GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3948, 24 August 1881, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The London Standard reprints from an Irish American paper published in New York, a column and a half of extracts praising the outrages against England.

The shooting at Wimbleton began on July 12, The Canadian team number 20, commanded by Colonel Gibson, who is accounted the best shot i:i Canadn. The University match terminated in favour of Oxford. The heat was intense!" the thermometer on the 15th inst, standing at 137. Several riflemen .were overcome, and had to go to the Hospital. Scotland won the International^ 'Trophy, scoring 1774; England 1744; and Wales 1086.

Contributions to the Irish Land League from America uava^fallen off so materially that Mr Sexon, .President, suggests rfh at, the Irish farmers b.? asked to subscribe a portioa of their abatement.

A daughter of^. the;. English MajorGeneral Fyers, fell iatoHhe, sea at Hyeres, France, on the Bth. His wife and two otfter daughters attempted a rescue, but all four

Labouchere's censure resolution, against the Prif&e of Bulgaria wps not permitted to be pUk inihe House of. Common?. The American horngopaibtol.aclegates to the Convention in London hare been banqueted.

Sir Evelyn Wood has been raised to the Peerage for services in the Transvaal.

All England has been occupied during the month with a great libel case. The plaintiff, Miss Wilberforce, sues a prominent citizen, named Phillips, for having said that she poisoned his father, and that she wa<» an adventuress and a swindler. Plaintiff contradicted herself a hundred times in her testimony, and will be prosecuted for perjury.

a steamer has arrived in the Thames from the Clyde, iteered by the electric apparatus. The steering gear worked well, bat the compasses were made useless by electricity.

In Ireland trial by jury has become a farce, owing to a lax- law known as O'Hagan's Act. In some cases the jury announce before the charge is delivered that they have made up their minds to a verdict of " Not guilty." Evidence o; crime is disregarded, and if the Crown's case is absolutely conclusive of the prisoner's guilt, the jury generally disagree.

The Board of Trade returns show that the value of imports decreased £6,500,000 as compared with June of last year. The exports increased £342,000.

Keene has presented 5000 francs to the poor of Paris out of his Grand Prize winnings. •

The Cassagnac-Lullier duel was most sanguinary : it was fought with swords, continuing till the last drop of blood had been drawn, and the body of the vanquished combatant placed at the absolute disposal of the victor. The death ot the Rev. Daniel McCarthy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry, is announced.

Although Arthur Lefroy, the alleged murderer of Gould, was scut away from London at seven o'clock in the morning, a large crowd assembled at the London Bridge Station, and but for the strong guard of police, prisoner would have been put out of liis misery then and there. He bad lived for a fortnight ia a wretched coffee house in Stepney, almost without food. He looked nearly starved. His arrest is due to his lodgmghouse keeper, an old woman namttl Shuth, who recognised him frobi th# Hue and Cry pictures. She will get the whole of the reward of £200 for her shrewdnesss. The police say he seemed* relieved when captured. He had shaved off his whiskers and cut his hair, and although he denies all knowledge of the crime, his flight, concealment, aud attempt to disguise himself really amount to a plea of guilty. He took his arrest coolly, but was much depressed and scared at the menacing attitude of the mob near the railway station.

Dean Stanley was stricken with erysipelas on the 18th, and the disease spread rapidly. Canon Farrar administered the Sasrament and the Dean died on the 19th. The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived in time for a few parting words, and Canons Farrar and Jones and the Dean's were at his bedside. His last audible words were " I have laboured amidst many frailties and much weakness to make Westminster Abbey a great centre of religious life in a truly liberal spirit." Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has been expelled from French territory chargpi with intriguing against the Kepublic, which he denies. Spanish hostility towards France is very bitter, and in the Madrid Cafes the probability of war is openly discussed, and the coming elections are comparatively ignored. At the final reading of the Irish Land Bill in the House of Commons, the majority of the Conservatives, and some Parnellites, including Parnell himself, abstained from Toting; also Goschen. Henyage, and some other Liberals.

Midhat Pasha attended suicide by opening his veius with a pair of scissors.

County Cork farmers and t|j|icultural labourers have come to terms. The

potato crop throughout the country promises to be plentiful.

An anti slavery decree has been issued by Egypt. Actual slaves remain so, but no additions are to be made.

Another comet has appeared in the west. It is labelled by astronomers as •' Comet C," being the third this year.

The Czar will shortly leave for Moscow, and as a precautionary measure troops have been stationed all along the line. Four hundred police act as an escort. Sixty-three persons perished iv elevVn fishing boats lost off the coast of England in the gale on the 21st of July. The Nihilists held a Congress in Berlin under the very nose of the Government, who, although fully warned of the tact, were unable to discover the place of meeting.

The Jew rioters of New Stettin, angered at the denunciation of the Zeitung, a local paper, severely assaulted the editor, sacked some shops, and demolished the Zeitung office. Over:thirty- rioters were arrested. Nihilist Plots. The New York Herald's special of July tjgl, has the fofiowisg fresh particulars of M. re^errt plot to assassinate the Czar telegraphed. Baronoff, Chief of the Police, has.received an anonymous letter stating that the Emperor was to be assassinated oil the 15th. The letter contained nothing more, but Baronoff made enquiries in every direction and ascertained that a young student had committed suicide under extraordinary circumstances. The man ran himself through with a sword without having injured any vital part ; he then lodged a bullet from his revolver in the left temple, but then, finding bimselt still alive, he fired again in his temple, and in the gaping wound made by his sword. This determined;.suicide awakened jßaronoff's suspicions." He found the man apparently dead, but in fact still breathing, and in a swoon. By the aid of doctors, he caused him to come to his senses, and in a speech the student declared be had formed one of a band of twenty Nihilists, who had all sworn to kill the Emperor. The lot had fallen to him, but his heart failed, and he determined to kill himself instead. He lived till the 18th, and before breathing his last revealed to Baronoff the names of all his brother Nihilists, who were promptly secured by the police.

A special from St. Petersburg says another Nihilist was found murdered in the cemetery, with his throat cut from ear to ear. Deceased was in communication with the police when his brother JNihilists discovered his treachery. They sent him a circular inviting him to dinner, and on returning at night they assassinated him, and carried his body to the cemetery. The letter of invitation was found in the vjctim'js pockety and enabled the police to makfl^spme iijupoEiatit arrests.

A great landslip near Segariswell, Canton Berne, is steadily moving towards Lake Thurm. It makes three metres in its daily course. It is three miles wide, and of unknown depth. All cities are out of danger, but farm houses are deserted.

A terrific storm has passed over Lake Geneva. The vines and crops in the vicinity suffered immense damage from large hailstones.