GENERAL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 277, 22 November 1867, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The Queen is still at Balmoral with Princes Arthur and Leopold; and the Prince aud Princess of Wales, with some members of the Russ'an Imperial family, at Wiesbaden. The war with Abyssinia is popular in Great Britain for commercial, geographical, aud theological reasons. Three millions of native Christians are said to exist iv Abyssinia un-Jer the charge of a Coptic patriarch. A rivalry is said to exist between Mr Disraeli and Lord Stanley as to the future Premiership. The Emperor and Empress of the French are still at Biarritz. JSTapoieou still preaches peace. The annual meeting of the British Association has been held at Dundee, under the presidency of the Duke of Buccleuyh. JS T ext year's meeting will be held at Norwich, Dr Hooker, the Curator of Kew Gardens, President. Business is iv a depressed state. The disclosures of the outrages committed by the sawgnnders' union at Sheffield and by the brickinakers' union at Manchester have caused the abolition of unions, and the adoption of associations for the promotion of free labor by the colliers of Derbyshire and the General Building Association. A society has been formed in London to deliver workingmen from union bondage. bemi-official journals denj that the French squadron in the Mediterranean is preparing for sea. Twenty members of the Chamber of Deputies have protested against Garibaldi's arrest. The Government of Juarez in Mexico has been recognised, and the ministers have presented their credentials at the city of Mexico. Julia Matthews, the favorite Australian actress, has arrived in London, in the Dunbar from Sydney. The rumors of impending ministerial changes in France are denied. Bodies of armed insurgents are overrunning the province of Viterbo in the Papal States, pursued by the pontifical troops. King George of Hanover has accepted the conditions laid down by Prussia for the financial arrangement of his afflurs. Messrs Peter Buchanan & Co., of Glasgow, have failed. Liabilities about i' 300,000. The bullion in the Bank of England on Sept. 25th was £24,447.833, and the reserve of notes and coin was .£16,049.738. The same day the Bank ot France held £38,274,000. There is no demand for money. The demolition of Middle-row, Holborn, was completed on the 30th September. The Atlantic Cable of 1866 has been repaired 88 miles from Heart's Content, The Atlantic Cable Company have declared four per cent. o p income stock, ths earnings for the year ending 27 ih July, 1867, being £205,0U0, to credit of revenue account, £27,0'- 0. Messrs James Hewitt & Co., of Liverpool have failed. Liabilities £250,000. Mrs Gh V. Brooke (late Miss Avonia Jones), the well-known actress, is dead. An Atlantic telegram via New York, dated Oct. 11, states that ex- President Jeffersou Davis will be arraigned for trial before the United District Court at .Richmond on the fourth Monday in November. It was not yet definitely settled whether Chief Justice Chase will preside or not. The charge of .levying war against the United States will be admitted by the ex-President, and his defence against the charge of treason will be that his first allegiance was due to his State. The wile of the late President Lincoln .has been causing quite a sensation in the country, and a considerable flutter among leading republican politicians by the publication of seyerai cards and letters which perhaps it would have been well if

she had never allowed to see the light of day. She has gone to New York to dispose of her wardrobe, being in want. Owing to an interruption on the line at 2 o'clock, we are unable to obtain any further intelligence, but we shall hope to present the remainder to our readers to-morrow. .