The Liverpool Exhibition.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2180, 29 June 1886, Page 3

The Liverpool Exhibition.

ThcQnccn, accompanied by the Duke of Gonnnught and Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg, reached Liverpool early on Tuesday morning, the I lth May, and was most enthusiastically, received by great masses of people. Subsequently Her Majesty formally opened the International Exhibition, her transit from Newaham house being made through a mile of densely-crowded streets. At night the city was brilliantly illuminated. On Wednesday Her Majesty; visited privately s the Seamens' Orphanage and subsequently proceeded in an open carriage to St. George's Hall,' afterwards making an excursion on the Mersey. The Queen left the following morning and returned to Windsor Castle.

iThe American Socialists' The Americans have had an unpleasant taste of revolutionary violence. Chicago has been the pcene of something- oloaely, . resembling civil war. The police endeavoured to disperse a Meeting at which violent and seditious harangues .were being made. Whereupon, a serious conflict ensued, the Socialists, as they call themselves, throwing dynamite bombs among the police, killing anil wounding many among the number. The affair was evidently organised. A battle took place in the streets, resulting in the defeat of the rioters. The United States authorities have acted* and continue to act with great promptitude and vigour. Many arrests have been made, and more are to follow. The prisoners will, it is saiil, be charged with murder, and no mercy will be shown to them. TheSocialist conspirators have chosen their ground badly, for there are no people less inclined to tolerate mob terrorism than the Americans, in spite of the fact that there is an American institution known as Lynch Law. Ihe "Socialists" who have taken part in this affair are, for the most part, the scum of foreign nations. They have taken advantage of the excitement caused by the labour strikes, wlreh have been recently prevalent iv the States, to put their detestable doctrines in practice. Perhaps, vow that the inconveniences of the use of dynamite a? a persuasive agent have beeu brought practically homo to them, the Americans will be less inclined to tolerate than they have been the doings of the enemies of civilisation in their midst.

Sir Ciiyrle*s Du,kk lias made' a statement to his constituents, with resrard to the divorce suit in which ho figured lately. Sir Charles solemnly denies the charges brought against him. The member for the Chelsea Division has no right to grumble, j if the public, even now. reserve their I judgment on hia case. He might, if he j hud elected to do so, have made the denial, which he now makes for political | purposes, on oath in the witness boy, and by doing this he would have cleared the character of a lady. It is stated, we know not on what authority, that; {lie Queen's Proctor will intervene, in such a way as to preclude Sir Charles Dilke from giving evidence. A strasge story is going the ronnd of the Paris jourrials: • A young girl is said to have set up a claim to be acknowledged a daughter of the Empress Eugenie, and has found a solicitof to"ttphold her pretended rights. On what facts or evidence this claim is based is not stated, but her father by adoption, a Corsican, is said to be convinced of the justice of. her cause. In the meantime, while abating the issue to the suit, sjje has retired to a convent. The young girl s said to bear a great resemblance to the Empress. Isn't it about time to have a little renaissance of Yankee Doodle in this country ? Who* with Socialism, Nihilism, Anarchism, Boycottism, .jStrikeism, etc., it seems as if the great original idea of " life, liberty, and the pursuits of happiness" was getting snowed under. "Mind your own .business " v was one of the maxims for which this Yankee Nation fought and bled a century ago, and the wisdom of it is not worn out yet by any means, — Springfield (Mass.) Union. , ' "' ' •'*•? In a London Eolica' Court a curious case, alleged to involve piracy, has been partly heard. A captain dt a vessel trading with the coast of South America, being sued for arrears of waKes by one of his crow, pleaded that his ship had been turned into a pirate, or privateer, without his knowledge or consent. The case stands adjourned for further inquiry,, i A iigri of tlie'tinoes, fcays .in-English paper, is the appearance in our shop windows of " The Union Scarf," " The Union Boot,". "The Anti-Home ;Rula Hair and the '•Imperial Unity Gas Stove." Apparently John Bull is getting Americanised. More than 3,500 babies have been entered for the international baby show in Paris, and in connection with it a, prize is offered, open to all the doctors mi Prance, for the best illustrated work on baby culture. A boy in Gera, Germany, died of bloodpoisoning, in consequence of playing with, a cat which had just killed a rat.