GENERAL SUMMARY.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 29, 13 January 1864, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

J Letters from Woolwich," of the 3id No-

vember, say every arrangement has been made for the embarkation, during the present week, of the 4th battalion of the Military .Train Corps, and detachments of. other troops, for service in New Zealand. Lord.. Pal merston- lias been made corespondent in a divorce c*se, in which the damages are laid at L2p,000. The lady's name is O'Kief. She is the wife of a clergyman. The Confederate cruiser Georgia has arrived at Cherbourg for coals and supplies. Sir William Atherton, the late Attorney General, is alarmingly ill. H M.S. Prince Consort narrowly escaped foundering during very heavy weather, in which she sprang a leak, in crossing the English' Channel to Dublin. The - Worcester Autumn Handicap was won by, Mr Ten Broeck's Summerside. , The King of Greece arrived at Athens on the 31st October, and was well received. A despatch from Washington of the 16th, states that the Niagara frigate was still-detained at Boston for want of hands. 'Accounts from San Francisco by the West' India mail state that .the high r.ite oft insurance charged, on account of the rebel steamers Alabama, .Florida, &c, has to a great extent driven American vessels out of service for long foreign voyages, and, es a consequence, vessels of other n fit ions are : doing the carrying trade. There are now more foreign flags displayed by shipping in: the harbor of San Francisco than al anj previous time. A collision has t ! »ken place on the Peebles Railway, near Edinburgh. One T>oy of seven was killed, and seven or eight passengers were injured. The building of the new iron war frigate Bel lerophon,. which has just been commenced at Chatham Dock-yard, will inaugurate a new era in iron ship-build-ing 1 . She is to: be constructed on what is termed the double-bottom or unsinkable principle, bo which a complete revolution will' be effected in the modeof constructing iron vessels of war. The Bank directors, on the 2nd November, raised the minimum rate or discount from four to five per cent. The I'russian Chambers were to meet on , the 9th November. iKe Standard jo£ the 3rd November says : — "Earl Russell has addressed a despatch to St. Petersburg of a very mild and. conciliatory character. Instead of carrying out his Blairgowrie programme, and notifying to Russia thafc by her violation of the treaties of Vienna she had forfeited all the rights to Poland which those treaties gays her, he gently reminds her of the obligations they impose, and expresses the hope that she will fulfil in the hour of her triumph, the promises she has made to the * Three Powers.'" A maniagri is in contemplation between His Royal Highness Prince Alfred and a princess of the House of Oldenburg. The Russian police have discovered at Warsaw the printing-office of the National Government. « Documents have been seized compromising a lirge number of persons. M. Milontine and four high Russian authorities have arrived at Breslau, for the purpose of reorganizing the constitution of .Poland on the Russian provincial model. 11 Manhattan " says " the retreat (Oct. 2G) of .Vleade has horrified us all here in the North ; and thafc the Federal loss at Chickaminga was 18,000.'' The steam rams have been towed out from Mr Laird's dock at Birkenhead, and anchored near H.M. steamer Gladiator. Obituary. — Mr VV. J. Stewart, editor of the Illustrated London News ; Mr W. CubiU, M.P.