by 346 to 49. In the first division the minority consisted of Liberals and Parnellites. In Ihe second division the Parnellites left the House in a body. Mr Gladstone, Mr Morley, Mr Chamberlain, and Mr Trevellyan abstained from voting. Earl Granvillo announced in the House of Lords on March S'h that a Special Committee had been appointed and instructed to enquire into and report to the Government upon the question of the advisibility of establishing a British mail line between Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and Japan.

The London and North Western Railway Company discharged 1000 navvies, mostly Irishmen, on the Bth March. Tho officers of the Company explained that the depression iv trade made the action necessary.

An Immigration Information bureau is to ba attached to the British Colonial Office.

Louise Hart, a rich procuress in the West End of London, was committed for trial on March 9th, charged with providing young girls for a number of aristocrats.

Early in March tremendous Bnow storms prevailed in the North of England, suspending traffic on many railways, They ceased on the 4th. The suffering among the passengers on the various trains which have been snowbound waa very great. Some of the trains wore embedded in bdow drifts for 4S hours. The loss of cattle in transit w. , enormous.

Henry Libouchere movod in the House of Commons on the sth, that an hereditary chamber of legislation was inconsistent with the principles of representative government. The motion was rejected by 200 to 166.

The Handicap Hurdle Race for the Sandown Grand Prizo was won, on March 6th, by the fnur-year-old brown colt Ducat by five lengths ; Count Kinepos' five-year-old Tourist, 2 ; Mr W, Stevens' aged brown gelding Ironclad, a bad third. Nine started. The Grand Masonio Lodge of England is conßideriug a report based on a dispute between the Grand Lodge of Illinois and three lodges of the province of Quebec, holding warrant from the English Grand Lodge. The board advises; that the aole ground on which tho Illinois Lodge ostracised these three lodges seems to be their continued allegiance to England, and therefore directs that the relations of the Grand Lodge of England with tho Grand Illinois Lodge bo severed, aud that the patent pranted to the representatives of the Illinoia Lodge in England be withdrawn. A despatch says instructions from official sources indicate that the Quean has been persuaded to modify her determination to remain in private. She has promised to ba present at the public ceremonies of laying the corner-stone of

the new College of Physicians, the driving of the first pile for tho new Tower Bridge, and the opening of the Colonial Exhibition. She, however, declined to hold a court at Buckingham Palace even for a short period in spring. The London Missionary Society has received advices from Zanzibar, dated February 24, to tho effect that two men who returner* to that place, from Nyglna report that they saw Bishop Hemmington, with fifty men of his expedition, taken out for execution.

A mob of 800 men attempted to run riot in the streets of Birmingham on February 15, and pillage Bhops. The police were prepared, and promptly repressed the attempt. Sir Charles Dilke has decided to persevere in a policy of silence in regard to the serious disclosures made during the recent divorce trial. He will make no explanation of his conduct to the Chelßea electors.

Tna unemployed working men of Yarmouth made a riotous demonstration on

the 15th February. Californian wheat reached the loweßfc price on record in the English market on February 17th. A cargo waa sold in tha Mersey at 31s 6d per quarter. It has been ascertained that the expenses of Sir Henry Drummond Wolffs mission reached L 25,000, and it Is expec*

ted there will be trouble when it com«S up for payment. Half of tha sum was expended for telegraphing. Queen Victoria will go to the Riviera in April with tho Princess Christian. Sir Charles Diike haa gone to the south of France, where he will remain blx months.

Mrs Crawford, the respondent in the Crawford-Dilke scandal case, has gone

into seclusion in Italy. In the House of Commons on March llch, Mr Labouchere, during the afternoon debate on the Civil Service Bafci* mates, moved to reduce the grant for the maintenance of parks belonging to or used exclusively by Royalty, or members of the Royal Family. The motion caused a lively controversy, but It was finally carried against the Government by A vote of 136 to 114. John B. Gough, the famous temper ance lecturer, died on February 18, at Frankfort Spa. Ho was born at Sand. gate, Kent, England, in 1817. His father was a private soldier in the' British Army, and served under Wellington in the Peninsula. The marriage of Earl Cairno (Lord Garmoyle) to Misa Adele Grant, daughter of Mr Beach Grant, of New York, will take place in London in July. Howard Vincent, M.P. for Sheffield, has been offered the office of Chief Police Commissioner of the city of London. Mr Vincent once held the offioe of Director of Criminal Investigation. Viscount Dupplin, heir. of the Earl of Kinnoull, died at Monte Carlo on March 9ih. It is rumored that he committed suicide, owing to heavy losses afc the gambling table. He was only 37 years old.

Mr Froude, the historian, has declared against Home Rule. The Marquis of Salisbury hrs gone to Cannes for his health. Princess Eulalie, sister of the late King Alphonso, was married on March 13th to Prince Autoae, son of the Duke de Monpensier. The Prince's'present to hl» bride was a dress that coat L2OOO.