GENERAL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 16, 20 January 1868, Page 1

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, November 26. Australian Mails were delivered iv London, ou the 16th and 23rd. The Queen is at Windsor and in good health. The Prince and Princess of Wales are at Sandringbam. The Princess is able to walk with the help of a stick. Parliament has approved of the Abyssinian expedition. Address in reply to the Queen's Speech passed unopposed. Mrs. Disraeli has been seriously ill but is recovering. Five Fenians condemned to death for the Manchester murder and rescue. Three were hung, one pardoned, and oue reprieved. Gaol and scaffold were strongly guarded by military and police. 2000 working men acted as special constables. There was great anxiety throughout the country, but no disturbance. The Fenians threatened to burn every town in England. The men were executed, although great efforts were made to obtain a leprieve. A deputation of working men waited on Home Secretary, who refused to see them. Another deputation endeavored to see tbe Queen, who referred them to her Ministers. There wore disgraceful scenes both at the Home Office and Windsor. News from St. Thomas' states that 300 bodies have been recovered and buried. The loss to the Royal Mail Company is estimated at £250,000. At Tortola the storm caused the loss of 100 lives, and great distress was occasioned. Relief funds are being raised at Southampton and London, the Queeu having subscribed £200. Trustworthy information has been received of the safety of Dr Livingstone. Major Westley Blackett, Governor of the Western Africa u Settlement, has been appointed Governor of Queensland, in the place of Sir George F. Bowen. The apartments of the British Chr.rge d' Affairs at Rome were searched, during his absence, hy the police ; an explanation was demanded, and is deemed satisfactory. The new P. and O. Company's contract covers 52 mails yearly to Bombay, 26 to China, and 13 to Australia. Tbe subsidy is £400,000, aud the duration of the contract 12 years. Earl Russell was to introduce some resolutions ou Education in the House of Lords. He purposes to extend aid to the elementary and Middle-class Schools, and aims at, the reformation of the "Universities and the*fi.ppoiatment of a Minister of Education. •V' , .~ .

Mr Disraeli and Lord Stanley have attended a large Conservative banquet at Bristol. Mr John Bright objects to the proposal to send working men to Parliament. Mr Thomas Hughes, M.P. for Lambeth, litis seceded from the Reform League. Lord Derby lias refused the request of the Orangemen to repeal the Party Processions Act. The Bishop of New Zealand has declined the Bishopric of Liclifield. Conservative Working Men's Associations are now being successfully formed. The Danish journal*-; contradict the death by violence of the Countess Dainier, morgan** tic wife of the late king. Mr Charles Dickens id in America, and lias been well received there. Stevens, the late Fenian 'Head Centre,' is in France, in great poverty. Burke, the Fenian leader, has been arrested. Mr Goldwiu Smith emigrates to America shortly. The Fenian General Hal pin has been sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude. The banquet to Mr Disraeli, at Edinburgh, was attended by 1300 gentlemen. He was presented with the freedom of the city, and with an honorary degree by the University. A colliery explosion has taken place in Glamorganshire, by whicii 170 men and boys were killed. Serious riots have taken place in some churches at Lambeth, in which Ritualistic observances have been adopted. A petition, signed by 3000 persons, has been presented to the House of Lords, charging the Bishop of Salisbury with preaching uuscriptural doctrine. Di Russell lias been appoiuted the Times' Correspondent at Paris. Obituary. — The Earl of Moray ; Edwin James, late M.P. and Q.C.; the Countess de Flahault, Baroness Keith and Nairne ; aud Marshal O'Donuell, Prime Minister of Spain. Mr Disraeli, at the Lord Mayor's dinner ou the 9th November, expressed his confidence in tho maintenance of peace. Miss Julia Matthews, the well-known Australian actress, has been well received in English Opera, at Coven t Garden Theatre. Lord Stanley considers the Roman Conference useless, the programme having been prepared beforehand.