GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3710, 15 November 1880, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Commander Cheyne writes to the Standard declaring that Sir John Franklin and the members of his expedition were murdered by a contractor who filled tins, labelled beef, with bone and offal. Ross's expedition supplied by the same contractor, nearly suffered Franklin's fate from that cause. He denounced the contractor as a murderer, and challenged him to bring au action for libel.

The Vatican threatens to re call the Papal nuncio from Paris if the Jesuit decrees are enforced.

Carmelites have been expelled from France, and Italian priests ordered to follow. . Thirteen thousand unrecognised monks and nuns were also expelled from Germany. A workmen's strike is spreading amongst various classes of mechanics.

Hartmann says the last attempt to blow up the Czar failed because a carriage, which came along an hour before, cat the wire connecting the battery. He asserts there are thirteen million .Radicals in Russia. *

. Owing to the influx of French Jesuits to Italy, the Government intend to revive the hostile laws allowed to be some obsolete. Greek Volunteers for theaimy are constantly arriving from Alexandra and Smryna. The press is discussing the repeal of the Act of Union with the Norwegian Republic.

Thirty feet of masonry, and immense masses of rook, hay* fallen at the St. Got hard tunnel. Four men were killed.

General Todleben has been appointed Superintendent of Engineers, vice the Grand Duke Nicholas. -

Reports of death from porerty fill the Rusian press from various departments of the interior of Prendrias, which are rapidly employing stores for the consumption of the famine stricken districts. China has empowered an ambassador to close all differences with Russia.

The marriage of the Czar with the Princess.Dolgornki has been celebrated, the Czar's family disapproving. The Czarwitch went to Hafsal, and the Grand VJadimar went abroad. The marriage was private. The Czar has purchased for his Consort the palace of the Grand Duchess Catherina, paying two million roubles.

There hare been fearful gales in Cornwall; and harbour works and Teasels destroyed,

Pleuro-pneumonia is spreading amongst •win« in Lancashire. . Madam Kachel, the female btautifier, died in prison. R» Irish affairs it is stated that arms hare been freely bought in many places.

One Dublin tradesman boasts that he sold 1400 in a very short period. In Belfast breechloaders are advertised for sale at fifteen shillings. A brisk trade has been done in rifles in all the small country towns.

At a meeting of Orangemen in Guildford, County Down, it has resolved to call on the Government to suspend trial by jury. They charged Americans with promoting sedition.

Parnell, on the sth ult., addressed a crowded meeting at Kilkenny. There were nine Ms.P. and fifty priests present. . .

It is announced that when sufficient information has been collected, the Land League will organise a great strike against paying rent on the estate of every renting landlord.

The Landlords' Association have appealed to the Lord Lieutenant to take immediate steps to protect life and property. The barracks in West Ireland are all being prepared for the fullest complement of troops they are capable of accommodating.