ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, VIA SUEZ.

Dunstan Times, Issue 248, 25 January 1867, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, VIA SUEZ.

GENERAL SUMMARY. Australian September mails were delivered in London en the 19th November. • Her Majesty now resides at Windsor, and is in good health. The Prince of AVales has returned from S*. Petersburg, where he received marked attention from the Eranerorj The Queen has. offered the King and Queen of Hanover St, James's Falace for their future residence. Parliament is still in recess. The great questions before the public are Reform and Fenianism. Bright'? Lectures on reform are said to be uncalled for, as they do not represent the mind of the. bulk of the people. His meetings have been well organised in England. A grand demonstration of 200,000 men is to be held behind the Horse Guards, and in favor of Reform. It is rumoured that the Chancellor of the Exchequer contemplates taking the Railways into the hands of the Government, and that he is to introduce a moderate Reform Bill. The Fenian movement excites much attention both in America and in England. Active preparations are being made by the Government to repel the invasion of Ireland, or an insurrection. Five regiments have been sent across, and the military defences strengthened. Peace is restored on. the Continent of Europe, and Prussia is busi y consolidating her acquisitions and incorporating them with her dominione. The surrounding states are quietly sottling down to $6 new order of things. Austria appears to be enclined to devote her. self to gain the devotion of her Huncarian subjects, by conciliating and pronressivo measure?. If compelled by any popular movement, the Pope has resolved to accept the invitation of the 'British Government tareside at Malta. V The Emperor Maximilian, it is reported, ha* resigned his untenable throne. The insurrection in Canada has been suppressed- : i r .... .: :;;'■'•*.■*: Baron Ricasoli, the Minister/if Italy, ha* issued a circular stating that Italy wjll not interfere with the temporal power of the Pope, nor suffer any encroachment of foreigners across her frontier, relying on the natural decay of the Pope's'sovereign power, when unsupported by foreign powers.... j J...- . 'i The cattle plaeue is virtually extinct. Messrs Brunei and Co. are s-rvevi'icDover' .Straits in connection with _ths submarine railway. - ""■■•" Governor Eyre Is 3 +!ifi> Central Criminal Court on th'e, I°4h P<>cn:nlier. The At'antic CaWfi is in ■Hp'ivfc ' oVfariltion, The tariff has been redy"d one-half. There are rumours *Kat *he '.En-h'sh nnd French Govenunen*s will inteyfeje to cml the war in South America. , ! Great distress Prevails nYl^-ndon'in'the Shi--bui'ding trade. The relalions betv een England and France are most, friendly. The Trades Demonstrations in London passed off quietl;-, ?■■

The decrease* in the Reserve of the Bank of England notes on the 6th December, was £.i43,0f)0. ■■•-•■■■- Limerick County has.)ioen proclaimed (?) and further i-enian' arrests have been made in Dub•iin. <: " " ;; ' " The Emigration from-Ireland continues. The exodus is much lamented by the Government. The Malta and Alexandria c,3ble has brolre-i down. Numerous cases, of wilfully scut+iin? sh{n« %r obtain the insurance money command public attention. The Championship of the Thames was won by Chambers of the Tyne, after a good race. , . AMERICA'; Johnson's message to Congrfess revived, hi~ former policy, .and urged Congress to adopl them. . . ■' ' ..' ° : . J; The receipts for the year exceeded the outlay by 153,000,000"'of dollars? nations in Europe have shown more justaprrecitioiof the national character and the.rights i f America. France has intimated "the postponement of a oeriod for the withdrawal of tie French troops from Mexico until the spring. The United states, however, had remonstrated and exprest.«d a hope that France would reconsider the subject, and conform as early as practicable to the "xistmg arrangements, and thus meet the just sxpectations of the American people, Jnhnscn concluded by staringto Congress that the adjustment of the Alabama claims was progressng slowlj', partly owing to the charg>, of ministry. England accepted the clains now being •onsidered in a becoming and friendly spirit. The importance - of an early settlement of the question could not be exaggerated. Resolutions had been passed in New York and elsewhere, calling on the Government to interns wi l h the Canadian authorities for the rc•nse of the Teman prisoners/" J ," ■■■ '-1 Efforts are being made to compromise tl e |: fference between Johnson and Concrfess. •. Tt is stated that on the departure of th French, the United States will assume the prr- • etion of Mexico. ■ " FRANCE. Paris, 15th November. In oonifi'iuence of an understanding- betv ce" 'ie E-iC"lish and French Governments, the Exradirion Treaty of IRJ3, which expires on the ">h December next, will continue in force until . Jie ! eginning of September, 1567. ■ INDIA. The famine T he number of dca' f bs from stan r ation already a lount to one millions - .^ CHINA AND JAPAN. It that the French have been in the Cores,- at Tlinrb-m, -rith loss. -No aeUin has yetbee-n fak-vi bv the American or Brrish authorities for the b'.imina of the Central Sh°.rman and the rnu-der of her office-" aid crew'; also of Mr Thesis .and his ecn> "anion.