GENERAL EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1402, 28 June 1881, Page 3

GENERAL EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN SUMMARY.

A committee, composed of all the prominent Conservatives, has been formed to fuitlier the Beaconsfield Memorial proposal. Lord Granvilk' has announced in the House of Lords that the Turco-Ureek frontier convention had been signed. Thewoiksof Hodgbon, McMaster and Co , druggists and oil-refineis, Dublin, were binned on the 22ud May. Damage £30,000. Henry Yates Thomson has been elected to Parliament from Preston. He is proprietor of the Pall Mall Gazette, and, though a Conservative, received the whole Irish vote. W. J. Iloseby, ironmaster and coal and coke merchant, Lincoln, has failed — liabilities £100,000. A bill was passed in the House of Commons to protect newspapers fiom wanton actions for libel in the exercise of their public functions. Triokctt, the oarsman, has left London for Saratoga, New York State. John Bright recently spoke in favor of wholesale immigration of the Irish to the United States. He thinks if a free passage were ottered probably all, or certainly half the population would find its way to America, and to deliverance from pox erty and suffering. Schioder and Co. recently failed in Amsterdam, with liabilities estimated at upwards of £100,000. The Marquis of Lome purposes to resign tho Government-Generalship of Canada. Tho survivors of the sloop-ot-war Dotterel disaster have arrived in England. No explanation is giTen of the cause of the explosion. The Right Hon. Hu*h C. Childers, the present Secretary of Wai 1 , will soon become Chancellor of the Exchequei. The Anchor Line steamer Macedonia, from New Yoik for Glasgow, went ashore near the Mull of Cantyie lighthouse, Aigyleshire, on May 30, and will prove a total wieok. The value of the ve&Bul and carjfo is 200,000 dollais Cabinet rumouis are to tha effect that Mr. Gladstone letires to the House ot Lords at tho pud of the ne-hion with the title of tho Earl of Oxford. Ho would prefer Earl of Liverpool had not a predecessor in the Premiership borne it. Mr. Childers will become Chancellor, Sir W. Y. Harcomt Secietaiy of War, Sir. H. James (Attorney- General) Homo Secretary, Sir William A. Herscholl, SolkutoiGeneral, succeeding him. Another rumoar erives the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Mr. Ge^ehen, and the Home SociPtaryship to Mr. Childers. Four hundred persons, according to official news from Oddessa, havo been arrested for taking part in the excesses against the Jews at E'i/abethgrad la^t week. One hundred houses were pillaged and 200 persons were injured dining the riota. The Duke of Edinburgh will hoi>t hi* flag as Admiral of the Reset ye Squadron on board the Heroulcs about the end of June calling for the Duchess on his way home after the oruico. Since Mr. Biallaugh's exclusion from the House of Commons on May 10, the plaintiff in the action for penalties has given notice of intention to apply tot leave to sign judgment and is->ue execution against him — the object being to make Mr. Bradlaugh a bankrupt, and bo render his seat vacant. Mr. Bradlau^h will, however, resist the application until his appeal to the House of Lords has been heard. The health of Dillon, the Irish agitator, is suffering from confinement. The Mendelssohn Quintette Club, five accomplished musician", will visit New Zealand and Australia by this steamer. The United Htates Polar Expedition will be despatched from St. John's, Newfoundland, on July 4th for Lady Franklin's Sound, and aNo to find the whereabouts of the Artie exploring yacht Jeaunette. Onp thousand six hundred cases of small pox are now in the London Hospitals, and the epidemic is increasing rapidly. I "empsey, a farmer, who took ' land from which a tenant had been evicted, in Galway, was killed from behind a hedge. Prince Leopold, by the conferment of the Dukedom of Albany, will take a seat in the House of Lords. It is uaderatood he intends to tuko tin active part in debate. The conviction of Herr Most, editor of the Freiheit, was based expressly on his distinct recommendation that the present Emperors of Russia and Germany should be assassinated. According to the recent, census the population of Londen is 3,814,571. Shocks of earthquake at Mount Vejuvivs have been followed by strong eruptions. Streams of lava are flowing down the north-east side of the mountain. General Grant has been successful in all his railway projects in England, The French Ambassador at Censtantinople has informed the Turkish Minister for Fciijgn Affairs that the despatch by the Porte of any armed force to Tunis rowW be regarded as a cmw belli,