GENERAL SUMMARY.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 613, 29 December 1871, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

LONDON. November 7. The result of the official enquiry into the loss of the Rangoon throws the lesponsibility entirely on the pilot. Since the 18th a portion of the mails, slightly damaged, have been recovered. 27 bags, 2 boxes, and 1 box baggage. It is thought that ull will be recovered. The Times, in an article on the murder of Chief Justice Norman, deprecates excessive sensitiveness respecting Mahommedauism in India, and urging a calm but rigorous application of the laws. On the practical working of denominational schools the Roman Catholic heirarchy is complicating matters, and has issued a definite manifesto demanding Catholic education in Irish schools. The Irish members of Parliament are formally required to oppose mixed or secular education. Subscriptions are being raised in London for the Persians. The Emancipation of Slaves Bill in Brazil has passed. Juarez is re-elected President of the Mi xican Itepublic. Basulolaub is annexed by the Capo Colony. The diamond fever is extending. The Nonconformists are assuming a threatening attifci*Ho ag «i,* a t th o Oovom-

The iron cross and steel war medal were bestowed upon Surgeon Mailey of Crimean and New Zealand.famn^ November 10.

For the Cambridgeshire Stakes at Newmarket, Sabinus was the winner; Stirling and Allbrook running a dead heat for second place.

The public are greatly shocked at a tragedy which took place at Stockwell, where the Key. John Selby Watson murdered his wife and attempted to poison himself; he is committed for trial. Thirty persons perished in a frightful colliery explosion near Sunderland. Waterlon's stationery premises were consumed.

Lady Mordaunt has been pronounced sane, and further proceedings are probable. A boy aged sixteen has been convicted of obtaining money from members of the English nobility in the name of the Empress Eugenic. The Australian September mail was delivered on Saturday, October 28th. News of the loss of the .Rangoon reached London eight hours after it occurred.

There are three American schemes for connecting the Pacific States with Japan, China, and Oceana. It is proposed to lay a cable from San Francisco to Melbourne via Honolulu and Fiji. In the Tichborne case, Captain Angell by order of the court, before sailing for Australia, was examined in the interest of tue defendant. He said he knew Arthur Orton when young, and believed the claimant to be the same man. The Church Congress held its sittings at Nottingham ; the attendance was large, and the discussions animated. The annual meeting of the United Kingdom Alliance was held at Manchester; it was resolved to raise a guarantee fund of £100,000. The Legion of Honor is conferred on Mr George Moore, Col. Stuart Wortley, and Alfred llothschild.

The Prefect of the Seine was interviewed with reference to the abolition of tho passport system. A new expedition was organised by the Palestine Exploration Fund, and started for the Holy Land. Mr Sothern has left for America. The Earl of Belmore's return next year is reported from Ireland. Mr Bruce has declined to release the detnaining Fenian prisoners, who are either perjured soldiers or Manchester murderers.

The Emperor .Napoleon and his son visited Plymouth and several western towns returning to Camden House? He was interviewed at Bath, Exeter, and Chiselhurst, and the result was published in the papers, and appears as a monologue in the Times. It is regarded in Franoo as a manifesto. The Emperor denied any complicity with the Bonapartist intrigues abroad, and believes in a mission to rule France, and awaits the result of a plebiscite. New Zealand Fiax.—A fair amount of business has been transacted, and 2500 bales were sold out of 3000 brought forward.

Model farms are increasing at Madras. A subscription has been opened in Bombay for the starving persons.

A good deal of the cargo oftheTJnderly has been saved. An extra mail steamer (the Pekin) which left Southampton for Galle on the 22nd November, brought passengers to be transhipped to the Somersetshire, which sailed on October 30th, with assisted immigrants to Melbourne, and a quantity of stock. The new Victorian tariff is likely to hamper the export trade and immigration. An Italian describes in the Times the deplorable backwardness and disorder reigning in Brindisi, and says the Italian Government have grossly neglected its duty to Europe and the Eastern world. The new army regulations- came into force on November Ist, greatly improved.

The Duke of Edinburgh has gone north.

Prince Arthur is visiting his sister at Invernay, where there have been hunting festivities and illuminations throughout the week.

Lord Dufferin is made an Earl

The Civil Companionsliip of the Bath is conferred on Mr Law, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, and Mi J. W. Parker, antiquarian. Dr Church is installed Dean of St Paul's. Dr Liddell is re-elected ViceChancellor.

Sir Andrew Buchanan goes from Petersburgh to Vienna; Lord Loftus goes to Russia; Odo Russell remaining German Ambassador.

Mr Alston is appointed Queen's Advo cate at Sierra Leone.

The Derby statue is to be erected near the Houses of Parliament.

A memorial to Charles Dickens is determined on at Portsmouth, his native town.

The Corporation of London have resolved to invite the Baroness Coutts to a banquet on the occasion of the transfer of the Columbia market.

Despite the taunts of the Tory Press, Gladstone met his constituents at Greenwich. He deprecated any hasty and violent action in dealing with the constitution of the House of Lords ; regarding the new social alliance he wirned the members against committing tiemselres to vast changes and lew principles. A vote of thanks was carried .by an overwhelming majority amid tmnendous cheering. The criticism in tin press is favorable. Captain Tidmarsh, of the wrecked ship Underley, was censured for reglect of duty, and his certificate suspinded for three months. Captain M'Donald, of the Qieen of the Thames, has published a pampilet ?dvocating the establishment of a Cape line of steamers, making the voyage to klelbournc in forty days. Novenber 21. A formidable revolution has jroken out in Mexico. The Times announces the scovery of Mr Childers and Mr Bright; the latter returns to Parliament. Half-a-million sterling was paid into the Bank of England on the 13th. The rate of discount was reduced;o 4 per cent on the 16th. Oriental Bank shares w<re quoted at £42 10s. N>vei£ber 22. Negociations for modificaticrs of the Anglo-French Treaty are suspended, because En 'land refused to consnt to inFrench Government. The Prince of Wales became Ldisposed by typhoid fever. Sir Charles Dilkehas made speeches denouncing the cost of lloyalty and advocating a republic in England. Prince Alexis, the Eussian Nval Coni-mander-in-Chief, has received 1 magnificent ovation in New York ; h< declared in reply to an address that noting could I destroy the friendship between iussia and America.

A Conservative was elected for Plymouth.

The German constitutional party in Vienna has approved of the prqramme of Adolph Kamesberg, who will frm a new Cabinet.

A demonstration, demandine^he resignation of the Ministry, took pice before the Brussels Chambers yesterdy. Novaber 24

Eeturns of the Bank of Since show that the circulation of notes hasiminished bj ten millions. Thiers received yesterday te Chinese ambassador, who apologised fo the Tien Tsin massacre.

The manifestation afc Brusss against the Ministry continue. The reserve of notes in tb Bank of England on the 22nd was fourtel millions. Total bullion, twenty-four an one-fifth millions.

The Times states that the fcrman indemnity bills falling on Londi amount to ten and a quarter millions. JSfoveber 23.

Prince Bismark is unwell. The dissolution of the Spash Cortes is considered certain. The popular manifestations t Brussels against the Ministerial CathoJ party is becoming more serious. Trips are arriving. The fusion reported hetwa the Orleans and Bourbon Princes is ivr denied.