GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3850, 3 May 1881, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, April 10. Mr Poll, Conservative member for Wigan, has been unseated for bribery. Miss Lenari, fiancee of Herbert Reeves, the teuor, perished at the tire at the Nice Opera House. Herr Most, editor of the Freeheil (Freedom), London, has been arrested, and . the paper suppressed, because ho justified the killing of the Czar in a strong leading article, the page being surrounded by a blood red border. Sir W. Harcourfe said the proceeding was not a State, but Police prosecution. Mr Gladstone was loudly cheered when he rose to make the budget. He showed the gross revenue was £84,041,000, an increase of £1,341,000 over the estimates. The total from increased taxation was only £378,000. Violent squalls were experienced on the 3rd. Many small boats filled with pleasure seekers were capsized, 16 lives being lost. In the Lawson-Labouchere case, before Justice Coleridge, the Judge commented severely on Mr Lawson's conduct relative to the personal iracas. The question was not whether Lawson was a coward' in refusing to fight a duel, which he had a perfect right to decline, but whether, having acted as he had, he was the person to complain very much of subsequent publication of libel. Judge Coleridge could not help thinking if Lawson refused to fight he should have abstained from the subsequent gross and outrageous insult contained in the message to Labouchere that "he bad thrashed him like a dot;,, and would, under certain conditions, do so again." The Court pointed out that the account of the fracas that appeared in Truth in the form of a letter from Lawson was quite sufficient ground of indictment for libel, even if it had not been published in the newspaper. It was, howefer, published after an account emanating from the office of the Telegraph, which appeared in the Manchester Guardian, and after the account had been written by Lawson to the editor of Vanity Pair. Lord Coleridge implied that the letter was written in a braggadacio tone. He showed Labouchere was unable by the nature of the proceedings to give his own account in Court, and strongly stigmatised some of the Telegraph's personal attacks, particularly on Beaoonsfield, which Labouchere had adduced, to justify his assertion. Mr Lawson, he said, was a disgrace to journalism. ITALY. The Pope has ordered strict inquiry into the saerjligous traffic of spurious eelics. Entire owteoiogipal specimens purporting to be the remains'of early Christian martyrs freshly dug from the catacombs at Home have been shipped to America. ' The opera house at Nipe was destroyed fire on the night of the 23rd, a gas explosion being the cause. The fire commenced soon after the curtain had risen for the performance of "Lucia. The tenor Dr Villiers, the basso, Milleri, the baritone, Carbone, and a number of chorus singers were burned. Mdlle. Donadio the prima douua wade her way

out in safety. Stranqisch the impressario was injured. 3?h« victims number over 100< SPAIN. Serious floods occurred at Seville, and many houses in the city hare given away before the force of the water. All valley in the country beyond seems an immense lake the tops of trees and churches roofs just appear above the water winch sweeps along cattle and crops, and the river five mile! broad before if enters Seville is rushing over the gardens, quays, and, entering the Stelmo palace. On the sth, the Mmister o Pabic Works left for the scene with eight Government engineers. The King places his private purse at the disposal of tbe authorities to relieve sufferers.. It is estimated lpsses will be about 1.000.000d015.