GENERAL SUMMARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 53, 15 July 1868, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, May 22. Tho Qucon is woll and in Scotland; sho ; hold a drawing-room at Buckingham Palace on May li*. The Princo and Princess of "Wales occupy Windsor Castlo, )f Charles Dickons hns roturnod from 'Amorioa. Ho mado .336,000 during tho trip, Lord Brougham died at -Cannon on 7th; Mny. Ilk brother William ouecoeds to tho fcitlo. ' Mr Eyro has boon prosecuted again, Tho trial of tho prisonors for tho Olorkonwcll explosion lias terminated, Barrett was convicted, and tho others acquitted, Barrett was sentenced to death, Bishop Sohvyn, by tho death of Bishop ilampdoti, booomos a spiritual poor. An ordor for tl]o appointment, of a Jiecoiver, to tako chargo of tho Tichbourno ostatos has boon mado, Emigration from Iroland goes on at an imirtonHO,rato. Otic tliousand pooplo omburkod at Queenstown in ono day. Tho Lord Lioutonnnt of Iroland naa doolined to release Sullivan aud Piggott. Serious roligious riots havo oocurrod at Arklow, A. woman was troddon to dodth by tho orowd, ' Notioo of motion hati boon givon in the Houso of Commons by Mr ftoardori, requoßting Government to adviso Hor Majesty to abdieato, in ordor that tbo Princo of Wales, as ltcgont, may perform tho duties of Sovereign, No reply has na'yot boon rocolvod to tho momorinl for a fortnightly mail sot-vice with Australia, Tho subjoct is to bo brought' boforo parliament, Mr Purdy writoo.to tho Timm that Englnnd has daily communication with Amoriea, wookly with India, and fort*, nightly with China, and tliat ifc k wnjuttt to continue only a monthly eorvico with Austrnlin. Mr Adama, American Minister, took leave of Her Majesty on May 18, ( » Mr Gathorno Hardy, whon laying thp foundation stono of tho .htoblo Oollogo at Oxford, announeod tbo receipt of a telegram as to the attack on Princo Alfred iv Sydnoy, whon something botwoon a shriek and a groan burst from the assemblage Tho Bishop of Oxford, who was present, said that tho revenues of tho Irish Church wore boing conilscntod to moot the wishes of assassins. >Hor Majesty iv rpjdy to tho addreaa from Parliament Bind, " I thank you — thoattomptontho lifo of my oon hus I am 'suro, only further arousod tho loyalty of my Australian subjootfl, so heartily displayed in his reception," Addresses havo boon prosontod to Quoou by all tho largo towns in the kingdom. - 'Sir Kouudoll Palmor's motion about the Victorian crisis, waa postponed in conaoquoneo of tho rocont information, aijd tho probablo rocoipt of further intolligonoo on tho subjoct. In tho Houpo,- of.- Lords, on May 8, Lord IVyvodon ; drow attention to tho conduct of Sir bharlos Darling in accepting tho grant for his wifo and infant, unci' enquired what course tho

Duljo of Buokinghain intends to tako. ThoiDuko ropliod fchafc a largo mnea oi fcho pooplo in Viefcoria woro favourablo to fcho grant. Ho thought his prodoce««i>r had lulopbd fcho winoat ooui-ho. Lbtfcora from Algeria givo horrible aocoii.ifcs of fcho condition of fcho pooplo irom fainino. 'jpho Arab'ti cbnfcinuo to oat fchoiv oompatriota aiid tho children of KuropMiw, Threo Arab, women drownod a boy twolvo years of ngo, and thon ato tho body. A deputation has ' waited on Sir Stafford Noi fcheofco, urging tho coii..ruction of a telegraph linofrom India fco England by way of Gibraltar, fco iiißiiro groator punotualifcy.