GENERAL'SUMMARY.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 78, 29 June 1868, Page 156

GENERAL'SUMMARY.

An important meeting of the magistrates of Westmeath has taken place, when a large subscription was raised for the discovery of thelnurderer of J. Featherstonhaugh, Esq., J.P., D.L., of Brooklyn. The Government reward is £3OO.

. The. trial of the Fenians for the Clerkenwell explosion has been concluded. The case of alibi set up.,by Barrett signally failed, and the jury re-turned-a'verdict of guilty against him, and acquitted’the other prisoners. Barrett delivered a long address when the usnnl question was put previous to passing sentence, after which the lord Chief Justice condemned him to be hanged. The K-isoners acquitted are William Desmond, Timothy esipond, Nicholas English, .John O’Keefe, and Ann Justice; they were charged with the murders of Martha aud Humphrey Evans, William Chitton, Sarah Hodgkinson, Minnie Abbott, and Martha Thompson, at the Clerkenwell explosion. Besides those, Burke, Casey, and Shaw are now on trial for treason felony. _ Kossuth has resigned the seat in the Hnngarian Diet, to which he had been elected. From Japan we hear that the officers and crew of a French vessel had been assassinated by the Japanese at Osaco. The matter has since been arranged, and the Japanese pay an indemnity. At the Cape of Good Hope it is, said that goldfields of great richness exist between the Zambesi and Transvaal. These fields are described as sixty miles in length and twenty in breadth. The Irish Churcli question continued to create great excitement iu England. On May.7th a meeting was held in St. James’ Hall in favor of the continuance of the Irish Church establishment. The attendance was immense, and the proceedings, very noisy and turbulent: The Archbishop of Canterbury and York, addressed the meeting. Ultimately resolutions in favor of continuing the Irish Church were earried. On the 7th May Mr Gladstone carried his Ist, 2nd, and 3rd resolutions in the Honse of Commons. The third is as follows:—“That ah address be presented by the House to her Majesty the Queen, humbly praying that to prevent by legislation at this session, or by creation, new personal interests, through the use of the public patronage, she would be graciously pleased to place at the disposal of Parliament her interest in the temporalities of all the dignities and benefices of the Church of Ireland.”

Mr Whitbread, inember for Bedford, moved a resolution, to withdraw the annual grant of £30,000 each to the Roman Catholic College at Maynooth and to the Irish Presbyterians (the Rejium. Do/ntm) after the disestablishment of the Irish Church, which was agreed to. The entire domain belonging to the Hudson’s Bay Company is to be ceded to the Crown. John Bright and other members of the Liberal party in England have united in a petition to the Hon. Gathorn Hardy for the commutation of the punishment of the Fenian prisoner Barret, who was recently convicted at the Old Bailey for complicity in the Clerkenwell explosion. The petitioners nrge the point that an alibi in the case of Barret was conclusively proved.

Dublin, May 8. Gen. Nagle and the other Fenian prisoners, who were captured on board the Jacmel Packet, Erin’s Hope, some time since, aud imprisoned, have been released from confinement, having previously given the authorities the pledges required. They celebrated'their freedom yesterday by calling on G. F. Train, who is in gaol in this city. London, May 6. When the news of the attempted assassination: of the Duke of Edinburgh had reached England, the Home News says:—“ The information was kept baek for some hours in order to let it be broken considerately to the Queen, and we are glad to be able to say, on better authority than is usually appealed to in matters affecting Royally, that tlie Sovereign received the intelligence with becoming composure, and that her first thought was that it might be also cautiously told to the Princess of Wales. That illustrious and beloved lady, whose health makes it specially important that she should not be agitated, was informed ot the incident while landing with the Prince at Holyhead, while on their return from Dublin. We are glad to say that the news has had no ill effect, and that the Princess, even after enduring a long speech in Welsh, was able to come on southward, and has since visited the theatre.' Of course, addresses to the Queen have been voted by Parliament,'fand are also pouring in from all other constituted bodies.

London, May 7 —Evening.’ It is reported that, the Princess Louise, the fourth daughter and sixth child of Queen Victoria, has been contracted in marriage to Christian Frederic William Charles, Prince Royal and heir apparent to the throne of Denmark. The same journal adds :—The burning indignation which the attempted assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh excited throughout the whole of Australasia has certainly met with a like expression here ; but it is hoped that the whining appeals for mercy that have been heard at home will, if made in this case in New South Wales, be, as they ought, disregarded. ' The Fenians think the end justifies the means, aud to attain their ends they do not scruple at crimes which, if permitted to go unpunished, would dissolve society into , its original elements, when every man would execute his own vengeance. Old societies dare not submit to such tyranny, and new ones cannot afford it if they place any value upon security and progress. This country, however, lias confidence in. the loyalty of New South Wales, as well to the Crown as to Law and order ; and no doubt is felt that' the violated laws of the province will be vindicated in the only effectual way in which they can be vindicated as a terror to all evil doers of the Fenian stamp. In the House of Commons; Mr Disraeli, in a splendid speech, moved—“ That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, to convey to her Majesty the expression of .the sorrow and indignation with which this House has learned the atrocious attempt to assassinate liis Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, while on a visit to her Majesty’s' loyal Australian colonies; and to offer heartfelt' congratulations to' her Majesty on his 'Royal Highness’s preservation .from-mortal injury, and to assnre her Majesty of the sympathy of this House in her Majesty’s: present anxiety, and of their earnest hope .for-the speedy recovery of liis Royal Highness.” Mr. Gladstone seconded the resolution which was unanimously carried. The general impression appeared to be that O’Farrell had ' acted as the agent of a Fenian organisation. . ' ’

Mr Charles Dickens has arrived in England from America.

