GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4612, 16 October 1883, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, September 21. A death from cholera was reported in Sligo County Hospital on the 20th.

Mkin and Co., London merchants, failed* on September 21st for" £100,C00.

Professor Nordenkfold's Greenland party have been heard from via Thurso, Scotland. They had reached a distance of 360 kilometres inland, and attained a height of 7000 feat above the sea. The whole region is proved to be a desert.

Germany interprets Mr Gladstone's visit to Denmark in a most unfriendly way.

Mary Anderson, the American actress, was reported on the 6th as playing to very meagre houses in London, at the Lyceum. The Duke and Duchess Teck have left England and gone into retirement in Germany to economise. Their apartments in Kensington Palace have been placed at the disposal of Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lome.

A testimonial to Martin Tupper is' progressing favorably. Tennyson, Lord Lytton, and all the leading publishers are subscribing liberally. There is a movement in London to erect a monument to Charles Dickens.

The British T.'jasury Department has cancelled £75,000,030 of various stock representing a portion of the National debt, and issued as terminable annuities.

At the Trades Union Congress, held at Birmingham, on Sept. 12, Joseph Arch offered a resolution—•• That considering Ihe large amount of waste land in the fciagdom capable oi cv- uvatioa, radical

changes in the land system of the country are required, in order that the land may may be put under productive cultivation for the benefit of the community, thereby offering a check to excessive emigration." An amendment was offered calling upon the Government to declare such land Government property, and with this addition the entire resolution was adopted. Moody, the Evangelist, goes is Ireland in October, noU however, as he says, "to convert Catholics," but only to preach the gospel. The striking weavers of Ashton-under* Lyne, held a mass meeting oa September 17th, at which a resolution was adopted rejecting the masters' proposals, and deciding that they will remain oat another month pending the preparation of new terms.

Lord Duncome, the future Lord Favarsham, is sho-tly to be married to .he professional Nellie De Mar, who with her sister Kate has been the reigning star for some time at one of the leading variety shows. She attracted the attention of the Prince of Wale? by her singing of tlie song "Go and inform your father;" and since that time has been advertised as the " Eoral favorite."

A movement is on foot to erect a monument to the late Captain Webb on the banks of the Severn, the spot where he first saved life.

The spread of the cattle disease in every portion of England causes the greatest uneasiness. In some sections only American beef is now obtainable.

The Lancashire Cotton Spinners' Society have passed resolutions declaring that the depressed state of the cotton goods trade' demands a reduction in both the spinning and weaving departments. At a meeting of the supporters of Mr Bradlaugh on the 11th, it was resolved that at the next sessions of Parliament the House of Commons should be given no rest until Mr Bradlaugh be admitted to his seat, or his legal disqualification finally determined.

Mary Anderson, the American actress now in London, recently declined the honor of being presented to the Prince of Wales. She desired, she said, to avoid any scandal.

The Queen subscribed £200 for the relief of distress in Egypt caused by cholera.

The Queen offered ex-Empress Eugenic the autumn tenancy of Aberlgedie Castle, which was courteously declined. The London night police are to be armed. Two or three recent burglaries iv which firearms played a leading part have changed public opinion on the subject, and the general feeling is that officers should be armed at once.

The uncollected writings of Thackeray are announced as included in the newSmith and Eldec edition, which will contain his earlier contributions to Punch and other magazines. The Prince of Wales had a pleasant time at Berlin on the. Bth, where he attended a fancy ball.' Lord Chas. Bsiesford and other members of the Eoyal party were attired.as cooks and c'lambermaids, etc. The Princess was absent.

Marwodd, the LoDdon hangman, died in September. An inquest was ordered, as it was said the Invincibles caused his death.

It is announced that the Queen and> Princess Beatrice go to the north of Italy for the winter. ' An impression has gone abroad that the Queen has practically disgrac; i the J^ew Duke of Mwrlborough by refusing to admit him to her preserce to deliver up the insignia of the Garter which his father wore, and which his successor, according to custom, delivered to^iiis sovereign. He has been told he must leave the things with the Lord Chamberlain.

The progress of distinguished foreign tourists in America is watch. 1 in London with great interest, aid in the place of Parliamentary proceedings the newspapers are full of American affairs, emigration, catural resources, scenery, social conditions, etc.

Tbe Vicar of Stratford on Avon has signified his willingressj to allow the remains of Shakespeare to be exhumed. The object is to compare the skull of the poet with his bust and portrait of him. Some of the members of the Town Council, however, oppose the opening of the tomb as a desecration, and threaten to throw anyone attempting the act into tne River Avon.

Her Majesty has given Tennyson a commission to write some beautiful verses about the late John Brown, which she will have engraved on some of the numerous memorial brasses and monus ments which are being prepared by her order. Theodore Martin will also write a biography of Brown. The same despatch adds that the Poet Laureate's income from his works is no longer what it was; his publishers used to guarantee him £300 a year, but can do it no longer, as he has been wasting his time writing rubbish for the stage. John Morley has retired permanently from the Pall Mall Gazette.

The National Land League met at Dublin on August 29th. Messrs Parnell, Davitt, and Sexton were present. The former, in his speech, referred to the success of Irish members .in Parliament to promote the Labor Tramways snd Emigration Act, and said he beiieved the day was near when the Irish would gain the full programme of measures for which the League had been formed. Mr Parnell thanked the Irishmen of Australia and America for their support; The bulk of English members of Parliament, he stated, had conceded that Home Rule was neses-, sary in Ireland. He also added that he had every hope that the emigralion scheme would prove successful. Mr Davitt said 6000 Irish householders had been deprived of their homes within the quarter ending the Ist of July. He urged the people to be resolute, calm, and not to lose their self contro 1. Ihe League arranged for a series of demonstrations in the chief cities during the coming winter. .Recent storms have almost totally destroyed the grain and other crops in the south of Ireland, and the authorities fear a renewal of the recent agitation. Owing to distress consequent on the lo^s of the crops, the Boaras of Guardians throughout Iceland demand s J. amendment of the land Act.

Michael Davitt was reported to be ill at Dublin on Sept. 12th, with inflammation of the lungs. All his engagements to speak at the National Land League meetings in various parts of Ireland nave been cancelled in consequence. The Queen arrived at Balmoral oa Sept. 9th. Her depression returning, she forbade the u&ual Highland games, and frequently drove to Crathic Kirkyard to visit John Brown's grave. John Brown's successor as personal attendant on the Queen is Francis Clerk, a Highland gillie, brought up on the Dee. The Queen has entrusted the task of wrHiig her biography i-« Miss Eddie, ft

Scotch lady, introduced by Lord Eonald Gower, but little progress has yet been made with the work.

Her Majesty the Queen has ordered an extensive section of * Windsor Castle to be lighted with the light at three o'clock on the morning of August 26th. The French steamer, St. Germain, from Havre for New York, and the steamer Woodburn, from the East by way of Suez, collided off the Eddystone lighthouse. The Woodburn immediately sunk, and eighteen of her crew were drowned. The St. Germain, in a disabled condition, arrived at Plymouth and landed the passengers saved from the Woodburn. It was a fine starlight night, and the sea was calm at the time of the collision. The Woodburn was in tow of the tugboat Recovery at thejtime, aad the St. Germain's helm was porled in order that the steamer, might go by the tug-boat's stern. The officers of the French steamer had no idea there was a ship in the lead, but the tug-boit c.ptain states that he had two bright lights at the tugboat's masthead, a clear indication that she had a vessel in tow.