GENERAL SUMMARY.

West Coast Times, Issue 648, 22 October 1867, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, August 26. The Australia June mails were delivered on August 14th and 20th. T3ie Queen's health is improving. Her Majesty is appearing more in public, to the great satisfaction of her subjects. The Princess of Wales has thoroughly recovered, and goes about without pain or distress. Prince Alfred's reception at Hio do Janiero was most enthusiastic. Nothing ever like it before in Eio. Parliament has been prorogued. Prorogation speech was delivered by the Lord Chancellor. It is quiet. Heferring principally to Abyssinian captives and significantly stating a hope that the liberal measures of reform granted would be durable, and a complete settlement o the question. Democratic organs assert that the next 1 step of the reform party will be for the ballot. Great riots havo occurred in Ireland between Protestants and Catholics. Several railway accidents havo oc-, curred in England, causing great loss of life. Cholera has broken out at Eome and Naple.s producing a terrible panic. Meeting of Napoleon and Emperor of Austria at Salzburg, caused a commotion about future prospects of peace in political circuits. France has no ally. Italy wants Home, which France gaurantees to the Pope. Spain, although battling with insurgents, possesses sufficient troops to form an army of obstruction. Prussia is hostile, and Russia is with Prussia, unless France proves false to tradition and treaty and abandons Turkey. Open war is declared between President Johnson and Mr "Stanton the Secretary of War. Afc the next elections a negro will stand for election as Vice-Prosident.