GENERAL SUMMARY.

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GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, October 9. The Queen is still at Balmoral. Her health is much improved. She intends spending the winter at Windsor. The Prince and Princess of Wales have visited Glasgow. The Prince laid the foundation stone of the new college. They contemplate visiting Denmark. The Prince of Wales has refused to become a Freemason. . The August Australasian mails were delivered in London on the sth October via Marseilles. The Duke of Edinburgh has resumed the command of the Galatea, and was to sail in November. He is expected to return to England in August, 1867. Further Murphyite disturbances have taken place in Manchester. Murphy persists in his candidature for that city. Four more accidents have taken place on the Holyhead railway. Six months' pay has been awarded to the soldiers and sailors engaged in the Abyssinian expedition. Jefferson Davis resides in London. The Rev. James Francis Turner has been appointed Bishop of Grafton. The Dean of Cork lias been appointed Bishop of Peterborough. Snowdrop won the Great Ebor Handicap. Abyssinia has been divided into two parts. Gobazzey has been crowned Emperor of Gondar. Mr Gladstone has been a sufferer from English cholera, but has recovered. It is expected that the Liberal majority in the new Parliament will be 36. Most of the Liberal candidates are in favor of the ballot. Rumors of a great reduction in the army are prevalent. The Guildhall in the city of London lias narrowly escaped destruction by fire. At Hull, an eight-3torey building fell, burying forty persons, of whom nine were killed. The Chinese Embassy has arrived here from New York. A terrible colliery explosion has taken place at Ruabon, in North Wales. Ten persons were killed and five wounded. Homoeopathy has been prohibited in Russia, owing to the many deaths that have occurred under the system. A boat containing five men capsized at Westminster bridge, and four were drowned. ■ The P. and O. Company's steamer Syria ran down the Cowes pilot boat, when all on board perished. The Panama Company held a meeting on the Bth October, to wind up. Lord Claude Hamilton was in the chair. He stated that the remittances were £20,000 less for the last four months than in the same period of 1867. The passenger traffic was falling off, the local lines were less profitable, and acceptances had been returned dishonored. After discussion, it was agreed to appoint a committee to consider the position of the company, and to consult with the creditors. Dr. Livingstone, it is announced, is within nine weeks' march of Zanibar. A suit has been commenced in the United States, by the orders of Sonora, against Mr Laird, the builder of the Alabama, for damages amounting to 119,000 dollars. Parliament has been prorogued to November 26. Mr Disraeli has issued an address to his constituents. He defends his Administration from the charge of extravagance brought against it by Mr Gladstone, on the ground that considerable expenditure had been forced upon it by previous Governments. He was opposed to the disestablishment of the Irish Church. Confiscation was contagious ; when once a community was seduced into plunder, predatory acts were seldom single. The present course could only end in Popish supremacy. A Quakeress has been fined 10s. in Manchester, for pressing her claim to vote. A conspiracy has been discovered in Constantinople to dethrone the Sultan. The British ship Tom Volkner has been blown up •by the explosion of naptha. Seven of the crew perished. The English cricketers have been successful in America. Alderman Lawrence has been elected ' Lord Mayor of London. It is reported that the Bishopric of New Zealand has been conferred on the Rev. James Randall, Rector of Newbury. Anthony Trollope opposes Lord Stanley at Lynn. The Aboriginal cricketers left England on October 23. Disturbances took place when Father Ignatus preached in Lombard street. At the Tir National Volunteer demonstration at Brussels, four hundred English volunteers took part.