GENERAL SUMMARY.

Southland Times, Issue 1616, 6 August 1872, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

LONDON, June 14. The Australian April mails via Brindisi were delivered punctually. At a meeting of the Aborigines' Protection Society on May 22, Polynesian kidnapping formed the prominent subject of discussion and denunciation. The report showed that the society had been incessantly active in promoting the welfare of the native races. The principal speakers were Mr Edward Jenkins, Sir James Anderson, Dr Mullens, Mr Arnold (editor of the Echo), Justin M'Carthy, and Professor Amos. The Tichborne claimant, encouraged by his reception in his Hampshire stumping, has held crowded meetings at Bristol and Southampton, chaperoned by Mr G-uildford Onslow, to excite sympathy and to collect funds. It is said that Mr Lowe objects to the enormous expense of the proposed trial. Miuisters refuse to,, answer questions respecting the claimant in Parliament. Mr Tallerman is preparing a collection of Australian products for the Bethnalgreen Museum at the request of the directors of the Kensiugton Museum. Mr Chevalier's five pictures now at the Royal Academy are to be sent to the Palace of Dheeg, in India. Mr Fred. Morris, who has business connections with Melbourne, is bankrupt. His liabilities are upwards of £9000, and his assets £745. A pleasant reunion of colonists took place on Monday evening in the Queensland annexe of the International inhibition. Sixty gentlemen sat down to a dinner, consisting chiefly of Australian fare, supplied by Mr Daintree. Mr . Edward Wilson presided. The visitors and speakers included Lord Alfred Churchill, Messrs Cole, Herbert, Hodgson, Dutton, Sir Chas. Cow per, and Sir Chas. Nicholson. The object of the gathering was to promote the exhibition of colonial products next year by all the Australian colonies. The project was received with cordial encouragement. The Prince and Princess of Wales spent a week in Paris betore returning to England. They were warmly received by all classes, and- were visited by distinguished personages. The Prince narrowly escaped injury or death from the horses of his landau starting off from the hotel door just as he was about to enter his carriage. The carriage was shattered before it stopped. After visiting the Islington Horse Show, and presiding at the " Rifle Club dinner, the Prince received .a magnificent reception at Yarmouth, at the opening of the Grammar School. The festivities lasted three days. Prince Arthur, after the festivities at Liverpool, presented the prizes of the London and Irish Rifles. He also presided at the annual festival of the Royal Caledonian: Asylum, when ho pleaded the claims of tne institution in an eloquent speech. He visits Birmingham, on the 21th. The Duke of Edinburgh is making a Royal progress through Ireland, amidst the warmest demonstrations of loyalty. He opened the Dublin Exhibition wich great eclat, and unveiled the statue of the Prince Consort on the 6th. Balls, dinners, a horticultural show, a concert, and review, completed the- festivities of the week. The French Derby was won by Revigny against 13 others. There were 400 entries for the Islington Horse Show. One hundred and twenty hunters, in four classes, were sent. There was an immense attendance. The cat show at the Crystal Palace was followed by an exhibition of sporting and other dogs.. There were 1035 entries. The band of the Grenadier Guards has sailed for Boston to take part in the jubilee. The invasion question has been initiated by Mr Vernon Harcourfc, and has been exhaustively discussed at the United Service Institution. A committee has been formed with, the object of placing a window in Westminster Abbey commemorative of . the officers and crew lost in the Captain.. General Ellis reports in flattering terms of the performance of the volun. teers at the Easter review. The London School Board has decided to erect seven schools, to accommodate 7,000 children, at a cost of £4000. The Rev. Canon Miller has resigned his position as a member of the board, and is to be succeeded by Mr Gover, secularist. Lord Dunmore receives the Collar of St. Patrick, vacant by the death of Lord Mayo. Mr Justice Keogh'a judgment in the Galway election case denounces tha

priesthood for conspiracy and tyranny. Captain Nolan is unseated. Mr Justice Keogh has been burnt in effigy throughout Ireland at indignation meetings. A cotton mill at Preston has been burnt. The loss amounts to £20,000. Great devastation has been cauHed by the bursting of a canal near Birmingham. The judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the Bennett case is favorable to the Romanising party in the Church of England. The agricultural laborers' movement is progressing. Sixty delegates met at Leamington, Mr Pixon, M.P., presiding. Laborers are leaving for the colonies. There is great agitation among the different working-classes, including the Liverpool sailors, the Belfast flaxspinners, the Woolwich workmen, the Plymouth police, the London coachbuilders, the Dundee female servants, the Leamington and Teignmouth washerwomen, and the London builders of all classes. Mr Vernon Harcourt's Registration of Borough Voters' Bill has been talked out of the House of Commons. Lord Liffordhas obtained the appointment of a select committee of inquiry upon the Irisb Land Act of 1870. The Ballot Bill has passed its second reading in the Lords by a majority of 30. Lord Belmore gave the result of his Australian experience. The Licensing Bill has emerged from the Upper House in a tolerably satisfactory condition, Lord Kimberley re•istmg the tremendous pressure of deputations. Obituary. — Princess Augusta, of Schleswig-Holstein ; the Duke of Bedford, Lord Hotham, General Greaves, Mr Doulton, formerly member for Lambeth ; Hon. P. P. Bouverie, the Hon. Edward Scott Gifford, William Marshall, M.P., Rev. John B. Owen, of Chelsea ; " Alfred Crowquill," Rev. W. Ellis, formerly of Madagascar; Sir Minto Farquhar, Matthew Davenport Hill, Q.C, Dean Jeremy, of Lincoln.