GENERAL SUMMARY.

Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 72, 24 August 1865, Page 9

GENERAL SUMMARY.

/.'.;:. -Itondon, 26th June. ■ The Australian April mails had not arrived in London on the 26th June. They Were expected on the 6th July. The Queen and Royal . Family arrived at Windsor Castle, from Balmoral, on the 16th June^ in good health. The Princess of Wales has safely recovered from her accouchement. The infant is to be named Prince Albert Christian Emmanuel. ■ . The dissolution of Parliament was expected en. the lOfch July. It is anticipated that the Palmerston Ministry will again be successful at the general election. Government has introduced a bill for the purpose of relieving- conscientious persons from declaring their belief in the plenary^ppiration of the Prayer Book (?) Notwithstanding- the decision of the Privy^hincil, Bishop Colenso cannot get his ; salary. Large and influential subscription lists are being made on his behalf. £20,000 have been subscribed in Manchester for Mr Cobden's fanmy. Mrs Gobden has declined a pension of £1500 per annum offered by the Government. The colonial Governors'" Retiring Pension, Bill has passed through committee, with a clause added enabling MrLaTrobe, ex-Governor of Victoria, to participate in the benefits of the measure. It is reported that all the troops in New Zealand are ordered home as soon as possible. The future" policy of New Zealand is to be one of self-defence, trusting to her own resources. . The United States Government have made another., demand '.for, compensation for the losses sustained by the equipment of Confederate cruisers in British ports. An official; letter, published by Earl Russell, formally withdraws belligerent rights from the ships of the Confederate States.-- :^-- "-:■■■■ : ..;- „.--. .. ...... The end of the great cotton famine in England. is, officially notified, implyingthat relief for the manufacturing districts is no longer urgent. : . A : conference between the British Qpvernment and the Canadian delegates has ended in the Go verhmeht supporting the Confederation scheme, guaranteeing a loan for extensive fortifications, and endeavoring to. procure a renewal of the reciprocity tpeatj £L :- rT , ;.;■■.. o W ;..:.-;■■■;'- .■■■■'" ■>'" :: f" J ■

The Atlantic telegraph cable has been safely shipped onWoard the Great Eastern, which sails from Valencia on the 6th 'July. Twelve days are reckoned' as the time required for the laying 'of the cable, and communication is expected to be open in August. The charge will be £2 per word. The Fenian brotherhood organisation in Ireland, encouraged by the United' States, has. thoroughly subsided. Three fearful railway accidents have occurred. The first was to an excursion train between Liverpool and Birmingham, drawn by two engines, and consisting 1 of thirty-two carnages, containing 900 people. The engines dashed off the line in opposite directions, owing to the railway being newly laid and not properly ballasted. Thirteen persons were killed anrl fifty seriously wounded. The second accident was to a mail train between London and Plymouth, which came into collision with an up-passenger train. Immediately afterwards an excursion train ran into the mail train. Serious injuries occurred. The third happened on the Great Eastern line, at Staplehurst, owing to the fault of some plate-layers; the locomotive was thrown off the rails, and the train broke in two parts. Eight carriages -capsized over the bridge ; ten persons were killed and twenty wounded. Charles Dickens had a narrow escape. Serious fires and riots have taken place at Nottingham. A great fire occurred at Tyne docks at Newcastle. Some severe gales have been experienced on the British coast, from the 27th to the 31st of May, with much loss to shipping, t ' Thirty houses have been destroyed' by fire at Holborn, which commenced at Meeking's upholstery warehouse. A fearful explosion of fire-damp in Wales has desti'oyed twenty-seven persons; 200 others escaped from the pit with difficulty. Dr. Manning was consecrated Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, with great splendor, on the Bth of June. Charles -Gavan Duffy has been cordially received inLondon. At Dublin he delivered excellent speeches on Australian subjects. Therßritish Government have granted £20,000 for the enlargement of the National Gallery, £700,000 for new Courts of Justice, and £67,000 on account of Greenwich Hospital. Latest advices state the great prevalence of cholera in Egypt. Obituary. — Gen. Kennedy, Sir C. EGrey, General Truscott, Dr. Sou they, Viscount Cranbourne, Sir. John Richardson, Sir John Maxwell, the Hon Thomas Stonor, the Hon. Gilbert Elliott, General Marshall, Mr. Water.ton,..the naturalist, Mr. Stanfield, Mr. Pennell, Sir; Lascelles Wraxall, Dr. Graham, the Bishop of Chester, Lord Charles. Fitzroy, Lord Kingsale, Mr. Wingrove Gooke, the Hon. Lady Dash wood, and Sir Joseph Paxton. --■•/