GENERAL NEWS.

Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 2558, 13 July 1871, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Peace negociatioua have been completed at Frankfort. The triumphant entry of the Germans into Berlin is fixed .for the IStli of June.

Mr Gladstone announced his determination to pass the Army and Ballot Bills t-hia session.

The Galatea is being dismantled at Plymouth. 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 ta.Sir B. Murchison as President of the Eoyal Geographical Society. The London Chartered Bank of Australia has declared a dividend o( 8 per cent. . The Tichbome claimants' examination has commenced. The evidence as to his identity is increasingly strong. Ten thousand Tyne engineers have struck. •--..': :''.■■ t.\,i . The French journals, ask the ces-

sation of the sumrofiry executions and trial of prisoners. Paris is quiet. The population is resuming their occupations. Attention has been called in tho House of Commons to tho report of the capture of Herat, and to the Russian movements in Central Asia.

The following appointment*** havo been made:—Orders of Bath—E_ri.»htg Commanders — General Jamos Alexander, J. Fowler Bradford, Frederick Haines, Charles Ruid ; Companions— Colonel Edward Cave, Charles Vivian Cox, John Bliek Spurgeon, Thomas "Wright, Charles Henry Palliser, and Walter Fane.

The Duke of Argyle has granted a pension of -6-400 to the widow of Sir Henry Durant.

An Indian Finance Commit too ia sitting at Westminster daily making elaborate examinations, which aro likely to last two years. Several appointments of natives and Englishmen to the Order of tho Star of India are gazetted. Obituary.—Sir John Herschel, who was interred in Westminster Abbey ; M.M. Thalberg aud Anber, tho French composers; Mr Mason, tho Confederate Envoy of : tho Southern States ; Major-General Douglas, Admiral Arbuthnot, Mr. T. Yates, advocate; Rev. Dr Paterson, Byron's tutor ; Major-General Sheil, Mr Halket, Keeper of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh; -Professor Purcliert of Jena; Sir W. D. Stewart; Colonel Roger, E.A.; T. H. Williams and J. Grafton, Lord McGregor. Sailed —Queen of the Nations, Keut, Abbey, Holme, Lahogue, Great Britain, Merpesia, Spence, Western Empire, Lanarkshire, City of Paris, George Thompson, Borealia, Aim Duthie, Luffre, City of Adelaide, Darra, Beltnna, Sarah Bell, Peace.