GENERAL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 165, 15 July 1868, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, May 22. The Queen is well, and in Scotland. She held a drawingroom at Buckiugham Palace on 13th May. The Prince and Princess of Wales occupy Windsor Castle. Charles Dickens has returned from America. He made £35000 during the trip. Lord Brcugham died at Cannes, on 7th May. His brother William succeeds to the title. Mr Eyre has been again prosecuted. The trial of the prisoners for the Clerkenwell explosion has terminated. Barrett convicted, and the others acquitted. Barrett was sentenced to death. Bishop Selwyn, by the death of Bishop Hampden, becomes a spiritual peer. An order for appointing a receiver, to take charge of the Tichborne estates, lias been made. Emigration from Ireland goes on at an immense rate; 1000 people embarked at Queenstown in one day. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has decided to release Sullivan and Pigott., Serious religious riots have occurred at Arklow, one woman was-trodden to death by the crowd. Notice of motion has been given in the House of Commons by Mr Reardon, requesting the Government to advise her Majesty to abdicate, in order that tbe Prince of Wales, as regent, may perform the duties of sovereign. * No reply has yet been received to the memorial for fortnightly mail service. Mr Pardy writes to the Times that England, has daily communication with America, weekly with India, and fortnightly with China, and tha + . it is unjust to continue only a monthly service with Australia. Mr Adams, the American Minister, took leave of her Majesty on the 13th May. At Oxford, Mr Gathome Hardy, while laying the foundation stone of Keble College, announced the receipt of a telegram relating the attempt on Prince Alfred's life at Sydney, when something between a shriek and a groan burst from the assemblage. The Bishop of Oxford,

who was present, said that the revenues of the Irish Church were being confiscated to meet the wishes of assassins. Her Majesty, in reply to addresses from Parliament, said, 'I thank you. The attempt on the life of my son ha*?, I am sure, only further aroused the loyalty of my Australian subjects, so heartily displayed in his reception.' Addresses have beeu presented to the Queen by all the large towns in the Kingdom. Sir Roundell Palmer's motion relative to the Victorian crisis, is postponed in consequence of recent information, and the probable receipt of further intelligence on the subject. In the House of Lords, on the 7th of May, Lord Lyvedoti drew attention to the conduct of Sir Charles Darling, in accepting a grant for his wife, and enquired what course the Duke of Buckingham intended to take ? His Grace replied that the large mass of the people in Victoria were favorable to the grant, and he thought his predecessor in the Colonial Office had adopted the wisest course. Letters from Algeria give horrible accounts of the condition of the people from famine. The Arabs continue to eat their compatriots and the children of Europeans. Three Arab women drowned a boy of three years old, and then ate the body. AMERICA. The House of Representatives has passed a bill admitting North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana to representation in the Congress, on certain conditions. The Senate has refused to convict President Johnson on tho llth article of the Impeachment Bill. Twenty thousand people joined in the procession at Mr Darcey M'Gee's funeral in Canada. Mr Ryan succeeds Mr M'Gee in the House of Commons. £1,000,000 is voted for the fortifications in Canada. j ABYSSINIA.

The re-embarkation of the army will be completed by the 15th of June. The depredations of the Gallas have given great trouble. They hurl down rocks on passing columns of troops, and plunder when evening sets in. The favorite queen of Theodorus has died of consumption in the British camp. His real queen will probably succeed to the sovereignty. The Euiopean troops are in good health, but the Indian part of them suffer from the climate. The railway locomotives and the greater part of the stores will be left behind. The troops are rapidly arriving at the coast and being shipped to Bombay. A grand review of the troops took place at Senafe, on the Queen's Birthday. It was followed by sports. No mention is made of the political aspect of tbe war. The education of the youngest son of the late King Theodorus is to be entrusted to the Rev. Dr Nelson, of the Free Church Mission in India. A deputation has waited on Sir Stafford Northcote, urging the construction of a telegraph from India to England, by way of Gibraltar, to insure greater punctuality.