GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3308, 29 July 1879, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Lonbok, July 5. In a letter of July Ist, Mr Wright, <he Secretary of the Australian .'.Exhibition 'Commissioners, accounts, for the failure of the attempt to obtain a reduction in the telegraphic rates in favor ofMelbourne and Sydney exhibitors. All Governments and companies interested agreed to the reduction except the British Government, whose refusal was based on the report of the Postmaster-General declaring he could see no reason why the Post Office should pay revenue for the benefit of manufacturers and tradesmen exhibiting sfor trade purposes and pecuniary advantaged ■■ - '■; ' ,■" " ■ ' ■'■ ■■■";■■■; The funeral of Lord Lawrence took r place at Westminster Abbey to-day, Dean Stanley officiating. The site of the grave is near the graves of Clyde and Pollock. The Queen was represented by Lord Torringtou, and King of the Belgians by Baron Soloyns. The pall bearers were Lords Northcote. Northbrook, Norman, Shaffcesbury, Montgomery, Napier of Magdala, Muir, and General Beecker. There was ; a large attendance of notabilities, including Lords Cranbrook, Derby, Carnarvon, Granville, Mr Gladstone, Lord Howe, Mr Forster, and the Archbishop of York. Notwithstanding the rigour of the authorities the Eussian revolutionary publications are actively circulated at St. Petersburg. The Commons agreed last night on Mr Chapliu's motion for the appointment of a Royal Commission of enquiry into causes of agricultural depression. Viscount Sandon, speaking on behalf of the Government, accepted the motion. He said the Commission would be empowered to go widely into the question, and would comprise a certain number of tenant farmers. 1 Mr Bright warned Mr Chaplin that the motion opened the door for a much larger enquiry than he contemplated The commission must enquire into th« causes of the gigantic monopoly of land in England, and warned land owners that the competition with the United States j would go on increasing, and the only way of meeting it was, to get rid of the stupid mischievous Legislation, representing the tenure and transfer of lands. : ; Lord Hartington criticised the law of Entail and Settlement, and urged the necessity of enlarging the power limited to owners by amending the law of distress. The Queen and the Prince of.Wales i visited the agricultural show at Kilburn to-day. 1 Lord Beaconsfield declined the presentation of Turrerelli's laurel wreath, in con. sequence of Turrerelli plainly intimating an expectation of reward. Dr Stern of the Frankfurter Zietung has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for publishing a report of the trial in which his own journal was prosecuted by Bismarck. The Court went into mourning for a week for the French Prince Imperial. Herr Habricht and Dr Falk's resigna^ tions. were owing to religious differences with the Emperor. < The latest proposition regarding the Church policy is that Governmeiitl nominate bishops subject to' the'Vatican'sapproval. A number of Catholic priests punished

under the Fulk laws have been pardoned. It is rumored the Government will permit the banished Bishops to return. After an exciting scene in the Chamber of Deputies on June 9, the prosecution of Paul de Cossagnac by the general Government was authorised by a vote of 306 to 195. Gambetta moved De; Cassagnao's expulsion from the House, but afterwards withdrew it. Levert (Bonapartist) and- Morgue (.Radical) actually came to blows and had to be separated. Blows also passed between liouhier and JeanDaridi. The death of the Prince Imperial has thrown the Bonapartists into confusion. The Clericals hare seceded. .; <■ L'Ordre, the organ of M. Eouhier, says Prince Jerome Napoleon: is recognised as chief the Napoleonic dynasty, and consequently chief of the party. Jerome, on his part, intends to publish a manifesto after the funeral of the Prince Imperial, urging all Bonapartists to submit to the .Republic. Ho has already assured President Grevy he will not become a pretender to the Imperial throne. A meeting of Bonapartists was held at the residence of M. Eouher, when the will of the late Prince Imperial was read. o decision was arrived at respecting the future course of party. A. deputation communicated the will to Prince Jerome. Kouher refused to participate, saying that henceforth he was determined to take no active part in politics. The Dix-Neuvieme Siecle says numerous groups of Bonapartists hare some idea of bringing forward Jerome Bonaparte Patterson (American born in Baltimore), as pretender to. the. Napoleon succession. The whole of the Erst subscription of 2,000,000 francs to the projected Panama Ship Canal has been taken in Paris. The shares-, are 5000 francs each. A son of De Lesseps had the control of the business. American papers still pooh pooh the project as impracticable. , A heavy thunderstorm visited Paris, killing several people. The editor of Triboulet Has been sen. tenced to six months' imprisonment and 2,000 francs fine for caricaturing President Grevy and Ministers Ferry, Lepere, and M. Gambetta. „The Minister of Public Instruction, in the recent debate defended' Secular Editcation, and denied to Jesuits the right to call themselves Frenchmen. He declared tradings of religious fraternities constitute a peril to ciril society. . < v *,'•"* The crops in France hare miserably failed, including that of beet root and vines. ' ■ ' According to Lapere, Minister of Interior, purchases of foreign grain would amount to 20,000,000 francs. .> ■ ■> The success of Jules Ferry's Education Bill is considered certain. . ' V,_ By the fall of scaffolding, afc the* unfinished wall of a house in Montmirtre four workmen were killed and fire wounded. ' ft Only five passengers were sired out of 53 aboard a steamer sunk in the rirer Douro on July 6. r > m J^ De Lesseps has signed a treaty with the Government of the United States with regard to the Inter?oceanie Canal at Panama. . Matters will be pusned forward rapidly. It is proposed to offer General Grant the position^ of Honorary President of the Company. The Caarhas renounced iris intention of going to Berlin on the occasion of the Emperor's Golden Wedding, because the ; German police had received intelligence that his assassination would probably be attempted there. Modus Jivendi has been arranged between Russia and the Vatican. .TJAO