GENERAL SUMMARY.

West Coast Times, Issue 629, 30 September 1867, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The correspondence regarding the Alabama is to be laid before the House by Lord Stanley. Reports from Abyssinia state that English, prisoners are no longer captives. Ireland is quiet, Fenianism being played out. Negotiations are in progress between the Austrian Government and the Holy See for the establishment of a new Concordat. Kossuth lias been elected member of the Hungarian Diet at Wait- ! zen. Continental affairs are peaceful. London papers speak confidently or the revival of Colonial trade. Venice, wliile sympathising with the insurrectionary movements of the Roman people, demands immediate execution of the parliamentary vote which proclaimed Rome the capital of Italy. The Sultau arrived at Pesth on July 31 and left on August 1. Count Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the Bund. Goodwood Meeting. — First Day — Vauban 1, Tynedale 2, Regalia 3. Second Day — Camellia 1, Lord Ronald 2, Amanta 3. For wool sales, August 15 — Total to be offered is 160,000 bales ; of this, 36,315 is New Zealand. William Mitchell, establisher of the commercial code of signals, has been knighted. The American iron-clad Onondaga has been sold to the French Government by America. , The steamer Naroa, bearing the cable to connect Cuba and Florida has arrived at Havana. °[BY ATLANTIC CABLE, TIA NEW YORK.] The Reform meeting in Hyde Park on August 5 was a failure. The Greek Government has announced that should hostilities between Candia and the Sublime Porte not cease by September 1, it will declare Avar with Turkey. Napoleon's visit to the Emperor of Austria is postponed a few days. The American iron-ram Dunderberg, which has been purchased by the French Government for 3,800,000 dollars, arrived at Cherbourg on 3rd August, after a passage of 14 days 19 hours. A new Russian loan has been put on the market. Its success is established.