GENERAL SUMMARY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 7, 28 March 1868, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Londom, January 27. \ Australian November Mails via Marseilles, were delivered in London on 13th, and via Southampton on the 18th of January. Her Majesty is well, and remains at Osborne in comparative retirement. The Princess of Wales is rapidly recovering strength, and has returned to her usual avocations. Charles Kean died on January 13th. The Queen wrote a letter of condolence to Mrs. Kean. Fenianism is nearly quiet. The effective measures taken by the authorities has prevented further outrages.

- Burke and Cassey have been committed. . . The man who fired the powder barrel at Clerkenwell prison has been captured. The other prisoners have been remanded. The editors of the "Dublin Weekly News/ and "Irishman,*' have been arrested for publishing seditious articles. Eighty-four thousand special constables have been swor in to keep the peace, and to protect property in England and Scotland. Prince Lucien Bonaparte has been made Cardinal, as a reward for the Emperor's services on behalf of Rome. The remains of Maximillian were interred with great splendor in the Church -of the Capuchins, at Vienna. Sir Culling Eardley has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment for bigamy. The Metropolitan Police Force has been increased by 1000 men. Mr Dickens has received £1000 for writing twenty pages in the " Atlantic Monthly," and a similar sum for writing thirty pages in the " Old Young Folks," with right of republication in England in both cases. Captain Sherard Osborne has proposed a new Arctic Expedition for the discovery of the unknown land supposed to be somewhere in the Arctic Seas, beyond the Polar Ocean. A French expedition is being prepared for some unknown object. LATEST TELEGRAMS. From January 28th to Feb. 21st. Tranquility has been restored in Cork, after various Fenian riots. Twenty thousand Irishmen, residing in London, have presented an address of loyalty and devotion to the Queen. Mullony has turned Queen's evidence, and has disclosed a Fenian plot to seize the Bank of England. The Government has introduced a Bill suspending the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, until the 18th March next year. The Reform Bill for Scotland, which has been introduced, provides for seven new members. Larger representation is claimed.