GENERAL SUMMARY.

West Coast Times, Issue 680, 28 November 1867, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The war with Abyssinia is popular in | Great Britain for commercial, geographical, and theological reasons. Three millions of native Christians are «aid to exist in Abyssinia, under the charge of a Coptic Patriarch. Business is depressed. The disclosures of the outrages of the> Sawgrinders' Union at Sheffield, and the Brickmakers' Union of Manchester, are causing the abolition of unions an;l adoption of free la 1 our. The colliers in Derbyshire, and the General Building Association in Lee 7 s, have adopted it. A society has been f rmed in London to deliver men fiom union bondage. Semi-official journals cleuy that the French squadron in the Mediterranean is 1 reparing for sea. j Twenty deputies of the Florence chamber have audressed a protest against Garibaldi's arrest. The United States have formally recognised Juarez as Governor of Mexico. Their Minister has presented his credentials at the City of Mexico. M;ss Jul ; a Matthews arrived in London in the Dunbar. f : -om Sydney. The rumors of Ministerial changes in 1 France, are denied. 1 Armed insurgents are overrunning , the Province of Viterbo, pursued by . Pontificial troops. King George of Hanover has accepted . the Pmssian conditions for a financial . arrngement. j Peter Buchanan and Co., Glasgow, • have i'ailed. Liabilities about L 300,000. I The bullion in the Bank of England, I on September 25, was L 24,447,833. and the reserveof notes and coinLl 6,039,738. On the same day the Bank of France held L 38,277,000 gold. Money is in no deroond. The demolition of the Middle-row, Holborn, was completed on September 30. The Atlantic cable of 1886 has been repaired eighty-eight miles from Heart's Content. The Atlantic Telegraph Company have declared a dividend of 4 per cent, free of income tax on the first 8 per cent, of preferential stock. Earn1 ings for the year ending July 27, 1867, ! L 205,00 0; 10 credit of revenue j account, L 28.000. J James Hewitt and Co., Liverpool, have failed. Liabilities L 250,000. j Mrs Avonia Jones Brooke is dead. (By Atlantic Telegraph via New J York.) October 11. Jefferson Davis will be arrainged \ for trial before the United Spates ! District Court at Richmond on the ' fourfh Monday in November next. It ! is not definitely settled whether Chief I Justice Chase shall preside or not. The charge of levying war against ■he United States will be admitted by Mr Davis, and his defence against the charge of treason will be that his first allegiance was due to his State. The wife of ex-President Lincoln has j been causing quite a sensation in the ! country, and a considerable flutter ! among leading Republican politicians, by the publication of several cards and letters which perhaps it would have been better if she had never allowed to ,• see the light of day. She has gone to ' New York to dispose of her wardrobe, being in want. Garibaldi's invaders of the Papal territory have been engaged with

Poat'aral froops, and i'; is sad detefited. The Revolutionists assert that a rising w ; 'l sooo tal.e place in Rome, in favoir." of the " Pa-;y of Action.''" MSo'te Garibaldi, son of the Genera 1 , and his successoi in (he command of 'he Revolutionary force operating aga'-ost Rome, has been a;res'ed by ihe Italii-n auiiioi'USes. Ga Ibaldi is held a pji&one? in h-s own house at Capre a. When first taken ike jo be . escaped, but was recaptured, and returned under guard. The American Minister had interceded in behalf of Garibaldi, who was once an American citizen. A severe battle has taken place on the Turkish frontier between the Turks and the Montenegrins. England is seriously apprehensive of another Fenian outbreak, troops were under orders in London to march to garrison Carlisle Castle, and all volunteer armouries in the country are to be guarded and placed in a state of defence. ;