GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4327, 13 November 1882, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

HorseXJtiards returned from Egypt on the 20th. The .reception along the whole route afte* landing was enthusiastic to a remarkable extent. Heports have reached London that the Danish and Dutch Arctic expeditions are in danger, being beset by ice in Kara Sea, about 80 miles from the Continent. The German ship Constantia, Capt. Kenblken, came in collision with the steamer City of Antwerp, fourteen milea off Eddystone on the" 17th October, and both vessels were sunk. Fourteen of the crew of the steamer were drowned.

Barry Sullivan, the actor, has consented to be nominated to Parliament by an Irish constituency on Home Kule principles.

The Irord'Lieutenant has commuted the death sentence of Walsh, convicted as an accessory to the murder of Constable Kavanagh, to penal servitude for life.

A thick fog, smelling of burning turf, covered the whole of St. Petersburg on the 20th and 21st October. A vast circle of incendiary fires, extending from Finland to the Baltic, is said ta surrouud the capital, and to include within its circumference Gatschina, where the Emperor now is. The fires are in the woods under which are turf pits, and they may last for a long time. They are attributed to the Nihilists.

Overdank, the man arrested in Trieste some time since while manufacturing bombs, was sentenced to death on the 19th inst.

Professor Blaikie, of Glasgow, and others are about to start a fresh land agitation in the highlands. Ihe movement is wholly independent of the land league.

A despatch from Dublin, October 4th, says:—The police believe that the murderers of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under-Secretary Burke, numbered 10, and and are still in Ireland, but that unless the aid of feme informer can be secured the crime cannot be brought home to the guilty parties. The weapons used in the commission of the murders were found some days ago concealed in rafters of stables in the rear of a house belonging to a man recently sentenced to penal servitude; for intimidating Mrs Kenny, the widow of the man murdered in Saville place because he was suspected of having given information concerning the murderers. It is alleged that Kenny was the driver of the oar on which the murderers rode. The weapons, found were four knives nine inches long, with blades three-quarters .of an inch wide ; they are quite new, very sharp, and evidently surgical dissecting knives. The blades were discolored by, as was proved by chemical analysis, human blcod. The authorities maintain the strictest silence. Three London detectives arrived at Dublin on the loth October with three of the crew of the Gladstone, one of whom was Westgate, the self^accused assassin, who aa mentioned before, had sailed for the West Indies. The sailors were subjected to searching examinations, and the authorities are thoroughly determined to sift Westgatc's assertions in order to quiet the public mind. The police firmly adhere to tip. belief that Westgate is crazy, and ** that his assertions are unworthy of belief.