GENERAL SUMMARY.

Grey River Argus, Issue 95, 21 August 1866, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

- London, June 26. The Australian Mails ' reached London on the 10th June via Marseilles, and ' 16th June via Southampton, , -: ~ The proposed European Congress has been abandoned, and/ Prussia and Italy ' are at deadly war with Austria. The Prussian armies have entered Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Saxony, ■ Hesse Gassel, 'and Austrian Selesia, - A great battle occurred between the - -Austrians and Italians, in which the latter were repulsed with heavy loss. iThe Italian* Yplunteera afterwards attacked the Austrians, and gained a "" ' . The English* Iktinistry were: defeated on the Re-distribution of Seats Bills, and it 1 was -withdmwn^tijl- next session. The Ministerial defeat was. bwiiig" to Lprd-Bunkellan, Syho^^rapyecl an amendment iio the en^ot that with .regard to. the borough franchise, rating, not .^ rental^ ought to beHhe basfe of the Re- ■ ' form Bill: •■-,. ■ :: : . ;;:/:.{'* .;;V. «.:s:s. The effect of the resolution -being^to circumsciibe the extension of the stiff-' rage contemplated by the Government? a jcon*flict;.ensuedi' fierce and fatal. ; The y divißibn c took : place- on the 18th June, and resulted in' a majority of eleven against the Government. . ' , Me» Gladstone .then, rose; i and : with| dignity said it was -. the, intention of the" Ministry to ; Resign, ; but .-.asked, for an adjournment of the House to enable " them -to' communicate with the Queen •" ftfcßaiinoral. . ■ i ; :[> N -.'■<■' XM^ssa^es 'were immediately despatched -to Her "Majesty, who. :i al>; ; once returned td r Windsor^ but declined to accept-the' resignation of the Ministry, besides ex, pressing-a strong objectiontoadissolu- * tip%j rtA ;Her.jJlfgesty'^--attii;iide,met' with the full' public approbation, ' * Thfe eftebta' of '" the 1 panic" are still; . . parjttally,cfelt,:-biisine-s3 .being. checked ahctiinoney : difficult' toirdbtain;::: The failure of the Agra: and Masterman's. Bank was: [caused principally by the operafioii'ordubious telegrams;. -■■■'•■ ~ The Tesn|lt of thfi ; (Jamaica inquiry has~ beeni i;he „ .of /r . Governor ; Eyre, and the appouitnient of -,Mr John -Peter „ Grant, : vßilbjic; opinion ; in England is Vthat Governor Eyre should be prosecuted Jror4;heSinurdef afX3qrdoh. : • ■ - r •TheHonv-Manners; Sutton^henew Govenior of Victoria,' is to be created a K;C.B. - v~* •■ Seamen i in. England aje on strike for an ; adyanjcevCjf^wjges,:fr;rAi ". ■t; ,'."•.■; -••/■ ; T.he '.:^internatipnaj ; . rifle . match between England .and Scotland woii by the former, . Canada has b^en'tnvadpcl by the -FeniEmß vho'were 'repulsed,', x : A militaiy.. revolt ■- has; occurred in ; Spain, causing the, sacrifice of ,~i 000 lives, ,_* : ; .',. „..,-:'-v :^. :«:;-.?;■, ;^/:. -.-