GENERAL SUMMARY

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 301, 18 July 1868, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY

London, May 22. The Queen is well and in Scotland. She held a drawing-room at Buckingham Palace on the 13th May. The Prince and Princess of Wales occupy Windsor Castle. Charles Dickens has returned from America. lie made £35,000 during his trip. Lord Brougham died at Cannes on 7th May. His brother William succeeds to the title. Mr Eyre has been again prosecuted. The trial*of the prisoners for the Clerkcnwell explosion has terminated. Barrett was sentenced to death. Bishop Selwyn, by the death of Bishop Hampden, becomes Spiritual Peer. An order for the appointment of a Eeccivcr to take charge of the Tichbourne estates has been made. Emigration from Ireland goes on at immense rate. One thousand people embarked at Queenstown in one day. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has declined to . release Sullivan and Piggott. Serious religious riots have occurred at Aril on ; a woman was trodden to death by the crowd. A notice of motion has been given in the House of Commons by Mr Ecardon requesting Croverument to advise Her Majesty to abdicate the throne, in order that the Prince of Wales, as Ecgent, .may perforin the duties of Sovereign. No reply has as yet been received to the memorial for a fortnightly mail service to Australia. The subject is to be brought before Parliament. Mr Purdy writes the Times that England has daily communication with America, weekly with India, and fortnightly with China, and it is unjust to coutinue ouly .monthly service with Australia. Mr Adams, American Minister, took leave of Her Majesty on May 13. At Oxford, Mr Gathorne Hardy, when laying the foundation stone of the Kebie College, announced the receipt of telegrams as to the attack on Prince Alfred in Sydney, when something between a shriek and a groan burst from the assemblage. The Bishop of Oxford, who was present, said the revenues of the Irish Church were being coidiscated to meet the wishes of assassins.

Her Majesty; in reply to the adclrcHsos from Parliament, said :—" I thank you. The uttcmpt on the life

of my sou has, I ain sure, only further aroused the loyalty of my Australian subjects, so heartily displayed in his reception." Addresses have beeu presented to the Queen from all the large towns in the kingdom. Sir Roundell Palmer's motion about the Victorian crisis was postponed in consequence of recent information, anil probably the receipt of further intelligence on the subject. In the House of Lords, on May S, Lord Lyveden drew attention to the conduct of Sir Charles Darling in accepting a grant for his wife and infant, and asked what course the Duke of Buckingham intended to take. The Duke replied that the large mass of the people in Victoria were favorable to the grant. He thought his predecessor had adopted the wisest course. Letters from Algeria give horrible accounts of the condition of the people from famine. The Arabs continue to eat their compatriots and the children of Europeans. Three Arab women drowned a boy twelve years of age, and then ate the body. AMERICA. The House of Representatives has passed a bill admitting North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, to representation in Congress on certain conditions. The Court has refused to convict President Johnson oa the eleventh article of impeachment. CANADA. Twenty- thousand people joined the the procession at Mr M'Gec's funeral. Mr Ryan succeeds M'Gee in the House of CommonsOne million sterling is voted for fortifications. ABYSSINIA. The re-embarkation of the army would be completed by 15th June. The depredations of the Gallas are giving great trouble, They hurl down rocks on passing columns, and plunder when evening sets in. Theodoras's queen died of consumption in the British camp. His real Queen will probably succeed to the sovereignty. The European troops are in good health, but the Indians suffer from the climate. The railways, locomotives,, and the greater part of the stores will be left behind. The troops are rapidly arriving at the coast, and are being shipped. A general review of the troops took place at Senafe on the Queen's Birthday. It was followed by sports. No mention is made of the political aspect of the war. The education of the youngest son of the late King Theodoras is to be entrusted to the Rev. Dr Wilson, of the Free Church Mission in India. A deputation has waited on Sir Stafford Northcote urging the construction of a telegraph line from India to England by way of Gibraltar, to insure greater punctuality.