GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3970, 19 September 1881, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

John Skitt and Co., London oil merchants, hare recently failed, and the business has passed into the hands of the present sole partuer, who has absconded to Spain, after putting into circulation twenty thousand pounds of forged bills. The Daily New says it has become evident the English tenants mean to bestir themselves to obtain redress for legitimate: grievances. Various agencies are in cooperation to bring about legislation regarding land laws. Mr Gladstone rcently expressed his opinion favorable to such legislation.

In Berlin, at a conference of the orthodox Jtfvangelical clergy, Herr Platt, Inspector of Missions, said the Jews aimed at absolute predominance, and were not satisfied to enjoy equal rights with Christians. Special measures to prevent Jewish autocracy should be taken. An anti Jewish agitator, Herr Rappel, addressed the conservative meeting, which broke up in disorder. He was obliged to fly for his life.

Landlords in tho South of Ireland have permanently reduced the rents twenty-five per cent.

The harvest prospects in Great Britain grow more desperate. The grain cut is growing black, or sprouting, and standing wheat is being thrashed outby the heavy rain. Boot crops in some districts of Ireland are under water, and seriously damaged. The farmers are everywherp disheartened.

Grouse shooting is almost abandoned owing to the heavy rains. The Universal Jewish Society of New York are bringing the oppressed Jews from Russia, settling them in the United Slates.

Mr Herbert Gladstone, son of the Premier, has been re-elected tor Leeds, after his appointment as Junior Lord of the Treasury. One of the brigands who captured Mr Suter has been arrested at Athens with eleven thousand francs in his possession. Herbert, the Liberal leader in Austria, in a debate in the Reichstag, declared that Europe was suffering from militarism, which is leading to a constant increase of migration, and predominance of the United States.

A Polar conference is being held at St. Petersburgh to arraDge for an expedition to investigate the magnetic and meteorological condition of the Polar regions. Delegates from leading Continental countries are present. Forty thousand Scotch Volunteers were present at the Eoyel review at Edinburgh,

The elections in Spain have resulted in ! the return ol two thirds Liberals. The latest phase of Boycotting is at Temple, near Tipperary. Mrs Lalor evicted some tenants, and the people of the district have placed the evicted men for the last two Sundays in Mrs Lalor's pew in the parish church, built by herself.

Stanley, the African exploror, is lying dangerously ill in Central Africa, and is not expected to recover. Colonel Clough, who distributed stamps for the Irish Law Courts, and who defrauded the Government out of £10,000 by forging stamps, has been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. Dutch is the official language determined | on for the Transvaal. The new American cable will be in operation on November Ist.

The subscriptions to the Land League I for the year amount to £10,700, nearly all I of which has come fiym America. Only , £81 were collected in Great Britain, and j £162 in Ireland. ! A mob has smashed the windows of the Rector and other respectable inhabitants of Tipperary, who did not illuminate their houses in honor of Dillon's release. A new company is shortly to be formed with a capital of four millions' to reclaim the waste land of Irelaud. The Dynamite scare in England is increasing. All sorts of rumours are circulated; among them that the Duke of Edinburgh is specially marked out for assassination.