'Frisco Summaet.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 29, 11 March 1884, Page 3

'Frisco Summaet.

In London, meetings condemnatory to the Government's Egyptian policy were held in Guildhall and Picadilly. There was a crowded attendance aud great uproar at both. The Lord Mayor presided at tbe Guildhall meeting. At Picadilly Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir i obert Peel offered resolutions to the effect that Parliament ought to be dissolved. James O'Kelly, the Egyptian correspondent of the Daily News, supposed to have been killed, has turned up at Assaiot. Moody began his mission at Stratford, Le Bow, on January 23, and notwithstanding the hurricane which prevailed, 6,000 people were present. The Secretary for War has obtained sanction to a scheme for increasing the effective army. The recruiting system will be modified and the standard height reduced. A. meeting of 15.000 people was held in Sheffield, when resolutions were passed -denouncing the Egyptian policy of the Government as a sacrifice of national lionor and prestige. On the news of Baker Pasha's rout being received in London the French Ambassador had a conference with Earl Granville and offered the co-operation of the French forces in Egypt., provided the French troops be landed at Souakim and inarched to the relief ot Khartoum, and the ultimate settlement of the Soudan question be left to a conference of the powers. Karl Granville reserved his reply. Henry Monteith and Co, dyers, of Glasgow, hare failed fer £103,000, with assets of £110,000. The Pope has sent a corner stone and marble altar slab, for the chapel to he erected at Cahirkineen Perry, in memory of the late Daniel O'Connell. The eiplosion in a colliery, Shenda Valley, Wales, killed eleven miners. James Hunter, a millionaire lumberman, died, bequeathing $5000 to each of the American humorists who hare published a book. The discovery of a valuable tin mine in North Carolina, the firs; in the United States is reported. Queen Pomare, of Tahiti, has sailed fflr France, to interview the Government ro the aff-irs of the island. Haworth and Co of Liverpool, com mist-ion merchants failed for £S<i,(MJO. The Marquis of Hertford was thrown from his horse while hunting and died from the injuries he received. The Times says it has been decided that Parliament be asked a grant of £20,000,000 for the additional defence of the Clyde, Humber, Mersey and Tyni* Rivers, and the Bristol Channel, Ports Aden, Singapore, Kong Kong, Point De Galle, and Capetown, and the islands of St. Helena and Ascension, all being of Vital necesßity for the British fleet, which in case of war will have to depend upon the coaling facilities for power to depend our possessions. China has given a London firm large orders for torpedoes. General Booth, the chief of the Salvation Army, intends to make a tour of the United States in March. _Th«r_British Home Office and the police have been warned of serious steps having been taken to perpetrate further outrages in England, the means being furnished by the New York Irish World's O'Donnell Vengance Fund. Wm. Meagle, an important witness in the Phoenix Park trials, has asked protection from the Dublin authorities, his life being made miserable owing to continued persecution and frequent assaults at the hands of sympathisers with the murderers. All the Western American rivers have overflowed, reaching a higher level than the almost unprecedented flood last year. A multitude of people are homeless and hopeless, especially in Cincinnati. Strong effort i are . being made in favor of- -General Skerman's candidature for Presidency.. An attempt is being made by the New Yprk _. Legislature to suppress stock gambling. . A bill has been introduced declaring void all contracts, written or verbal, unless the party contracting to sell or transfer the stock has the same in actual possession. A convention of farmers at Carlow denounced Lord . Ros<more, aud the Oraigemen, and resolved,to prohibit hunting on the lands of the farmers, and if necessary, prevent it. The farmers declare they .will poison their grounds.