GENERAL SUMMARY.

West Coast Times, Issue 575, 29 July 1867, Page 4

GENERAL SUMMARY.

London, June 3. The Queen has given 500,000, the accumulations from her privy purse during her five years' retirement, to erect and endow a convalescent hospital in connection with the Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew. The Princess of Wales is still on her couch. No attempt 'has yet been made to bend her knee. The Princess Teclc (Mary of Cambridge) has given birth to a daughter. The funds, railway stocks, Colonial Government securities, and all substantial investments have taken an upward spviug, and the maximum is not yet reached. Money is cheaper than it has been since October, 1862. The cattle plague is virulent, and the old organization of the Privy Council Office for stamping it out has started afresh. Meat is no dearer yet. The suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland has been renewed. Great preparations are being made to entertain the Belgian volunteers at Wimbledon. The Bishop of Salisbury (Mr Hamilton) in a visitation charge delivered at Bridport, has preached transubstantion. London Shafteibury will call the attention of the House of Lords to this. The Paris Exhibition is a great success. Report says the Emperor of China will visit it. The Empress Carlotta of Mexico, has become insane. The Italian Government is raising a loan of LI 7,000,000 on church property, Jefferson Davis was to visit London in July, and to proceed thence to Paris. Charles Kean is seriously ill. On May 28 he acted as usual at the new Prince of Wales Theatre, Liverpool. Next day he was seized with illness, and is not expected to recover. The Special Commission for the 'trial of Fenians at Cork terminated its sittings on May 31. The following has [been the result of this commission : — Five prisoners have been sentenced to execution, one to 15 years' penal servitude, one for 10 years, five to 7 years, and three to 5 years, twenty-seven pleaded guilty and were discharged on bail, and nineteen have been remanded for trial at the assizes. One of the latter is also charged with the murder of Sheedy, a policeman, on the night of the rising. Four have been acquitted, including Colonel Cundon, and the alleged Head Ceutre, O'Mahony. Both these prisoners were arrested immediately after their discharge under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. Sir John Pakington has declared, after communicating with the Home Office,' that the three battalions of infantry which were last year added to the Irish establishment, in consequence of the Fenian disturbances, shall be at once withdrawn. The baptism of the sou of the Prince and Princess Christian took place in the private chapel at Windsor Castle. The infant Prince was named Victor Albert Ludwig Ernest Tanton.