GENEEAL SUMMARY.

Colonist, Volume XVII, Issue 1865, 21 January 1875, Page 4

GENEEAL SUMMARY.

Two keepers in the London Zoological Gardens were attacked, and one dangerously injured on November 24, by a large Indian rhinoceros.

The anniversary of the execution of the Fenians who murdered the police-constable at Manchester was celebrated in Cork by a torchlight procession and several speeches, advocating Irish Independence. General Henry Bristow, an Englishman, who took an active part in the War of Independence in Spain died in Madrid recently, aged 89. The Aral Tekke, a Turcoman tribe south of the Attreck, have invaded the Russian territory and killed all the inhabitants of the Tomut Turcoman village of Dashli, 30 miles east of Krasnovodsk. The Pope gave an audience on November 23, to the Duke of Norfolk and his two sisters. The students of St Andrew's University, on November 26, elected Dean Stanley as their Hector, 70 votes being given in his favor, and 60 for the Marquis of Salisbury. A meeting o!: clergymen and ministers of all denominations was held at Manchester on November 24, when, after considerable discussion, resolutions condemning the present mode of conducting the liquor traffic were agreed to. The agricultural laborers in two parishes of Suffolk, Newton and Haughley, have struck work, the farmers having refused to raise their -wages Is per week. Two monks and nine workmen have perished in a snowdrift near the Great St. [Bernard Monastery. The following eminent persons have died : Dr Anderson, formerly Professor of Chemistry at the Glasgow University; Sir Denis le Marchant, Clerk of the House of Commons from 1850 to 1871; Sir Joshua Eo'we, formerly Chief Justice of Jamaica; Dr Lankester, coroner for Middlesex; Oliver Madox Brown, a gifted young artist; the Eev. Geo. W. Condor, formerly of Leeds; Earl of Cbarleville; the Hon. W. K. Pomeroy ; Mr F, Hardman, Times correspondent for 25 years; the Eev. J. D. Glennie, secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; Mr Henry Eeinhart, American sculptor; Mr Harker, toastmaster; Mr Eichard Drewitt, horse trainer; Dr Edward Smith; the Eev. Charles Kemble, rector of Bath; Sir Win. Jardine ; General Sir John Smith; JSir A. T. Spearman, late Controller-General of the National Bank; William Urquhart Arbuthnot, member of Council for India; Dr Sewell, Senior Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford; General the Marquis de Laplace, son of the celebrated author of the Tecanique Celeste; the Hon. G. Stafford-Jerningham, brother of Lord Stafford, and formerly in the diplomatic Bervice.

A mysterious basket, addressed to the Btationmaster at Clapham Junction, on being opened waa found to contain a living child. The stationmaster declining the gift, a porter volunteered to accept it, and took the basket and child. On lifting the child £800 waa found in the basket. The story goes that the stationmaster then demanded the basket and its contents, which the porter very properly refused to give up. One can hardly doubt to which of the two the mother would intrust her child.

The following failures have taken place: —Abraham Daniel De Pass, liabilities, £100,000 j Lewis Brodziak, (connected with Sydney), liabilities £10,455; Alex. Macewen (outside speculator in stocks), liabilities £400,000, partly secured.

A memoriel to the widow of Shakespeare has been unveiled in Stratford Church.

Lord Lytton is expected to be appointed Ambassador at Constantinople. Bishop Colenso has visited the Earl of Carnarvon at High Clere House, on business connected with the recent native disturbance in Natal.

Dr Kennealey's trial for libelling Mrs Pittendreigh ended in a verdict of not guilty. The Prince and Princess of "Wales hare been visiting Birmingham and Coventry. They were most enthusiastically received b"y■ the inhabitants.

A Calcutta telegram, dated November 10, states that upwards of 7,000 deaths from an earthquake are already reported. Several districts have still to furnish statistics. Early on the morning of the 29th Nov.

Paris was startled by a violent explosion caused by the ignition of ether in a chemical factory at St. Denis; two workmen' were killed/ many injured, and great damage done. General Loma, with 80,000 troops, attacked the Carlist positions towards Tolosa. After two days' obstinate fighting, he was repulsed with heavy loss, and forced to retreat on San Sebastian.

