NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ITEMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 47, 23 January 1884, Page 3

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ITEMS.

The number of persons who emigrated from Germany by the German ports and Antwerp in September last was 14,753, as against 15,530 in September last year. The total number of emigrants ’during the first nine months of this year was 133,954, as against 160,066 during the same period of last year. A telegram from Trapani, in Italy, states that the Duke of Castlemonte has been captured by twelve brigands while driving from his villa to the city. The citizens, it is added, threatened to make a hostile demonstration against the Prefect, on account of the want of public security, Comments have been frequent of late in the Spanish press upon the alleged encroachment of the English at Gibraltar upon the neutral ground, which is now said to consist of a strip of territory scarcely wider than a car-riage-way, the intermediary ground between the English and Spanish lines having been gradually appropriated for such purposes as the erection of stores, the establishment of a military camp, and a cemetery. A Madrid paper complains that in contravention of the Treaty of Utrecht, which confirmed the English in the “ usurpation” of the Rock only, they are now able by their further encroach, ments to maintain a force of cavalry ; and the paper quoted asks, “ When shall we have a Government patriotic enough to remedy this abuse ?”

Sir George Bowyer left it as a dying direotion to one of his executors that his heart should be embalmed and preserved in the Church of St. John in Great Ormond Street, which he built and endowed to commemorate his having been created a Knight of the Order of Malta by the Pope. This direction has not been carried out, and the heart of the eccentric baronet was buried with his body at Radley. Some one should write the life of Sir George. He was quite a “character.” His Roman Catholicism was of a romantic rather than a theological cast. He was strangely possessed with the spirit of medievalism. He was never very rich, and while he was a munificent donor to institutions of which he approved, he lived in a very simple and inexpensive style at his rooms in King’s Bench Walk. In his old age he was often called dull; but it was only dull people who said so.

A circular has been issued by the British Board of Trade suggesting the establishment of local Marine Courts, with a view to prevent vessels being sent to sea in an unsafe condition.

The Un/ucra, which is perpetually complaining that Catholicism is being persecuted in France, denounces the tolerance of the Spanish Government in recently allowing the admission of the British and Foreign Bible Society's Bibles into Spain. An association is being formed in London for the purpose of insuring articles sent through the parcels post, The premiums it is stated will be low, and hopes are entertained that the scheme may prove beneficial to the public. From Ottawa on the 24th, it is stated that the total number of immigrants who settled in the Dominion of Canada during the nine months ending September 30th last, was 91,779, as compared with 76,378 in the corresponding period of last year.