GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3117, 13 February 1879, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

January 20th.

Distress to a fearful extent prevails in the manufacturing and agricultural districts of England. Fire hundred agricultural immigrants left in a body for New Zealand.

The Cornish Bank at Truro has failed after an existence of 110 yean. The deposits amounted to £5,000,000. There is great financial trouble in consequence in West Cornwall. The bank belonged to Tweedle, Williams and Co.

Sir William Hayter was found drowned in a lake on his estate. .'..

The Town Council of Cork absolutely refused General Grant a reception. They charge him with anti-Catholic sentiments. .

Belfast and other northern cities made more elaborate manifestations in his honor as a consequence.

European capitalists refuse Russia a loan unless the armies in Turkey are with* drawn, and no fresh wars in Asia are undertaken.

Articles of a definitive treaty agreed to by the Porte have been accepted by Russia. The latter reduces the indemnity claim to 100,000,000 roubles.

The Great Council of Genera, Switzerland, have accepted the principle of separation of Church and State.

Princess Mary of Lichenstein, formerly Miss Fox, adopted daughter of Lord Holland, authoress of several works, died recently at Styria.

An attempt by an insane man was made on the life of the Emperor of Austria.

A hotelkeeper at Copenhagen has been arrested for threatening the life of* the Danish King.

The Duke of Cumberland left Copenhagen because Prussia expressed displeasure at his residence there.

A sensational rumor says that Prussia is negotiating for a • renunciation by the Duke of hia right to Hanover in return for the cession of northern Schleswig.

The revenue of Great Britain shows an increase of £1,803,485 for 1878 over the preceding year.

A general organisation of all trades exists in England for the purpose of resisting the extension of the hours of labor.

England and Scotland bare suffered heary floods. The country around Darlington and Wrexham has been aubmergd for many miles. Ice floated down the Thames, and steamboat traffic between Chelsea and Woolwich was suspended. Many river barges were frozen.

The rumor is retired that the Duke of Connaught will become Viceroy of Ireland. ,

The Duke of Edinburgh will shortly be appointed Admiral on the North American station, and will repair to Halifax, U.S., with the Duchess in early lummer.

Earl Beaconsfield has fully recovered his health. ' :

The Marquis of Tweeddale is dead.

The City of Glasgow Bank liquidators hare realized but £800,000 as a first instalment of the call upon the shareholders, instead of £2,000,000, nominally due.

Deaa Stanley is so much pleased with hit visit to America that he announces his intention to return at an early day.

Sir James Fitzjames Stephen has been appointed Judge of the High Court of Justiciary in place of Sir Anthony Cleasby, resigned.

Ward, a London artist of reputation, has committed suicide.

The library of the Birmingham Midland Institute, of 80,000 volumes, including 8,000 of a Shakespearian collection, is a total loss by fire.

A fearful explosion occurred at Dina's Colliery, Ehoudda Valley, near Pontyprid, Wales, on the 13th. The roof of a building fell, closing the entrance to the shaft, shutting off ventilation. Sixty miners in the pit perished.

Crighton Brothers, Newcastle on Tyne, merchants ; McKay and Kirkwood, printers, Glasgow; Comas and Co., merchants, London; have failed—the latter for £80,000. .Hooker and Co., Glamorganshire, iron masters, hate also failed, owing the Bristol 1 and West of England Bank, £600,000.

On the 17th a run on the London and County Bank, Lombard street, began from the fact that an idle crowd assembled in front of the buildings to listen to a cabman's dispute. This gave rise to a report that the bank was in danger.

The British brig Eunice has been abandoned at sea, and the steamship Oberon totally lost in Whije Bay, near Queenstown, Ireland.

Every member of the North Wales Miners' Union who desires to emigrate to

America is promised £7; those who go to Australia receive £14. The North Wales Slate Quarrymen's Union offer the same terms. It is believed many will accept, as most of the smaller quarries remain closed.

The popular rote throughout Switzerland has resulted in a large majority in favor of the subvention of St. Gothard and other Alpine railways.

The London Standard's correspondence from Eome says the Jesuits have sent the Pope a kind of ultimatum, pointing out the evils resulting from their exclusion from the Government of the-Church. The Pope continues firm, and many of his friends fear the consequences.

Ac unfounded report that the Pope had been poisoned, which originated in Pariß, awakened painful apprehensions.

The construction of barracks for 150,000 men on the Constantinople lines of defence, has been ordered.

A dispatch from Vienna to London hints that the delay in the signature of Russia to the Turkish Convention is due to the revival of Russian influence at Constantinople, and intrigues to prolong occupation. The political situation in France is critical. The Left Chamber claims, consistent with the verdict of recent elections, that the Cabinet must be Republicans, and none but Republicans to hold office. It may lead to the retirement of Marshal MacMahon and general governmental disarrangement.

M. Borel, French Minister of War, has resigned. General Gresley has taken his place. 2245 communists have been pardoned. The President intends to pardon all but the ringleaders, about 400.

Bismarck has introduced a bill into the German Reichstag to punish members for words spoken in debate, handing them over to the Courts ; also for opening all letters on the frontier. The measures are said to be directed by the Emperor himself.

Adelina Patti, prima donna, at Berlin, has broken fcer knee cap. Amputation is said to be\ necessary.

The German press is satisfied with the French elections. ;

The Duke of Cumberland must relinquish his hereditary claim, Prussia insists, to the Duchy of Brunswick before his sequestrated property can be surrendered.

Germany will coerce Samoa to comply with its demands. The gunboat Nautilus will be sent to the Islands.

Moncasi, who attempted to assassinate theJung of Spain, has been garrotted.

General Espartero, Spanish statesman, is dead.

The marriage of the Spanish King with a Belgian Princess is suggested. Pope Leo wishes to convene an Ecumenical Council.

A Catholic Hierarchy has been organised for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A Grand National Exhibition ii proposed at Moscow in 1880. Nihilism is reviving in Russia. A collision on the Warsaw, railway killed twenty persons and wounded many more.

The British ship Lancashire Witch has been sunk at sea with all aboard, in collision with the Spanish steamer Yrurao Bat. •...■■■

The Cottinburger commercial company of Stockholm has suspended payment. Weston, pedestrian, has started to walk over highways 2000 miles in 1000 hours and to delirer 50 lectures.

The Middleboro, Bosedale and Ferryhill Iron Company hare failed; liabilities £280,0 CD.

Germany has joined her sanitary forces with Austria in attempting to stem the course of the Astrakhan plague westward.

Bismarck has written a letter of appeal to the agricultural community of Germany to afford him united and rigorous support in the work of fiscal reform. He refers to the new duties to be levied upon imported cattle, and expresses the opinion that such taxation has become unaroidably necessary. The French Admiral Touchard- is dead.

The winter residence of the Egyptian Khedive was destroyed by fire. The King of Holland has married the Princess Emma Waldeok Pyemont. Prince Henry, brother of the King, died on 13th.