GENERAL SUMMARY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1026, 9 November 1871, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, Oct. 9. The health of the Queen is causing great anxiety. Mr Gladstone and the Prince of Wales have been summoned to Balmoral. Great gales, and many shipwrecks, with loss of life, have occurred on the coast of I England. At Great Grimbsy harrowing shipwrecks havo occurred in full sight of the people onshore. . The ship James Booth foundered in the Bay of Biscay, and eighteen men were

drowned. The ship Hesperus sunk, and all hands were lost. The Spiker, war ship, and Mount Sinai were burnt at sea, ! but there are no details. Strikes in favor of nine hours' movement continue. The masters at Newcastle have compromised for nine and a half hours til} January. After that nine hours will <c4p[stitute the day's workGreat distresSjprevails in consequence of demands on workmen. The London' Telegraph says there is no doubt but that the misfortune of a deficient harvest will be added to the disaster of the cattle plague. The foot and mouth disease is spreading throughout the kingdom with deplorable rapidity. In the city of Preston, in one week, 470 cattle were attacked. It is estimated that there are 25,000 animals suffering in the United Kingdom. The pest involves sheep and swine. Besides this disease, pleuro-pneumonia is ravaging the cattle herds in England and Scotland. The Times says that bishops and archbishops have appeared in the pulpit in the Scotch Kirk, aud have conducted Divine Service. This announcement has given a severe, , shock to the sensitive ecclesiastical- Church party in England ; but other classes welcome the event of a system of reciprocity of pulpits. An explosion of firedamp has occurred in Glamorgan, and killed five men. It is reported that the rumor of marriage between Prince Arthur and Princess Thyra, of Denmark, is untrue. Mr Gladstone was presented with the | freedom of the city of Aberdeen, and enthusiastically received there. It is reported that Millia, in Morocco, is besieged by 12,000 Cabyes. Reinforcements have been promised to the Garrison. A letter from Teheran says that 80,000 perished at Mischad in July. The remaining 40,000 were captured byAffghans, who enslaved many. Four successive tremendous explosions occurred at the establishment of an oil merchant at Chelsea, by which thirteen were injured.