GENERAL SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6118, 27 June 1881, Page 5

GENERAL SUMMARY.

A committee,-composed of all the proinincnt Conservatives, has been formed to further the Beaconsfield Memorial proposal. The Princess Louise, under advice of her physicians, will not leave London for Canada, till July. A Turkish frigate, with 1000 troops, had left Suda Bay for Tripoli with a ransom of 45,000 dollars to pay the brigands for the release of the Englishman Suter. The tide of emigration from the south, of Ireland has decreased 25 per cent. Lord Granvile has announced in the House; of Lords that the Turco-Greek frontier convention had been signed. Mercier's flouring mills, near Port Udewn, Ireland, were burned on the 2ith. loss, £20,000.

The works of Hodgson. McMaster and Co., druggists aud oil-refiners, Dublin, was burned on the 22ud May. Damage, £50,000. Henry Yates Thomson has been elected to Parliament from Preston. He is proprietor of the Pall Mall Gazette, and, though a Conservative, received the whole Irish vote.

When Mr. Collins, Conservative, took the seat for Knaresborough, vice Sir Henry M. Thompson, unseated, Sir Wilfred Lawson attempted to questiou him concerning his opinions, but was prevented by an uproar among the Conservatives. Mr. Lawson said the precedent relative to Mr. Bradlaugh had. instituted a Parliamentary inquisition, and all should be treated alike. The.Speaker pointed out that the Collins case differed entirely from that of Mr. Bradlaugh. Mr. Gladstone endorsed the Speaker's ruling. A fire occurred in the suburbs of London on May 16, by wUeh a father, mother, and four children were burned to death.

The Earl of Shrewsbury, it is said, will marry Mrs. Munday, with. whom.he eloped recently.

A public appeal has been made for suV seriptions to the Carlyle Fund. It is said to be a difficult job to raise subscriptions since the publication of his " Reminiscences. , ' . W. J. Roseby, iron and coal and coke merchant, Lincoln, has failed—liabilities £100,000. '..-'. Emmet, the actor, has been unable to fill his engagement in London, owing to drink. He was locked up in the lunatis waxd of the workhouse. .

Sir Edward Thornton, formerly British Minister at Washington, U.S., has been, transferred to Russia. He will probably be succeeded by Layard. A Bill was passed in the House of Commons to protect newspapers from wanton actions for libel in the exercise of their public functions.

Trickett, the. oarsman, has left London, for Saratoga, New York state. ; John Bright recently spoke in favour o£ wholesale immigration of the Irish to the United States. He thinks if a fr«e passage were offered probably all, or certainly half, the population would find its way to America, and to deliverance from poverty and suffering. Schroder and Co. recently failed in Amsterdam, with liabilities estimated at upwards of £100,000. "Wreckage marked "Buenataur, of Newcastle," has been washed ashore at the Lizard, apparently from a steamer. .

The Marquis of Lome purposes to resign, the Governor-Generalship of Canada. The Right Hon. W. P. Adam, Governor of the presidency of Madras, is dead. Mr. Gladstone and Sir Stafford Nortbcote pronounced eulogies upon him. The proposition for the licensing of the sale of drink in railway carriages has been withdawn, under strong party pressure. The survivors of the sloop-of-war Dotterel disaster had arrived in England. No explanation is given of the cause of the explosion. The Goverrnnent asks for a grant to meet the deficiency in the revenue of Cyprus, and at the same time decline entering upon the question of obtaining the soverignty of the island.

The Right Hon. Hugh C. ChildeTS, present Secretary of War, will soon become Chancellor o£ the Exchequer. The Anchor Line steamer Macedonia, from New York for Glasgow, went ashore near the Mull of Can tyre lighthouse, Argyleshire, on May 30, and will prove a total wreck. The value of the vessel and cargo is 200,000 dollars. The French Government has admitted, officially that the searching of a British schooner at Tunis was the result of a misunderstanding, and that such a thing would not occur again. Cabinet rumours are to the effect that Mr. Gladstone retires to the House of Lords at the end of the session with the title of the Earl of Oxford. He would prefer Earl of Liverpool had not a predecessor in the Premiership borne it. Mr. Childers -will become Chancellor, Sir W. V. Harcourt Secretary o£ War, Mr. James (Attorney-General) Home Secretary, Sir William A. Herschell, Solici-tor-General, succeeding him. Another I rumour gives the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Mr. Goschen, and the Home Secretaryship to Mr. Childers.

There is some talk of Mr. Gladstone being

elevated to the Upper House. Many of his friends, who begin to fear that the vexation and worry which he has to undergo in the Commons will prove too much for him, are rejoiced at the idea. Lord Hawarden is spoken of as his likely title. Thex-e have been fresh anti-Jewish disturbances at Argenau, in Western Prussia, and fifteen gendarmes are now stationed in the town to prevent further rioting. Several Jewish families have fled from the place. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News says that in answer to a pamphlet against the anti-Jewish agitator Herr Stoeker, sent to the Crown Prince by the author, Professor Baumgarten, Wi« Royal Highness repeats his decided disapprobation of the entire proceedings of the anti-Jewish agitators. Four hundred persons, according to official news from Odessa, have been arrested for taking part in the excesses against the Jews !at Ehzabethgrad last week. One hundred houses were pillaged, and 200 persons were injured during the riots. The Duke of Edinburgh will hoist his flag as Admiral of the Reserve Squadron on board the Hercules about the end of June, callingfor the Duchess in Germany on his way home after the cruise.

Since Mr. Bradlaugh's exclusion from theHouse of Commons on May 10, the plaintiff in the action for penalties has given notice o£ intention to apply for leave to sign judgment and issue execution against him—the object being to make Mr. Bradlaugh a bankrupt, and so render his seat vacant. Mr. Bradlaugh. will, however, resist the application until his appeal to the House of Lords has beea heard.

The Duke of Argyll's article in the Nineteenth Century explaining why he left the Cabinet will be read with feelings of relief. The article neutralises the effect of the resignation, for it shows that the duke—a landlord of the landlords, and one of the strictest of economists—was prepared to go threefourths of the way traversed by Mr. Gladstone's Land Bill, and was ready to offer, instead of the remaining fourth, an even I more extensive scheme of peasant proprietor^

ship than that which Mr. Gladstone has adopted. -•-•-- Mr.- Ashmead Bartlett makes a proposal ■which will no doubt commend itself to very many of the Lord BeaconsSeld's admirers. It is that, besides; the proposed national monument to be voted by the House of Commons, there should be set on foot a general subscription for some work of public utility ta be carried out as a memorial of the deceased statesman,It is stated in a St. Petersburg telegram that upwards of 12,000 convicts, on their way to exile in Siberia, are expected to pass through Moscow this month. | Professor Robertson Smith, suspended by the assembly of the Free Church from teach- j ing. bis classes at the Aberdeen University \ foe certain writings, particularly an article on 'Hebrew language and literature, has accepted an offer from the Blacks, the publishers of the work in which the objectionable article appeared.