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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2473, 10 March 1882, Page 3

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[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.] [Per s.s. Australia, at Auckland.] GENERAL SUMMARY. LONDON, February 16. The report of the American Consul at Manchester shows the decrease of exports for the year ending September 30th, 1881, between the Consular district and the United States to be over 3,000,000 dollars, or 2 per cent., as compared with the previous year. John E. McDonough, an American actor and manager known in the Colonies, whither he went some years ago as manager of the Marionettes, Hied in Philadelphia of cancer. A grain panic occurred in Chicago owing to the failure of an extensive commission—first of Kenyon and Co, and then E. W. Fisher. It is said that the Union and Central Pacific (Overland) Railways are about to consolidate on a basis of 215 Co 100. Sir H. Parkes, accompanied by O. W. Field and P. D. Babycook, delivered an address before a special session of the New York Chamber of Commerce on the 15th inst. The subject was—“ The commercial relations existing between the United States and Australia.” After thanking the chairman for the welcome accorded, he proceeded to give a description of the six Australian colonies, claiming that in a few years the group would become a vast empire and a great power. The Philadelphians are making provisions for the Jewish refugees from Russia.

In the House of Commons on the Isth inst. Sir Charles Dilke denied that any French troops had been prepared for embarkation. In Egypt the Government were still adverse to the European concert as a means of adjusting difficulties. He denied also the existence of a revolt at Herat, and in regard to English interference in Russia he said it would do more harm than good.

The Commercial Trade Association of London has despatched a new form of grain contract to the United States. The details are not published, but the alterations are considerable.

Joseph Martell, ex-President of the French Senate, and Henri Augusta Barbier, the poet, and Joseph Deoaisne, a distinguished botanist, are doad.

The Marquis of Huntly, the fugitive English nobleman, proposes to take up his residence in the Western States. Barthold Auerbaok, a celebrated German novelist, died at Cannes, It is reported that the Queen has been recommended to visit Mentone on account of failing health. Louis Sohard, an East Indian merchant, has failed for £190,000. A disturbance among the students has closed the University at Oharkoff, Russia.

Marquis de Jolas, a large loser by the broken Paris Bank (Union Generals) has committed suicide.

The Herzegovinians have established a Provisional Government, The revolt is increasing. The Minister of Justice of France has determined to revise the Companies Act of 1869, when the advisability will be considered of abrogating the clause placing the Bourse transactions other than for cash on the same footing as gambling debts which are legally irrecoverable.

A tremendous explosion occurred on the 11th in a colliery in Bohonda Valley, Wales. It being Saturday night, there were few persons in the pit. The loss of life is reported at four persons. The Papal Nuncio at Madrid has advised the Spanish Government to prohibit the proposed pilgrimage to Borne on account of difficulties connected therewith.

It is reported General Skobeloff intends to join the Herzegovinians. A new Polar expedition—if formed—to discover Leigh Smith will be commanded by Captain Markham, who served under Sir George Hares. The Government will advance £SOOO towards meeting expenses. Prince Suvaroff is dead. A detachment of Yemen rebels is advancing upon Mecca, to proclaim their spiritual disposition of the Sultan of Turkey, and the restoration of an Arabian Caliphate. Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, with his wife and daughter, left for the Bast on a special oar on February Ist. He was accompanied by Mr W. H. Deamond, of the firm of William Deamond and Cozens, for the Pacific mail, Mr Bobert Withers, of the Sydney press, who had been detailed to travel with him, and Mr Lord, a London journalist, who, according to orders, met the party in San Francisco. With the exception of an excursion around the bay tendered by General McDowell, no public attentions were paid to Sir Henry during his visit. There is a great rise in the Suez Canal shares. The wreck of the balloon which escaped from England in December, having on board Mr Powell, member of Parliament, was found in Prance. Mr Powell’s dead body was in the oar. Sir Wm. Palliser, the inventor of the Palliser projectile is dead, Sara Bernhardt fainted in “ Dame aux Camellias ” at Genoa. She spat blood, and the audience cried “ enough,” and quitted the theatre.

