SUMMARY.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 605, 27 May 1876, Page 3

SUMMARY.

(Some News, April 6.)

The Royal Titles Bill, which has been debated during the past three weeks in both Houses, has virtually gone through Parliament. It was discussed in committee in the House of Lords on Monday, April 3rd, and will be read a third time to morrow, April 7 th. A motion of Lord Shaftesbury that an address should be presented to the Queen praying her Majesty to assume some other title than Empress was rejected on Monday, April 3rd, by a majority of 46—the figures of the division being 137 and 91. The naval estimates, the Merchant Shipping Bill, the state of Ireland—in which country agrarian outrage has revived—and the Education Act have been among the chief subjects before the House of Commons. The Budget was introduced on Monday, April 3rd. There is a deficit which is to be made good by the addition of a peony to the income tax, Parliament is on the eve of separating for the Easter recess, reassembling, the House of Commons on Easter Monday, and the House of Lords a few days later. The Queen is at Baden-Baden, with Lord Derby as the Secretary of State in a'tendance. Her Majesty returns to England at the end of the month. The Emperor William has been compelled to postpone his visit to her Majesty Queen Victoria at Baden Baden in consequence of indisposition. Her Majesty paid a visit to Priuce and Princess Louis of Hesse at Darmstadt. yesterday. The Duke of Edinburgh arrived in Lon4oa on Monday, April 3rd, from St Peters-

burg, and shortly starts on his three years’ cruise.

Mr Oave’s report on Egyptian finance has been published, and has had the effect of producing a fall in Egyptian securities. The French Senate and Assembly have been occupied with the proposal of an amnesty for Iho Communist prisoners, and with the consideration of election returns.

There are signs of a quarrel between the Clericals and the Liberals, and M. Dufaure is said to be about to introduce a new code for regulating the relations between Church and State.

King Alfonso made a triumphant entry into Madrid, where he was received with great enthusiasm, Monday, March 20th. In Italy Signor Minghctti’s Ministry has resigned, and is succeeded by an administration formed of the Left.

The insurrection in the Turkish provinces is not at an end. At the present time there is a ten days’ suspension of hostilities, but the insurgents refuse to lay down their arms,

The German and Italian Governments are said to urge upon Switzerland the necessity of contributing funds towards the completion of the St Gothard tunnel, an undertaking they declare of importance to that state, from a military, political, and commercial point of view. The United States Senate has rejected Mr Dana’s nomination as Minister to England by a majority of nineteen votes. Letters from the survivors of the Strathmore, describing the perils they encountered at the wreck of that vessel, and their sufferings while on a barren island for seven months, have been received and read with great interest in England. The trial of Captain Keyn, of the Franconia, for manslaughter, was commenced at the Central Criminal Court yesterday morning, April stb. The master and several of the crew of the Strathclyde were examined, and repeated the evidence that has been already published regarding the movements of the two vessels before the collision occurred, and the behaviour of the crew of the Franconia thereafter. The case for the prosecution was concluded before the court rose.

In the Admiralty Division yesterday on order was made for the release of the Franconia, which had been arrested at the instance of the proprietors of the Strathclyde and the owners of the cargo on board that ship. It was arranged that £8 per ton, and a certain amount for costs, should be paid into court as security in respect of the suits now pending against the vessel. Captain Allen Young’s steamer Pandora is being rapidly prepared for her second Arctic voyage, and will be ready for sea in a few weeks. She goes out in search of despatches from the Arctic expedition.

The papers relating to the collision between Her Majesty’s ship Alberta and the Mistletoe were issued yesterday, April sth. The chief part of the correspondence has reference to the compensation granted to Mr Heywood and other sufferers through the loss of the yacht. In the last of the letters Mr Heywood expresses the hope that all feeling that has arisen in consequence of the lamentable accident may be allowed to rest now and for ever.