GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4587, 17 September 1883, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

San Fbancisco, August 26. In the House of Commons: on August 22nd, the Under-Secretary for India presented the Indian Budget; the surplus for 1884 is estimated at £457,000. Sir Stafford Northcote attacked the whole policy of the Government. He accused it of .keeping back facts in the Mada» gascar affair. Mr Gladstone in reply praised,the working of the Land Act, and Earl Spencer's vigorous government of Ireland. In relation to Madagascar, he declared that nothing had occurred to disturb the cordial relations of England and France. Prince Bismarck in reply to the French journalists declares that France threatens the peace of Europe, and that such a state of affairs cannot continue without serious danger, aud that passions fomented by agitation, may burst the bonds of peace. « ■ Mount Vesuvius was again active on August 22nd, and buildings and the mountain railroad were damaged by the tremblings. The Freeman's Journal bitterly denounces the House of Lords for its action in rejecting the Irish Registration Bill. An extensive flour mill near Kinnegad, Ireland, was burned on the 22nd. Three persons perished. : Count Chambord's death is alluded to by the Republican journals respectfully, and they unite in paying homage to his sincerity. The Royalist papers appeared with mourning borders, and are reserved iv their comments regarding the consequence of his death. The body will be buried by the side of Charles the Tenth. A reign of terror existed on August 24th in the village of Cassoo in Roumelia. The Turks were murdering the Christians, and all the latter who could get away were fleeing from the country. An accident happened to the Duke of Cambridge; while he was at Chatham. He had just alighted from a carriage with Colonel Gordon, when the horse's became very restive; turning suddenly round they upset the Colonel and the carriage, and struck the Duke in the chest. His Royal Highness left for Woolwich yesterday mornipg. , Thg new Governor of Lebanon has sent^ to the] Porte a,memorandu^^ta^Rg"*tK^t the situation of that-'provimpfbas'b'eeni:. rendered by the action of R*usthem Pacha, /much worse than it was formerly. "^ ■„ Mr Gladstone is said to have recently declared, in a conversation with a Methodist clergyman, that the largo number of ministers and others wearing the blue ribbon was an exceedingly gratifying circumstance, speaking well for the future. Switzerland has just concluded a treaty with the United States, to be in force thirty years, and binding both Republics to submit any differences arising between them to arbitration. Honduras and Colombo have also given their adhesion to the principle. If France should continue to countenance the attempts of M. De Brazza to establish French rule in Central Africa. The African Association at Berlin intend to implore the protection of England. The project for the neutralisation of the Congo is favored in London. His Holiness the Pope is drawing up an encyclical letter against divorce. A despatch from London dated August sth says that Her Majesty the Queen is much stronger. In receiving M. Waddington, the new French Minister, she stood throughout the interview, which lasted twenty minutes. She has ordered that no tenant festivities take plac? this year at Balmoral, or on any of her estates, on account of the death of John Brown. Another despatch says that in spite of the continued efforts of the Royal family, and her medical advisers, Her Majesty obstinately declines to go abroad for her health, and insists on spending the autumn at Balmoral; she is determined to be near John Brown's grave, and will make daily visits to it, contributing new testimonials of the esteem in which sue holds the memory of the departed gillie, fler family is exasperated by her oxpendi, ture of feeling on this subject, w|iehs begins to border on the ridiculous, Majesty left London for Balmoral on Friday, tbte 25th August. The Cairo correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes s—A medical friend in forms me that at one of the principal hospitals no precautions are taken to disinfect or even to cleanse the bed and bedding from which a cholera corpse has been removed. As one patient dies, the body is hustled away for burial, and another sick or dying wretch fills the vacancy caused by the death. Even the vomit and ejections from successive patients are allowed to accumulate for many hours, until the whole place becomes inexpressibly noisome, and this case is but a type of what is going on at every depot for the receipt of cholera stricken people. Carts are sent round at intervals to collect the dead at the hospitals and from private houses, and the bodies are not unfrequently found even in the open street. , Should the men in charge of the dead cart come across a sick person; the latter is unceremoniously seized and thrown into the vehicle on top of jts ghastly freight, and is left there until the cart charged with the collection of. the gick only is met, when the living are transferred from the dead cart to the company of their fellow sufferers, and taken to the hospital. Mrs Langtry says it is the dreacj of her life to return from her American and | Australasian tour, and found a theatre in j London to be known by her name.. The London Athenjgum devotes 1$ columns to the publication of a new Byron correspondence, showing the relations which were existent between Lord and Lady Byron and bis sister. The c,oww

pondence disposes of the scandal circulated by Mrs Harriett Beecher Bto\-?e. Miss Finney (stage name, Fortescue) has married a son of Lord Cai ens. Serious rioting has occurred in the town of Coalbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland, between the Protestants and Catholics, Several of the police were wounded. While thirteen men were being hauled to the surface at a mine in the town of Redruth, Cornwall, the rope attached to the car broke, and the men were precipitated to. the bottom of the shaft and instantly killed. Mr Newdegate threatens Mr Bradlaugh with an action for libel. Bradlaugh charged Newdftgafe with being so tipsy in the House of Commons that he fell off his seat, and also that during the discussion on the Affirmation Bill he was so j drunk that he could not walk from the i lobby to give his vote. Newdegate's friends say that he only fainted through illness, and a doctor has attested that fact. A ferryman left Dover on a floating byciclo on July the Bth for the purpose of crossing the channel, and arrived at Calais at five o'clock on the same afternoon. . The attempt made on August 3 to blow up a large linen factory at Cufar, Fifeshire, Scotland, is attributed to Fenians. Mr Labouchere says in Truth that the greater part of the Duchess of Edinburgh's trosseau was sold in London some time ago, as the property of a lady of rank. Her Majesty received Mr and Mrs Gladstone on August 4th, the first time for many years. The coldness between the Queen and the Premier is lessening, and this is considered to indicate the early application' 'to Parliament for a farther grant to the sons of the Prince of Wales. The Star Music Hall, Sunderland was burned. Fourteen hundred people were in the hall when the fire originated, but all got safely out in four minutes time.