NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 296, 27 December 1867, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Her Majesty is at Balmoral, where she unveiled Theed's statue of the late Prince Consort. She returns to Windsor early in November. Her Majesty leaves her re-, tirement next season, which is expected to be a most brilliant one at Court. The Prince and Princess of Wales have returned from the Continent. The Princess has much improved in health. The contract for the iron-clad ship for the defence of Melbourne has been taken by Mr Palmer, of the Yarrow Works, New. castle. ' The Hugdmont, the last convict ship, for Freemantle, has 15 Fenians on board. The Royal Commission appointed to try the Fenian prisoners is sitting at Manchester. Gold, Allen, Larken, Macguite, and Short, were first arraigned. Much uneasiness is felt as to the extent of the Fenian organisation ; but the greatest watchfulness and activity are shown by the Government. A small Fenian vessel has been captured in LoUgh Swilly. •Five Fenians engaged in the Manchester outrage, have been ordered for execution. The of the French and the Prince Imperial had a narrow escape from drowning near Biarritz. They, with M. de Lavalette, were steaming about the coast in a gun-boat at nightfall, and they got into a ship's boat to land'at St. Jean 1 eluo, but the pilot missed the entrance of the harbor, and ran the boat a-shore. The Empress, Prince, and Minister were landed in safety, but the pilot fell overboard, and was drowned. Mr. Crosbie Ward is dead. Wheat is from Is. to 2s. per quarter higher. The harvest in France and Spa n is bad. Hops are in good demand, and fine samples arfc scarce. Hides are active at a slight advance. Skins are lower, inconsequence of the large supply from the Australian colonies. The Earl of Wilton, unijer medical advice, has left Wil ton, with the intention of visiting South Australia. The newspapers are discussing how to get Australian beef to England. The Australian Meat Company has sold 38,000 tons of preserved beef here. The tailors' strike in London, which commenced on the Ist of March, and extended over seven months, is at an end, the men having submitted. Admiral Farragut has visited England, where he was well received. Tortbla, the most important of the Virgin Islands, in the West Indies, has been entirely submerged, and ten thousand lives have been lost. Lr W H Russell has joined the Abyssinian expedition. Three other representatives of London papers are with the army, Sir Hugh Crawford Pollok, the missing baronet, when lately discovered in Texas, was a farrier to the Fifth United States cavalry, in which he enlisted duriug the late war. Avonia Jones died at New York on the 4th of October, of consumption. Barry Sullivan is at Drury Lane, alternating parts with Phelps. The Empress Charlotte of Mexico has painted a picture of the Park of Tervuren, and placed in the foreground her husband, Surrounded by several of the principal personages of the Mexican Court.