NEWS BY T E MAIL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 297, 3 January 1868, Page 2

NEWS BY T E MAIL.

VIA PANAMA. TheR.M.S. Kaikoura arrived at Port Nicholson on the 2Gth ult. with English and American Mails. She left Panama on the 2Sth Nov. and had lovely weather throughout. The West India Mail Steamer, Tyne only arrived at Colon oil the sixteenth of j November. The European i.ews is only up to the 7th November, in consequence of the lines being down. Tha Queen haa returned from BalmoraL The news that New Zealand is preparing ■ '' ' hj of Edinburgh, '«.#. oi ».uuj. &,.<i ihe of

France have run a race for Rome. The latter has won. A double execution took place in London on the same day. One was at Newgate* and the other at Ho. seinonger Lane. The rumors of the Earl of Derby’s ap- ' preaching retirement from public life continue. The Revenue revenues are satisfactory. The net increase of the National Income for the year is £ 1,010, 329, with reduced taxation. Mr. Fitzherbert’s financial statement attracted most favorable notice. Two French Brigades have arrived in Rome. They were received in dead silence. The towns in the Papal territority enters ed into by the Italian army have thrown y up allegiance to the Pope, and have established Provisional Governments in the name of the Ring of Italy. Prussian intervention in the Italian question is being discussed in Berlin. The King of the Hellenes was married to the Grand Duchess Olga, on the 27th October, in the Winter Palace, St. Petersburgh. Ali Pasha s mission to Crete has proved a failure. The insurgents demanded union with Greece. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) There was a fearful cyclone at St. Thomas on the 29th ult. The L.W.I. and P.S. S. Co s fine new steamer Colombian was lost, with the Royal Mail steam ships Rhone, Wye, Conway, and Derwent. The loss of the Rhone and the Wye was attended With great loss of life. The total num. ber of vessels wrecked and disabled is 79, and 700 lives were lost. The value of property on shore destroyed is estimated at eight million dollars. The dainage to shipping cannot be estimated. An earthquake threw doVvn houses ; the wind swept debris down gullies, forming dams; then came fearful rain, and the fierce torrent swept the 'own. Other accounts say that an earthquake took place on the ISth November, the first shock lasting 105 seconds. It was followed by a sea roller fifty feet high. A second wave, less intense, followed ; then a third. The shocks continued at intervals Until the afternoon of 20th. New York, Nov. 10th. The New York. Jersey, ahd Maryland state elections, just passed, have gone Democratic, by tremendous majorities. New York State by 45,000 ; New Jersey 13,000 and Maryland by 30,000. The rebuke to the Radicals is fearful. This city alone gave 01,000 majority against them, and the city of Brooklyn 14.500. The Democrats in the State of Massachusets have brought the Radical majority down from 65.000 to 20,006. in Kansas, negro suflrage has been repudiated by a majority of 6,000, and woman’s suffrage by 2000. In Winconsin an,l Minnesota, negro suflrage has been repudiated by large majorities. Missouri also has repudiated negro suf. ] frage ; but the Radicals elect their candii dates by email majorities, j The p-ople are everywhere becoming disgusted with Radicalism. President Johnson is jubilant. The question of impeaching the.President is now almost certain to fall dead, although Senator Wade and Representatives ThaJdens, Stevens, and Benjamin F. Butler, still continue to earnestly and b Idly advocate it. They are determined to establish negro suffrage. The Prosidental race is commencing, there is a split in the ranks of the Republi. can party. The Conservative wing of the party, favor General Grant, while the Radicals want Chief Justice Chase, Old Ben Wade, the Speaker, Colfac, or some other strong Radical ttoninated. On the Democratic s de, Horatib Seymour, who favors the payment of the National Debt in Gold ; and John W. Pendleton, of Ohio, who urges payment of it in greenbacks, are brought forward, and one or the other of them appears likely to get nominated. It will most probably fall on the former. However should General Grant be nominated by the Conservative Republicans, there is little doubt that he will carry everything before him, and be elected President of the United States. The President has granted a pafdoh to James A Seddon, late Secretary of Wat of the Southern Confederacy. All the arrangements for the trial of Jefferson Davis have been completed, and the trial will certainly commence before the United States District Court in Richmond, Virginia, on the 21st inst. The Indian Warisat an end. The warlike tribes have agreed upon terms of peace w th the Government, and have consented to leave the Pacific Railroad alone. The first session of the first Parliament of the New Dominion of Canada was opened on the 6th inst., with imposing ceremonies ; and the following day His Excellency Governor General Monck delivered his speech. He congratulated Parliament that the Confederation of the British North American Provinces was an fact, and he believed that the on would ere long extern) its hounds from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, lie then requested the members of the Senate and the House of Comhums to adopt stich measures in regard to Customs, Currency, Excise, Postal affairs, and Naturalization of Aliens, Defence of the country, and other necessary matters, as would redound to the improvement and prosperity of the Dominion. He delivered his speech in English, and then in French, and was listened to attentively throughout. EUROPE. Florence, Nov. 7th On the 3rd, Garibaldi, with 3500 men I ana two cannon, advance to Tivoli, which

Was hell by the Papal troops. He found the latter to the number of 6000. A desperate conflict ensue', and the Oaribaldians were getting the better of the Papal troops, when a French column, under General Pohles, advanced to their support; and Garibaldi was forced to retreat, with 000 killed and 2000 taken prisoners. Garibaldi and his son Menotti were captured at Term and sent to Vigevano, in Piedmont. Garibaldi now claims that he, is. a citizen of the United States, and demands his rights and privileges as such according to the law of nations. The American Minister left here yesterday for Vigerano, and will make a friendly endeavor to have him released. The vote by which the tows in the Province of Rome beclared in favor with union with Italy, has been disallowed dy the Papal Government. The Italian troops have been all recalled from the Papal territofity.' MEXICO. Juarez has been elected President of the Republic. Santa Anna has been banished for eight years. A commission has been sent to Washington to negotiate a l6an of 12,000,000 dols. Maximilian’s body is still retained. LONDON. November 7th. Serious bread riots ocecurred in Exeter, ‘on the 4th instant. Every meat and bread shop in the city was sacked. Great excitement prevailed, and the Government had to send trodps to quell the rioters. Parliament has been sailed to reassemble on the 19th inst. Lord William Ross, the celebrated astronomer, is dead. PARIS. Nov. 7th. A call for a general conference of all the large European Powers will soon be issued by the French Court.