GENERAL SUMMARY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3960, 7 February 1882, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

San Francisco, Janunry Hi. — Mr. Gladstone) luis again remitted ten per cent, of the rentals on his Hawarden estate. Restriction on the freedom of the German Press increaf.es daily. The Pope refusing to fill up the census papers as required hy law, Monsignore took upon himself to do so. The return shows that five hundred persons are living in the Vatican, one-third of whom are females. It is reported that an anonymous admirer of the late Lord Beaconsfield has transmitted to his lordship's trustees funds necessary to clear the Hughenden Manor of all incumbrances. The sum is something over £50,000, and the donor gives no clue whatever to his or her identity. The entire tenantry of the town land of Leacke, North Tipperary, were evicted hy the military. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has refused permission to Dillon and Parnell to attend Dublin City Hall to receive certificates of Freedom of the City conferred by the Corporation. Recent intelligence received from Vienna shows that the rising in Dalinatia is not of so serious a character as at first stated. It is believed that order will be restored without difficulty. Official statistics show that the quantity of breadstuffs imported from the United States during the year 1881, amounted to 224,000,000 bushels. The Pope has given an audience to tho sons of Ismail Pasha, ex-Khedive of Egypt, I who has for some time resided at Naples. He accorded them a friendly reception. This action has excited considerable comment. The Greek Consul at Mangalante-town, a province of Minor, Upper Egypt, has been murdered. He was attacked by robbers, and resisting, was brutally killed. The death is announced of Earl Dunraven, who for some months past has been travelling in the United States. lie died at Colorado. The Sultan of Morocco luir addressed an energetic protest against the action of France in the annexation of Tunis, and desecrating the sacred places of Mahommed Assam. At the same time he disavows any motive of hostility, and expresses his belief that the people of Algiers are faithful in their allegiance to France. An arrangement has been entered into between Austria and Montenegro, whereby the latter State has undertaken to keep a cordon of her troops on her frontier adjoining the disturbed district of Herzegovina, in order io prevent the insurgents escaping. Austria has agivod to pay the cost of this movement. Intelligence received from Teheran states that Ayoub Khan, who, after his defeat by the Amour of Afghanistan, sought refuge in Persia, has been expelled from that country, lie has entered the Russian territory | and has asked permission to join tho Russian forces at Iskahabad. It is believed that hostilities between Russians and Turcomans arc again imminent. The Russians now hold a strong position at l*k;ih;il>;ul. a former Turcoman fortress, situated in tho Khuraa desert, or the liao o£ route from

the Cnspinn to Mors-. The Tuu-onianK arc assembling in'l.irgc nuinlicrv with tho intention of aitiickina; t lii^ I"<>rhv--. The outrageous practice of houghing cattle is still extensively practiced in Ireland. During the last few days no k\si than a hundred eases oi! the kind li.ive oeeupiedthe Courts. Cases have occurred on properties situated within the immediate vicinity oil Dublin. The Russian .Tews have presented a memorial to the Czar setting' forth the persecutions and outrages which they have lieen subjected to, and praying for protection. A serious collision ha^ taken place off Land's End between two vessels, one :i Norwegian barque and the. oilier a steamer belonging to tho Wilson Lino running from Hull. Both vessels -were much damaged, the steamer being nearly sunk. A great sensation has been caused in political and diplomatic circles by the rumour that the Sultan intends iinmedin- , tely to assert his claims to Hie suzerainty of Tunis, notwithstanding the protectorate established in that country by the French Republic. It is reported that he will issue a proclamation dethroning the Bey Reid Mahommed, and calling upon the Mussulman population to recognize the leader of the insurgents as the Bey of Tunis, subject to "tlie supremacy of the Porte. It is now considered improbable that Abdul Rahman, the Ameer of Afghanistan, will pay his proposed visit to India. He is unwilling to go there, being afraid that a rising may take place among the Afghans during his absence. A great fire broke out at Hammersmith station on the Metropolitan Railway line, and before the flames could be extinguished the entire building was gutted. The amount of damage done is very large.