GENERAL SUMMARY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 8, Issue 713, 30 December 1865, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, October 29. Tlusj^AustralianLgAugust mails ap-ived in Londtfrfo|||lie 15ffl%nd 23rd October.^ The leading items of intelligence lire the death of Lord Palmerston and the reconstruction of the Cabinet. v^ 1 There Is an allege! misunderstanding between Prussia and Austria about the Drohies ; the^ffhaUer German States are opposed to^tlie pretentions of the former Power. w The reconstruction of the Union in America progresses ; the Confederate officials have been releasedfP Petitions in favour of pardon to Jeff. Davis have Set with a favourable rccep^K from President Johnson. ' Negro suffrage progressing. * „. A new bishopric has been establLsßia in New Zealafll. -^ .JP* Her Majesty and family enjoy good fcfealth. Lord Palmerston died at a quarter to 11 on the morning of October 18th, calmly, and without suffering : he was sensible to the last. Plis ' wish was to have Uten buric^Ptjuietly at Romsey, but the Queen expressly desire^l a public funeral, and the»l|to« Premier was interred in ■ Westminster Abbey. His njge was eighty-one, °^' and he had been sixty years a.pullSPseryant, All classes and creeds throughdftfc; Europe, of & all shades and opinions, sincera&g, regret* not ■ only his death, but the loss thaxEngland sustains by thus losing one of her greatest, most intelligent, and far-seeing statesmen in all matters connected with the /^ocy of Great Britain. "It will be remembered," says a public j ou ffiß'k^'that the present entente cordiale betllifn England and France, when Napoleon became ruler in. France, was principally owing to Lord Paltnerston's correct judgment. 'We^ ne'er shall look upon his like again.' " Eifrl Russell is Prime Minister, Lord Cla- % rendon Foreign Secretary, and Mr. Gladstone is leader of the House of Commons. The Rev. Lascelles Jenner has been appointed to the new See of Dunedin. An ints|hational investigation as to the cause and cure of cholera is agreed on. In Paris cholera has appeared, and produced a great panic. jQhe Emperor and^. Empress visited the hospitals, and so allayed the excitement, jgfe The Umlecl States Government have addressed the French Minister on the subject of furthe? intervention by France in Mexican affairs, which is apparently a threat. The correspondence between England and America relative to the depredations of the Alabama, Shenandoah, &c, are fiir froms|acifie, and the American Minister persists^ accusing the Government of Great Britain of assisting the late Confederate States. Justice Cromgton has resigned his seat on the Bench. The trial of the Fenian prisoners, appointed under a special commission, has commenced : the evidence shows that American assistamse has been offered freely to uproot the nationMity* of Ireland. The Bank returns this week show an increased stock of bullion of £429,655; and orcat uncertainte 1 prevails as to the future course of the moiiey market. The Cambridgeshire- Stakes were won by Gjirdensaure ; Gladiateur, who Avas heavily weighed, was nowhere. The Government decided not to pay for cattle slaughtered under the orders in Council. Accidents and offences for the month are above the usual average. Jefferson, the comedian actor, draws crowded houses at the Adelphi. Obituary. — Dr. Wallo§|pn, Archdeacon Bartholomew, llev. R. Walc&r, Countess of Clare, Lndy Haglan, Dudley Costelio, Dr. Charles Richardson, Vincent Wallace, Hero Ernest, Canon Stewell, Benjamin Olivieira, nnd Mr. Ilae, C.E.