A hideously indecent expression was interpolated in the “ Times ” report of a speech by Sir W. Harcourt on the 23cd. The matter was made worse by an apology some six days after, and the announcement that the manager hoped to bring the guilty parlies to justice. The paper containing the indecency was sold as high as a £1 per copy, and low weeklies printed the report verbatim, which were sold in the streets by thousands. In connection with the affair twenty compositors and two proof readers were discharged from the ‘‘Times.” As a consequence of the recent money panic in Europe, the General Bank of Paris went into liquidation, a Banker at Frankfort committed suicide, a Banking house at Cologne failed ; Warburg, of Hamburg, failed for £100,000; Ball and Wilson, cloth merchants of London failed. Their liabilities were £121,000.

Tobin, a Fenian, tried at Leeds, was oentonced to seven years' penal servitude. The Porte informed their Ambassador that Turkey rejects the arrangement of the Greek frontier as settled by the commission.

De Lesseps [is reported to be seriously ill at Cairo.

The “ Golos ” received a warning from the Russian Government on account of its recent editorial articles, and its retail sale has been forbidden.

A general strike of printers has taken place in Madrid. Many have been arrested for attempting to coerce others to strike. The Government have placed the employes of the royal printing office at the disposal of the journals, and many compositors are coming from tho provinces. The Russian ambassador in London has declined to send a Russo Jewish memorial to the Czar, protesting against the outrages. It was signed by Rothschild as secretary of the committee.

Mr Fleming, one of the directors of the City of Glasgow Bank, who evaded arrest at the time of the trial of his colleagues, and who recently returned to England from America, was arrested in London on January 24th.

The relurning’pilgrims from the Allahabad fair in India, are scattering cholera in every direction. Diphtheria and scarlet fever of a very malignant type are ravaging the fashionable parts of London. Belgravia and South Kensington have suffered verv severely. The mansions of the rich appear to be more subject to attack than the dwellings of the poor. The German police have confiscated a number of copies of “ Punch,” for a cartoon hearing on the recent Imperial rescript.

General Garibaldi is lying helplessly ill at Naples.

The Russian Government contemplates the annexation of Oorea, on the ground of the insecurity of the Russian possessions in the Pacific and the warlike disposition of China. Japan favors the plan. An important unpublished work by Oarlylehas been discovered lately, called “ A Tour in Ireland in 1859,” and comprises notes on the moral and political condition of that country of a most stringent character. Themanuscript was unknown to Mr Froude. Iroquois will not accept for the Lincoln Handicap, and Foihall and Sachem for the City and Suburban.

No Land League money was invested in th« Union General Bank. Among those whose house and fortune have been broken by the recent financial crisis in Prance is Christine Nilsson, the prima donna. Great sympathy is expressed, M. Chasseur, belonging to the French Treasury, has committed suicide, owing to speculations on the Bonne.

The St. George’s Society of Toronto hae refused to elect Mr Goldwin Smith an honorary member. There are now two rival Channel Tunnel Companies, who, taken in connection with Admiral Dunsaly's article in the “ Nineteenth Century, ” have aroused keen interest in the project. Sceptics have been converted to the possibility of the work. There is good authority for Baying that every member of the Cabinet, except Mr Bright and perhaps Mr Chamberlain, is opposed to the project. Sir Garnet Wolseley has opposed the scheme on the ground that it would weaken England’s sea defence, and render the navy useless. While the Government is opposed to the tunnel, it would not prevent one being made, from the French Bide. English and French projectors may therefore join their forces. AMERICAN SUMMARY. There was excitement in Newark, New Jersey, on account of an attack by Father Ooroker, Roman Catholic priest, on the sisters of charity, and on account of closing their schools. Steps are being taken to close the church. Oscar Wilde had a boisterous reception in Manchester, New York. It was chiefly instigated by a party of asthetio students. The New York Board of Trade is in favor of the abolition of the reciprocal treaty between the States and the Sandwich Islands. Anti-polygamy meetings are held over the States. In some States the Mormon missionaries were threatened with lynching. The wheat crops of California are a partial failure. The prospects of the North-Western States' for crops are encouraging, A. M. Cotildo was shot by bis brother accidentally. He was the Washington correspondent for the San Francisco press. The affair grew out of a squabble in a newspaper office. The rnmor that Mrs Garfield asked the President to commute Guiteau’s sentence is denied. Spreikles, the great sugar monopolist of the Pacific Coast, intends to return the attack of the Eastern sugar growers by building the largest sugar refinery in the world, at Brooklyn. Daniel Stoto, “ Dan ” of Mark Twain’s “ Innocents Abroad,” died in New York, Sullivan, the winner of the recent prire fight, has been challenged by Thomas H. Regan, of Troy, to fight for the championship. By the terms of the treaty of peace between Chili and Bolivia the latter is left without a seaboard. The Chilians occupy all the ports north of Callao. The explosion on H.M S. Triumph and that which caused the loss of H.M.S. Dotteril, are proved to have arisen from accidental casualties. A great fire took place in New York on January 31st. in Printing House square. Two million dollars worth of property was destroyed. The “ Scientific American ” loot 100,000 in models and patents. Other journal* suffered severely. Nearly 100 naval officers made application to the Secretary of the Navy for orders to goin search of Captain Delong and the m'siing boats of the Jeanette. The latest new* regarding the Jeanette survivor* is that Lieutenant Nann and ten of the crew at Irkutsk were ordered home, and Lieutenant Melville and party were directed to continue their search after Captain Da Long and the others missing, as long as there was the slightest hope of success. The remains of the Hon. Charles McLean, a Greenback member of the Massachusets Legislature, who was formerly a gardener on the estate of the Duke of Argylo, was convicted as a common drunkard in the Municipal Court of Boston, and sentenced to imprisonment for three months. Bichard Sykes, Cheshire County, England, purchased 45,060 acres of land in th» northern part of Dakota territory, U. 8., and will settle upon it with a colony of English farmers.

