GENERAL SUMMARY.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 849, 12 August 1871, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, June 17. Latest advices from the Cape of Good Hope stale that 2000 bales of wool have been obtained from the Queen of tho Thames. It ia rumoured that the Duke of Edinburgh will be placed in command of an iron clad. Tho Duke's elephant killed his keeper whilo on the journey from Plymouth to Sandringham. Dr Jcnuer has issued a strong protest against tho Rev Mr Neville's appointment to tho Bishopric of Dunedin. He is determined to maintain his spiritual rights. The rumour that Great Britain had ceded Heligoland to Germany has been contradicted. The freedom of the City of London will be presented to Priuce Arthur on July 13th. His Eoyal Highness is recovering from injuries received through falling from a casement at Buckingham Palace. It it rumoured that an English prince is to marry the Princess Thyra of Denmark. Mr Gladstone is recovering from a fortnight's illness. Mr Childers is still at Nice, and Mr Bright is fishing in Scotland. The Tichborne trial grows more puzzling every day. The claimant was in bad health when under crossexamination. The favourable impression produced by earlier witnesses was much weakened by his strange forgetfulness of incidents in boy's life in the parish in which Eoger Tichborne passed his early days ; in his inability to speak French; and serious contradictions of dates, persons, and streets. He admitted having seduced his alleged cousin, Miss Doughty before leaving England. A strike of 9000 Tyneside engineers is followed by a formidable turn-out in "Wales, and strikes are threatened in Glasgow and Rochdale. Serious Trade Union outrages have taken place at Manchester.' Sixty thousand bricks made by machine were destroyed in one night. The grand jury have found a true bill for murder against Edmund Pook for the Eltham tragedy. 'Four true bills for child murder wero also found against Agnes Norman.

The French Peasant Farmers' Seed Fund amounts to £47,000. FEANCE. Tlio health of Paris is most satisfactory. Ten thousand men arc engaged clearing and ropairing the streets and public edifices. The gensdarraes are to be increased to 100,000, and it is prohablb that the National Gardo will bo universally disarmed. The Column Vendome is to_.be restored. Grousset was taken in the disguise of a female, Courhet was found hiding behind a bed, and Be Lecture behind the barricades. The property destroyed in Paris is estimated to amount to 800,000,000 francs. The anti-German feeling is dying out. The Pope has published an encyclical letter, protesting against the violation of the rights of the Papal power, and the freedom of tho Church. A mass has been ordered for the priests shot at Paris. Only one hundred houses have been destroyed of the sixty thousand composing the portion of the city exposed to fire, but many are mutilated. Father Hyacinthe has interviewed the Pope, and sent a letter of sympathy to Dr Doellinger. OBITUABY. Colonel "Watson Miles, Sir Oswald Mosely (a Manchester celebrity), Dr Spratt (of Dublin), Sir Edward Kuatchbvdl, Sir Frederick Byng, Lord Eybank of Selkirk, Sir John Bolt, Mr Mosea (the French banker), John Briggs (of Leicester), Vincent Scurry Pollan, M.P. ; Meynell Ingram, M.P.; Alderman Sir Joseph Causton ; Capt. Wood, R.N. ; Colonel Blount; Christopher Ido ; Capt. Matthews, R..M.; Major Townsend; General Ellesconde; General Baltby, Lady Frances Cole ; Lady Charles Fitzgerald, Hon. Fred. Villiers.