GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4491, 28 May 1883, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The latest news from London is to May the fifth.

An explosion has occurred at Petersborough, blowing up a sewer in the principal street. It caused great alarm, as it was believed to be the work of dynamitists. It was soon found oat that the cause was the ignition of gas in a sewer.Both London and Paris are waiting for the return of Mrs Langtry from America to engage her for a professional tour. Sir Stafford Northcote unveiled the statue of Earl Beaconsfield in Parliament Square, London. There was a great assemblage present. The Gambetta monument fund has reached £4000. The French expedition to Tonquin has caused great excitement in China. It has been deemed prudent to retain the several ironclads of the French squadron in Shanghai and Hongkong.

Five cases of leprosy bare occurred at Chicago. The disease is also reported to hare appeared in New York. The medical men are of opinion that it is spreading in the United States. A lazarette is proposed to be erected. The Hawaiian Government have protested against the embarkation of Chinese at Hongkong and other ports for the Sandwich Islands, and given notice that steps will be taken to prevent their landing.

The old Parliament House in Quebec was burned on the 19th April. The only loss besides the building was about 25,000 dollars on the library. Mitchell has gone into training at Saratoga for his fight with the New Zealander, Herbert Slade, on Sept. 11. Yellow fever was increasing at Buenos Ayres. There were 40 deaths on the Ist April.

A deep-laid attempt was made by five convicts in St. Paul's Penitentiary to escape. The skull of the leader (Leblanc) was broken in with a padlock, and the rest were secured.

The Quebec Central Eailway Co. lost 250,000 dollars by the failure of its English agents,—Messrs Cooper, Hall, and Co. Mr Siemens, the telegraphic engineer, has been knighted by the Queen.

A London syndicate has bought three million dollars first mortgage bonds of the Oregon and California railroad, which will secure its completion: M. Mosseau, the Premier of the Quebec Cabinet, has been compelled to resign his seat, for bribery and corruption of voters at his last election in Jasquero, Cartier County. The affair has caused a great political scandal.

The Rev. Josiab Hansen, Mrs Stowe's original Uncle Tom, died at Dresden, Ontario, on M>-y sth, aged 94. Irish. Items. In Carey's cross-examination by Joe Brady's counsel, during the trial of the Phoenix Park murderers, Brady's counsel elicited that Carey, while plotting the murders with the other men, was a member of a sodality which received the sacramentjat stated periods. He had for 16 years been working for wage 9 averaging £2 per week, and in 1882 bad 90 persons occupying his various houses. Finally he said he had been informed by Mallow, the chief of the detectives, if his evidence should be fully given to the State, and confirmed by others, that he and his brother would be pardoned.

The Dublin Freeman's journal says the dynamite plot was betrayed to the Btitish Consulate in New York, and the name of every conspirator who came to England, and the ship on which he sailed, was cabled to England directly after the vessel left New York; and the police watched the conspirators from the moment they landed in England. The Journal adds that the members of the governing council could alone have such information.

The Parnell Testimonial Fund realised to April the 30th £1200. Lady Mountmorris and Mrs Blake have been awarded £3000 each as compensation for the murder of their husbands.

The Irish Nationalists' League in London are raising a fund for the relief of the families of those who have fled the country or been arrested in connection with the murders in Ireland. Six hundred families are said to be destitute.

The police have evidence that James Carey was implicated in the murders of Talbot, the police informer; Clark, the Kenian informer; and the attempted murder of Murphy Broken, of the Irish People. A great number of the Irish immigrants sent out by the British Governs ment, on arriving at New York and becoming known as assisted Irishmen, obtained work on the East Tehuantepecship railway, Nicaragua. This was begun at Minatitlau on April 30, in the presence of the Federal local authorities. The Star and Herald of Panama, refer to the reports about the contracts to cut the canal being let as having no foundation in fact, and assert that no contractor dare undertake the excavation in any part of the route at a million of dollars per mile.

A monster meeting of Irishmen and their sympathisers was held in Chicago on May 2nd to ratify the proceedings at Philadelphia, in the convention for form* ing a National Land League of America.

A despatch from London of April 28th says the British Government has asked the United States for the extradition of 12 Irish conspirators now in America. Mr Gladstone, in reply to a question ia the House of Commons, said he did not think it in accordance with the public interest to make any statement as to the negotiations with the American Govern-* ment on the subject of the Irish out" rages.