GENERAL SUMMARY.

Southland Times, Issue 1034, 7 October 1868, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The Duke of Edinburgh sails m October .from Plymouth. He will visit Madeira,. Eayal, Ascension, the Cape of G-qod Hope, the Mauritius, Bombay, Trincomalee, Madras,- Calcutta* Penang, Singapore, Hongkong, Manilla, Yokohama, Sydney* New Zealand, Honolulu, the South Sea Islands, Valparaiso, Lima, St. Blas, : Margalhaen, San Francisco, Vancouver's. Island, and thence home. His absence Via i expected to last twentytwo moixthsa The Dake has been at Potsdam, on a visit to tMe Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia. • Prince Arthur travels for a year on the Continent, 'and then joins the Eoyal Artillery. .1 The Princess Teck has given birth to a son. ■ ---- • ; ;; ; : Mr Ducane, the new Governor of Tasmania): is highly; spoken of. The Colchester Conservatives have invited him to a public dinner. The Empress of the French entertained the Duke of Edinburgh, Lord Stanley, and Lord Lyons at a grand dinner at FontainfbJeaUj and afterwards Lord Stanley .ai^d M^. tie Mpustier had a long interview arith the Emperor. The latter made a "few pacific remarks at Troyes, which have nevertheless occasioned disquietude. Jefferson Davis and his family have arrived at : Liverpool. The old Atlantic cable is broken eighty-eight 'iniles from Heart's Content. The Great Eastern has been engaged to lay the new cable between France and America! ' ' ' Sir BV.Guuiness'leaves over a million sterling. ' The first private execution took place atMaidstdrie on the 13th. Dr Kussell, of ' The Times,' is the Conservative eaiididiaSefdr Chelsea. * The Irish Church question is almost the sole topic'pf the. election addresses. Mr Eobihspn, a London merchant, has been committed for trial on the charge of concealing valuable securities. The Duke ef Buckingham permits the i consecration of a new bishop of Natal, in opposition to Colenso. The bishop of Cape Town has selected the Eev. Mr ; M'Borie, to whom he guarantees £600 per annum. ! The Government intend to compensate the Abyssinian prisoners. : General Peel is to be elevated to the Peerage. The overseens of Salford placed 1,200 ■women on the, new . electoral roll. Others are following the example. Five thousand ■women claim votes in ManchesThe Eev. Mr Nevill, MasonJ^RC. of Staffordshire, suggests tHfggP-ee-masons should turn theory into practice, and form disciplined encampments, to go to Australia and New .Zealand, and build churches in destitue localities. France is to be represented in the (Ecumenical Council. Eholfs, the German traveller, and interpreter with the Abyssinian expedition, visited the Holy City of Lalallibala, and there found nine Christian churches of the primitive Byzantine style. Each was hollowed out of one enormous block of stone. Murphy, the anti-Papal lecturer, has been arrested at Boltqn, and held to bail to keep the peace. ■*. Dr Sullivan, of the Irish National Board of Education, leaves -a large sum , to promote education. , £3,000 has been subscribed for the relief 'of Mrs Dargan. Thomas Carlyle has been elected p_re■ident of the Edinburgh Philosophical Listitntion, in the room of Lord Brougham, :- . A Cork jury gave « schoolmaster £70 damages for being called a Fenian. The c Standard ' congratulates South Australia on the appointment of Sir J. Fergusson. i. The Queen's prize at Wimbledon has been awarded to Lieutenant Carslake of the Bridgewater Eifles.. Peake, the actual winner, was disqualiied for'tampering with the ammunitionEngland won the Elcho Challenge Shield. Admiral Farragut has been entertained by the Duke of Edinburgh on board the Galatea, and afterwards visited Osborne. Prince Alfred entertained the Prince of /Wales 'at' Trinity house, and complimented the people of New South Wales onthe. reception they had given him. ■' ■ • " : - : ■•'■. ■ ' -■ ■■'■ ■ ■ '• • " ' ■ • •-■ JDhe premises of Warne and Co., at "^^Tottenham, indiarubber manufacturers, have been destroyed by a, fire caused by the heat of tae'sun. Navy chaplains are to be placed on the same footing as army chaplains. A military commission, at which England is represented^ sits at St. Petersburg to consider the use of certain explosive materials in war. Mr Gladstone has received a deputation of advanced informers, headed by, a person named Fenian. . ; $Lr Gladstone expressed his pleasure to meet the deputation. Finlan afterwards held Sunday political meetings ; at' Hyde Park, at which he used extreme langiiage. He was afterwards brought h'efore a police court 'Itef neglecting ; Ws vch^dren. Mr receptfipn ol^ia^m an^ has friends, . v JA .

Admiral Hoskins, commanding the British squadron in the Pacific, has ordered the captain of the Chanticleer to re- open the port of Mazatlan, then to proceed to Panama, and report bimself. Tiie usual City Banquet to the Ministers at the close of the Parliamentry sessi. -.a, took place on the 29th of July. D: .-.■.•• ii w.is cordially received, and- ex-p-vpat-d his confidence that the people •would show themselves worthy of the extended franchise. Lieutenant Meade has been killed by the explosion of a torpedo with which he was experimenting. Hewas in H.M.S. Esk while she was on the Australian station. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has received the new title of Duke of Abercoro. , Booking passengers, through by the Italian and French railways, via Mont Cenis, commenced on the Ist of August. The distance from Paris to Florence is done in thirty-six hours.