EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 117, 30 May 1881, Page 2

EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

The new Victorian University at Manchester has resolved to grant degrees without demanding a knowledge of Latin and Greek. This has caused a sensation among old peda gogues. i An investigation of Earl Beaconsfleld's affairs shows that the Hugbenden estate was mortgaged, and that he died poor. The Canada Pacific Railway Company scheme has been floated in London. The Illustrated News, issued under the editorship and name of Reed, sold 125,000 copies the first day. The TuWl smelting works in Somersetshire have failed for £60,000. Sutter, an Englishman, for Borne time correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, has been seized by brigands in Turkty, who threaten to murder him unless £15,000 ransom is paid. The money is not forthcoming, and the British ambassador has informed the Porte, that he will hold it responsible for gutter's safety by the payment of the. money. Handbills in London offer £300 reward for Bismarck's letter to Earl Granville instructing the Government to prosecute the Der Fretbeitt case. Archibald Forbes, the war correspondent, arrived at San Francisco, intending to go to Australia by the Zealandia, but bis health 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 haa written such a vivid description of the horrors of emigrant Bbips" that the subject has been brought before the House of Commons. There is a division among the Irish members over the Land Bill. O'Connor, Power, and A. M. Sullivan are in favor of the Bill, and have seceded from ParneU in consequence of his advice to abstain from voting." A Lancashire family named Seddon have inherited a property of four million Bterling, which has been in Chancery since 1858. The property was bequeathed to John Seddon, who died in a workhouse, and his heirs inherited it. The Monetary Conferenoe in Paris of the leading European Powers have reserved entire independence of action. A Nihilist manifesto sayß, M The Executive Committee haa informed the Emperor that the only means of returning to the path of peaceful development lies in an appeal to the people, but, judging by tho execution of his supreme power, he has elected to appeal to the hangman. So be it." Two thousand persona were injured in the riota against the Jews in Elizabetbrid in Russia. Similar outrages have; occurred in West Prussia. * Twelve thousand Russian convicts are to be sent to Siberia,

D illon's arrest has caused general satisfaction. The Russian peasants in the Baltic Provinces are restless and uneasy. Leonard's boiler and engine works in London hare been burned down. Carlyle'e niece protests that the publication of her uncle's reminiscenses wa.B contrary to bis instructions. More pyiauida have been opened enclosing the tombs of the Egyptian kings of the Fifth Dynasty. They contain many wirings giving specific accounts of the religious beliefs of that age. . ■•■■ . The steamer Faraday has commenced laying the new Atlantic cable from Peczince to Cape Sable. It will be finished this summer* Chinese officers afld Crews have arrived at the Tyne to idju six steel turret vessels built there for China. Archbishop Croke, formerly Romsn Catholic Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand, had to apologise iv vnhiug to Archbishop MeCabe Of Dublin, by his superior's orders, for attacking McCabe'd Lenten letter. Lord Lonsdale has purchased a steamer of lOOO.tona to. attempt to reach the pole by the "Eist coast of Greenland. Within twenty -eight days endiug 30th Apri', is 00 eases of small pox were refused admission to tho London Hospitals because they were full. During the same period 297 persons died in their own houses. There are now over 1000 cases of small pox in ttie hospitals. Th 6 epidemic has increased in virulence, aßd ten per cent d 0 The Grand Duke Nicholas has been found auilty of complicity; in the Nihilist plot and sentenced to imprisonment for life. j The Russian police endeavored to extort 1 a confession from a female Nihilist by starvation but failed. The anti-Jewish petition in Germany sent to Bismarck consists of twenty-six volumes, comprising 14,000 sheets, and containing 255,000 signatures, including many noblemen and retired general officials. Twenty-five thousand immigrants left Hamburg for America In the firßt three months of this year. : The Berlin " Courier " has been confiscated for reproducing a Parisian article approviog of the murder of the Czar. AMERICAN. • An expedition has started ia search of the Polar jacbt Janet. : Sitting Bull bas finally refused to surrender. Trouble i 3 beginning between the Americans and Mexicans. A brief battle occurred ait Taso when several were killed. At a fire at a box factory at Green Point several panic-stricken workmen were killed.. The Victoria, steamship, has crrived at San Francisco from London with severs cases of small pox, The health authorities gave the thousand passengers on board tht alternative of being vacciuated or going into quarantine. The Duke of Sutherland, Marquis of Stafford, and other English railroad directors are visiting the United States to study the American railway system. ' Extensive frauds have been discovered in connection with letting the Government mail contri Gts. The conspirators have been arrested. : There is wide spread los" 3 from the freshes in the Mississippi Valley. ! At Chicago s man has commenced a forty; five days' fast under medical supervision. Cholera has appeared in New York and] there are great fears of its spreading owiDg to tbe uncleanliness of the city. The horse disease at Chicago has inter' rupted the traffic. > ; -Father Maloney, a Catholic Priest ir. Pennsylvania, claims to have performed miracles, including the restoration of a girl to life. The fasting woman at lowa died after forty, seven days without food. It is intended to import 10,000 French laborers to extend tbe Itio Graude railway. Foster, a student of theology, was shot while attempting a burglary. The crops in California exceed those of the previous year. A destructive storm has occurred in Nova Scotia. Buenaventura, New Grenada, has been destroyed by fire. The loss of property i ; estimated at a million dollars, and 15,000 people are homeless. New elements of confusion have arisen itPeru, and it is thought the Chilians will settle matters by annexing th« country. Kerosene is repoifced from New York to be. firm, refined, 8 cents. Salmon, 1 dol 15 cents to 4 dols 7 cents. ;