General Summary.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3023, 23 October 1878, Page 1

General Summary.

London, September 30. Russia intends to issue a loan to cover the deficiency of the budget. The strike of cotton factories at Badcliffe, Pilkington, and Misworth ended in acompromise. .. Charles Wheetham, Alderman of Bridge Within, has been chosen Lord Mayor of London. The anti-Socialistic Bill passed its first reading in the Reichstag. The Liberals have introduced many amendments. The Emperor has written a letter pointing out the importance of the bill. . The Albanian insurgents are moving on the frontier of Bosnia. The last stronghold of the insurgents in Herzegovina, Klobuch, was captured by General Phillipovich. The Austrian troops are to be recalled from Bosnia at the end of October. Three thousand Russians entered Batottm on the 15th instant. The Sultan has definitely decided to cede nothing to Greece. . , Lord Salisbury refuses to use his influence to induce the Forte to conclude a convention with' Austria. He considers Turkey not alone in being behind., in fulfilling the treaty of Berlin. . The British fleet retired to, Alarki, and, saluted the Sultan previous to leaving. Bussia asks from .Turkey 310,500,000 francs indemnity. '• • ' The Queen and the Prince of Wales have written letters to the Government of Greece suggesting a pacific course in the . dispute with the Porte. . m. , - : Russia promises to support Greece on the frontier question. ' A portion of the Sooloo Islands have been ceded to Spain. '■ At a colliery explosion at Abercarde, near Newport, Monmouthshire, out of 371 miners, only 91 were rescued. The pit took fire. The Egyptian obelisk was put in its place on the 12th. A fierce fight took place at a Home Bule meeting in Dublin, because O'Dpnnell, who had supported Government on the Eastern Question, was present. Paris is sending money to the yellow fever sufferers in the Southern States of America. • Seventy-eight more French communists have been pardoned. The editor, of Le Pays was fined 300frs and to be imprisoned three months, for insulting McMahon. .Cholera is increasing at Cassabiana, in Spain. A new plot against the life of the Emperor William has been discovered, and arrests made. " The second son of Prince Bismarck, Count Wilhelm, has been elected Deputy to the Reichstag. Mi dhat Pasha is allowed to reside at Crete. : ' "' ' " '' ' At the Doncaster September meeting the Champion Stakes, for two-year olds, were' won by Lord Falmouth's chesnut colt Chariburt. : The St. Leger stakes were won by Lord Falmouth's bay filly Jannette. The bay colt Childerio, also belonging to Lord Falmouth, was second, and P.' Kinney's chesnut' colt, Master Kildare, third. The Cup was won by F. Greeting's Pageant;' Hampton, second; King's Clerc, third. ' "- • > ■■> Condon and Melady, the released, but expatriated Fenians, sailed for New York on the 17th instant. The embarkation was, very , secretly conducted; but - a national reception is to take place in New York. , . The floods have destroyed upwards of a 1000 houses in the Jiilhnder district of Punjaub. . , " The Christians in Turkish Croatia revolted. M. Jacobini has been sent as Papal Nuncio to Bussia, concerning the Church in Poland. , .' Mehemet Ali Pasha was not assassinated, as first reported, but killed in a fight, between the Royal Bosnians and his own'troops. The Sultan has remitted the grain tax in Constantinople', because the bakers refused to bake bread, owing to the high price of wheat. ' ' , The Newfoundland fishery difficulties between France, England, and the United States have been adjusted. France wil). abandon the exclusive pro* tectorate over the Catholics in the East. The Pope will send a Nuncio to .Con* stantinople. .; Bosnia is virtually pacified, but Hungarians in mass meetings protest against iti occupation by Austria as inimicalta the interests of Hungary. Bismarck has been ill with erysipelas but has recovered. i No traces of conspiracy or accomplices | have boen discovered in Hoedel's and 1 Nobelling's cases. " . . Yon Beiist goes as ambassador to Paris. . „ , Yon Moltke is suffering seriously from

cold, contracted during the manoeuvring of the troops. Belgrade is being fortified by redoubts overlooking the rivers Lave and Danube. Parliament has been further prorogued till the 20th of November.

