GENERAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 836, 13 July 1871, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

The peace negotiations have been completed at Frankfort. The triumphal entry of the Prussians into Berlin is fixed for June 18th. Gladstone has announced his determination to pass the Army and Ballot Bills this session. The Galatea is being dismantled at Plymouth, and the Duke of Edinburgh is visiting the Queen at Balmoral. The freedom of the city has been offered to him. Prince Arthur is recovering from a severe fall. Sir Henry Bawlinson is the successor of Sir B. Murehison, as President of the Boyal Geographical Society. The London Chartered Bank of Australia has declared a dividend of eight per cent. The examination of the Tichbourne claimants has commenced; the evidence as to the identity of the Australian claimant is increasingly stron™. Ten thousand Tyne engineers have struck. French journals ask for the cessation of summary executions, and for the trial of the prisoners. Paris is quiet, and the population are resuming their occupations. Attention has been called in the House of Commons to the report of the capture of Horat, and Russian movements in Central Asia. The following appointments have been made to the Order of the Bath:—

Knights Commanders—General James Alexander, J. Fowler Bradford, Frederick Haines, Charles Reid; Companions—Colonels Edward Kaye, Charles Vivian Cox, John Black Spurgeou, Thomas Wright, Charles Henry Patterson, and Walter Fane. The Duke of Argyle has granted a pension of £4OO to the widow of Sir Henry Durand. The Indian Finance Committee is sitting daily at Westminster, taking elaborate examinations, which are likely to last two years.