Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 661, 14 November 1882, Page 2

Telegraphic News.

LATEST EUROPEAN.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

(Reuters Telegrams.)

Received Nov. 10 s .ii.t 1.20 p.m. . London, November 8.. Governor Cleveland, the .Democratic candidate, has been elected Governor of New York ; and Butler, Democratic candidate, has also secured the Governorship of Massachusetts. The Democrats are secure of a decisive majority in the next Congress. The Republican party expect to gain in the South, but these cannot affect the heavy Democratic successes in the North.

Received November 10 ,2.10 p.m. November, 9Mr Gladstone, commenting in O-io House of Commons on the avowed intention of the Irish members to support Sir Stafford Northcote's amendment far the rejection of the procedure resolutions, said that the rejection of the cl6ture would be disastrous to Ireland, as he personally was in favour of a large and liberal measure of self-government for that country. Received November 11,1.30 "a.m. November 10.

M. Duclerc has, in the Chamber, challenged a vote of Want of Confidence on the question of relations with the English Government. The challenge' was rather' coldly received, but the divisions which have taken place in the Chamber, show the strength of the. Government to be uniiiipared. The Board of Tnde returns show a diminution of agrarian crime by fourfifths.

The Hon Mr Scanlan has warned the Basutos that fighting will result unless they submit.

The Premier was present at the Guildhall banquet, held yesterday evening, Lord Mayor's day, and in the course of his speech referred at some length to the present aspect of affairs in Ireland. Mr Gladstone laid great emphasis upon the continued diminution of crime in that country. Ho added, however, that the situation had of late shown considerable improvement, and' that the tendency to seek redress of their grievances by peaceful and legal meanawaa evidently reviving. ' , •

The Sultan has denied that he authorised the letters to Arabi which have been produced before the Special Oommission.'

M, Louis Blanc, French journalist and statesman, is seriously ill.

Mr Gladstone, speaking at the Guildhall banquet last night, said that he regarded the foreign relations of England and its trade at the present time as perfectly satisfactory, . .

9.22' p.m. Received No vena bor 11th, 5.7 p.m. The petition of the wife of the Hon. Colonel Wellesley, for a dissolution of marriage, on the ground of desertion and adultery with Kate Vauglian, an actress, has been granted. . .

It is rumored in well informed circles here that Sir A. Gordon will be appointed Governor of Jamaica ; Mr Anthony Musgrove, Governor of! Ceylon ; and that Colonel Sir William Francis Dummond Jervoise, C.M.G., at present Governor of South Australia, will be promoted to the Governorship of New Ze-iland ; while f-ir John Pope Hennessy will assume the Governorship of Queensland. Vienna, November 9.

At the sitting of the Austro-Hungarian delegations to-day the attitude of the Russian Government was brought under discussion. Count Dahiocy, Minister for Foreign Affairs, remarked during the debate that tne peaceful opinions which were known to be entertained by the

Czar regarding European policies were a guarantee that the policy oi Russia would tend towards the preservation of peace in Europe. IHE ENGLISH MAIL. Received Nov. 13, 2,30 p.m. London, November 11. The homeward mails per Cuzco, which left Melbourne on the 26th Sept. in the Indus, by Brindisi, were delivered in London to-day.