GENERAL SUMMARY

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 741, 6 December 1869, Page 1 (Supplement)

GENERAL SUMMARY

London, Oct. 8. The Australian August mails were del i vercd punctually. The Queen is s-till in Scotland, and has presented a bust of herself, executed by the Princess Louisa, to the Royal Academy.

The Princess of Wales returned from Wildbad after 8 weeks sojourn; iier accouchement is expected early n December; the Prince and Priniess visit the Emperor Napoleon at St. Cloud.

! Mr Gladstone ha? been in attendin ce on her Majesty at Ba 1 moral; lis health is improved. The Duke )f Cambridge has returned from Germany and resumed his duties kfter an attack of gout. j The question " What ought to be the legal and constitutional relations ktween England and her Colonies " las discussed at a sitting of the Social Science Congress, Mr Bristoe being the president. Sir Stafford North cote, who occupied the chair j)n the occasion, remarked in his ppening address that he took the pair with the distinct understanding that the subject before the Council was not to loosen but to strengthen the bond uniting the different tortious of the empire. Papers ln«ve tam read by Messrs G-orst, Hare, Noble, and Labediere, and the liscussion was continued by Messrs I Bo wring, Marsh, Sir W. Denison, Mr Torrent Mr Edward Wilson, Ur Fawnlison, and Mr Frederick I Hill. Letters were sent from the Duke I »f Manchester in favor of giving the polonies a voice in the government hf the Empire. I A pamphlet on New Zealand by Ittr Sewell, late Prime Minister, is Indicated to Mr Edward Wilson;

the writer contends that the present crisis was precipitated by the Colonial Office and that Imperial help was indispensible. The Daily News warns Tasmania against the folly of constructing a broad guage line.

Mr Daniel Chmie visits Australia by the next mail, for the purpose of introducing Mr Fairlie's system of Surface Construction Railways.

Earl Granville rebukes the Governor of Queensland for his remissness in regard to the new development of the slave trade, and exhorts him to greater watchfulness. A supplementary mail 'o the East and Australia will be despatched via Brindisi a day later than •* ia Marseilles. Baronetcies have been conferred on Alderman Salomons, Messrs Whit worth. William Fail-bum, Thos. Baily, Titus Salt, Hardman, Earl (of Liverpool), W. Jackson (of Birkenhead), and Mr Ciawford ; the latter declined the honor.

Mr Moncrieff, Lord Advocate of Scotland, is appointed Lord Chief Justice Clerk, in place of the late Mr Patton, who destroyed himself by drowning, from a sensitive dread of exposure of bribery practices in connection with the Bridge water election several years ago. Mr Young, the present Solicitor General, is to be the new Lord Advocate.

The vacancy caused by the death of Lord Justice Selwyn was offered to Lord Westbr.ry, but declined by the advice of the Lord Chancellor.

Mr Seeley, the reputed author of " Ecce Homo," and Latin Profes »or of University College, is appointed to the Cambridge chair of Modem History, vacated by the resignation of Mr Kingsley.

DrWilberforce has been translated to the See of Winchester ; the Rev. J. N. Mack an ess to Oxford ; Dr Temple, of the " Essays and Reto Exeter; and Lord A. Harvev to the See of Bath and Wells.

Owing to Mr Sheridan's complicity with insurance his Dudley constituency demand his resignation as a member of the House of Commons.

The London Mayoralty was fiercely contested by Lord Mayor Lawrence and Aldermen Besley and Wilson ; Besley, the candidate by rotation, was \ictorious.

A movement is on foot for the division of the Sees of Exeter and Winchester.

Charles Dickens inaugurated the session of the Midland Instiute at Birmingham by an admirable characteristic address.

Captain Beaumont and Mr Candlisli, M,Ps., have started for Tndia to investigate the expenditure in connexion with the Abyssinian war. The British fleet, after a successful cruise, returned to the Channel. The Woolwich Dockyard is closed, but rumors that Sheerness will follow are authoritath ely denied. The exposure of election corruption before the Commissioners at Beverley, Bridgewater, and Norwich, have excited horror and disgust in the public mind, preparing the way for the ballot On the trial of Barrett, for attempting to murder Capta'n Lambert in Ireland, the jury disagreed, and were discharged. One juryman, suspected of being favorable to the condemnation of the prisoner, was mobbed and pelted ; the Judges also were assaulted in their carriage,

Two more agrarian murders are reported in Ireland, one a laborer near Cashel, and the other a bailiff in the county of Longford. Mr Nicholson, of Kells, was fired at and wounded.

