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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1837, 21 November 1874, Page 2

European.

The Tichborne Claimant has been visited at Milbank by his wife, Lord Bivers and Dr. Keneally. He has lost seven stone, and his hair is turned grey, but is in good health. Jean Luie has lately been removed to Portland. .

Mr Bright refused to present a petition to the House of Commons for Orton's release, and has been, in consequence, abused by Onslow and Meredith. H.M.S. Sappho, commissioned for Australia, met with an accident, which will detain her awhile. The Daring, 4 guns, is appointed to the Australian station.. .......... „....,. Live Cattle Importation Company announced with capital of £200,000. The published statement that the Queen has paid the debts of the Prince of Wales is declared void of foundation. All debts outstanding more' than a year will be at once discharged. The Empress Eugenic and the Prince Imperial have returned to Chiselhurst from Switzerland The Empress of Austria has improved in health by her sojourn in the Isle of Wight. She has visited Brighton and London. ■ : ' .

The Earl of Warwick has presented Her Majesty with a splendid horse. The article on Ritualism in the Contemporay Beview, from the pen of Mr Gladstone, has attracted much attention.

Mr. Stanley is busy with preparations for the scientific investigation of Africa, and is now on the East Coast. A cedar boat, 40 feet long, built for him in sections, with fourteen oars, was launched at Leddingstone, and christened " Livingstone." Another expedition to the Interior of of Africa is prepariag at Berlin under the leadership of Yon Horaiayer, Ornithologist. The Grocers' Company have given £20,000 for erecting a new wing to the London Hospital. The, Liverpool women have commenced a war against whisky, praying that the hearts of Licensing Magistrates-may be inclined to withhold licenses.

The proposal to substitute cremation for interment, at Hartlepool, has provoked a riot amongst a crowd of working men. Turnbull, the solicitor who made the proposition, was followed from the Town Hall with the execrations of 2000 excited people.

A formidable strike is threatened in the cotton trade, which it is to be hoped will be averted by a spirit of mutual conciliation. For several days twenty-four mills at. Bolton have been closed, and 1300 persons were thrown out of work. Several employers then withdrew notices of reduction, and the hands resumed work, both parties binding themselves to accept award. Arbitration has also been resorted to in connection with a threatened strike in Durham, which would have affected 100,000 persons.

After a duration of six weeka the dispute between Lord Penrhyn and 3000 quarrymen was settled, and the bulk of them returned to work. Finding some concessions had been ignored, the men left the quarry en masse, ponding a guarantee from Lord Penrhyn. J^egociations are still proceeding, but the aspect of affairs is not promising. The Fife and Clackmannan lock-out still continues. Men are suffering great privations, and would submit to 15 per cent, reduction if the new byo-laws were withdrawn.

If resistanco is prolonged ejection from their homes is expected. The harvest being over , sonio of the farmers are locking out laborers belonging to the Union, while others are reducing wages to the old standard, on Ihe plea of cheap bread.

Emigration is still ac'ive. Many persons, chiefly agricultural laborers and their families, Imve sailed for Queensland. Three hundred souls, chiefly from Warwickshire and Oxfordshire, sailed in the Crusader for New Zealand, accompanied by Arlington, Union delegate, and three butchers.

One thousand persons, principally from the Eastern Counties, have left Canada under Union auspices. The Town Council of Glasgow, by almost unanimous vote, decided to ask the Government to extend to Scotland tho power to punish robberies with violence, wife-beating, etc., by the lash.

The safety of all the members of the Austrian Arctic Expedition (with one exception only) occasioned great joy. Preparations have already been commenced to send a fresh expedition next summer to ascertain whether the newly discovered land is a continent or an island. Captain Wiggins, who started in June last in the steamer Dianai to search for the lost Austrian expedition, has just returned to Dundee.

The petroleum springs in Austria are on fir© and doing immense damage. A catile plague has broken out in Eussia and Poland. 1000 cattle have perished in two days. Prussia has interdicted importation. Eussia is augmenting her standing army by 16,000 men for service in Asia. To render conscription less distasteful to Eussians, certain concessions havebeen made regarding hair and beards. The Tartars are rapidly emigrating from the Crimea to escape military service.

An insurrection has broken out in Rhokand. [Russia declines to interfere. The position of the Khan is considered desperate. Fever is raging in Damascus. 14,000 persons have been attacked..