GENERAL SUMMARY.

West Coast Times, Issue 707, 30 December 1867, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The Queen has returned from Balmoral. The news that New Zealand is preparing to welcome the Duke of Edinburgh gives great satisfaction. The King of Italy and the Emperor have run a race for Rome. The latter Jias won. Rumors of Earl Derby's approaching retirement from public life continue. The revenue returns are satisfactory. The net increase of the national income for the year is L 1,010,329, with reduced taxation. Mr Fitzherbert's financial statement has attracted most favorable notice.' | Two French brigades arrived in Rome, and were received in dead silence. The towns in the Papal territory entered by the Italian army have. thrown off allegiance to the Pope, and established provisional governments in the name of tho King of Italy. Prussian intervention in the Italian question is discussed in Berlin. The King of the Greeks married the Grand-duchess Olga, on 27th October, in the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg. All Pasha's mission to Crete has proved a failure. The insurgents demand union with Greece. New York, Nov. 10. The New York, New Jersey, and Maryland State elections just passed, have gone in favor of the Democrats by tremendous majorities — New York State by 45,000, New Jersey by 13,000, and Maryland by 30,000. The rebuke to the Radicals is fearful. This city alone gave 61,000 majority against them, and the city of Brooklyn 14.500. Tho Democrats in the State of Massachusetts have brought the Radical majority down from 65,000 to 20,000. In Kansas, negro suffrage has been repudiated by 6000 majority, and woman suffrage by 2000 ; in Wisconsin and Minnesota negro suffrage has been repudiated by large majorities ; Missouri also has repudiated negro suffrage, but elect their candidates by small majorities. The people are everywhere becoming disgusted with Radicalism. President Johnson is jubilant. The question of impeaching tuc President is now almost certain to fall dead, although senator Wade, and representatives Thaddeus Stevens and Benjamin F. Butler still continue earnestly and boldly to advocate it. They are determined to establish negro suffrage. The Presidential race is commencing ; there is a split in the ranks of the Republican party. The Conservative wing favors General Grant, while the Radicals want Chief Justice Chase, old Ben Wade, Speaker Colfax, Gen. Butlev, or some other strong Radical nominated. On the Democratic side, Horatio Seymour, who favors the payment of the national debt in gold, and John W. Pendleton, of Ohio, who urges the payment of it in greenbacks, are brought forward, and one or other of them appears likely to be nominated. It will most probably fall upon the former. Should General Grant be nominated by the Conservative Republicans, there is little doubt that he will carry everything before him, and. be elected President of the United States. All arrangements for the trial of Jefferson Davis have been completed ; the trial will certainly commence before the United States District Court in Richmond, Virginia, on the 21st inst. The Indian war is at an end. The warlike tribes have agreed upon tlie terms of peace with Government, and have consented to leave the Pacific railroad alone. CANADA. The first session of the first Parliament of the new Dominion of Canada was opened on the 6th inst. with - imposing ceremonies, and on the following day his Excellency the Governor-General delivered his speech from the throno. Ho

congratulated Parliament that tho confederation of the British North American Provinces was a fixed fact, and he believed that the confederation would ore long extend its bounds from tho Atlantic to tho Pacific Ocean. He then requested the members of the Senate and House of Commons to adopt such measures in regard to Customs, currency, excise, postal affairs, naturalisation of aliens, defence of country, and othei necessary matters, as would redound to the improvement and prosperity of the Dominion. He delivered his speech in English, and then in French, and was listened to attentively throughout. MEXICO. Juarez has been elected President of the Republic of Mexico. Santa Anna has been banished for eight years. A Mexican commissioner has been sent to Washington to negociate a loan of twelve million dollars. Maximilian's body is still retained. .