GENERAL SUMMARY.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5132, 29 June 1885, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

San Fbancisco, June 5.

Serious anti-Jewish riots broke out in Vienna oa the Ist June, due to election agitations, forty arrests were made.

Dr Newville, the famous military painter, died in Paris. Prince Kobert Francois Louis Phillippe, eldest son of the Due de Chartres, died on May 31st, aged 19.

The German Government has begun a vigorous opposition to the Socialist movement, meetings hare been prohibited, and Socialist papers suppressed. Adelina Patti has contracted with the director of the Stadt Theatre, Hamburg, for a tour throughout Europe during the season of 1885-86.

De Freti, Prime Minister of Italy, has asked leave to go into retirement, on account of old age and illness.

The story going the rounds of the French Press that there have been fifty suicides this season at Monte Carlo, is denied by the authorities of the place.

A despatch from Rome, dated June stb, says that Mr Errington, by his diplomacy, has succeeded in defeating Dr Walsh for the Archbishopric of Dublin, thus ignoring the Nationalist wishes. The London depatch of June 3rd says there was almost a riot at the last meeting of the corporation of that city, over the mention of the name of Victor Hugo. Sir John Bennett, a member of the Council, attempted to move a vote of condo* lence with the bereaved family of the great poet, and the city fathers at once took alarm.

A sea oanal was formally opened at St. Petersburg on May 27th. The Czar, Czarina, diplomatic corps, and crowds,of citizens were presest. The feeling in the Council of the Eussian Empire is that the duties on most importations should be increased 20 per cent. It is stated that the manuscripts left by Victor Hugo will fill 10 volumes. He had opened arrangements for their publication ; these embrace prose and poetry, and •even volume* of note* and letters,

written during the years of exile of the poet. The Anglo-German Fiji Commission has agreed that Germany shall nut establish a penal settlement in the Southern Pacific.

Lieut. John Loomes St. Book, Assistant Naval Constructor of the United States Navy, who was on special duty at the Boyal College, Greenwich, England, committed suicide at Blackheatb by shooting himself. The cause is disappointment in lore. The British ateamer Waverly, with a cargo of spelter, wan seized by the French in Chinese waters, on the ground of her cargo being contraband of war.

A new Chinese Opium Convention is concluded, and the import duty remains at 30 ta'ejs; the duty to be collected directly by the Imperial Customs Service. The London press have approved of the arrangement of this new Convention, which assumes the form of an additional article to the Chefoo Treaty, and abolishes all the barriers heretofore existing against the free diffusion of opium throughout the Chinese Empire. A report is published in London to the effect that Alfred Ay 1 ward, notorious in connection with the Boer rebellion, was one of the leading spirits in fomenting the half-breed rebellion, of which Eiel was only the figure head. It is said that the Budget increase of duty on beer and spirits has been a blessing in disguise to many enterprising dealers, who have made fortunes by the exercise of a little forethought.

Mr Gladstone^ replying to an inquiry by Mr McLoan, a Home Eule member from Wicklow, said it was not the intention of the Government to establish regular diplomatic relations with the Vatican. .

The Marquis of Hartington, in answer to inquiries, stated that Government hoped it would be unnecessary to detain the Guards at Alexandria much longer, but it was impossible at present to fix the date of their departure.

A London special of June 3rd sayß : The desperate condition of the Scotch Land market is shown by the surprising number of estates now offered for sale in Scotland. One auctioneer alone advertised to sell on June 2nd estates valued .at £2,500,000. Many Americans are in the market looking for Scotch property. Lord Garmoyle, now Earl Cairns, assumed his place in the House of Lords on June sth. The German despatch boat Pomerania, seized a Yarmouth lighter on the 4th inst., in the North Sea, and towed the vessel into Wilhelm's harbor, where she is de tamed on the pretence that the lighter was fishing in prohibited waters. Bishop Moberly announces his intention to resign bis Salisbury seat this summer, on account of old age. The London Police were informed on June Ist that two dynamiters had arrived in England from the United States. An l active search for the parties was instituted. John Bright has written a public letter approving of the Parliamentary grant of £30,000 a year to Princess Beatrice, asa dowry. Mr Bright says he is astonished to see the Liberals object to so small a grant, while silent concerning the extravagance of Government over unjust wars. It is said that Cunningham, the dynamiter, has shown signs of insanity since his confinement in Chatham prison.

Late despatches say the official reports concerning the Indian wheat crop indicate, if present anticipations be realised, that there will be a smaller European demand in England for American wheat this autumn than last year.

On an inspection of the boiler and engines of the Arctic steamer Alert, which was returned by the United States Government, they were found to be all salted up. and in a generally rusty condition. The fact is severely commented oh by the Press.

Letters on all conceivable subjects lately published in the English papers, and bear* ing John Ruskin's signature, are by his solicitors declared to be forgeries. The motive of the forger appears to be pure mischief,

The British Missionary Society, London, breakfasted the explorer Stanley on May 27th. Stanley is making his campaign in Europe on behalf of the Congo State very vigorously. A despatch from London of May 81st says the most encouraging feature of the agricultural outlook is the favorable change in the weather, which has come at a most opportune time, when warmth and' sunshine will produce the best results, especially as it had been preceded by rains. The backward condition of crops and discoloration of wheat has been a source of complaint, but it has now been admitted that no lasting injury was done if the present fine weather continues. A rapid improvement in the harvest prospects is therefore expected.

Dion Boucicault, I>. G. Boucicault, junr., Nina Boucicault, and a selected company of players leave at date by the steamer for Sydney. They will make a tour of the colonies, giving a round of the., well known Boucicault Irish dramas, and will also produce a brand new play called " The Jilt," the last contribution of Boucioault to dramatic literature. Wholesale Expulsions of Poles.

Private letters received in London on May 23rd, as is learned by telegraph, describe the present expulsion by Ger many of Russian Polos from their provinces, as being attended by most cruel and heart-rending incidents. Many of the Poles, who are now driven out, have been settlers in German territory for many years, and have thoroughly identified themselves with the local interests of the State. Most of them went to. Posen and Silisia to escape from intolerable despotism at Home. The decrees of expulsion that have been issued *by Yon Puttkamer, German Minister of the Interior, affect 30,000 Poles, resident in Germany ; eight thousand of these have already been arrested without warning, and conducted to the German frontier by Prussian troops; the remainder of the 30,000 ordered out of the Empire consists of those who had obtained permits of settlement. The decree of expulsion gives these a short respite in order to allow them time to settle their affairs, dispose of their property, and otherwise prepare for extradition. Whole villages are already depopulated, and their refugee inhabitants turned over to the Russian authorities at the German frontier. Numbers of poor Poles are fleeing into Austria to escape an enforced return to the land of their birth. The news of all this barbarity has cast a chill throughout Russian Poland. Russia according to later advices is engaged in the execution of retaliatory measures. Many Germans residing in Russia have been forced to return to their nttirt country, hardly any

Dotica had been given them that they'were required to return, and much suffering and hardships attended their explusion. In many instances these refugees reach the German frontier in a destitute condition.