GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3187, 7 May 1879, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

No attention is being paid to the Sultan' a authority in the settlement of the Egyptian difficulty. -

Business is stagnant at. Cairo. Twenty more Durham colliers' hare struck work;. There is in Durham thirty thousand colliers idle. The Military suppressed the discontented operatives. At Blackburn twelre. thousand looms are stopped, and fire thousand wearers idle.

The Times criticises the Canadian tariff, and says that every branch of industry will be crippled.

The Duke of Newcastle's Clumber House has been partially burned. \

The mutilated body of Mri Thomas, a widow, was found in a box in the Thames. The servant has been arrested. France has. deolined to participate in the mixed government of Boumelia. . President Grery is issuing pardons to the Communists as fast as possible. ; The Emperor of Germany and Bismarck daily receive threatening letters. j The v German seaport. towns strongly condemn the protective tariff. In an attempt to assassinate the Prince /of Servia his attendant was wounded. \ Forty persons have been buried by an avalanche in the Tyrol. : An Austrian Colonel has been murdered by brigandi. ■'••■■ ! Seventeen thousand sufferers by the Szegedin disaster are still being supported by charity. Twenty thousand Bussians have crossed the Caspian Sea bound for Merv. „. Bussia is negotiating with Spain for the Ladrones Islands in the North Pacific

Eight officers of the Imperial Guard have been arrested as Nihilists, and upwards of a thousand arrests have been made in Moscow in consequence of the assassination of a Government spy.

- General Todleben declares that war is the only solution of the Eastern Bourne* lian difficulty.

The plague has disappeared from As trachan. .

Eussia concludes a new convention with China and surrenders Kuldja.

The Pope wrote, welcoming Queen Victoria to Italy.

The Catholics are opposing the establishment of Protestant schools in Borne, supported by foreign money. The Pope appeals to the Catholics to subscribe for their own schools.

By an earthquake eleven thousand lives have been lost.

A sharp correspondence has passed between Sir M. Hicks-Beach and Sir Bartle Frere re tho Zulu war. The Secretary of State censures Sir B. Frere for beginning the war without the Imperial authority, but says he does not desire to withdraw their confidence in him at the present crisis.

The Egyptian officers sent to suppress the slave trade in South Africa defeated the chief trader and eleven thousand Arabs fled.

A terrible famine is raging in TJpper Egypt, many of the inhabitants running about like wild beasts digging roots.

The Burmese trouble arose from the refusal of the British residents to deliver for slaughter two Eoyal Princes and their families. The King has become mad with drink.

A great fire has occurred in Eangoon. At a fire at Akyab, in India, damage to the extent of a million sterling has been done. Thousands of people are homeless.

Pirto, a Portuguese, has completely explored the Zembesi.