GENERAL SUMMARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2059, 10 September 1868, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, July 18. i | TJbe Australian Mails^ due in- London' i July. I,3th, were, not delivered till the: 16th. :' ■'" "■■■- -!;" ' ■" ■■■■■'- ? . ■ ; The Queen is at Osbqrne, in good! health. She proceeds to Germany in: August. : : ; A State concert and public breakfast at Buckingham Palace Gardens passed off •with great success.- ■•-; • • ; ; . The Duke of Edinburgh has bedn fSfced! at tha Crystal Palace. Thirty thousand! present. '■■ ;■ ':.; ;:' ' i Sir R. Napier has .been raised to the» Peerage, tinder the title of Baron Napier of .Magdala,, with a; pension of ~L2OQO a: year. He will also get the Commander-1 ship-in-Chief of the Forces in India: Worth L 30,000 a year. ... , :..•; The approaching General Elections are caijsing much excitement/ . / '■■.. ■,-, .■•■■. > In response to a requisition,1 the Lord Mayor called a meeting of the citizens at Guildhall, to express-th^ii;;Views respect ing Gladstone's. Suspensory Bill. The iiames pf the"speakers were scarcely hearri when a general row : tppk place.The Lord ;Mayor vrasr, struck twice. The meeting separated in. confusion, and no; put. "",'■.■' ~~ ~; .-- - ---~ I Th 4" Conservatiyes of Edinburgh' >ih-' vited Lord Stanley tq stand for the fe-j presentation of the City., The Graduates! of the University of London are support-! ing /the Eight (Hoii. Robert Loweu Par-' liament is rapidly preparing for Dis-i aplution.;; :.v.,:.;..r. : ,_;; : . ; ._' : :.:-_. ~„.. j A BiUhas passed the Commons lo "makd prbvisioh* for'the'appointment'of Mem-! bers of the Legislative Council in New Zealand, and !to remove "doubts as to! previous appointments." ~ ■ : A Bill has 'also; Bfeen? passed, defining the powers of the "Legislature^ .of 'New; Zealan4: /as• to ; abolishing' any Pro-; ■'Vince~3n'~"thß"'G9lony/"i"or-"'aitCTmg'\;the! boundaries of such Province. ;) r»| r The ; Government -intend .-to, 3 , grant" ai medal to the tf oops. engageff in the late New Zealand war.- : - ;/ \ Lord Shaftesbury has introduced a Bill in the House of iLord3 regulating clerical yestments. "v :.[■'..:/': \i'\ "[' ']]. ,/' :;:.] i The Lords amendments of the Scotch Reform Bill -hafe been accepted by the Commons. ___' . An important j meeting ~oi gentlemen interested in the- Colonies was held at Willis's Rooms, for the; formation , of a Colonial Society in London, to extend; the - imoMedge o&' the; Cblonies, andT to strengthenlthe'connection»-and; good feeling with the mother country. It.is deniedrfehatnSia^JaHiQsJSorg^fion-3i€i&-accepted the Governorship of South Aus-: traliaor Tasmania.;^ ./.;::; ;r:i;i .'

•Ai:.fire, coyermg; twenty-four squire milies^ bccurred at Cleveland Hills, Xd^k4 ahire, ■ occasioned by sparks 'from the5 railway, engines. * The , nidbrs burhed uhinterruptedly! five! days'..^ Sheep! and other animals were burnt, to death, : while thousands of birds and young grouse were r destroyed at the same time. Professor Grotei has;bee'n dlectdd Pre^i-: dent of;,the ( London, IJni^ in rodm,of,thejatte Ldrdj Brougham. ] The hewlPprei^n .Ofiice was' inaugurated by Lord., §t^.nley. , A gran<i-diniie?,tQok: t>lace in honor of the, event.! - ! ; ;'.":;

.;An"- 'address a large ;number of gentlemen connected' Mth the Wjest Indies was presented to Mr. Eyre. ' Cole, one of the Aboriginal blacki cricketers, died from inflammation of the

lungs.": - '~'"'■ ~~~'.'..:\ ";..;■■.'."• ".":'."".: l "Atthe Newmarket-jSteeting," in July,' the Two-year old Stakes were runfforr r as followsi:— Ryswoith, Jst • Abstinence^ 2nd ; and De"TOey 3rd. •

At the Newcastle Summer Meeting, the Northumberland-Plate /was won by Fortune jTynedale came; in second ; and Farnham third.! !,: , ~ .-,...->, ;

The arrangements for.the marriage o£ the Crown Prince of Denmark are complete. J ;

The Pope has issued^ a Bull/summon-^ ing an universal Council for December^ 1870, to mark the 26th year of his holding Office. ■;j -This is the longest term a Pope has yet reigned. : Mr. iWilkinsoji, late Manager of the Joint Stock Discount Company, has been sentenced to fiveyears' penal'servitude for fraudulently appropriating money, but was subsequently .released by an, order of the Home' Secretary. ; The; prpceediiigs against, him! were the result of a. mistake.;

The Government has definitely arranged for the purchase of -all the Telegraph Lines, at twenty years'purchase.*

The heat during the last few days has been intense;. Many deaths have occurred from sunstroke.

At NewTorkj no less than 300 deaths were caused by sunstroke..,. r ;! ; i

The French army has been considerably reduced, by six months'- furlough having been granted to as many-as possible. ; Fresh insurrectionary movements haye1 occurred in Spain. - ; Immense storehouses/ and their contents at Dunkirk, have been burnt. The: loss :is estimated at' twenty millions of francs. —

Obiujabt.^—Lord'E. Dunfermline, Dr., Ramsbottom, Mr- Archibald Campbell,' Dean Kirwin, M. ,Pauline r. Lamayrac,; M. Yianet, Viscount Talin, Robert Vaughan, .Archdeacon. Dodgspn,: Lord Cranworth. , ; ' r ;