GENERAL SUMMARY.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 23, 22 February 1868, Page 4

GENERAL SUMMARY.

(News puom Dec. 28th to Jan. 9nr.) Tho Australian Mails were delivered in Loudon on the 13th and 18th December. Her Majesty continues in good health, also the Prince and Princess of Wales. Fenian alarms are spreading. Tho Martollo Tower near Queenstown, and a gunsmith's shop in Cork, have been plundored. Attempts have boen made to blow up "Worcester Town Hall. 30,000 special constables hava been enrolled in London. Great agitation prevails. A proclamation agaiust funeral processions in honor of tho Fenians executed bus been issued. The Government have discovered many plots to attack the armouries, dockyards, banks, churches, gasworks, &c. All Governmcut buildings are strictly guardod. Tho police force has been very largely increased through England. Tho military are held in readiness to act at any moment. A reinforcement of troops has been dispatched to Ireland. Groat precautions have been taken at "Woolwich. Burke and Casey have been committed for trial. Warm assurances of support tothe Government have been sent from all quarters to crush Fenianism. In future the law will bo strictly enforced. Tho leaders in tho Dublin funeral procession have been apprehended and committed for trial. Tho attempt to blow up the llouso of Correction at Clerkenwell was made on the UUh December, the object being to release tho prisoners confined therein. A portion of tho courtyard wall was destroyed, and a jiumbor of houses on tho opposite side of the street. Ono hundred aud fourteen persona woro buried iv the ruin?, and a large number killed. Sovou persons have been arrested on suspicion. Tho year's rovenuo of the Unifed Kingdom shows an increase of £1,750,000. Faversham powder mills havo oxploded and eleven lives were lost. l'ho Oriental Bank havo invited tenders for o Sydney loan of «C7dS,OOO. Tho Abyssinian expedition has been largely debated in tho House of Lords. Tho Earl of JSllenborongh declared agaiust the war because tho state of Europe was such that it would be imprudent to involve England in distant war, when a near one might be oxpectod. Tho expedition itself is progressing favorably. Tho natives are giving supplies, and the chiefs aro rendering assistance.

Tho liberation of tho captives is con-! sidered probable. Their chaius have been removed. The Egyptians object to the expedition. As to the Victorian crisis, the home papers stale that political affairs in Victoria demand immediate attention ii England, owing to tho dead Jock, and the dodging of the Government in tho evasion of the law. They speak highly of the conduct of the Upper House. ! The latest expedient of Governor Manners Sutton, after the Council had rejected the Appropriation Bills, iv dissolving the Legislative Assembly is condemned. They also state that the Ministerial speeches indicated revolution against the constitution. The Governor's endeavors to restore peace aro not thought favorably of. Tho opinion is that he iias held too much with the Ministry. The Darling Grant of £20,000 is considered a blunder in England. The latest intelligence) as to the Postal Service is more favorable as regards the arrangement of tho sailing dates for the Australian Mails than is shown by last time table. The outward mails for China and Australia leave seven days later thau the dates in the table -the homeward mails leave one day earlier, ihe h'wt outward mail to Australia, on tho new plan, will leave Southampton on the 21st 3 i arch. The first homoward mail from Australia will leave Sydney on tho 28th March, thus avoiding tho delay at Ceylon and shortening the intervals for replies between Australia and London.