GENERAL SUMMARY.

Southland Times, Issue 732, 4 October 1867, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The correspondence regarding, the Alabama is to be laid before the House of Commons, by Lord Stanley. Eeports from Abyssinia state that the English prisoners are no longer captives. Ireland is quiet. Fenianism is played out. Negotiations are in progress between the Austrian Government and the Holy See Tor the establishment of a new Concordat. has been elected a member of the Hungarian Diet for Waitzen. Continental affairs are peaceful . The London, papers speak confidently of the revival of the Colonial trade. ; Venice, while sympathising with the insurrectionary movements of the Eoinan people, demands the immediate execution of the Parliamentary vote which proclaimed Eome the capital of Italy. The Sultan arrived at Pesth on July 31st, and left on August Ist. , • , ,• . The Queen is in good health. . Count Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the Bund. Goodwood Meeting: First day—Yauban, 1 ; Tynedale, 2 ; Eegalia. 3 : Second day — Camelia, 1 ; Lord Eonald, 2 ; Amanalta, 3. At the wool sales, on August 15, the total quantity to be offered was 160,000 bales. Of this quantity 36,315 bales were New Zealand wool. William Mitchell, who established the Commercial Code of Signals, has been knighted. In Eolls Chamber, on 24th July, an order was made for a call of £3 10s per til ire on shareholders of the New Zealand Banking Corporation. The American iron-clad Onondaga, has been sold to the French Government by America. _ The steamer Maroa, bearing the cable to connect Cuba and Florida, has armed at Havannah. (By Atlantic Cable, Via New Tobk.) The Eeform meeting in Hyde Park on sth August, was a failure.

The Greek Government has announce'dV; that, should hostilities between Candia. y and the Sublime Porte not cease by Ist September, it will declare war—with Turkey. - H The Queen's Life of the 'late.. PrinceT \ Consort i3 a great success. V J The Atlantic telegraph cable was broken fifty miles from Heart's Content. It can easily be repaired. The cable of 1865 is in perfect order. Napoleon's visit to the Emperor of Austria has been postponed for a fewdays. - The American iron-ram Dunderberg, which was purchased by the French Government,- for 3,800,000 dollora, arrived at Cherbourg on 3rd August, after a passage of 14 days, 17 hours. A new Eussian loan has been put on the market. Its success is established.