GENERAL SUMMARY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 835, 25 July 1868, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, May 22. The Queen is well, and in Scotland. She held a drawing-room at Buckingham Palace, on tho 13th of May. The Prince and Princess of Wales occupy Windsor Castle. Charles Dickens has returned from America, He made £35,000 during the trip. Lord Brongham died at Cannes on the 7th of May. His brother William succeeds to the title. Mr. Eyro has been again prosecuted. The trial of the prisoners for the Clerkenwell explosion hastermiuated. Barrett was convicted and the others acquitted ; Barrett was sentenced to death. Bishop Selwyn has, by tho death of Bishop Hampden, become a spiritual peer. An order for the appointment of a receiver to take charge of the Tichbourue estate has been made. Emigration from Ireland goes on at an immense rate. One thousand peoplo embarked at Queenstown iv one day. Tho Lord Lieutenant of Ireland declined to release Sullivan and Pigot. Serions religious riots have occurred at Arklow. A woman was trodden to death by the crowd. Notice of motion was given in the House of Commons by Mr. Reardon, requesting the Governmeut to advise Her Majesty to abdicate, in order that the Prince of Wales as Regent may perform the duties of Sovereign. No'reply has yet been received to the memorial for a fortnightly mail to Australia. Tho subject; I is to bo brought before tho Parliament. Mr. Pardy writes to the Times that England has daily communication with America, weekly with India, and fortnightly with China ; and that it is unjust to continue only a monthly service with Australia. Mr Adams, American Minister, took loave of Her Majesty on the 13th May. At Oxford, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, when laying the foundation stone of Kebble College announced the receipt of a telegram relative to the attack on Prince Alfred in Sydney, when something between a shriek and a groan burst from the assemblage. The Bishop of Oxford, who was present, said the revenues of the Irish Church were being confiscated to meet the wishes of the assanius. Her Majesty in reply to the addresses from Parliament, said — I thank you ; tho attempt on the life of my son has, I am sure, only further aroused the loyalty of my Australian subjects, so heartily displayed in his reception. Addressos have been presented to the Queen by all the large towns in the Kingdom. Sir Roundell Palmer's motion about the Victorian crisis is postponed in consequence of further information, aud tho probable receipt of further intelligence on the subject. In the House of Lords on May 8, Lord Lyvedon drow attention to the conduct of Sir C. Darling, in accepting the grant for his wife and infant, and asked what course the Duke of Buckingham intends to take, and the Duke replied that the largo mass of the people in Victoria were favorable to the grant. He thought his predecessor had adopted the wisest course. Letters from Algeria give horrible accounts of tho condition of the people from famine. The Arabs continuo to eat their compatriots and children of Europeans. Three Arab women drowned a boy twelve years of age and then ate the body.