The Fenian amnesty movement continues with unabated energy, but the seditious tone in which the re lease of the prisoners is demanded renders it impossible for the Government to yield. At a demonstration of Republicans in Trafalgar Square, Mr Moore, MP. for Ma\ o, uttered an inflammatory speech against the Government. The Total Abstinence Society of Ireland have memorialized Mr Gladstone in more loyal language.

The valuable letters contributed by the Times' special commissioner in Ireland, and communications from influential landlords are ripening the opinion for an equitable settlement of the Irish land tenure question, and next «ession a measure ensuring long leases and legal compensation for improvements will probably pass, satisfying all except the extreme Radicals.

Preliminary steps towards the reconstruction of the Irish Chinch have been taken. The United Provincial Synods met, deliberated, and agreed upon a common representation of the clergy and laity for the new Church body. Dr Lee's motion to exclude the laity was defeated, and a proposition to prevent them exercising a voice in doctrinal subjects was also contemptuously rejected—the wealthy laity meanwhile subscribing liberally to an endowment fund.

Extra-parliamentary utterances at agricultural and other meetings have been frequent. The Irish land question is the leading topic; the principal speakers on these occasions have been Earl Carnarvon, Mr Card well, Earl Hartington, and Lord Clarendon.

After a visit to the Continent, and confidential conferences with Napoleon, Gortschakoff, Beust, Ho henlohe, and other statesmen, Lord Clarendon assures us that at no time since the war between Prussia and Austria have we had fairer prospects of maintaining peace. A protection movement, with a watchword "reciprocity,"causes some stir in the North ; manufacturers of Lancashire demand more and cheaper cotton. The cause of the depressed state of trade undoubtedly is that while outlets for goods have been contracting, the manufacturing power of Lancashire has vastly augmented since 1860. The treatment or cattle in transit to London has awakened public at tention, from a harrowing letter in the Times, describing the cruelties •witnessed by the writer during a passage from Rotterdam. The Government instituted inquiries, with a view to legislation. Three Government officers charged with frauds at Woolwich arsenal were acquitted, the evidence being insufficient. The nailers' strike has terminated. The colliery lock-out in 'South Yorkshire has also ended.

Captain Saxby's predictions, woiking on public ignorance and credulity, caused great consternation in several localities by the fear of enormously high tides on October 6th. "jSlothing, however, came of it. A succession of equinoctial gales, lasting from September Bth to 14th, destroyed one hundred and twenty

vessels, damaged hundreds of others, and caused heavv loss of life.

A man named Jonathan Judge, of Bromley, Middlesex, shipbuilder, out of employ, killed himself, wife, and two childien, by the fumes of charcoal. The cause was poverty and dread of distress.

The Byron controversy, after raging long in the newspapers, with very little public profit, has at length exhausted itself; and Mrs Stowe is determined to make the most of her position, and has promised to repty to her critics in Macmillan.

Telegrams from San Francisco report the discovery of a mutilated document on the beach at San Buenaventura, relating to Sir J. Franklin's party.

The discussion regarding Ihe weight of the sovereign is still active.

Colonel Kelly, one of the Fenians who escaped from the Manchester prison ran, is supposed to have been discovered, under melancholy circumstances. One night two men were going westward in a cab, when one leaning out of the window overbalanced himself, and falling, fractured his skull; he was taken to the hospital, where he died. He was known as Edward Martin, a pi inter's reader, but the detectives identified him as the missing Colonel Kelly. Further investigation, however, proved them mistaken. Wood Green, near Hornsey, was the scene of a dreadful tragedy. A carpenter named Kinson murdered hi* paramour, Maria Death, and a man named Boyd. The crime was instigated by jealousy. He afterwards attempted suicide but failed. The Thermopylae arrived from China in 88 days; the shortest passage on record.

News of the loss of the Carnatic caused a fall of <£2 in the price of P. and 0. shares. Specie to the amount of £3,800 was on board, some of which may be recovered bydivers.

