GENERAL SUMMARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 624, 23 May 1870, Page 2

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Her Majesty allows the Prince of Wales £20,000 per annum. The new Bishops ate — Chiohester, Archdeacon Durnford ; St. Asaph, • Re?. Joshua Hughes, Vicar of Llannover. • Mr Torrens' proposal for State assisted emigration was rejected by a majority of 105. Mr Torrens naked for a million from the Consolidated' 'Fund, and a million from Local Bates. Mr Gladstone contended that the scheme would paralyse the natural operation of the labour market, and stop voluntary aid to emigration. The Government bad not decided as to offering transports for emigration purposes. The National Emigration League has resolved to continue the agitation, and a Metropolitan demonstration is threatened. The Marquis of Bute proposes to. make a yacht royage to Australia. ■' 1 Dr Abraham has resigned the" Bishopric of Wellington and hap become Suffragan to the Bishop of; Lichfield. * The steamer Ariadne : has arrived ? from the Biver -P,late with a cargo oft cattle in excellent condition. The Education Bill has passed the? second reading. Great dppositon arosijK to the! provision enabling' school boards ' to permit the teaching of particular views in schools. Art* amendment;protesting against the solution of the; difficulty beingleft to local boards, was, i supported by the Nonconformists, but, the Conservatives rallied round thfc~! Government. • Mr Gladstone promised^ | that the defect should be remedied in* committee. The Irish members divided on thel Land Bill. The motion for " second J reading was met by an amendment^] proposed by Brien, Kilkenny, which", was seconded by White, Tipperary, thaf ; the bill be read that day six months*^ (Jf !the 11 members against the bill^i three were English Conservatives. The | Iri^h Farmers' Clubs express die- ' satisfaction, and the Fenian journals repudiate the bill. Chichester For^ tescue haa introduced, an iTrish Peace ; Preservation ]3ill. Moore's amend--ment for the rejection of the bill wu - negatived by 420 to 13. The Irish National Press is furious.

Mr Layen's (Laing's ?) bill for aboliahing Scottish Church Sates was negatived by a majority of 117. During the discussion on Mr Cave's Bill, providing for safe life assurance companies, Mr Lowe suggested that the State should become a Life Insurance Company for the nation. The Ballot Bill was postponed for the consideration and report of the Elections' Committee. A bill has been introduced authorising the committal of habitual drunkards to reformatories. A bill establishing a High Court of Justice and an Appellate Court was read a second time in the Lords. The Government has announced its intention of dealing with the game laws. . • - " ' The agitation against the ratification of the commercial treaty with China continues. Great excitement was produced by the publication in the Marseillaise of a letter from O'Donovan Boasa describing the alleged cruelties which had been inflicted on him. The Home Secretary issued a counter-statement exposing Bossa's exaggerations and falsehoods. An order has been made by Lord Penzance that Sir Charles Moidaunt is entitled to proceed with his suit, notwithstanding the insanity of the respondent. Earl De Grey has been installed Grand Master of Freemasons. The late Earl of Derby's racing stud was sold by auction for 4725 f* leas, ince the Government took the telephs into its own hands, -the number of messages has greatly increased; The funeral of Casey, a Fenian poet, at Dublin, was attended by 10,000 people. « "T^A strike of 10,000 cotton operatives, at Bolton, is ; expected ; 10,000 Glasgow joiners struck for a reduction of the hours of labour to maeTJ.A similar movement is going on in^ESondon, and the bakers are agitating for the abolition of night work. The mail steamer from Normandy to Jersey was run down 30 miles from the Needles by a heavy steamer from the Danube ; many lives were lost. The fatal collision between the U.S. steamer Oneida and the P. and O. Co.'s steamer Bombay, in the Japanese waters, has produced a painful feeling. The "American papers loudly demand the punishment of Captain Eyre for his behaviour after the collision. There is little hope entertained of the safety of the Inman steamer City of Boston. She sailed from America on January 28. Obituabt.— The Earl of Boden, the Marquis of Ailsa, Cardinal De Bonald (Archbishop of Lyons), Sir George Goold, Lord Greaves, the Marchioness of Breadalbane, the Bishop of Barbadoes, Mr J. TV. Harper (the American publisher)/ Mrs Albert Smith, Wm. Brough (the dramatist). -