GENERAL SUMMARY.

Press, Volume X, Issue 1234, 20 October 1866, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The Queen continues in good health. Parliament is prorogued. The Derby Ministry still in power. The Crown Princess of Prussia is seriously ill. A banquet has been given to Eyre, the ex-Governor of Jamaica. At Exeter Hall the people gave a counter banquet, proclaiming Eyre as a murderer. Cholera is abating in London. The British Government have released the American Fenian prisoners, but they are not to return. Serious riots have taken place in Tipperary. Scientific men state that the successful operation of the Atlantic cable will not be of long duration. Goodwood Stakes—Kama, first; Special, second. The Cup—Duke, first; Journalist, second. The consecration of two colonial Bishops took place at Canterbury Cathedral on the 2nd August. Eevs. Dr. Andrew Sutter for Nelson, and Henry Jennet for Dunedin. The Rev. Samuel Wadlow, titular Bishop of Graf ton and Armidale, was prevented from appearing at the ceremony by illness. A treaty of peace between Austria and Prussia was signed on the 24th August, at Prague, in accordance with the basis laid down by the Nakaioburg preliminaries, and it now only waits for general ratification. Its main features are the retirement of Austria from exercising influence over Germany, the payment of a war indemnity of twenty million thalers, the dissolution of the old and the formation of a new Confederation of the northern Germanic States under the leadership of Prussia ; also, the Electorate of Hanover, and the Duchies of Hesse, Nassau, Frankfort and the Elbe to be annexed to Prussia. Austria to cede Venetia to the Emperor of the French, who is to hold it for Italy, Austria only stipulating that Italy shall pay a portion of the Lombardian and Venetian debt.

Great agitation in Austria owing to the suspension of hostilities. The Emperor has been insulted in the streets. Martial law has been proclaimed in- lower Austria.