EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3095, 30 May 1881, Page 3

EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

The new Victoria University at Manchester has resolved to grant degrees without demanding a knowledge of Latin and Greek, and this has caused a sensation among the old pedagogues. An investigation into the Earl of Beaconsfield's affairs shews that Hughenden was mortgaged, and he died poor.

The Canada Pacific railway scheme has been floated in London.

The Boys Illustrated News, issued under the editorship of Captain Mayne Reid, sold 125,000 copies on the first day.

The Russell smelting works at Somerset have.failed for £60,000. an Englishman, for some time correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, has been seized by brigands in Turkey, who threaten to murder him unless £15,000 as ransom is paid. Tbe money is not forthcoming. Tbe British Ambassador has informed the Porte that he holds it responsible for Sutter's safety and the payment of the money.

Handbills in London offer £300 Reward for Prince Bismarck's letter to Earl Granville instructing the Government to prosecute the editor of the Freiheils.

Archibald Forbes, the war correspondent, arrived at San Francisco intending to go to Australia by the Zealandia, but bis bealth being precarious the doctors advised him against the voyage, and he will probably return to Europe.

Outrages in the west of Ireland are increasing.

A daughter of Smith O'Brien wrote ench a vivid description of the horrors of an emigrant ship that the subject has been brought before the House of Commons.

There is a division of the Irish members over the Land Bill. Mr O'Connor Gower and Mr A. M. Sullivan favour the bill, End have seceded from Mr Parnell in consequence of his advice to abstain from voting.

The proclamation of the city of Dublin under the Coercioa Act was caused by the discovery of a Fenian conspiracy.

Meica has been pillaged by the Druses

A Lancashire family named Siddon has inherited £400,000 sterling which has been in Chancery since 1851. The property was bequeathed to John Siddon, who died in a workhouse, and his heirs inherit it.

The monetary conference in Paris is sitting. The European Powers have reserved entire independence of action.

A Nihilist manfesto says :—" The executive committee has informed the Emperor that tbe only means of returning to the paths or peaceful development lies in an appeal to the people, but, judging by the execution of the supreme power, he has elected to appeal to the hangman. So be it."

Two hundred persons have been injured in the riots against the Jews in Elizabethgrad, Russia. Similar outrages have occurred in the West of Russia.

Twelve thousand Russian convicts are to be sent to Siberia.

Mr Dillon's arrest has caused general Satisfaction.

The Russian peasants in the Baltic province are restless and uneasy. Leonard's boiler and engine works in London have been burned.

Carlyle's r.<eice protests that Froude's publication of her uncle's reminiscences was contrary to instructions.

More pyramids have been opened, inclosing tombs of Egyptian Kings of the fifth dynasty. They contain many writings having specific accounts of the religious beliefs of that age.

The steamer Faraday has commenced laying the new Atlantic cable from Penzance to Cape Table. The line will be finished this summer.

The Chinese officers and crew have arrived in tbe Tyne to man the six steel turret vessels built there for China.

Archbishop Oroke formerly of Auckland, New Zealand, had to apologise in writing to Archbishop McCabe, of Dublin, by order of his superior, for attacking Archbishop McCabe's Lenton letter.

Lord Longdate has purchased a steamer of 1000 tons to attempt to reach the North Pole by the east coast of Greenland.

Within the twenty-eight days ending April 30 fifteen hundred cases of smallpox were refused admission to the London hospitals because they were full. During the same period two hundred and twentyseven persons died in their own homes. There are now over one thousand cases of Bmall-pox in the hospitals. The epidemic has increased in virulence, and ten per cent have died.

The Grand Duke Nicholas has been found " guilty " of complicity in Nihilist plots, and has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. The Russian police endeavored to extort a confession from a female Nihilist by starvation, but failed. The anti-Jewish petition in Germany sent to Bismarck consists of 26 volumes, comprising 14,000 sheets and 255,000 signatures, including noblemen, retired generals, and officials. Twenty-five thousand emigrants left Hamburg for America during the first three months of this year.

The Berlin Courier has been confiscated for reproducing a Parisian article approving of the murder of the Czar. A story is extant in London, and published by Taoity Fair, of the elopement of Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, with Mrs Miller Mundy, a member of a well known county family in Derbyshire. The lady is seven years older than tbe Earl, who is 25. A relative of Mrs Mundy traced the fugitives ;to Strasburg, where he

found them, and had an interview with the Earl, which resulted in his being badly beaten. The lady was brought back to England. Her husband, Mr Alfred E. Miller Mundy, owns an estate iri Northamptonshire, arid ariotber in Derby, worth £7000 a year, and has a large income from other sources.