GENERAL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 303, 23 December 1867, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Loudon, Oct. 29. Her Majesty is at Balmoral, where she had unveiled Theed's statue of the Prince Consort. She returns to Windsor early in !N"-ovember. Her Majesty terminates ..her retirement this season, which is expected to be a most brilliant one at Court. The Prince and Princess of Wales have returned from the Continent, the latter xnuch.inaproved in health. Prince Arthur has recovered from a slight attack of small pox. The Irish Chnrch Commission has heen appointed by Government, to consist of the following: — The Earl Stanhope, the Earl -■of Meath, Viscount de Vesci, Right Hon. Sir J. Napier, Bart., Colonel Robert , Shafto Adair, J. Thomas Bell, LL.D., Mr :€r. Clive M.P., Mr E. Horseman M.P., • with Dr Elrington as Secretary. The newspapers are dis'cussing the best > means of gettiug Australian beef to Eug- . land. The Australian Meat Company has -.sold 28,000 tons of preserved beef here. The tailors' strike in London, which had commenced on Ist March, and extended over seven months, is at an end, the men •having submitted. Admiral Farragut has visited England, 'where he was extremely well received. Mr Disraeli is to be entertained at a banquet at Edinburgh in a few days; he haa been feasted in the Freetrade-hali at Manchester by the Conservative notables of that city. The Pan-anglican Synod has met, hut has done little good for the colonial churches generally. It is suggested that they should put themselves more completely under episcopal authority, and that a voluntary tribunal of bishops should be appointed for the settlement of spiritual difficulties. Dr G-ray, the Bishop of Capetown, was unable to sustain the position lie had assumed towards Bishop Colenso, and has been invited to resign his bishopric by the solicitor of Miss Burdett Coutts, who endowed the bishopric, and appointed him. He refuses to comply with the request. Much uneasiness is felt as to the extent of the Fenian demonstration, but the gceatest vigilance and activity are shown ...by'i.ifchV Government. A small Fenian '.vessel has I 'been captured in Lough S willy. A Conservative has been elected for Bradford, beating Mr James Stuart •'Mill ; : '■.';,■■ ■.. A meeting sympathising with Garibaldi

has been held in London, at which his son Rieciotti was present. Father Lavelle has been entertained at dinner in "Dublin, when he made a speeh in which he declared that Ireland was decliuing under English rule, and expressed his confidence that he would live to see her free, but did not wish to be understood as advocating revolt, which he cou* sidered foolish. H.M.S. Racoon, 7 guns, Commander Palmer, sailed from Spithead yesterday for Australia. In the Titchborne case another month has been granted to enable the plantiff to file documents. Sir Hugh Crawford Pollock, the missing baronet, lately discovered in Texas, was farrier to the sth United States Cavalry, in which he enlisted during the war. Some shipyards at Dundee have been destroyed by fire, and damage to the extent of £160,000 has been done. The Berlin correspondent of the Times states on what would appear to be official authority, that the Emperor of the French had entirely failed in his mission to Salzburg. He found that the Southern Governments of Germany would not help him to' attack Prussia, and Austria was not in a position to make war. He therefore, whilst sanctioning^ the issue of alarming telegrams, gave up his design and returned to Paris intent on peace.