ENGLISH ITEMS.

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2457, 30 October 1876, Page 3

ENGLISH ITEMS.

(PER SUEZ MAIL) • The Prince of Wales Las been elected a member of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club at Rydo, The Rev. Win. Knight, of Dundee, has been elected to the Moral Philosophy Chair at St. Andrew's, vacant by the ' appointment of Professor Flint to tho Divinity Chair at Edinburgh. On the 15th of August a bronze statue of the late Dr. Livingstone, tho African explorer, was. unveiled in Jfast Prince's Gardens, Edinburgh. The Lord Provost presided. Numerous members of the Livingstone family were present, and Dr, : Moffatt, tho missionary, was among tho speakers. The late Mr Beyer, of Manchester, has bequeathed £10,000 to the Grammar School of that city, and an equal sum for the erection of a new church at Groton. Mr Plimsoll, M.P., has been presented with a magnficent silver cup worth £100/ by tho workmen employed at the Sheffield Silver Plate Factory. In acknowledging? the.gift, Mr Plimeoll said he had for- * warded a list of 2,400 .unclassed vessels to be surveyed and reported upon. Earl Russell is circulating privately .a printed pamphlet entitled " The Foreign Policy of Great Britain in 1876," in which ho discusses the question—" Is the Turkish Empire worth preserving ?" and answers it negatively. Mr Donald Mackenzie, director of tho North-western African expedition, is returning to England to make arrangements for opening up a trade with North Central Africa. The chiefs have sanctioned this proposal, aud the authorities of the Canary Islands will give every support. • • • Tho struggle between Abyssinia and Egypt, it appears, is not yet over. A report from Alexandria states that the Egyptians have been defeated near Massowah. Tho combat lasted six. ! hours. Fifteen villagos' were : burned, : and 1,500 peoplo were massacred, among whom were several Europeans, '. The proposed visit of M. Gambettaio England, to study the working of our income tax, excites much interest. Tho Bellevillo Republicans have written to English Radicals to discredit him and prevent any popular demonstration. On Monday, tho 6th August, Cardinal Manning presided over a meeting of about- 1 6,000 persons, mostly Irish, and belonging to various temperance organisations. On Clerkenwell Green he delivered a powerful address, which was much applauded, and at the close some hundreds took the •total abstinence pledgo. The High Court • of Foresters held its forty-first annual mooting in Edinburgh., There were 613 ■ delegates present, 'l'heorder nownumbera half a million of members. ; At a meeting of the Council of tho , Hospital Sunday Fund, it was decided that £23,913 should be given to sixtynine general and special hospitals and four institutions, and £2,337 to forty-five dispensaries. Mr Edward Barnard, of London, has been lost among the Cumberland mountains, and £100 has been offered for his recovery. Mr R. N. Phillips,M.P., of Stratford-on-Avon, has made a general and permanent reduction of 10 per cent, in all the rent rolls, on account of tho agricultural depression. Chief Justice Norris, in closing the Commission Court at Dublin, spoke of his horrible revelations made during an experience of twelve months in regard to the drinking habits of womon, particularly in tho humbler, ranks, .