GENERAL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 276, 21 November 1868, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, October 2. The Queen has returned to England, and is now at Balmoral. Her health is partially restored. The revising barristers are hard at work everywhere, refusing to register women as voters. The dissolution is expected to take place soon. Mr Chisolm Anstey is revising barrister for Finsbury. The seats held by several of the leading Ministers are likely to be contested. Lord Stanley is advocating the erection of a monument to Leigh Hunt. Sir John Dean Paul is dead. The Irish hierarchs are commencing to fight over the disestablishment of the Irish Church. The Queen of Spain, accompanied by the King Consort and their four children, Don Sebastian and the Ministers of State, escaped to France on the 30th September. Madrid is tranquil. A provisional junta, composed of four members, sits en permanence. Generals Prim and Serrano have entered Madrid, and Barcelona has pronounced against the Queen. The elections for the Constitutional Cortes by universal suffrage commenced on the Ist October. Orders have been issued for the arming of the Militia and National Guard, and the new Government has received the congratulations of the English residents. One of the chief commercial firms in Andalusia have offered the Government a loan of 160,000,000 of reals. There is an upward tendency on the Bourse. The Prince Koyal of Greece has received the title of Duke of Sparta. The Greek Chamber of Deputies is engaged on a question of new taxes. It is not known whether it will be favorable to the Government. ' A frightful explosion has taken place at the Green Pjt of the North British Iron

Company, near Rhuabon station, North Wales; 10 men were killed, and 11 seriously injured. A serious accident has. occurred on the London and North-western Railway, near Rugby, by which several persons were killed and injured. Count Walewski, formerly French ambassador to England, died at Strasbourg on the 27th September.