EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 67, 15 November 1887, Page 2

EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

Professor Gustave Robert Kirehoff, th* eminent natural scientist and the discoverer 01 the spectroscope, died on the 17th oi October. A London stockbroker named Fairban absconded on October 18, leaving debts amount, ing to £BO,OOO. ‘ Mr Gladstone's tour of the midland counties of England was in the nature of an ovetlorii Sir Phillip Ounoliffc Owen will probably go to the Millbourne Exhibition as British Commissioner. It is understood that thia position is given to him as a sort ot solatium for the hard measure of treatment he received at the last Colonial Exhibition. This wae * the outcome of complaints from Australian colonists, who alleged that there was mis* management oi the exhibits ot colonial wines. The Australians now confess there was little cause for the outcry; Richard Tichborne Doughty, the American claimant, was removed to the London City Lunatic Asylum on October 10. He broke « street lamp in front of the Mansion Hones * day or two previously, saying he wanted to see the Lord Mayor to get a little Home Rule. Mr Gladstone has a new electoral bill, granting manhood suffrage and abolishing revising barristers, political agents, Ao. Sir Charles Dilke and Lady Dilke have had an extraordinary reception from ths BulUn of Turkey. They were received twice in audience, and a special State banquet was given to them, all the Ministers and officers of the household being present. The Turks and Greeks vied in their hospitalities. Thia is largely due to Sir Charles Dilke's book en the present position of European politic!. The Marquis of Aylesbury has submitted the jockey club’s decision, ruling him off the turf for unfair practices, to the Attorney. General, and acting on the letter’s opinion, has instructed his lawyers to apply for an function B J J . B P on d*ng the notice warning him off the English racecourses, as a preliminary to further action against the stewards of the club. The defence of the Marquis is that h< did not direct hie jockey, Martin, to pull his horse. He will bring evidence to prove that Martin’s evidence is false, Mr H. Rider Haggard has written to The Times complaining that an American work entitled “ Me," a companion to “ She," by "H. Ryder Haggard,” has been issued, of which he is entirely innocent. He also says that his book “ Allan Quarterman ’’ was surreptitiously published from uncorreoted proofs, which by some mysterious means found their way to American firms and spoiled the sale of the authorised edition* Maurice Strakosoh, the welbknown opera impressariO) died in Paris on October Bth. The Comt de Paris intends to visit Dord* recht to confer with a Royalist deputation from the north and east of France. The Pope recently declared at a private audience that the solution of the Boman question depended upon restoring Borne to the Pontiff, and that the Italians must leave. The Pope received 1600 French pilgrims on October 16th headed by Count Mun. They came to offer congratulations on the OC‘ casion of his Holiness’s jubilee. A despatch from Teheran dated October 11th says that eight associates of Ayoub Khan in his flight from Persia have been captured. Jiving eight others still missing. The Ameer Mohammed Khanls brother-in-law, has surrendered.

A riot occurred at Plevna, Boumania, on Sunday, October 9, during the election for members of the Sobranje. Twenty-four per* sons were killed and thirty wounded, . Dhuleep Singh has written a long letter to the native papers of India, in which he says that England had offered him £250,000 in settlement of his claim against the Indian Government, and he rejected the offer. Embittered by his arrest at Eden he expresses intense hatred to the British Government, and declares that he will serve his new sovereign, the Czar, with his life’s blood. Dhuleep Singh and the executive committee oi the Indian Liberation Society are printing in the Irish secret press in Paris an appeal to the natives of British India to awake from their turpor and prove that they are " no longer the dupes of English merchants and the slaves of English Governments.” The appeal is dated trom Moscow.