GENERAL SUMMARY.

Southland Times, Issue 886, 22 January 1868, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

JjONDON, ixov. zo. ■,_ The Australian September mails were . delivered in London on the lGfch and 23rd~ November. The Queen is at "Windsor,. and is iii good health. •" . . ; The Prince and Princeas of Wales are at Sandringham. The Princes 3is able to ■■'■•■■ walk with the help of a stick. Mrs Disraeli has been seriously ill, but is recovering. • Parliament has approved of the .Abyssinian expedition. The address in reply to the Queen's speech passed unopposed. Of five Fenians condemned to death .for the Manchester murder and rescue, three were hanged, one pardoned, and one reprieved. The gaol and scaffold were strongly guarded by military and police. 2,000 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 if the men were executed, and great - efforts were made to ob tain a repriev c. A deputation, of working men waited on the Home Secretary, who refused to see them. Another deputation endeavored to see the Queen, who referred them to her 7 Ministers. There were - disgraceful : scenes 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 Tortolo the storm-wave occasioned the loss of 100 lives, and great distress was occasioned. Relief funds are being raised at Southampton and London. The Queen has subscribed £200. Trustworthy information has been-re--ceived of the safety of Dr Livingstone; _ Major Wensley Blackall, Governor of the West African settlements, has ■' been appointed Governor of Queensland. The apartments of the British Minister at Rome were searched "during his absence by "the police. An 'explanation. __^_ was demanded, and it is considered satisfactory. The new P. and O. Oo.'s contract 'covers 52 mails yearly to Bombay, 26 to China, and 13 to Australia. The subsidy is £400,000, and the duration of the con- ~ -tract twelve years. • - Earlrßrtis«elljwilHntroduce the educa-r tion resolutionslSr~tbc-Xordß.^ He proposes to extend aid to elementary and middle-class schools, reform of the universities, and the appointment of a Minister of Education. Mr Disraeli and Lord Stanley attend a , large Conservative banquet at Bristol in - ; : January. A Conservative has been returned for Rutlandshire. - -- Mr Bright objects to the scheme of sending working-men to Parliament. Mr Thos. Hughes has seceded from the Reform League. Lord Derby has refused the request of the Orangemen to repeaLthe Party Processions Act. ... . , ; - The Bishop of New Zealand has de- :. clined the Bishopric of Lichfield. " Conservative Working Men's ~Associa- ' tions are being successfully formed. •-' •■'"-'■'' The Danish journals: contradict the report of the death of the Countess Danner. Charles Dickens is in America, and has been well received. Stephens, the Fenian, is in France, in great -poverty. Burke, the Fenian, has been arrested. Goldwin Smith emigrates to America soon. At the sale of the Marquis of Hastings stud, Lady Elizabethwas bought in at 6,500 guineas. ' ■■*■■■ .*■••-'- : • The Fenian, General Halpin, has been sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude. . „ •;, The banquet to Mr Disraeli- at Edin-, _ : burgh was attended by 1,300 gentlemen. . He was presented with the freedom of „, the city, and an honorary degree by the" University. > • -^ At a colliery explosion in Glamorganshire, 170 men and boys were killed. Serious riots have occurred in the ritu- I alistic church at Lambeth. ' ;. ■* A petition has been presented to the House of Lords, signed by 3000 -persons," /'- --accusing the Bishop of Salisbury;, of * preaching unscriptural doctrines. Dr Russell has been appointed 'the;. Times correspondent at ..Paris. „--.. ■,- Mr Disraeli, at the Lord Mayor's dinner expressed confidence in the maintenance of peace. . Julia Matthews has been well received in English opera at Co vent Garden. r ; . Lord Stanley thinks the Roman con* '■ ference useless unless a programme is pre- :: ' a pared beforehand. . r ; i Obituary.— Lord Wrottesley, the Earl a of Moray, Edward James, M.P., Q.C., '- Countess de Flahault, and Marshal— O'Donnell. -._-.., , ; | |A second dividend of 3s has been paid in the estate of the New Zealand Banking p Corporation, and a dividend - oP Is :'; in i Qverend and Gurney's estate;, makinff 0 -. i3s. : ■:■'■■■.. -.--'. s A.t a meeting of the shareholders of

the Royal Bank of Liverpool, the call was increased from £5 to £10 per share. Great dissatisfaction, wasexpressed with the management, and a committee of investigation was appointed. Government has resolved to take the management of the telegraphs, which has given great satisfaction. No failures of importance are reported. The Australian Trust and Agency Company have declared a dividend of ten per cent. The liquidation of the Bank of Queensland is proceeding satisfactorily.