General Summary. London, August 21.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1593, 19 September 1882, Page 2

General Summary. London, August 21.

Couiit Cliambord is dead from paralysis. Trouble has broken out in Corea, and two psrsons belonging to the Japanese Legation were killed by a mob, and three wounded. The Earl of Dunraven has recovered from a serious illness: Mrs Langtrey was also so much indisposed that all her immediate engagements were cancelled. For the first time since 1878, the farmers of Sussex, Surrey, and Kent,- are radiant at, the crop prospects. , , i Two men, while attempting to climb over a railing of the Tulieries Gardens, > during a display of fireworks on the 7th, thoughtlessly grasped an electric wire used in the illumination of the grounds, and both were instantaneously killed. The Belgian broker, Decaire, charged with embezzling 300,000 dollars fronr that Government, has ,deen extradited from Montreal to Brussels, Richard Kelly,' proprietor of the Tuam Herald, was commited for trial at Tuam on the sth instant for publishing \an r article written by James Redpath, which is alleged to have been an incitement to ' the mnrder of Burke. , Bail was accepted. The vicinity of the Courthouse, was crowded. x < ". Princess Rolande Bonaparte died in Paris on the 3rd. ' _, „, ... General Sir Garnet Wolseley's illness' was so severe that Sir William Jenner and Sir James Paget were called in for consultation. He embarked for Egypt t before .'he was fully-.convalescent. ,«Six« Evelyn Wood "&h& embarked 1 <-M ttie*! same destination., , r7 f , M r , ] William' Merlin; printer of tKe London jPre/ic^ convicted of publisbinga seditious libel in'connection, with''thePncenix: £ark . months imprisonment.'; -- -. u j the most ;anc^eri^|4n^l^eivt>;in|:|W^st|lSco^ WmtMlt^lloS^Sfe^^ 8 l Bfeam«a^^f6^fiava;|'"

between Antwerp, London, and Chinese ports, was also wrecked near Has Asir. The Steamer Mosel, from Bremen to New York, ran aground under Lizard Point, on the 9th. All the passengers were, by means of tugs and boats, landed at Penzance. The steamer is a total wreck. She had a full complement of passengers and a full cargo ; was in charge ol the first officer at the time of grounding', Thomas Walsh, assested in London at the time of the seizure of arms at Clerkenwell, and covicted on a charge of treason and felong. has been sentanced to seven years' penal servitude. Fitzpatrick, convicted of an attempt to kill the Recorder of Dublin, was sent for five years. At a meeting of the Cork constabulary, held on the 9th, the following resolution —approved by delegates from Dublin and Belfast— was passed :— " Having seen with surprise and disgust the calumny cast upon our loyalty by insinuations that we are in collusion with Fenians, we desire to show our sense of its utter falsity by withdrawing from further agitation, aud rely on a speedy redress of the grievances." Miss Fanny Parncll's remains were interred in Ireland. A great demonstration was made at the funeral. The Limerick Race Committee refused on the 12th, an offer made by Clifford Lloyd of a cup valued at £50. £180,000 was distributed among the Irish constabulary on the 12th. All vessels coming from Borneo, the Sooloo Islands, and the Phillippine Archipelago have been quarantined by the London Board of Health on account of th<? prevalence of cholera at the places named. Gay, correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, who sent a false account of the behaviour of the Sixtieth Rifles on the outskirts of Alexandria, accusing them of rank cowardice, has been recalled. Tenayson, the French apothecary who I murdered Aubert, his wife's lover, has been sentenced to death, and the wife who inveigled Aubert to his fate, is sent to penal servitude for life. The Queen will open the new London law courts in November. Michael Davitt, with his sister, has settled in Dublin. Menotti Garibaldi denies that lie is recruiting for Arabi Bey. Engineer Melville and seamen Ninderman and Noros, three survivors of the Jeanette, arrived at Moscow on the 16th, and had a grand reception. Bailey and Son's cotton mills in Bolton, were burned on the 15th August. Loss, £60,000. Dean Goubat, an Englishman, and two guides, fell from a precipice, August 10th, while attempting the ascent of Mont Blanc, and all three were shattered to pieces. The Guion Line steamship arrived at Liverpool, August 16th, from New York, made the trip from mooring to mooring in six days twenty-three hours. The British steamer Blenheim, from Nassau for Balize, has been lost on Eluthera Island. Passengers and crew caved. The village of Lindebriden, West Prussia, has been eiitirely destroyed by fire, with the exception of one farmhouse and a schoolhouse. The harvested crops shared in the destruction. A letter from the Pope to the Irish Bishops, dated August 1, has been published in Rome. In it profound regret is expressed that tranquility has "not been restored in Ireland, and that murders continue to be committed. People are advised to shun secret societies, and the letter concludes by expressing the hope that the English Government will do justice to all classes of the Irish people, remembering the pacification of Ireland constitutes an element of tranquility in the whole Empire. Auguste Alexandra Ducrot, the wellknown French general, died August 17th.