Many arrests for violation of the Snnday laws are taking place in San Francisco. These include people in nearly all branches of business, although the law was really intended to be operative against liquor saloons. An English copapany proposes to build the largest iron works in the world on the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad at Seville. Guiteau’s counsel sued the “ Chicago Herald” Company for alluding to a bankruptcy proceeding of some years ago. A movement is on foot to consolidate the different Jewish orders now in the United States whose aims are identical.

Count D. T. Delaforest, an Austrian noble, died in abject poverty in New York. The “ New York Herald” sent a special correspondent to Panama, who reports that the actual condition of affairs connected with Da Lesseps’ canal scheme are altogether unsatisfactory. The terms offered by the French contractor* are a mere bait for investors, being 66,000.000 francs less than the minimum fixed by the technical commission, and considerably less than half the original estimate. Free Trade Clubs, composed indiscriminately of Republicans and Democrats are being formed in the Western cities. The Pope is about to create the office of Papal delegate to America, and names Bishop Fitzgerald, of Little Rock, to fill it. The Canada Co-operative Supply Company has failed. The liabilities are 200,000 dollars, which are principally due in England.

The Eev. Dr. Billows, a famous Congregational divine, died in New York. The Superintendant of Police, New York, has received a circular from Scotland Yard police, advertising a reward of £3OOO for the recovery of the body of the late Earl Crawford. The Government will pay £SOO and the family £2500. A rifle match is fixed to take place in July, 1882, between the Notional Guards of the United States and Volunteers of Great Britain. It will be contested at Wimbledon. Mies Anna Dickinson, somewhat notorious as a lecturer, play writer and actress, made her appearance at Rochester, New York, on the 20th in “Hamlet.” The Russian Government is about to publish a statement, which it hopes will put an end to foreign agitation concerning the Jews. The Lord Mayor of London’s Jewish relief fund amounts to £35,000. A semi Fenian and Bibbon conspiracy has been discovered in Ireland, extending to twenty-four counties. The head organisation is in Dublin.

Secretary Forster failed to receive a letter cf great explosive force which reached Dublin Castle a few days after he left for London* The Irish organisation have expressed horror at the attempt. Of thirty Belgians who arrived there some months ago to work on the canal, eight died of Isthmus fever. Those who have escaped are leaving as rapidly as possible. Thus far since the commencement of the work 1000 persons have died. The Oatholio Bishop of Montreal has served notice to quit on all the tenants of Church property selling liquor. Dea’ors in wheat in St. Louis and Chicago have recently been broken by large purchases ia California. It is a new idea, and has quite unsettled the wheat market in the Old West and has defeated the operators' calculations. The Chinese Professor Ko Kum Snr, brought from the Empire at a salary of 2000 dollars per month, to teach Harvard students Chinese literature and language, died of pneumonia on the 14th. His remains were sent to China.

Sir Henry Parkes, with other notables, wan entertained at dinner in Washington on the 14tb, by Justices Stephens end Field of the United Stales Supreme Court.