General News.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4869, 18 August 1884, Page 2

General News.

•■■■-. ■:'■'■■:■' ... ■ ■..<►■>.-. —-t—;..."■,•■;.•■■/••;-■ '-<<>:~r The London Municipal Reform Bill y (postponed, by ihe bye, for the second time),;;h£iß' caused -the publication' of?itt "; outline map. of the projfKJsedvGity^ and Country of,: London. .. Each ? district > js, r \ marked with the number^bf^Mprwenl^^ tives, and the entire area, extending from Plumstead in the east to Fulham in the west, and north and south from Highgate to i Lewisbam, is given as 75,362 acres (117f square miles), the population being».'• 3 833,000, and the rateable Talue'dfer £25,000,000..: \-U : \:ySv^)- n

';•;■> The Hongkong : gird an instance, of the disgusting tortures practised bythe Chinese aatltorities•: '■'■'' Fire men guilty of the crime of •kidnappin^^aocl^^ probably criminals of the blackest die, were slowly done to death- by the>fianlcpW 1 1.if." authorities. These miserable "wretclieg 'wereplaced-in/C.BgesJat.tji«;tpp^d^i<whichii'' a wooden collar through whica their heads I were inserted and the bars at the bottom knocked eat, leaving them suspended to die: a -lingering death of unspeakable ' agony2'fXf;H;::;f ?£&' :/\&*&':.:o%W&s ■ Great comment is ■ being made by the Parisian press '-'at; present oTer 4he distp-;- - pearance of one of the- old landmarks of Paris! ?!Phelißue YahviHiers is about'{^^ be torn ''Rway.-^'.tb^/m'ake<"if6pQt^ i f6rv .«n;e.O7.' lavement of the central markets. This i ■ narrowthoroughfare, contained at one time a number of largeVhotels^and; rei* ■ taur!antß^;whic!^:w^^Ge'l6^^ , ; a n tig vi tj£,; affipnjp^liej^^ . which dated its existence fromithe time *C Louis^OT.^Tji^^ dance room,' whichi is■■•'mbriSittiaaiiijj^Hiifl^":-' old; At one time.it was called the Sn da 3?our, on accountlpff its {cqntamimjng^V' pubj\c A oTen^b^longirig; Jp^het;Bi?h^of ■;; : Parish y'.Ttiel? pot^rs -and ■; iff lalif': 4Mdeai:iilfili*J; their headquarters here during the reign ? of Louis XVI.,; arid/in 17^9 'i LaToiaier M. roomed in that quarter. leon I, when a lieutenant of ar|tiUery> i i lodged at the Hotel jde Gherbourg, .ad«S joining the Eied de Mouton. .'}'. :•{ ; ' Mr Bryce to» the Times: —-It may interest your readers to hear by ■/ the latest advice from the Gape ;aaotner;-4 "paragonof nature'^'-.has been;discbrered at the: Eimberley Mines,^Squitli Africa.* & On the"27th;of . ; March-last'a.•^lg«er;^wi|«i I}^ fortunate enough ;to >find-S : 'a^ diamond :i;i measuring lfin. mi length, "arid l^lny in 4 diameter, weighing no less than 302 carats. This is by far r the largest gem;Tetidiii*^: covered in South Africa, : or; in fiacfc else-I Jwhere, if iwtf ,except the '• Pit ■' and ";M;attam'.'^^(df{ ; i'-£asJc^:«h^p^ uncut state andlsdme diamonds^bfappjory^ ■"a phal history. -;It ia a■\p^^p|-;oTetahedronT:-^ f in shape, and of the usual '":'.*} Cape"'* bY , •<'.oflF".cblor.-. "V--^: ":^-:£&&.%ti: ■&%<$ :-^:; The "Golden Gate" of^Gaiifornia;;is ■ the appropriate name given to the strait : connecting the harbor qf B*n Franciico S with the ocean, and was so called beoause ; through that gate flowed nearly the'w^oleT;'--of the immense;Uide ofiseekersiitprithe?? precious jnetalaK as .well ■ is. the ln#; pirb^? duct of their labor.' It v^ to estimate the\jmmeq Jge'v^ adventurers who,}during the goldfwprV?^ [ passed through; the^Golden^ Gateiiatd ?the \ J Vilaud of; gold j" ;to :rey^n^apprpy^i|te ?■ ihe -value { the'!gold;| wHicfi£issueii|itowOW l through this ■•,": Qajtf,''l »o happily^j|ained. '-'^ strangeAthatt ;thftKj»iindleiiiv , mineral :>:i^pt:-;;^ h ate been ascertained til I :the^ nineteen th .eentHry,.v;when:> I'Sir.?;Francis.»!p^ (aboutls79>, !^There is nq part of^;earth?s; liere to be taken up wherein there ia :not special likelihood of gold? op■ ailrilp/'f but i& the gallant cqmmanderv[dqubileM>pre-.; iferred to capture the richly .laden treasure ; shipsvof Spain, ttia.^^qib^ebme^ricli''by^-:^ i A senatorfrqm Kentubky^onceiallud'ei ■ ? to the late: MrfßeiQiamin.^py as Hiliiiil" 1""-'"-'-Jew^pna ponisianai^ 2\Vhen^he>sat dpirn^ Mr Benjamin obtained thejftopr, and said^t 4 ;- f■ Mr v Chairmari^TheVgentiemari from; "^ Kentucky, forgetting his honqiiraNeiand^ exalted, positiop, has stooped so low: «■ tav> assail me on the point of my ireKgibos faifch^- S Sneeringly' he^ calls mpJewU:; Well;iip;£ss senator) wheaiWf'Meestqr^ w^ s wine npon the pluht of Soandinavia^ mibtt ' - ■jWMeyfpJfo^g^tlrt)^^