GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4396, 5 February 1883, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Mr Gladstone goes to the south of Europe to recuperate his health.

A despatch from London dated January 9th says that the British ship, British Empire, from Shields for Bombay was burned at sea, 10 persons were saved, but two boats containing the captain, mate, and 14 hands are missing.

Pigott, the Land Leaguer, declares that £100,000 of the Land League's money is unaccounted for.

The editors of the Times and the London Observer were cited by the Lord Chief Justice on the 11th January for contempt of Court in publishing correspondence in the Boyd-Chamberlain libel suit.

The new Law Courts are pronounced an architectural failure.

Michael Davit on the 14th of January attempted to deliver an address at Oldham on the Irish question, but he was howled down by an organised gang. A free fight followed.

Weapons which are supposed to have been used by the Phceaix Park assassins have been found near the ; premises of Carey of the Dublin municipality, who was arrested with twenty others on a charge of conspiring! to murder Government officials.

The Court on the 11th January gave judgment against Charles Bradlaugh in an action against Erskine, the Deputy Sergeant-at-Arras of the House of Commons, for assault on the occasion of Bradlaugh attempting to enter the House and take his aeat as a member, after a resolution had been passed prohibiting his doing so.

Richardson and Nivea's linen factory in Belfast was burnt in January. There was a loss of £30,000.

The ship Wild Deer, bound from New Zealand, became a total wreck on the North Rock, Cloughes, Ireland, on January the 13th. All hands were saved. '•■,.. On the 13th the Prince of Wales unveiled the statue of the Royal MilitaryAcademy, Woolwich, which was erected to the memory of the Prince Imperial by the subscriptions of five thousand officers and men of the British army. Patrick Haggin's, one of the murderers of the Huddys, was hanged in Gal way on the 15th inst. There was no excitement. A British note re Egypt, proposed in order to avoid an abuse of freedom in the Suez Canal says that it should be enacted that in time of war K a limitation shall be placed on the time during which* vessels of belligerent powers will be permitted to ; remain in the Canal, and that no troops or munitions of war shall be disembarked and no hostilities permitted in the canal or its approaches, or anywhere in the territorial waters of Egypt, even in the eveut of Turkey being one of the belligerents. The recurrence of any emergency resembling the lale rebellion is provided for by a clause excepting measures for the defence of j^gypt from the above restrictions. Every-Power shall be bound to bear

the cost of the immediate repairs of any damage its. vessels may cause in the canal, and Egypt shall take all measures in her power to enforce the conditions imposed upon the ships of belligerent powers using the canal. No fortifications shall be erected on the canal or vicinity. Nothing in the agreement, however, shall be construed as curtailing the territorial rights ot Egypt, further than expressly stipulated.. Among other subjects the note declares the question of the suppression of slavery to be one wbiqh the British Government has much at heart, and that it will lose no opportunity of advising the-Khedive to take the necessary steps calculated to attain the end in view.

Continental floods on the Rhine have made terrible ravages. Many districts will never regain their former prosperity. On January 9th Raab, on the Danube, was submerged. Many persons were

drowned. The French General Chandazy died through the rupture of a blood-vessel in his head while asleep, On hearing of his death General Horex of Valden died at Lisle of apoplexy.

January 16th. Bismarck's appearance in the Reichstag on the 9th evoked general sympathy. He seemed very weak and in pain. . It is doubted if he will be able to attend the sittings of the Reichstag more frequently than of late. A petition, signed by 6000 persons, has been presented to the Reichstag asking the enactment of a law closing commercial and industrial establishments on Sunday.

Pabis, January 15

Rappel ridiculed the unveiling of the statue of the Prince Imperial by the Prince of Wales, and stigmatises the English nation as a " herd of cattle," and the English army as an " army of women." The rest of the Paris journals join in spiteful remarks.

A ukase by the Czar dissolves all secret societies in his dominions.

The Emperor and Empress of Russia arrived at St. Petersburg on January 13th, and immediately visited the Kassan fortress and Cathedral. The detectives and spies were increased in every direction.

The province of Murcia, Spain, was shaken by an earthquake on Saturday, the 13th of January.

The losses by th^ floods in Germany are estimated at 80,000,000 marks.