The Emperor William is desirous of resuming the reins of Government next month. ■..■■■•:■'' The Australian Cricketers, who hare engagements to play in the United States this autumn, have arrived at New York from Europe. The German Socialists collected 150,000 marks to meet the expenses of the recent elections. Of this sum 3860 came from the United States A '■""■ ''*■;

In the first heat for, the Sportsman's Challenge Cup, rowed on the Thames on the 16th, William Elliott, of Blythe, beat John Higgins, of Shadwell, by four lengths. An American boy, named Braden, from Indianopolis, has distinguished himself on board the English training-ship Worcester. , '„..: ...... i- . ■ .. .-..j.,.. Simeon Hardy and Sons, of London, West India merchants, have failed.

The Tyne crew beat the Thames and Putney crews by two lengths in the International Eegatta for champion fours. In the final heat for the Champion Sculls Higgins " caught a crab" at the start, and Elliott won easily. Tlie reports of the French harvest are good. The police dispersed a congress of the Socialist: working men's party in Paris. Mattilow, chief clerk to the Ministry of Marine, under the Parisian Commune, has surrendered, and is on his trial. The anniversary of the Battle of Sedan was observed as a general holiday in Germany! The basis for future agreements between Germany,and the Vatican has been,settled, which does not involve even the partial repeal of the Falck laws. It is proposed that King Alfonso shall marry Christine/sister of his late Queen, Mercedes; ■■< -

One hundred studentß, suspected of Nihilism, have been banished from the Universities of St. Petersburg J, and Eief. ' ■ • . '■■ :U/-;^!V

The English whalers in the Arctic have had no success this season. } n 7

In Cyprus 307 are in the hospital out of a force of 2640; <A ■

Vesuvius 18 in eruption. Mount Hecla is also active, and Cottopax. . ■ The Dutch Indian" budget shows a deficiency of 10,000,000 florins, 10,000,000 haviog been expended in the Acheri war.

The Swiss Government have granted an amnesty to the Catholic priests who were deprived of their livings in 1873' for refusing to comply with the requirements of the State.

An Internationalist propaganda has been discovered by the police in Paris. The receipts at the Paris Exposition up up to the 4th amount to 7,412,229 francs.-A./; ■,: " ■■;:■.:••<■■ : ••■..:•

A municipal loan of sixty-five million dollars is proposed in Paris. A memorial of the annivenary! of the death,of Thiers w^s held on the 3rd ultimo. The music was * rendered by 24,000 persons. The Pall Mall Gazette inveighs against the Fenian Condon's release, at the solicitation of the United States, as undignified, and says, the pertinacity of a thricepreferred request fofc his Telease is disrespectful, and Minister Walsh's letters border on the Offensive. In places he oversteps the line : and approaches the free and easy. ; _ r A meeting of Lancashire manufacturers was called to consider the unprecedented commercial difficulties, and the adoption of short time was urged. John Eastwood and Sons, of Huddersfield near Halifax, have failed for £15,000. ; The International Congress on weights and measures and coins, on the 4th inst., unanimously adopted a resolution deploring the fact that England, Russia, and the United States have not yet adopted the metric system. The American and English delegates afterwards passed a resolution petitioning the English and American Governments to appoint a mixed commission to consider the adoption of the metric system by both coud> tries, the rates between gold and silver to be regulated solely by their commercial value, and silver not to be a legal tender for debts over £20. Herr Euitz, an 'old Catholic priest at Heidelberg, refused the decision of the synod regarding celibacy, and married. Alfred Hows, spinner, of Boodnall, Lancashire, has failed for £75,000. Sir Kichard Griffiths, C.E., is dead. Lord Loftus, British ambassador at St. Petersburgh, demands the withdrawal of the Eussian agent from Cabul. . Troops are mobilising on the frontiers of .Afghanistan near Julli. No hopes of;peace are entertained. - ' Hackthorp won ; , the .Great Eastern Handicap, at Newmarket; Warrior 2nd; Malby,3rd. .■•. _■ ■ : ■, ■■■;■.>:;■ ,y-i