General News.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2878, 7 May 1878, Page 2

General News.

Subscriptions are invited at St. Petersburg for a new issue of fifty million roubles in treasury bonds.

It is generally believed that an English war with Russia will cause national bankruptcy there, and entire suspension of payment of the Russian national debt.

The Earl of Leitrim .was shot opposite a cottage from which he evicted a widow. Ninety tenants were notified of intended eviction. There were hostile demonstrations at his funeral.

The Eurydice in full sail capsized off the Isle of Wight in a sudden squall and sank immediately, drawing nearly all under. Five were rescued out of five hundred.

Liberal representatives from all parts of England waited upon Ministers to protest against calling out the reserves. The Marquis of Harrington and Mr Chamberlin represented their views. Barl Granville replied that the Government required no stimulus to preserve peace, and opposition could not prevent war if the Government determined on a warlike policy. King Humbert is neutral, but favors the extension of the Hellenic Kingdom, and the creation of other Christian nationalities to oppose Russia. The iron trade in south Yorkshire is stagnant. There are thirty thousand unemployed. Four German war vessels have been despatched to Nicaragua to enforce reparation for the Consular outrage. ! Baron Stanley of Alderley has been elevated to the Peerage. Viscount Lou* don succeeds him as President of the Boarcl of Trade. Earl Salisbury has been appointed to the Foreign Department; Mr Gathorne Hardy Indian Secretary-; Colonel Stanley Secretary for War; Mr Ibbetson Secretary to the Treasury.

Typhus fever is raging throughout Turkey. i

Mr Isaac Butt has resigned the leadership of the Home Bule party.

Troops and war material have been sen to England from Jamaica.

The Paris bankers have refused a fur* ther Bussian loan of three hundred million francs.

South London has been flooded two feet by the bursting of a sewer. Much damage done.

Intense cold in England; four inches of snow in the Midlands.

Sir Bartle Frere announces the termination of the Kaffir war, but a subsequent telegram reports a native insurrection in the Transvaal. In one action the British were compelled to retreat before an over* whelming force. Assistance is asked. All the Government prudence is required to prevent a general native war.

' There are eight thousand destitute Mussulman refugees in Greece.

There is an increased famine in China.

The. relations between Austria and Bussia are more conciliatory. The Czar sent Francis Joseph an autograph letter. Austria will not participate in further hostilities, and is disbanding.