General News.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4045, 15 December 1881, Page 3

General News.

in 42 English and Welsh boroughs, the Mally legitimate disbursements of the dfpdidates exceeded £5,C00. More than twice that amount was spent in contesting jTorktf,. in Southwark the expenditure 'reached £15,570; in Lnmbeth it came to / £18,272; and Manchester was only won / and lost at a cost to the contending of £20,540. Six candidates for the suffrages of the 24.CGD electors of the city of London; expended £13,507, nearly £10,000 -more than it cost to elicit the opinion of the 27,042 voters of Edinburgh, the exact expenditure there being £3,602, while Dublin with 16,599 electors, extracted £5,711 from the pockets of its political wooero-^ Glasgow proved the costliest of the S^ftish burghs, the election coming to £14.584; Kilmarnock followed at a respectful distance with £6,079; Dundee and Ayr being the only other burghs in which the expenditure exceeded £5,000. The Belfast election cost £11,174, that of Down county £12,170, and that of Antrim county £14,416. Argyllshire is the one Scotch county credited or discredited with costing aspirants for its representation above £10,000, thereby emulating the example of no fewer than 33 English and Welsh county constituencies. On sof these 33 constituencies the expenditure amounted to more than £20,000. In South Essex £20,057 were spent; in Montgomeryshire, £20,094 ;in South Durham, £22,088; in North Durham, £22,723; and in South East Lancashire, £25,782. This being the largest sum set down in the record, it is well, perhaps to note how the money went. Here are the items: Returning officer's charges, £1,254 19s 4d; agents, clerks, messenger's, and canvassers, £4,592 4s 6d; hire of conveyances, £7,148 6s; printing and advertising, £9,466 11 10d; all other expenses, £4,220. Total, £25,752 U Bd.«-.Chamber's Journal.

Pilgrimages to the Sacred Tomb at Jerusalem are oftrn made by pious Christians, and it would jippenr that the Egyptians consider it a benefit to their souls to make pilgrimages to the shrinks of ancient demi gods. A few weeks ago the great pilgrimage to Tantah look place, and some half a inillioi^ people journeyed to tho tornit of Seyvid Ahmet el Badawee, a \>wm sheikh, ronowned for his strength aud piowess, who died some six hundred years ago, and to ! whose tomb pilgrimages are. made frr.ro ! all parts of Egypt. Peculiar sunctity j attaches to the spot, which is supposed to j possess, amongst other virtues, certain i miraculous powers in regard to those j whose maternal expectations have b< en I disappointed, and i( is for this rea-oa frequented by numbers of Arab women. His Imperial Majesty the Sultan has telegraphed a message of condolence to His Majesty the Emperor of AusiroHungary on the occasion of the sudden and unexpected death of Baron Haymerle Iv Turkish circles, it is generally sup posed that the policy of the Ausiro Hungarian government will be completely changed in consequence of the death of the late Prime Minister, and what direction its new development may take, is the subject of much speculation.— Levant Herald.