An Austrian lieutenant, Count Zubowitz, who undertook for a wager to ride from Vienna to Paris on one horse in 15 days, accomplished the task in 12 minutes within the time. The bets exceeded £200,000. The winner has been lionised in Paris, and has dined with Marshal. MacMabtin at the ElyBees. The horse is from a crossed strain of English and Hungarian blood. A sentence of 20 years' imprisonment has been passed on 82 persons implicated in murderous outrages at Podgoritzuin Montenegro. The punishment is .considered inadequate. Verdi, the composer, has been created an Italian senator. The Duke of Abercorn has been elected Grand Master o*" the Irish Freemasons. The international miatch between Prince Charlie a,nd the French horse Peut-etre, for £10,000, was run at JNewmarket. The former won by half a length. Nearly £100,000 changed hands over the match. The sum of £10,0C0 was refused for Prince Charlie. As a protection from fire, a tank, holding 6,000ga1. of water, has been placed on the tower of Westminster Abbey. Its cost was over £2,000. Dr Hardwieke has been elected coroner for Central Middlesex. A railway up Monnt Snowdon, on the plan of the tihigi line in Switzeriaud, is proposed. Fresh evidences are continually occurring of the shipping disasters during the late gales. Among the vessels supposed to be lost are the Newcastle steamer King Leopold, with a crew of 24 men, and three Hull steamers—the Helene, with 20 hands, the Viceroy, with 25, and the Stadbrugg with her crew.

A deputation of young ladies had an interview with the Duchess of Edinburgh on November 16, to present her with a handsome Bible, purchased by the subscriptions of nearly 8000 ladies.

The body of the Eev. Mr Pix, a clergyman of Dorset, was found hanging upon a tree in Highgate-woods. The deceased, who was insane, had escaped from his keeper and had been missing since the 4th November. Thomas Smith, a trooper in the 20th Hussars, convicted of shooting Captain King at Aldershotfc, was executed at Winchester on November 16. He died penitent and admitting the justice of the penalty.

Collections were made on .November 15 in all the Protestant churches and chapels in Dublin for the benefit of the local hospitals, and £250 D was received.

The German Courts having convicted the Archbishop of Olmutz of a violation of the Ecclesiastical laws, the Austrian Government was requested to deliver him up, as he had retired to the Austrian portion of his diocese, Two ships came in collision on the Hooghly on November 16, the French Empire and the City of Edinburgh, and both sank. It but the request was not acceded to. •

is feared that several lives also were lost

Admiral Sir H. Preseott, one of the oldest officers upon the Navy List, died on Nov. 18, aged 92.

A private in the Eoyal Engineers, stationed at Chatham, deliberately laid his hand on the rails in front of an advancing train, and the member was completely crushed. A desire to quit the service was the motive for this act of self-mutilation.

Admiral Eyder Burton waß sentenced on November 19 by the Court of Queen's Bench to a fine of £200, for publishing libels upon Sir .Reginald Barnewell. The Court intimated that the defendant's age, 82 years, and his infirm health were reasons for not inflicting imprisonment. A cutter conveying a number of seamen to her Majesty's ship Aurora, was, on Nov. 19, run down by a steamer off Greeiiock, and 17 lives were lost.

Mr Jervoise, the British agent, who has been withdrawn from Eome, had an interview with the Pope before his departure. Eear-Admiral Sir Leopold M'Clintock visited Dundee recently, in order to inspect vessels suitable for the proposed Arctic expedition.

An explosion of gas occurred on Nov. 20, in the "Warren Colliery, near Kotherham, by which 23 men and boys lost their lives, and four others were dangerously injured. Thirty-seven prisoners from Castello have been shot by the Carliats. The controversy raised by,Mr Gladstone's pamphlet still continues. Lord Arundell of Wardour, Lord Acton, Mr de Lisle, Mr Lewis, M.P., and Mr Dease,, M.P., are among the latest contributors to the discussion. Dr Ullathorne, Eoman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, has issued a pastoral, comdemning the statements in Mr Gladstone's pamphlet, and vindicating the dogma of Infallibility from the imputation of being a novelty in doctrine. There has been much rioting among the fishermen at Loch Earn on the west coast of Scotland, and a party of sailors and Marines has been sent thither to restore order.

The death of the Archduke Charles Ferdinand of Austria, at the age of 56 years, is announced,