GENERAL SUMMARY.

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GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, June 17. Latest advices from the Cape of Good Hope state that 2000 bales of wool have been obtained from the Queen of the Thames. It is rumored that the Duke of Edin- j burgh will be placed in command of an ironclad. The Duke's elephant killed his keeper while on a journey from Plymouth to Sandringham. Dr Jenner has issued a strong protest against the Rev Mr Neville's appointment to the Bishopric of Dunedin. He is determined to maintain his spiritual rights. The rumor that Great Britain has ceded Heligoland to Germany has been contradicted. The Freedom of the City of London will be presented to Prince Arthur on the 13th July. He is recovering from injuries received through falling from a casement at Buckingham Palace. It is rumored that an English Prince is to marry Princess Thyra of Denmark. Mr Gladstone is recovering from a fortnight's illness. Mr Childers is still at Nice, and Mr Bright is fishing in Scotland. The Tichbourne trial grows more puzzling every day. The claimant was in bad health when under cross-pxamination. Fhe favorable impression produced by earlier witnesses was much weakened by iiia strange forgetfulness of incidents in

lia boy's life in Paris, his inability to ipeak French, and his serious contradicion of dates, persons, and Btreets. He idmits having seduced his alleged cousin, Miss Doughty, before leaving England. A strike of 9000 Tyneside engineers was Eollowed by a formidable turn out in Wales, and Btrikes are threatened in Glasgow and Rochdale. Serious Trade Union outrages occurred at Manchester. 60,000 bricks, made by machines, were destroyed in one night. The Grand Jury have found a true bill for murder against Edward Pook, for the Eltham tragedy. Four true bills for child murder were also found against Agues Norman. The French Peasant Farmers' Seed Fund amounts to L 47,000. France, June 17. The health of Paris is good ; 10,000 men are cleansing and repairing the streets and public edifices. Only 100 houses have been destroyed out of 60,000, but many have been mutilated. The gendarmes are to be increased to 100,000, and probably the National Guards will be universally disarmed. The Vendome Column is to be restored. Grousset was taken in the disguise of a female, and Prosset as a railway guard, Courbet was found hiding behind a bed, and De Lecture behind the barricades. The property destroyed in Paris is estimated at 800,000,000 francs. The anti-German feeling is dying out. j The Pope published an encyclical letter, protesting against the violation of the rights of the Papal Power, and the freedom of the Church. Amass has been ordered for priests shot at Paris. Father Hyacinthe interviewed the Pope, and sent a letter of sympathy to Dr Eollinger. OBITUARY. Col. Watson Mills, Sir Oswald Mosely, a Manchester celebrity; Dr Spratt, of Dublin; Sir Edward Knatchbull, Hon. Frederick Byng, Lord Eybank, of Selkirk; Sir John Bolt, Mr Moses, the French banker ; John Briggs, of Leicester ; Vincent Scurry Pollan, M.P. ; Maynell Ingram, M.P. ; Alderman Sir Joseph Causton ; Captain Wood, R.N. ; Christopher Ide ; Captain Matthews, R.N. ; Colonel Blunt, Major Townsead, General Ellesconde, General Battby, Lady Frances Cole, Lady Charles Fitzroy, and the Hon. Fredk. Yilliers.