TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 92, 15 August 1871, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

—* — ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND OF THE STEAMSHIP " HERO " WITH THE ENGLISH JUNE MAILS telegram COMPANY, REUTER'S agents. ♦ One hundred thousand French troops have been reviewed at Longchamps. M. Thiers was well received. The Orleanist princes were present incognito. The new French Loan was a great success, and confidence restored. Sixty thousand masons are rebuilding Paris. The elections resulted greatly in favour of the Moderate Republicans. Only one-tenth of those now returned are Conservatives or Liberals. M. Gambetta has been returned, and will support Thiers. Rome is declared the capital of Italy, and the King will reside there. The Queen reviewed 6000 household troops in Busheypark. The French Prince Imperial was present. The Emperor and Empress of Brazil have arrived in London. The Ballot Bill has been committeed by a majority of 94. The Army Reorganisation Bill has been read a third time. The price of wool has advanced. The rise is from 10 to 15 per cent. The iron-clad Agincourt was stranded near Gibraltar, but has been floated again The Washington Treaty has been ratified. The robbery of arms from the Mallow barracks creates uneasiness. Several arrests have been made. July 8. M. Thiers was elected by a majority of 100. The Count de Chambord has issued a conciliatory address. The transport of Communists to New Caledonia has not been decreed, as M. Gambetta recommends clemency. The Colonial Conference is to be re-opened. Mr Froude, the historian, will deliver the opening address. The Princes and Princesses of Prussia are visiting England. The advanced price of wool is fully maintained. Cotton has advanced Id.

GENERAL SUMMARY. ENGLAND. Two'tfc&s&Ejd bales 1 of., wool have been got from ihe/^reck f? of i\& . Tha|DukeJof command^ajt Rev. Dc^enner«pK)test3^*gainsfr't6^B^v. 'K "rj&eviue's appointment to the bishopripj^f \ !D nifeclin. Jenner will maintain his rights!*.; The freedom of the city of London is°to $e p resented to Prince Arthur. He has recovered" ft effects of falling from a Buckingham Palace. Mr Gladstone is recovering from a short! Mr Ciiilders is on the Continent;*. ands[r Bright in Scotland. jj : | | .The Ticliborne trial grows more puzzling; i The claimant is in bad health. In cross-ex*' animation, his case was much weakened by iis forgetfulness of incidents in his early life hjPajis, his ignorance of French, and confti? sioii*b*s'date"3j ; hanieS of#grsms,,' places', 7 e#. cousin, Mto The lowieitt J6x 4^ijrV»jiic^ tent at tsiitsgow arid Rochdale. Trade union outrages have occurred near Manchester. 1)0,000 machine-made bricks were destroyed in a night. True bills have been found against Edmund Pook, for the Eltliam tragedy,—and against Agnes Norman for child murder. L.47,000 has been subscribed to aid ruined French peasant farmers.

FRANCE. Thousands of men are clearing Paris streets and repairing public edifices. Health of the public is good. The gendarmes are to be increased to 100,000. The National Guards are to be disarmed. The Vendome column is to be restored. Grousset was taken in a female disguise,— Rosset as a railway guard,—Courbet hiding behind a bed, —and Delecture behind a barricade. The value of property destroyed in Paris is estimated at eight millions of francs, 'j-. The anti-German feeling is dying out. Vv,, The Pope has published an Encyclical protesting against the violation of the rights of the people, and the freedom of the church. Mass was celebrated for the archbishop and priests killed in Paris. Pere Hyacinthe interviewed the Pope, and sent a letter of sympathy to Dollinger. Obituary—Colonel Miles, Sir Oswald Mosley, Dr Spratt (of Dublin), Sir E. Knatchbull, Hon. Frederick Byng, Lord Elbank, Sir John Holt, M. Moses (French banker), Mr Polan and Mr Urquhart, M.P.'s, Aldorman Ingram, Sir J. Causton, and the Hoi}. Fred. Villiera.