GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4635, 12 November 1883, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

A London magazine called Money, in a recent article expresses gratification that the Australasian colonies continue to come

to the English money market, and points out that though the annual debt charge is two millions more than it was ten years ago, this is met by an increase in the revenue of eleven millions.

Earl Derby has accepted the dedication of Mr Vesey Stewart's new book, entitled "Notes on the Stewart Special Settlements, Bay of Plenty," which has just been published. The Eev. A. 8. Green, who lately made a tour of the colony, shortly publisher a book called "The High Alps of y...v Zealand." A consignment of foreign fish .' :-\ New Zealand was sold retail in . a

Central Fish Market, on Sept. 29. '.»' Ie varieties were principally sea flounder and mullet, and the sale was pronounced a success, the mullet realising 8d to 9d each.

A deputy from Alsace, named Antoine, has been arrested for high treason, in publishing a newspaper called the Metz, after permission was refused by Marshal Manteuffel.

The statue of Germania, on the Rhine, at Niederwald, near Rudessiem, was unveiled with great ceremony by the Emperor William and the Crown Prince, on Sept. 28. In concluding his address which was chiefly devoted to the war events of 1870-71, the Emperor said, "In words spoken at the laying of the foundation stone, words which my late father after the wars of liberation of 1813 to 1815, bequeathed in iron to posterity, I dedicate this monument to the fallen, a memorial to the living, an acknowledgment to coming, generations, and a source of emulation. May God vouchsafe it." The inscription upon the monument says, " In memory of the unanimous and victorious rising of the German people, and the reestablishment of the German Empire, 1870-71." The total cost is: over one million marks, the Btatue is thirty-six feet high. As a counter demonstration crowds of Parisians assembled around the statue of Strasbourg, in the Place de la Concorde, and indulged in pa^iotie cries. The Emperor sent Yon Schilling, the sculptor of " Germania," an autograph letter, conferring a decoration, and en* closing a gift of 30,000 marks.

The London Board of Aldermen refused to ratify the election of Alderman Hadley by Commoa Council, as lord Mayor, because he is rich, a bachelor, and can provide no Lady Mayoress. Mr B. N. Jb'owler, of Cornhill, was elected instead.

The Admiralty have decided that coloured men cannot enter the British Navy without special sanction.

Irving Bishop, the mind-reader, at au exhibition in Dublin on October the 13th, failed four times to give the number- of a bank note, and then fainted.

The Queen will provide a large dowry for her granddaughter, the Princess Victoria of Hesse, who is about to marry Prince Louis, of Batenburg, who is impecunious . She will give them re oms at Kensington, and has made the Prince captain of her yacht " Victoria and Albert," a sinecure berth. The Radical M.P.'s protest against the appointment as a scandalous waste of money. "A despatch of the 3rd, says the Princess of Wales is becoming deaf, and the besi aurists are unable to suggest a remedy. The proofs of the Duke of Saxe-Co burg's -meiniors having been submitted to the) Queen, all political revelations • :ve been: supressed by her orders. '. -is action has caused an indefinite postponement of the publications. Henry M.' Stanley, the explorer, has seat a letter to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in which he urges that Great Britain should proclaim a protectorate over the Congo. Since the death of Mamood, the hangman, hundreds of his likenesses have been sold by; photographers, and 21 ropes and 9 sets of straps have been obtained from his wife and sent to London for sale. Marwood's successor has declared that he becomes hangman because he likes the notoriety attaching to the position. The Queen has issueda memo, forbidding privileged occupants of Royal palaces from indulgence in excessive gambling. The {society for promo hg State aided

emigration is canvassing the east end of London to see how many persons are disposed to go to North western Canada. A few English gentlemen have contributed £600 to pay the preliminary expenses for a six months' mission of Moody and Sankey at Islington.

Michael Davitt is writing a sketch in imitation of " The Pilgrim's Progress," entitled " My Past Life."

The secretary of the London and River Plate Bank absconded on October 3rd § having defrauded the bank of £110,000, which he used in stock gambling. The panamora of Tel-el-Eebir was burned during a fire in Belle Yue Gardens, Manchester, on October 3rd.

A reward of £5000 was offered in Penzance on October 10th for the recovery alive of Willie Dickinson, a boy stolen from his home in Wisconsin, United States, in November, 1881, and bronghfrto Cornwall. '^\

Oscar Wilde's lecture at Manchester was a dead failure. Most of the audience walked out.