GENERAL SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3426, 21 September 1885, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY OF NEWS.

(Dates from Europe to August 20th ) The yacht Sunbeam, with Mr Gladstone on board, reached Bergen, Norway, on the > l'lth. The Premier is greatly beneGtcd by 3 the trip. He made a pedestrian excursion of t 18 milos without being fatigued, and rohirned to England on the 27th. He was rourteouslv received every wherey by the Norwegians. Uhe Prince of Wules left London for ! Norway m the Royal yacht Augusta on tho 20th. Several thousand unemployed working men assembled at Hackney on the 27th, and ' adopted a resolution demanding the Government to assist them to emigrate. A British man-of-war loft Aden on the ■ 29th August to occupy Ambu, situated on Tagoorato Bay, East Africa. The object is to anticipate the occupation of tho place by France. L Farquhar, or the defaulting manager of the Minister Bank, was tracked to Spain by letters written to friends m Dublin. ' On tho third clay of the York August Meetiug (the 27th)| the raco for the Great Yorkshire Stakes was won by Mr Lowtherjs Kin» -Monarch by a length, Lord Rosebery's filly Armoda second. Five horses started. Harry Jackson, the actor, died m London on Aug. 13lh. He was well known m Australia, which place he left 20 years ago for 3 Son Francisco with Miss Annie Loehart. •, Jno. Ruskiu is slowly dying from cerebral a. disease accompanied by insomnia. s Lord Tane Tempert died m London, Aug. 1 14 th. He served with distinction iv the , Union Army during the Confederate rebellion. On the evening of August 26th, an ln- • f uriated mob invaded an hall m the east end > of London, where several Mormon missionaries i were preaching, and mado a complete wreck i of the place. The elders fled for their lives. . Several were captured and terribly mal- . treated, and were left on the pavement for i dead. The cause of the attack was stories seti atloat that these missionaries have been systematically kidnapping young women by shipping them to Utah to be " seated " to rich Mormons, al=o other tales that had been told about the indignities indicted upon girls thus entrapped. Mrs Patterson, widow of the Rev. Murk Patterson, and fiancee of Sir Chas. Dilke, now m India, sent him a second telegram of ■ August 14th declaring she wonH return to England instantly and stand by his side dur- | ing his trial as a proof that she disbelieved i the scandalous crime with which he was ; charged. Sir Charles replied advising the i lady to stay where she was. i A collision occurred on the Metropolitan i District Underground Railway at Karls ' Court, duo to signals being broken and uni manageable. One engineer and a stoker were killed. Five other persons were badly injured and cannot recover. i Queen "Victoria and Court left for Balmoral on August 4th. The IJixlilantl clans gave a grand reception to Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry o! Battcnburg. A hostile crowd assembled at Hull depot on the 25th to meet General Booth of the I Salvation Army, ne was hooted and several i attempts were." made to reach his carriage, j Tha police had great difficulty m preventing the mob from injuring him. He was struck several times with, missiles. Tho reason for the attack was the belief that ho had induced a girl named Armstrong to niako falße evidence. : The Standard's Berlin correspondent suys an eminent Turkish diplomatist declared thfct tho Sultnn and Grand Vizier are opposed to , tho Anglo-Tnrktth alliance against Sussia. The yacht Cullafisli was run into and sunk , by a steamer off Scotland on August 23rd. A"ll on board, including tho owner, Crossinan, and wife, wore lost excepting two. SCANDALOUS REVELATIONS, The Now York Tribune's London cablegrams of August 17th, says -.—The passago of tho Criminal Law Amendment Act remains as the last pretext for the continued publication of tho filthy matter by which tho Pall Mall Gazette has earned infamou3 notoriety. Tho publication of this sort of literature continues and tho agitation continues. Public meetings were called m Hydo Park by posters on the walls, and circular:!, the text m both instances boing indecent. The Archbishop of Canterbury has published ft disavowal of his alleged approval of tlio so-called revelations. The Attorney-General is investigating an alleged case of abduction of girls by somebody connected with this business, but tho Qaietle daily fills its columns with accounts of what it cnlls " New Crusades." It, Bays tho despatch, has apporently renounced all hope of regaining a respectable position. The Gazelle "revelations" huvc been dramatised at Vienna. Tho play i* m fivo . acts, and called " Protect Our Daughters. ' The first arrest under tho provisions of tho i Criminal Law Amendment Act was mado m ! London on Saturday 15th. The party nl- ! tempted to conceal his identity. It was not , till tho 19th ho was found to bo a man ) eroploycda* "assisanl" at'l3,SalterLane, and I who has been " shadowed " by tho detectives . of Scotland Yard for fully eighteen months as a dynamiter. His namo is John Caiil- ' berth, of Surrey, and tho causo of his arrest i is tho abduction of n. young girl under i thirteen yeurs. > The Bishop of London issued on August 21st a strong pastorul, to bo read m all tho > churches of Ins dioceso, on the protection of 3 young girls. i On the 22nd a tremendous procession (called » by tlio I'ress a " morality parade") wont to l Hydo Park. Tlio number was entimalod at 150,000. Tho affair was under tho auspices t of Good Templars, Hands of Hope, Salvation r Army, various Trade and Lnlior Societies, 1 Ladies' National Societies, und Young Men's i Christian Associations. Ono of tho wagons 1 m tho procession carried 21 littlo girls droaeed y in wiiita holding banners bearing in»cript tions "Shall our innocents be slain,"

Another cart contained nil enlarged facsimile of the Queen's letters to Mrs General Booth approving of the Army's work m rescuing i young girls. With the exception of tho one wagon containing tho girls dressed m whit", all the wagons wcro filled with women dressed m the deepest mourning. Such mottoes as " Savo our daughters " wero seen on every band. The entire proceedings were orderly, the weather fine, nud tho affair a. decided success. Tho Bishop of St. David's declares tho action of the Pull Mall Gazette m making the. recent revelations constitutes perhaps the gravest offence against public decency and morality ever committed m a nominally Christian country.