GENERAL SUMMARY.

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GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, July 17; The Australian mails, due in London on July 13th, were not delivered until the* 16th. : The. Queen bat Osborne, and in good health. She proceeds to Germany in August. . . The State concert and public breakfast* at Buckingham Palace gardens was % great success. The Duke of Edinburgh has been feted at the Crystal Palace.; 30,000 persona w.ere present. i Sir R. Napier has been raised to thePeerage, under the title of Baron Napier, .of Magdala, with a pension of £2000 a-. ;year. He will get the Commahdership- : in -Chief of the Forces in India, worth i 30,000 a-year. The approaching 'general elections arecausing excitement. In response to. a requisition, the Lord Mayor of London called a meeting of citizens, at Guildhall, to express their views on Mr Gladstone's; Suspensory Bill^ Nine speakers were heard,, when a general row took place, during which the Lord ; Mayor- was struck twice. The meeting separated in confusion, and so motion was put. The Conservatives of Edinburgh have* invited Lord Stanley to stand for the representation of the city> the Graduate* of the University of London supporting Mr Low. Parliament is rapidly preparing fpr disr; solution. Government intends to grant a. medal to the troops engaged in the. late Nqw:' Zealand war. Lord Shaftsbury has introduced a Bill{ in the Lords regujating Cjerica} "Ve.st-. meatsi The Lords' 1 amendment to the, Scotch. Reform Bill ha» been accepted by the; Commons. An important meeting of gentlemen in^ terested in the Colonies was held at Willis' Rooms, for the formation of a Colonial Society in London, to extend * knowledge of- the Colonies, and strengthen their connection and good feeling with the. mother country. It is denied that Sir Jaijaes Ferguson has accepted the Governorship of South* Australia or Tasmania. A fire, covering twenty -foijr» square miles occurred at Cleaveland Bill, York-, Bhire, occasioned by sparks from ft railway

engine. The moora burned uninterruptedly for five days. A large number of sheep and other animals were burned^ and thousands of birds and young grouse were destroyed. Professor Grobe has been elected President of the London University College, in room of the late Lord Brougham. An address from a large number of gentlemen connected with the We3t Indies has been presented to Mr Eyre. King Cole, one vi the aboriginal black cricketers died of incarnation of the lungs # The New Market Meeting. — Jury Stakes (two-year-olds) : Lyswor-th Ist ; Abstinence, 2nd ; Devttra, 3rd, Newcastle Summer Meeting. — Northumberland Plate : Fortuno, Ist ; Tynedale, 2nd ; Farnham, 3rd. Arrangements for the marriage of the Crown Prince of Denmark are completed. The Pope has issued a Bull summoning Universal Council for December, 1870, to mark his fiftieth year of office, the longest term a Pope has reigned. Wilkinson, late manager of the Joint Stock Discount Company, sentenced to five years' penal servitude for fraudulently appropriating money, was released by order of the Home Secretary. The proceedings against him were the result of a mistake. Government has definitely arranged for $he purchase of the telegraph lines, at twenty years purchase, The heat during the last few days has been intense, causing many deaths from sunstroke. In New York, three hundred deaths by sunstroke aro reported. The French army has been considerably reduced by six months' furlough. Fresh insurrectionary movements have taken place in Spain . Immense storehouses and their contents have been burnt at Dunkirk, Loss, twenty million francs.