GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3686, 18 October 1880, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

•London, September 9.

A mine of dynamite was found under the rails of the London and North' Western line. An express train to Scotland shook out the tube, and so prevented an explosion. Some discharged employees are suspected. "

The steamer Aurora, from Oporto to Southampton/has foundered with a loss of 50 lives. j

The steamer Hardwick, from Odessa for Bristol, with barley, foundered, and all except one'fireman perished. _ It is probable' the competitors in the international rowing race will beTrickett Laycock, Hanlon, Boss, Eiley, Boyd, Tentyck, Elliott, and perhaps Blackman. Hanlon required a month to recover from the effects of the voyage to England, during which he lost twelve pounds.

The Baroness Burdett-Coutts is ill, in consequence of the remonstrances of friends against her intended marriage. It is now admitted that the alien clause against foreigners in the Duchess of St. Albans' will cannot apply to Ashmead Bartlett, he being legally an English* .man. :- , ■ ■ .;.::.; •;.-■■: •■•n-^.\ v "^"« '■■ Mr Phillip Callan, M.P. for Loutti, went to the House of Commons drunk, and insulted the Chairman of Committee, and denounced the members generally as infidels, Scotch Presbyterians, contemptible Nonconformists, and despicable shopkeepers. His colleagues left the House in a body at the beginning of his speech. O'Connor Power, on behalf- of the Irish party, apologised for Callan'B conduct.

Dynamite deposits in tunnels under the railway near Charkoff were discovered only one day before the Czar passed the place en route for Lividia.

The Grand Duke Nicholas has been compelled to resign the command of the Imperial Guard. With other Grand Dukes, he has systematically embezzled, the regimental funds. Donelekoff broached the peculations because Nicholas opposed bis plans. It is also said that the builders of the Czar's yacht charged £20,000 extra, giving the Grand Duke a cheque for that amount secretly. The new Finance Minister found the finanoes so disorganised and encrusted with fraud that Melikoff advises a Commission: of Inquiry.

The combined fleet at Bagusa consists of twenty Teasels carrying 136 guns, 2300 men, and commanded by Admiral Seymour. On arrival the Admiral notified the Pasha at Dulcigno that he would hold him responsible for the lives of Christians. The demonstration was postponed to give the Christians time to leave the town, as their massacre was

feared.

Colonel Gordon left China after publish* ing a letter of advice to the authorities, recommending the non-employment of foreigners, and the use of breech loaders.

Waite, the absconding president of the Vermont National Bank, has been arrested, and charged with forgeries amounting to 250,000 dollars. His son is threatening that if his father is brought back he will expose others connected with him in the fraud.

Several counties in Kansas are famine stricken, and appeals have been made for aid. ' '' ■ '■■ . '■'"■•'■ i:'

The Schiratka Arctic Expedition has returned to New fork, having obtained many relics of the Franklyn Expedition, and also the remains of Lieut. Irving. Important rivers and coasts were discovered,and geographical errors Corrected. The longest sledge ride on record was made in the face of terribly cold weather, showing that white men can adapt themselves to the life of the Esquimaux in prosecuting Polar journeys. The testi*

mony of native witnesses shows that the fate of the officers and crews of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, was sad beyond description. What became of the leader and a large part of the crew is not known. Only a small party of officers, black about the mouth, with no flesh on their bones, were seen by the Esquimaux dragging a boat across the ice, when they disappeared and nothing more was' seen of them until their skeletons were found under the' boat, and it was evident they had fallen a prey to wild beasts, and with dreadful evidences that they had fed on the bodies of their weaker companions before succumbing to starvation and cold. Eecords of the expedition were used by the Esquimaux as play-things, and destroyed.

Seven negroes condemned for murder were taken out of gaol and lynched in Tennessee.

Some anxiety is felt for Bennett's Arctic Expedition.

; J. K. Emmett has been again imprisoned for habitual intemperance. ;

The steamer Vera Croz, of New York and Havanna, foundered in a terrible gale off the Coast of Florida, and twenty-five passengers were drowned. The Apache Indians are constantly committing murders. :