GENERAL SUMMARY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1104, 10 February 1872, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The Prince is convalescent; hia recovery was retarded by a painful 'aflW tion of the hip. • ;- V - The Archbishop arid Bishop ipf ;santer- : . bury ordered the discontinuancg of Special prayers for his recovery on December 28. The^ papers have pubUshed a letter from her Majesty the Queen in which she says she desires to express her deep sense of the touching sympathy exhibited to wards her family by the whole nation, and for her dear son. . "The Reeling," says the Queen, " Bhown by the people during the painful and terrible days of "the' Prince's illness,< their laynipathy with herself and her beloved daughter the Princess of Wales, 1 and thpir manifested at the improved health of the > had made a deep and ineffacaable * impression upon her heart -Manifestations of the people were nothing new to ' her, as she met -with the Bame sympathy ten years ago, whejfca: similar illness from that tinder whicH" her son was suffering removed, from life the best; and? kindest of husbands that ever lived.". * A letter has been published in which the writer is informed, on the authority pf one'well posted regarding secret societies in Europe, that the Prince was not suffering,from fever, but from attempted, poisoning by a secret agent of the International Society. That organisatiou is saiil to have resolved npop, the death . of the Prince ; . ,, and ,ihe r public assertions of some ; of jkhe members are urged as corroboration. The Herald editorially declines to eudorse the story; The mail steamer from the Cape brings intelUgenc a that :a treaty of annexation of the African diamond counti/having been mraiiy- concluded i>rMucea^ucti rexcitement in the territory. ; Braud^Prelident of the Free State* has issued a^ formal protest against the transfer to Great 'Britain. >■"'• ■ ' : '■•- ■ '•-' : - •: • ■ • The discover of gold in considerable quantities in, the Transvaal -Xlepublia attracted many adventurous diamond 3eekers, who were abandoning- the diamond district for the newly discovered gold country.,; "..\ . „. Alarmed at Gladstone's, E3publican tendencies^ the Conseryative section, led by the Duke of Somerset ancl viscount Hp^fax, is seeking to| form, a coalition with, the -Tories for the purpose of the election of Mr BouVerie gs SpesKer of the House of ' Commons instead of Mr Bn Ms> an 4. to^compel ..the retirement of Gladstone. r '. ■ Letters say the report is current, that Sir Samuel Baker and the men exploring Central Africa for the head waters 6"f the Nile died .of starfatipn. ? S jone report was that the ritien mutiuied S and shot Baker ; another states that onlylßaker^nd his wife are left of the expedition. ;- ;At the : installation ;of >* Clonse^vative Mayor of Limerick a . tumultuous mob hissed the mention of [ the Prince of Wales and 5 chetsred "homd^rule." The ship .Edward founder^ oT Falmoutfi/ AllhancisiosW:^ ' At Glasgow a large road waggon, propelled by steam" and carrying a heavy boiler, was passing through the streets surrounded and followed by a throng cf phildfeh, when the bbilerexploded] an^ five children were b'Ued and seven seriously injured, whose recovery is doubtful. honbt of ,^ir^Charles 'Wflat' ; ' '';.}. A floor in a crowded court-room 'at Kitty Clagan, Leitrim, Ireland^ gay^ way wh'e.a Mai was in ; progress; precipitatiog three hundred people a distance !O ftorty feet. The numberof killed, is unknown. Th- -ty were badly^injured, most of ftem fatally..',;.;-.:;; y/yii.;.---''" . . The Government having refused to help Jhe Royal (^eographicat Society in- organising an expedition, in search of Dr Livingston, the Society appeails > tp T the people for assistance^^ and great efforts are being ma4e to start ,;the expedition this nVonth; .;"■;■■ •■■ : y-': '■■ : i: ;-[ ■-■■ v*jr., .■ The ex-Emperor Napoleon, -raj New Year's day, is reported to ihave : said, " I will give Thiers six months' Presidency of the.' i 'f^oh\E>p^bUo, : . l and; t>y;^tat time Gambetta willbe in his place, and the change will be favorable to the Imperial cause."