EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3093, 16 January 1879, Page 2

EUROPEAN SUMMARY.

The Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament chiefly referred to the AJjgjfcan, question. Lore's Granville and Harlington botlj criticised with some sharpness Lord Ljtton's course towards the Ameer, bui both urged that as war had been commenced ample encouragement and support should be given to the invading forces.

The Irish members were loud in complaint because Ireland was not alluded to in the Speech. - The Duke of Cumberland and Princess Thyra were married with great pomp at the chapel of Christiansborg Castle on the evening of Saturday, 21st. The Bishop of Durham has resigned through ill health. It is rumored that Alexandrelta, a sea. port north of Syria, has been ceded by Turkey to England. The Derby cotton mill, Bolton, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, £25,000. Mr Isaac Butt has been denounced by John O'Connor Power an a traitor to the Home Eule and Irish cause. Mr John Kuskin declines the Slade Professorship at Oxford. ■ j

The steamship Pomercnia was run into by a Welsh collier named the Noel Ellian of Carnarvon, off, Folkestone. Thomas Blight, chief officer, says the j Pomerania was going at half to three quarters speed. They heard no, whistle or foghorn. The lights were all burning, and all could have bee^i, saved if the saiSors had not rushed the boats. 162 passengers were saved, 94 are missing. The British Government have abua. doned the intention to grant! relief to the Khodope fugitives. Tottenham, Conservative, has been returned for New Boss, defeating Delaney, a Home .Ruler, Mr Gladstone intends to come forwr-'d as a: candidate at Midlothian. The Great Treaton Colliery Company have closed their mines.

By a collision in the Mersey fifteen persons were drowned from a Ferry boat. O'Connor, the convicted Fenian, hai been released from Spike Island. A Canadian loan of £3,000,003, at four per cent., half guaranteed by the Imperial Government, has been placed on the market and allotted at a minimum price -of 96$ per cent. » ' Henry Wells, founder of Wells* Fargo and Co.'s express, died on the tenth. Business in silver is at a complete standstill.

William Henry Palmer, known as Heller the magician, leaves £125 a year to Haidee, who assisted him in his performances, £125 to his wife, and the balance of his wealth to his brother Angelo, of Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. Sir L. McLure, Liberal, has been returned for Londonderry, beating' Alexander, Conservative. Obitttaey. — George Henry Lewes (author), Alfred Wigan (actor), the wi«s of the Archbishop of Canterbury., Captain Whyte Melville (novelist) broke his neck in the hunting field. Karl Ferdinand Gutzkon, German dramatic poet, is dead. »:,.

The failures for the month are—Preston Loan and Discount Company, liabilities £60;000; Henry Taylol- and Sons, grain and flour merchants, Glasgow, £1,300,000; J. J. Fenton and Sons, private bankers, Kochdale; Heywood Smith, Fleming and Co.'s liabilities (failure announced October 3) are estimated at £3,000,000; James Ramsey, -Dundee, merchant, £80,000; Gallemot pnd Weylandht, bankers; N, Hoegland, merchant, Stockholm; Caledonian Bank, Glasgow; the West of England and South Wales Bank has suspended. They propose to re-construct the Bank by 'assessing; the individual stockholders. The, Odessa Commercial Bank went into liquidation on 15th.

Fox, Walker and Co., Atlas Engine Works, Bristol; Zubina and Co., iroa ore importers of Cardiff and Newport, Wiles; McKean, Tibleif and Co., merehftntiulrtdford, £86,000.