General Summary.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2975, 28 August 1878, Page 2

General Summary.

The prospects of the wheat crop are favorable. ' , , 'At the Caflton club banquet Earl Beaconsfield stigmatised Mr Gladstone as lei sophistical rhetorician, iuebriated with exuberance of his own verbosity and egotistical imagination; He gave the Marquis of Salisbury the principle credit for the work at Berlin. *

The Foreign Affairs Association have asked Parliament to impeach Earl Beaconsfield ftn* traitor us diplomacy. Mr Gladstone'has declined the leadership of the Liberals. He calls the convention with Turkey an insane convention. The militia reserves have been disbanded. . Garibaldi favors Italian agitation for the annexation of Soathern Tyrol. The Tigris and Euphrates valleys are being examined for a feasible railway. The reception of Earl Beaconsfield and the Marquis of Salisbury in London was enthusiastic. Strathmore won the Liverpool Summer Cup. ' The French miners' strike is over. The German Government seeks a reconciliation with the Vatican.,. '.,. . At ihb GernWii efeijtipnVtifteeh liberals lost their'seats! and twenty Conservatives gained^y ?v ; ;> ■•• >, ; ;;-j F'k'.V" 1" | Bismarck's son was defeated. .:";. j Russia has abandoned ,the< idea of a new loan. '. J• < >TAT* > CI j There is >?reat indignation in S. Petersburg over the result of;the;Congress, j The Times, vehemently attacks iMr Gladstone; " ■'.-. ... ; \j_ j._ ; .. ' : ;:s,;:'; i Th,e r , American Freemasons visiting , England have been banquetted. .: " The Prince Imperial has recovered damages from the Siecle for libel charging his father with appropriating crown pro* Emigration] frpm Egypt to Cyprus is large. Steamers run. , „, .. j : The British 1; Commiisioners, at Paris have formally notified the^ other (^p.mmis* sioners of the Melbourne Exhibition, md invited theii* presence.'"' ' - t " A Woman's Eights Congress has been opened iv Paris. . r . . „ | • The^Pah-Anglican.Conference'has |»d« journed. . ] Eussians, near the Gulf of Saros, fired on a British man-of-war bear'ng a white .flag. > . " ! The Porte is willing to enter into a convention with England for abolishing the , slave trade. ■■•:.-■■■ .-•-•■■ ■>■'■• ■'■'■ ■■ .j • Prince Gortschakoff declares that if] he had known of the Anglo-Turkish Convention before the Batoum matter, he would hava refused the cbnceßsions. i ' ! ; The Twelfth of; July in Ireland was quiet.,,, ;'/ ... ; ,' f ..,. '!■;.'.,!'.."■:,..■,:'■:./,■ ■".'":-■■ I ,; French troops have been ordered to New Caledonia. ,-,. M House property in Syria has risen highly owing to the English Convention. Bang John has resigned the Abyssinian crown. . •••••' ■■■■">•■•• :•'• ■■ •• '■■■ ■•• .:::.: i ■ Eight thousand lazes,; bearing r the British flag, massed to prevent the Russian entrance into Batoum. "'■' .'I ■ ' Eussians are still buying at Hamburg. Locusts are ravaging Madras. „ |