GENERAL SUMMARY. (London, November 8 to November 27.)

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GENERAL SUMMARY. (London, November Bto November 27.)

Tin: British Government have decided to accept tiw French proposal in the case of Mr Shaw, who receives compensation to the amount of £1,000. The North of Ireland is in a vory excited state, and a collision is expected between the Orangemen and the Parnellites. Severafalanning and serious fires having occurred in various parts of London during the last week, create a suspicion that incendiarism is again at work in the metropolis. A treaty of peace has been signed between Chili and Peru, and the Chilian troops hare evacuated Lima and Gallao. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lome have arrived in England from Canada. Mr Henry Irving and Miss Terry have arrived in America, and have had an enthusiastic reception on their first appearance at the Star Thejtro, New York. News from Poit au Prince to the lSth of October state* that all it. quiet in what was left of the city after the pillage and tire on September 22. The commander of Her Majesty's ship Dido, which had been sent j to Examine into the Alps attair, had exacted i 'an apology to the British Government, a j salute to the British ilag, ami an indemnity of £600 to the company to which the «hip belonged. These terms had beeu complied j with. The protectorate of o strong country ■ — probably the United States or France — was talked of. The other morning Henry Powell, 24, "bricklayer, was executed in Wandsworth Gaol for the murder of .John D Bruton, the son of his master, a builder in Balham. j The prisoner, it will be remembered, not being satisfied w ith the wages he was to veceive, quarrelled with Mr J. Bruton, and "murdered him by brutally beating him on the head with a chisel. This was the first execution carried out by the newly-ap-pointed hangman, Binns. At the inquestheld on the body after the execution, the governor of the prison expressed the opinion that the new executioner had satisfactorily executed his duty. The Parnell fund is expected to reach £35,000 by the Ist December, MacMahon, the Paruell candidate, it is expected, will be returned from Limerick. The impression is that there is a significant advance in the, foi tunes of the Parnell party, and the leader will go into Parliament next session v.ith strength enough to hold the balan.ee of power. A gentleman was attacked by a lunatic in a car of a London suburban railway on Monday, October 28, and beaten into a state of insensibility before help came. The only other occupant in the compart-* knent was a lady. Sir Moses Montofiore reached his one hundredth yew on October 24. Many con gratuiati<?n« from all parts of the world were «enfc him. Among the letters was one from the Prince of Wales. The deafness of the Princess of Wales has been relieved, and she now drives around London daily with her daughters. An action has> been brought against the Duchess of Montrose in relation to her late husband* will. The validity of it is disputed. Her defence is that her husband, in making it, usod a stamp instead of a pen, because His right hand w as unsteady. The third number of the Socialist paper, " Pletariat," has appeared at Warsaw. It urges the open revolt of the bourgcoise. Emperor William has given a thousand marks towards the Universal Luther Fund for the education of the chilchen of clergymen. The decoration of the Order of the lied Eagle has been conferred upon Kudoll Liemering, sculptor of Luther's statue at Eisleben. Carbutt, shipbuilder of Hull, has failed ; liabilities, £201,865. Williams, Secretary of the Sandown Park Racecourse Company, was shot in the leg hy a young man in Pall Mall. The man is Supposed to be insane. The printing office of the Nihilist paper, "The Will of the People." has published a poem attacking the Czar, and bitterly commenting on the splendour of Court life and the misery of the nation. The Queen, in her impatience, has had a temporary stucco cast ®f John Brown's statue erected on the lawn at Balmoral, in front of her voyal apartments. James llussell Lowell was chosen Hector of the University of St. Andrew's on November 22nd, defeating Edward Gibson, Conservative member of Parliament lor Dublin University,by 18 votes. Thomas Sexton, M.P. for Sligo, was attacked by seven men, according to his own statement, in Seven Dials, London, on the 16th November, who gagged him, pinioned his arms, and rifted his pockets of his money and gold watch and chain. All the footpads but one escaped, and on the trial, one of the jurors asked Sexton if he (Sexton) was in liquor at the time he was robbed. Sexton, with considerable temper, answered in the negative. The robbery took place near a public-house, where he had called to get braddy and soda, at two o'clock a.m. Charles Dickens's grandson has entered literature, and is writing a story for " All the Year Round." William J. Ramsay, proprietor of the " Freethinker " London, convicted in March last of publishing blasphemous libels and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, was released to-day. He was escorted from gaol by Bradlaugh and a large crowd of sympathisers, who cheered him. He was given a public breakfast at the Hal] of Science. George W. Foote, editor of the "Freethinker," convicted for the same offence, has yet to serve three months. James and Co., merchants at Manchester) have failed ; liabilities, £110,000. De Lesseps, replying to an address oi working men, said: "Great as has beer our success in the Suez Canal, I see mon good for the future in the proposed Pananu canal. " The Chicago "Citizen's" London cable special says: "The Government emigra tion scheme has raised a storm of indigna tion. The bishops and priests of the wesi of Ireland openly denounce in the strongesi language the new effort which is bein^ made to depopulate Ireland. No atten tion is paid to the lying denials of thi Gladstone Government. The clergy o Westport conclude a series of resolutions bi thanking the Dublin "Freeman" for thi timely exposure of the plot, which mean transportation of thousands of Irishmen Confidential emigration circulars are beinj issued. All shades of decent Irishmen ar< rallying around Parnell, and at the nex election Parnell will carry eighty, and per haps, ninety seats. The hearing of the suit for judicia separation which Lady Colin Campbell ha brought against her husband, and whicl will come up in a few weeks, will tak place in private. They are of such character as to render this course necessary The English Liberals have lost heavily i: the recent municipal elections, which though fought in isolated places on sue local topics as the Salvation Army, the nei

Town Hall, electric lighting \\ g&g, or loototalism v. beer, gstteWlly Went on political lines. Some liberal journals are despondent, and think the result presages deteat on a Wider field, illustrating the general election of 1880, when the Conservatives were overthrown. Moody and San key successfully opened the great mission at Islington, London, on November 4th — four meetings being held, oaeh attended by 4,000 to 6,000 persons;. At tho close of the ovening meeting, a man shouted out: " Moody s last mission in London oas boon a failure," and Moody answered by calling for volunteers to come out boldly on tho Lord's side, v horeupon 3000 men arose. The Incident caused much excitement. Bishop Thorold, of Rochester, has cxpi'c&sed approval of the Moody and San key mission, and urges clergymen of the Established Church to help it. The services are held at Islington in an iron chapel, built for the purpose, "capable of seating 5000 persons,