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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4666, 18 December 1883, Page 2

American.

Extraordinary precautions have teen. taken to guard thje British meu:of»war lying in the ports'of the Canadian seaboard provinces against Fenian attack.

Gerald Massey is at present in New York, and en route for Australia. He is. nearly broken down by bronchitis, contracted in America, and from which he hopes his trip to the colonies will free him. ?

Capt. F. W. Dawson, an Englishman, and editor of Charleston News and Mercury, has been created a Knight of the Order of St. George by the Pope, for the opposition he has made to duelling, and which has gradually led to the suppression ot the practice in South Carolina. ,

Mrs Langtry was playing in Louisville on November 26. She is still accompanied by Fred Gebhardt.

O'Donovon Eossa, a son of the New York dynamiter, was arrested at New York on the 25th, at the instance of aa insurance company, for the larceny of a premium on a policy, and held for exam* iiiation.

The iron mills of Pittsburg, PennysN vania, are generally closing down, owiDg to the depression of trade.

Hanlon, the Toronto rower, who leaves for the colonies by the steamer City of Sydney at date, carries with him a new shell boat and a pair of Donaghue sculls for the Australian races.

Canada has demanded that the Imperial Government pay part of the expenses of maintaining pauper immigrants deported from Ireland and landed in the colony, but there is no likelihood that the demand will be complied with.

Eowell the English pedestrian, is in New York to contest with Fitzgerald, who defeated him last October, for 5000 dollars and the championship of the world. A son of Jay Gould, the American millionaire, is about to wed Miss Carrie As tor, of the famous Astor family, a union of wealth that is stirring New, York society circles profoundly. William McCann Neilson, "formerly of Victoria, Australia, now of San Francisco, was attacked and badly beaten on October 24, while-leaving his dwelling, by two" disguised men. It was thought the as? : sault had some connection with the receifi^Mv

suit against ex-Senator Sharon, for adulU cry, in.which Neilson was engaged for.the: prosecution. , The affair is considered somewhat mysterious. Sir Henry Herbert, M.P., the owner of Muckross Abbey, was about to marry Miss Rebecca Williams, a Baltimore heiress, on November 11, when her father discovered that the baronet's estate was so heavily mortgaged that he wa3 next door to a pauper. The wedding proceedings were summarily stopped. The Marquis of Lome, in his*' Impressions of Colonial Life," writes that Canada is the least costly country and least troublesome, and yet the greatest of the British.colonial possessions. Aylward, who had gained fame as a leador on the Boer side in the recent Transvaal war, was arrested in Chicago recently for being drunk and disorderly. Between 4000 and 5000 men were discharged recently from the Canadian Pacific s railroad works, in consequence of a disagreement among the engineers.