English & Foreign Summary.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2160, 6 December 1875, Page 2

English & Foreign Summary.

LONBON,

.November 8

The Turkish Government offer Mr W. E. Gladstone £50,000 per annum to take charge of the Turkish finances. The Admiralty exonerates Sir W. Tattleton and Captain Hickley from responsibility in sinking the Vanguard. The Chinese troubles with England have been satisfactorily settled. . Spain and the Pope have come to an understanding.. One hundred workmen were fatally injured, by an overflow of molten metal at the Walsam Iron Works. ! The Pandora arrived at Portsmouth today from the Arctic seas. ! The plot to place f the ex- Queen Isabella on the Spanish throne has failed. Explorers on .board the Pandora discovered the graves of three of Sir John Franklin's men on Beach Island. .The Emperor William and King Victor Emmanuel reviewed 200,000 troops at Milan. ■; '-..• : ■"■■:' :. ■■"V: v:: :.. ' The Crown Prince of Germany is to visit the Centennial Exhibition at Philaj delphia.i The German squadron will form , an escort. Sixty tons of small arms, and ammunition, for the Chinese, .-have been shipped at London as merchandise. The Govern-, ment is -after the shipper's. , The Times reports that a Manchester firm has had to import calico from the United States. Eecent storms on the English coast hare been terribly destructive.

70,000 Spanish troops* are under orders for Cuba.

Russia limits its exhibifs at Philadelphia to specialities unknown out of Russia. .

Stanley has been very successful in his explorations in Central/Africa. „ , ' Russia insists that steps must be taken by Christian nations to protect the Christians in Turkey. v The King' of Greece decorated all the Prince of Wales' party during their visit to Greece.

Mrs Block, the original of Byron's " Maid of Athens," died in Greece, aged 76 years. . The Jang and Queen of Denmark and Princess Thyra intend visiting England shortly. „; ... ■• '■ , -■ ■ ■■■-•■ -„ Latest mail advices from England contain gloomy reports of recent floods in the Midland counties. At Nottingham, 13 persons were drowned, and more than 3.0 C.O : houses were inundated; Fifty factories were stopped near Oxford. The railway lines were all inundated with water, and the village of Batterny was entirety flooded. At Burton-on-Trent six persons were drowned, and at Derby the water is still several feet deep in the streets. Above Gainsbro' the Trent has burst its banks, and all. the ; surrounding country is flooded. The loss of property is enormous. The mailline, of the Manchester, Sheffield/and Lincolnshire railroad is washed away, all traffic being stopped for a time. England snubs Russia for interfering in Turkish matters., ■

The Congregational Churches, to the disgust of the world, are about to renew the Beecher scandal by h a " sacerdotal inquiry. Cowen, of New York, has been asked by the British Government to undertake tho work of raising the Vanguard;''- ■' '■ ■ ■ ' ■''"■■ ; '-*"'' : "': ■