- j Mr Selfe, the Westminster JPolice Magistrate, whohas been absent .for: some months on a tour in New Zealand, has returned to .England,,took his seat in Court on,the Ist-May; . , \ The lrish Government are gradually'? releasing the Fenians who Have 1 lain’in prison under Lord Liehtehaht’s..:to;arndits throughout tbe, Dominick O’J&ahoney,' who was arrested as the Buppo>sed' 'head : :cenhte: of the Cork district, has been set at liberty: ■'■■■/> v :>-] ’V ; c ... Two ironclad frigates have been launched this week. One ofthese, the Repulse, .constructed by Mr Reedlor the British.,navy*fe to carry 12 guns

of company/ ®Kunes«-J«& works at Biackwall; ttiei . «^^l^3]strpngcst : irpnckcTafloat; ' ’. j . „ LATEST FROM ABYSsimA,; ' ,’,t mi. rn--■ "• ■" • %'* ' '■- : ; Lmfibh/ isny ß. •/j ♦x» ~ es °' Hlu ' 'Jttonung.has later and official English/ expedition in' Abj*' is’expecjed.to start for the aboufrlthe 25th r : ~^yr,^*fv??^?l3?-/ o f:'Magdidairtheißeat.of/ Theohave been received' at tlie InOffice frorti General Napier; dated at Tal : p^|fc?Af^^^;3 Qgan s ;ahd.n lor j a r S belongMgto the ‘AbyasiiuanmonHrchwere deiatroyedand '••-*»: td'tihe roek on 'whieh it stood. tieneral.. r Napier { reports that the Queen and heir apparent to the throne are in the camp. The army trains were well up with the'advanced guard of the returhing;forces.,. . / . LKWhed the Queen’s,forces.took possesion of the fortress ,aua works at. Magdala they .immediately destroyed over thirty large gunv with some few mortars .which had, been used iin defence of the to impede the English advance. • . • ; T^ e gates ahd looplwled bastions were mined and mown up with gunpowder.- . ; i I jTlie town prpper and the more: interior fortified pomts were .firedv. and every building used’as a w^s'bnme4. tbe plafi? ’ iacltldin S' the royal palace, . • .The Church was spared. ras:ia completeted on the 17th of April. * Thei; widow of the late. King Theodoras and her son, heretofore , heir apparent of the; Abyssinian throne, were protected by General Napier and escorted fronrhiscampto theTigre country. . . ? a TW§- .his duty and. accomplished ms errand of- hberationfor the captives in the most complete manner, General Napier mustered -his if on parade, the command “’Bout face • march! and the British troops left Magdala °tt_fcheJsfcK April oa their route on. return to the Bed Sea Coast. oNapier.-hoped to reach Zotdla by the last days of May,fromjwhich point the road is comparatively ansy to Senafe and Annesley Bay. ■, / , VThe wounded men' were doing well—most of them .convalescent, and the army trains kept well up. spaiial horriespondentofthe Seraid, attached -to -Napier's' expedition-in Abyssinia, fur”3>s* despathes, dated at Magdala on the 16th of. April. ... r 0 King Theodoras was buried in the yhurch .at, Magdala, official respect: being: shown to his remains. .• . . r - The yonßg prince Theofiorus,/.his son' will be conveyed to England tb be educated there. ‘ ’ ! wbazze thefl-iendly chief who aided the Queen’s army m its march through Tigre, will be .duly CTowned,King*of Abyssinia, thus introducing a new within two'days of the Herald's special report.

„.. XEB.Y, .LATEST NEWS. ■ " , -..News -has been received from Europe and the United States.np . to the evening of the 12tli* May. - -The impeachment committee was -to - give' yesterday, bat the.groeeedings were sus pended. until Saturday, wHen.thcy ; wiU finally, fieclare whether thePresidentbeguilty ornofc gnilty. The general belief,is that he will.he acquitted. In tMmeantime.thereis greatdxcitembhtpending the has resigned the Secretaryship of the

; Lord Brongham is dead.. ■ ■ riots have taken place in various parts of ijnglaiid with demonstrations of ;, great animosity the , beads of the .Catholic Church, resulting morifoyfer in' the, wounding of a great < number of people andthedestructioh of varions public build- • Consols‘94;T-8; r :: , • ••.•••