GENERAL SUMMARY.

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GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, Aug. 9. The increasing dearness of meat has provoked a formidable agitation throughout England, especially in the northern counties. At an indignation meeting held, companiesjfor the import and distribution of Australian meats were projected. ._,.._ During April, May, and June twelve ships sailed conveying 2598 emigrants to Zealand. - Ohilders has entered the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He resigns his office as Victorian AgentGeneral. ■■■■-'.' v Lord Hatherley's resignation is reported imminent, owing to failing eyesight. The downfall of the Duffy Ministry has given general satisfaction. The Daily Telegraph alone condemns Lord : Canterbury for refusing Duffy a dissolution. The Queen proceeds from Osborne to f Balmoral shortly. -^ ' The Prince of Wales visited Trentham Castle on the occasion of the celebratioiw of the majority of the Marquis of Stafford. . ■■..:.. The Duke of Edinburgh has commenced his continental tour under the title of Earl of Kent. :^|i ■ Extensive drainage works have been commenced in connection with Windsor Castle. Sir John Rose is gazetted a baronet. The ex-Emperor Napoleon is at Bognor, Sussex ; the Empress and Prince Imperial are in Scotland. Gibbes gives L 30,000 to Keble College, Oxford, for the erection of a chapel: Mademoiselle Nillsen's marriage took place with great eclat at Westminster Abbey. The Bennett judgment is viewed diversely by the Evangelical party ; some ministers counsel concession, but the majority recommend inaction. ; The Rev. George Rogers has sailed with his party to found an English Colony in the State of Minnesota. "' The Duke of Cambridge held a grand review at Alderahot, which was followed by a sham battle in Long Valley. Eton defeated Harrow at the annual cricket match, after two days. A Belgian artisan choir of one hundred and seven voises excited the admiration of a distinguished audience in England. The forces for the autumn manoeuvres rendezvous at Pewsey and Blandford, thence proceeding to Salisbury Plains. The Channel yacht race was won by the schooner .Guinivere. . ' . The Wimbledon rifle meeting was sue cesaful beyond ail precedent. SergeanMictin, of the London-Scottish, won the Queen's prize ; Edward Ross, the ' Albert prize ; Sergeant Croft, the Army and Navy Challenge Cup. , The Canadian Dominion's twenty com- \ petitors carried off three of the chief £" prizes. - r ■ \ An ; influential meeting of Roman Catholics was held in Willis's rooms to protest against the suppression of the religious orders of Rome and the expulsion of the Jesuits from Germany. The Goodwood races went off with , the usual eclat. The Steward's Cup was- won ' by Oxonian; Goodwood Stakes, Spenithom; Goodwood Cup, Favonius. The publication of the Livingstone correspondence has awakened a deep interest iv the great explorer. . ' Stanley has been entertained by the Americans in Paris, and' received enthusiastically in London. Obitdary. — - Henry Tidey, artist ; Baron Hughes, Irish Judge ; Lord Southampton, S. W. Fulton, author ; Sir T. Heaketh, jnember for Preston; Lady Louisa Cornwallis ; Walker, correspondent of London journals at Berne ; Rev. F, Bullock and son, and Edward Gowding, by boat accident at Neufchatel ; Curga, musical composer ; Sir James O'Connell ; Dr^ Aldis, Metropolitan Health Officer ; Rev. H; Qlya^ Premior'a brother-in-law ; Admiral Collis ; Gustavo Devrient, German comedian. 5 '-')■ Throughout the month the country has been visited by violent thunder-storms and heavy rainfall. • Gladstone formally pledged , himself Jb grant a measure of local government taxation next session. - ' "-> Gilpin's Bill for the Abolition of Capital Punishment was rejected. The Marquis of Hartington hinted at tho possibility of the Government pur* chasing the railway lines. The Ministry were defeated on tfctV Thames embankment scheme. Judge Keogh's Gal way judgment has been subjected to a sharp debate in the Commons. On the motion of a vote of censure aud removal from office, by Mr Butt, the motion was rejected* - >»~ : Soudamore's reports on the state of the telegraphs show a profit of L350,00p»

which has been spent in relief of taxation. The Mint is unable to coin sufficient silver, and Mr Lowe has contracted with a Birmingham firm for L 50 ,000 weekly. Archbishops of Canterbury and York assented to the proposal of Lord Shaftesbury that the reading of the damnatory clauses of the Athanasian creed should be optional. . With the exception of the masons the London building trades are still von strike. The bakers have appealed for a reduction of the hours of labor. A now political movement has been initiated by Samuel Morley inviting various representative working men to consult on their own platform of action. The sale of the Middle Park stud realised over LIOO,OOO. Mr Jones, of Ballarat, purchased Ada for LllO.