GENERAL SUMMARY.

West Coast Times, Issue 185, 23 April 1866, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, Feb. 26. The Australian December mails were delivered in London on the 13th and 17th February. The Queen is residing at Windsor. She intends holding five receptions during the ensuing season. The Queen's speech, at the opening of Parliament, touched on the termination of the American war, the reconciliation with Brazil, the Jamaica outbreak, the cattle disease, Fenianism, and the Reform Bill. Thirty Thousand pounds dowry, and £6000 per annum is granted as the Princess Helena's marriage portion. Fifteeu thousand pounds per annum has been voted to Prince Alfred «n his attaining his majority. He has been made a captain of the fleet, and will shortly take his seat in the House of Lords. The Board of Trade returns for last year show an oxcess of income over expenditure of L 3,248,213. Towards the Colenso fund the subscriptions amount to L 4,000. There is much dissension among English Churchmen as to the alteration of the liturgy, &c. The Government and the Archbishop of Canterbury decline to alter it, and severely censure the ritualists. The Rev. Dr. Whewell, Master of Srinity College, Cambridge, has been thrown from his horse. Only faint hopes of his recovery are entertained. Mr Peabody has given another Lloo,ooo for the same benevolent purpose as his former endowment, making in all a quarter of a million. The personal property of the late Richard Thornton, London, is valued at two millions and a half. Mr Everts has been entrusted with the prosecution of Jefferson Davis. His fee is 100,000 dollars. On the 4th and 11th February terriffic hurricanes and thunderstorms swept over all England, unequalled in violence for the last forty years. Serious damage to property and shipping, with loss of live caused. At the official inquiry into the loss of the London, the evidence proved that only 340 tons dead weight was on board, exclusive of 200 tons ballast. Miss Avonia Jones avows herself the widow of G. V. Brooke. Mr Joseph Jefferson is still drawing crowded houses. The cattle plague, notwithstanding the energetic measures used for its suppression, shows no diminution. All diseased or suspected beasts are slaughtered. All railway conveyance of animals is prohibited. The number of new cases in the week ending 17th February was 13,000. Obituary.— John Gibson, R,A., Ad- ! miral Webb, Earl of Milton, Lord Monteagle, Lady Meade, Rev. Dr M'Farlane, Lady Townelly, Col. Dowbiggin, Lieutenant General Savage, Sir John Howley, Hon. Mrs White, Dow- ! ager Countess Cawdor, Hon. J. C. Dundas, Hon. M. Windfield, Lady Cecil Kerr, Earl Donoughmore, Mr Spottiswoode, W. T. Brande, Hon. C. B. Phipps, and W. T. Wyndham.