GENERAL SUMMARY.

West Coast Times, Issue 702, 24 December 1867, Page 4

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, October 29.

Her Majesty is at Balmoral, where she unveiled Theed's statue of Prince Consort. Her Majesty returns to Windsor early in November.

Her Majesty gives up her retirement this season, which is expected to be a most brilliant one at Court.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have returned from the Continent. The Princess is very much improved in health. Prince Arthur has recovered from a slight attack of small pox. The following Irish Church Commissioners have been appointed by Government: — Earl Stanhope, Earl of Meath, Viscount de Vesci, Uight Hon. Sir J. Napier, Bart., Colonel Eobert Shafts Adair, John Thomas Ball, L.LD.. Mr Clive, Mr Edward Horsman, M.P., Secretary, Dr. Edringtcn. The leading newspapers are discussing the best and most economical means of getting Australian beef to England. An Australian meat company has sold 28,000 tons of preserved beef here. The Tailors' strike in London, which commenced on March 1, and extended over seven months, is at an end, the men having submitted. Admiral Tarragut has visited England, where he was extremely well received. Mr Disraeli is to be entertained at a banquet in Edinburgh in a few days. He has been feasted in the Free Trade Hall at Manchester by a number of conservative notables of that city. The Pan- Anglican Synod have met, but have done little good for colonial churches generally. It is suggested that they should put themselves more completely Tinder episcopal authority, and that a voluntary tribunal of Bishops should be appointed for settlement of spiritual difficulties.

Dr Gray, Bishop of Cape Town, was unable to sustain the position he assumed towards Bishop Colenso, and has been invited to resign his bishopric by the solicitor of Miss Burdett Coutts, who endowed the bishopric and appointed Dr Gray. He refuses to comply with the request. The dispute is not likely easily to be settled.

Much uneasiness is felt as to the extent of Fenian disaffection, but the greatest watchfulness and activity are shown by Government.

A small Fenian vessel has been captured in Lough Swilly. A conservative has been elected for Bradford, beating Mr Maill (Miall P).

A meeting to sympathise with Garibaldi has been held in London, at which his son Riciotti was present. Father Duville has been entertained at a dinner in Dublin, when he made a speech, in which he declared that Ireland was declining under English rule, and expressed confidence that he should live to see her free, but wished not to be understood as preaching a doctrine of revolt, which he considered foolish.

H.M.S.Rasaus, seven guns, Commander Pointer, sailed from Spithead yesterday, for Australia.

In the great Tichborne case another month has been granted. Plaintiff ordered to file documents.

Sir Hugh Crawford Pollock, the missing baronet, when lately discovered in Texas, was farrier to the sth United States Cavalry, in which regiment he enlisted during the war.

- There has been a dreadful conflagration at Pundee. The ship yards in that city

have been completely destroyed by fire. Damage to the extent of L 160.000. The Berlin correspondent of the " Times" states, on what would appear to be official authority, that the Emperor of the French entirely failed in his design at Salzburg. He found that the southern Governments of Germany would not help him to attack Prussia, and Austria was in ao position to make war. The Emperor, therefore, while sanctioning alarming telegrams, gave up his designs and returned intent on peace.