EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3070, 17 December 1878, Page 2

EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

Lohdov, November 25. The Clyde shipbuilders'ftrike is over. It is probable the Pake of Edinburgh will be mide Bear Admiral. M. M. Fourton and Gambetta have fought a duel; neither wounded. The latter will be prosecuted by the Govern* ment. \ • . A Federalist plot has been discovered among the Spanish . iiaval officers at Cartagena. -•■- ' General Eauffmann assures the Ameer that Bussia will not-allow him ,to be injured/ The Ehodope insurrection has ended. > The Porte aooepts the principle of the rectification of the Greek frontier with the Thessaly line. Russia wants to re-open negotiations for a definitive treaty. The St. Peteisburg papers have been advised by the Government to moderate their language against Foreign powers. Toe Russian army in the Asiatio Fro* vinces has been placed on a war footing. The forts of Kapion, Siayanga, Ali Musjid and, Sibi hare been captured, lhe loss at Ali Maijid wm three nun- ' The iron and" cotton trade ia England is depressed. Pits are shutting up, and mills are dosing daily.'. Those in operation are' working short time and at j reduced wages. * Miss Amy Sheridan, the actress, is dead; The Shropshire Handicap was won by Orontes. . .

■ Storms of great severity baTe.oocnrred in the north of England and. throughout Scotland. A committee are endeavoring to force an early assembling of Parliament. For their rieir of the Afghan difficulty they hare been snubbed by Lord Beacons, field.

The Lancashire Handicap was won by Sir Joseph Tower. Subscriptions to relieve the City of Glasgow Bank shareholders reach £803,000. Depositors are asked to accept fifteen shillings in the pound. The High Court of Judiciary hare definitely refused bail for the directors they committed foi theft.

Gray and Co., iron founders, Scotland, hare failed, and Robert Forrester, colliery proprietor, Glasgow Worth. Cardinal Howard has declined the archbishopric of Dublin. Sothern the actor hai broken down His physicians recommend a long retirement:

A strike of the Clyde iron workers oocurred on the 28th. The Engineers Society agree. Elders hare discharged . 1200 men. , The Shrewsbury Cap was won by Sunrise. . , Norwich has been inundated by a freshet. Between 3000 and. 4000 houses were rendered uniuhabitable, and there was loss of life. The England Carriage Company has suspended. Wright Company's liabilities are a million; assets nothing. The Glasgow House only fails. Garriar Pages, French historian, is dead. . The French Exposition closed on the 9th. Eeceipts since opening, 12,653,746 francs. Moncari, who attempted to assassinate the King of Spain, has been sentenced to death. Bismarck's daughter Marie has been married to Count Kantzan. Prussia's deficit for the fiscal year is 78,000,000 marks. A belief is current that a plat exists, for the assassination of all the rereigqs of Europe. Giovanni Passanapti attempted to assassinate KiDg Humbert while the latter wits entering Naples. He scratched the : King's left arm and inflicted a wound in the tbigh. Signor Cairola. wai sitting beside him in me carriage.