Gereral News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4630, 6 November 1883, Page 3

Gereral News.

The^Morning AdTertiser is of opinion that the Palvation craze is collapsing at s rate which beaisanticipstion. At all events the General has been compktelydefeatod in Switzerland, and, indeed, has failed to plant his standard on the Continent. Here at Home also it is evident that his. plan of conquest is falling to pieces, and that reTerse is fast changing the color of bis sue " cesses .Time has shown how true was the prediction that in floating his invention as a financial speculation be billed the goose with the golden eggs. That fatal mistake fleems to have opened the eyes of many; »t all events, though his organisation has hot come to sudden extinction in England as in Switzerland, or fizzled out as in France, it is obviously not the less fading in the limbo of playecUout delusions. # Mr Sporgeon surprised his congrega.tion a feWSundays ago. He began his sermon as usual, and getting through his " firstly," pretty well. Then, feeling vt ry warm himself, and seeingJiis congregation growing listless, he interrupted himself with the remark, " That is the end of the •firstly,',and it's so warm to»day that I think the secondly and thirdly will keep for a cooler Sunday." So the congregation went its way, and Mr Spurgeon went his way. An extraordinary rumor (writes the Melbourne Herald) is current in legal and political circles, which claims more attention than gossip usually does from the fact that it is repeated hy persons who are not given to idle talk. It is to the effect that theie is a probability oi one of the Judges of the Supreme Court resigning his present position, and becoming the editor of one of the Melbourne daily papers at a salary of a couple of thousand pounds a year in excess of what he is receiving for bis judicial office, and that he will be succeeded npon the bench by Mr Xerferd, the At-torney-General. A correspondent sends the Australasian the following mode of preparing celery as cure for rheumatism :—" The' celery ihould be cut into bits, boiled in water until soft, and the water drunk by the patient. Put new milk, with a little flour and nutmeg, into a saucepan with the boiled celery, serve it warm with pieces of toast, eat with potatoes, and the painful ailment will soon yield. I have suffered many years from rheumatism, and, with others, can assert that this remedy is as often effective as it is simple."