GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3922, 25 July 1881, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The Hon. Mr Gladstone hopes to prorogue Parliament in the firs! week in August. In Spain free traders and protectionists i are holding large meetings—the former cite with approval ■ the example of America. •> Baron Mazniro, who was re-called to Berlin from Copenhagen for attending a banquet to Sarah Bernhardt, hus become insane. The master shipbuilders of London have yielded to the demands of the men, and the strike is averted. Thirty thousand Staffordshire nailmakers struck for 30 per cent, more wages. Earl Granville's despatch to the British Minister at Washington regarding Fenians in New York, will not be completed before July, 16. Mr Galling, the well-known correspondent of the Loudou Times, left England on the 26th for the purpose of penetrating into Siberia, and describing the condition of;the exilea there. The health of the^Empresa of Germany is improving. The Cornell Club (American) intend to retrieve their lost honors, by rowing against the best boat clubs in England at the Metropolitan Amateur Regatta on the 15th. A letter has been received, according to a despatch from Liverpool, threatening to blow up the house of the Duke of Westminster, and the residence of Mr Gladstone. It is said that Mr Parnell crosses the Atlantic to avoid making speeches that would land him in jail. Earl Granville has sent a despatch through Sir Edward Thornton, expressing the concern of the Government for the attempt on President Garfield's life. The American Consuls throughout Ireland have been instructed to report carefully to Washington concerning the character and extent of the disaffection, particularly relative to the prevalence and conduct of the Irish-American element. Ex-Alderman Clancy, of Ottawa, Canada, exhibited a flying machine on the 28th. At the average height of twelve feet he made a flight of a quarter of a mile. The machine is the result of three years' thought and labor. A man named Arthur Lefroy was found in one of the Brighton railway carriages ou June 27th, wouuded on the head and bleeding. He reported that his fellow travellers were a countryman and an old gentleman; that, shortly after passing Croydtn, he heard a shot and was

stunned. The police found several bullets imbedded in the carriage, and in the Folcouibe tunnel they found the corpse of T. J. Gould, a retired business man, who had been in London to collect dividends, with his throat cut. He was stabbed in various places. Only a pocket book containing cards was found on his person. Lefroy, after haviug his wounds dressed, started for ( London. He is a newspaper reporter, aged 22. He has been arrested for murder. The London Times, commencing on the re-assembling of the Monetary Confer-, ence at Paris, advises the^WiffiaFataT of the British representatives'in a body, as there is no expectation in -any~"c'ase~ of England's agreeing to anything Which will affect her adhesion- to the siogle rf£>ld standard, and views--the presence of English delegates in' Qqn^r^ps-^^rbosi!; unfortunate, and calculated t*£.injure the reputation of the English jfforernment. Eussia will endeavor to re-open negotiations with the' Amerioam^Govcrnment, looking to restrict the nghtpf asylum. Tremendous storms hsfjsfi?avaged? the Eastern and Western American. States. They have been particularly severe in Illinois, Ohio, Missouri,, and.New Hampshire. Horses and men were repotted. killed by the lightniug. The wires-w«re everywhere prostrated. -■-•■:.>* In the Monetary Conference, the Austrian delegates are instructed to maintain a friendly interest! towafds bimetallism, but not to depart from-the reserve hitherto displayed. A disturbance*bj French andrltalians at Marseilles, and in J>ther parts of France, and.alsQ^ltaly, islikely to lead to national complications. ■■''■■■ \ : t; Articles in the. Biberta (Rome) saysFrance is anxious, jtd retrieve the shame of her defeat in 1880 (?.187*0),"anilis'convinced that sfw is not sufficiently strong io measure herself with Germany, and. seeks in every way a pretextifor picking quarrels with Italy. The writer advises^ patience and foresight/; and] jfipjlf be for Italy to choose the 'occasion of going to war with France, and not leave the latter to force war wfceji fU# finds it most convenient. A contagious malady like leprosy bas appeared at Toulouse, Fcance. , „,.,.,.„.,,.., Bismarck is ill again and confined t« his residence in Berjin. ' A Paris dispatch announces the death ef M. Jules Arland and Stanislaus Dufaure. , r -v - Cornell College crew (American) were? badly beaten in the race for the Stewards' Cup on July 30. They were a bad third. ' '' ■