Lady Palmerston was buried in Westminster Abbey by the side of her husband.

A letter in the daily papers recommends galvanic shocks as a substitute for flogging as a punishment to garotters and wife-beaters. The Pope ill replying to Dr Cumming's application for permission to attend the Roman Council, says the Church cannot consent to re-open the discussion of points already determined. Protestants may attend on their casting away all preconcerted and adverse opinions and making submission.

Father Hyacinthe, the celebrated preacher of Notre Dame, has written and published a very remarkable letter addressed to the General of the Order of Carmelites, to which he belonged. He denounces the attempts made to deprive him of his light of free preaching, and formally severs all connection vith his congregation and Order; he bitterly assails the spiritual despotism of Rome, and claims the right and duty to reject the chains sought to be imposed on him; he protests vigorously against the Roman (not Christian) policy of the Ultramontanes in seeking the proposed divorce between the Church and the socie y in which we live, and expresses doubt of the freedom and independence of the (Ecumenical Council. The Bishop of Orleans regrets the step taken by Fathei Hyacinthe, and exhorts him to submission; but the Father in brief le-

ply says he cannot accept either reproaches or counsels, and what the Bishop calls a great fault committed, considers a great.duty accomplished. The Superior of the Order of Carmelites has written to Father Hyacinthe ordering him to return to the convent under penalt}- of excommunication, and a declaration that he is dishonored in the sight of the Church, The noble language of the Father's letter in the bold assertion of the freedom of thought it contains hasmade a great impres ion on Europe. This voice of liberal Catholicism has been spoken of as a new Reformation.

Broadhead, of Sheffield trade union notoriety, having been refused a license for a public-house by the magistrates, on account of his crimes, deteruiines to leave the country, and calls on his fuends to subscribe to pay his expenses.

Captain Culaig, Governor of Pentonville prison, pleaded guilty to embezzlement, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. - ■*

Charles Hewn Turner, stockbroker, has failed for £50,000.

John Pepper, carrying agent, of Leeds, has failed for £1 20,000.

The Wallace Monument, on Abbey Craig, Stirling, has been formally inaugurated. The Caduceus and Lady Joclyn have been chartered by the Agent General of Victoria as emigrant ships for October and November.

The contemplated visit of the cricketers is deferred; some hitch occurred about the passage money.

The machinery of the Australian Woollen Mills is being shipped on board the Thespian, at Liverpool, which leaves on Oct. 10. The directions of the European Assurance Company declare that the position of the company was sound, and their determination to resist the petitions to wind up to the utmost.

A quantity of wreck was washed up on shore near Exmouth, and it is believed to indicate the destruction of 'he well-known old Bed Jacket, which left Cardiff for Bombay, with coals, in September. One of the Bridgewater commissioners received a letter threatening his life.

The Atlantic cable of 1866 has sustained serious injury near foundland,

Messrs J. M'Call, the preserved provision merchants, have stopped payment for £50,000. It is said the losses were made upon Australian meats, which the firm largely imported.

An explosion of fireworks took place in a shop at Bayswater, which kiled seven persons. The Spectator has a long eulogistic notice on Mr Michie's lecture on

royalty. The Church Congress is sitting at Liverpool. The Bishop of Chester delivered the inaugural address. E ghty guineas premium have been asked on the Matoaka from New Zealand ; £'50,000 of specie on board is covered by insurance. She is 149 days out. M. Lesseps was steamed through the entire Suez Canal in five hours.

A strong shock of earthquake and an eruption of Vesuvius are reported from Venice. The Emperor Napoleon's health js re-established; but the subject of abdication is evidently being seriously discussed.

A. tfe*# end ous occurred at Bordeaux, paused by .tfee #adden explosion of petroleum in a fighter. The flames caught the vessel* in the river, and twenty-five jyeve destroyed, besides a large .amount of other property. The fire jt-aged all night.

Obituary.— Professor Graham, Master of the Mint; Dv Hunt, founder of the Anthropological Society; Mr Egerton, M.P. ; Dr. Kirwan, Archbishop of Armagh; T. Watts, Librarian of the British Museum ; Mr R. W. Grey, Commissioner of .Judge; Archdeacon .Jones.