LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 301, 31 January 1868, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. (from our own correspondent.) DUNEDIN) Thursday, 4.50 p.m. The Duke of Edinburgh met with a most enthusiastic rccejdion at Sydney. Sir George Grey has received an official letter, intimating that His Royal Highness will visit Dunedin, and that ho will be present at the Grand Caledonian Gathering. The Colonial Government have expressed their intention of expendin'* the sum of £13,000 for the reception and entertainment of II is Koval Highness. A fire was discovered at the Government House, Wellington, supposed to be incendiary. A reward of £SO has been offered by the Government. Petitions in favor of separation have been sent home for presentation by influential members of both Houses. The E. P. Bouverie and the Warrior Queen have arrived with immigrants and a large importation of English song birds. The latest news from Auckland informs us that there is about seven hundred men upon the ground at the recently discovered alluvial diggings. The Oaraaru Jockey Club will hold their annual nice meeting on the sth and 6th of March. The Otago Jockey Club will hold ■their annual races, on the Dunedin Racecourse, on the 20th and 21st of March.

MAIL, VIA PANAMA. (abridged from the daily times) The following is a General summary of the news brought by the Panama Mail:— Another batch of Alabama claims correspondence has been submitted to Parliament. Lord Stanley stated officially that England will never submit to foreign arbitration in claims involving the right to recognise belligerents. The French Opposition has assailed the Roman intervention policy. The Austrian Premier advocates the assembling of the Reman Conference, with powers unpledged. In the Italian Parliament, Prime Minister Meuebrea justified the of Garibaldi. Many political arrests have been made in Italy. The Italian Government has ordered 300,000 Ohassepot rifles. The Austrian Cabinet informs the Pope that the Vienna Parliament must legislate on the Concordat. King Theodore, of Abyssinia, is said to have ordered the execution of the English prisoners. One thousand persons, in and about Calcutta, perished by a Cyclone. More earthquakes, and loss cf life and property, have occurred in the Windward and West India Islands. The Island of St. Thomas has been purchased by the United States. President Johnson has sent his mes sago to Congress, and reiterated his objections to the Reconstruction Laws. The Cotton Tax has been repealed in the House. The proposition to impeach the Pro. sident failed in the House by a vote of nearly two to one. Korea Groely’s nomination as Minister to Austria was confirmed, but he declined. The first session,, 40th Congress, closed at Washington on the 2nd December. The second session immediately opened. The President sent a message on the 3rd, in which he enlarged on the Civil War and its results; the paralyzed state of the South, and the growing feeling adverse to > egro supremacy. lie speaks of the enormous frauds perpetuated on the Treasury, reviews with despondency the financial nosi. tioivof the country, states that the public debt on the 30th Juno was 2,692,190,21n dollars—showing a reduction during the fiscal year of 01, 226,061 dollars. The military strength was 56,315. A general Indian War was averted. , The building of'the Pacific Railway is progressing. The .speech caused great excitement. A motion for the impeachment of the President was lost by 108 to 57. Parliament adjourned on the 7th December to the 13th February. The London Cabmen struck on the 3rd, on account of a new law compelling them to carry lamps. The operation of the law was suspended William Hogan, who is supposed to have supplied arms to the Fenian rescuers, in Manchester,, has been arrested at Sligo. The present attitude of France renders the Conference on the Roman question impossible. Her Majesty’s Theatre was totally destroyed by fire on the 7th instant, just after the audience retired. The cause is unknown. Tremendous funeral demonstrations expressing sympathy for the executed Fenians, took place in Manchester, Cork and Dublin. In Manchester, 111,000 : in Cork, 20,000 ; and in Dub. lin, 50,000 Irishmen turned out. London, December 10th The “ Times ” praises tuc House for its refusal to impeach the President. It expresses the fear, however that the President will accept the action of the House, as a new endorsement of his policy, and from this, concludes that all hope of a sound reconstruction must be deferred. Preparations have been made in this city for a public funeral on Sunday next, in honor of Allan, Gould, and Larkin, and it is feared that a se rious riot will ensue. L \TEST INTELLIGENCE. New York, Dec. 19th. A Negro delegation from the Southern States waited on ThaddeusStevens and General Butler. Danish Commissioners, in charge of the cession of the Danish West Indian Island to the United States, have arrived at Washington, and been handsomely received.

Mr. Secretary Stanton will not be restored to the head of the War Department. The Mexican news is bad. Organised bands of brigands are overruning the country. In La Plat, Paraguay has taken the offensive in the war on the Parana, and carried the Brazillian camp by storm. The loss to the allies was 4001) in '.-killed, wounded, and pri. soners. Miscellaneous accounts from the Southern States are alarming. Great distress prevails among the whites, and a general rising of the black population is fearsdA religious crusade is in progress in Canada, where volunteering for the Pope’s army in Pome is the rage. A terrible affray occurred in the Broadway between rival minstrel bands. Angry words were followed by pistol shots. Two were sharply killed. Kelly received a ball in the head. General Grant’s chance of being elected to the Presidency improves. Mrs. Doone, the widow of the actor, poisoned herself and four children on the 15 th. There have been some very severe storms. The heaviest storm ever known occurred in 'ew York. Ferries, railways, and all forms of com munication, were stopped. Europe, December 15th- ■ The Fenian excitement in England and Ireland is at fever heat. The greatest alarm prevails On the 12th, Clerkenwcll Gaol in London was blown up with gunpowder. Three persons were killed, and forty seriously injured. It is expected that Colonel Kelly, the rescued Fenian in Manchester, had some hand in the matter. It was thought and ho ped tint the Fenians would cease all active attempts against law and order in consequence of the universal horror cu 1 indignation caused by the disastrous attempt on Clerkenwcll Goal. Large rewards have been offered by the Government for the discovery and arrest of the guilty parties. Garibaldi is still held prisoner at Caprera. In the City of Liverpool precautions have been taken by the Government to check any demonstrations on the part of Orangemen or Fenians. The English newspapers have Join, ed in a line and cry against ail raombers of the Fenian Brotherhood, which has only served to increase the general excitement and alarm. The public funerals that we wore to have been held yesterday in many pro vincial cities in England and Ireland ■were prevented by the authorities in every place where an attempt was made to carry them out. Much indignation was shown by crowds in some instances, but no violence w-as committed. In London, battalions of regular troops, to the number of 6000 men, are constantly under arms to assist the police in maintaining order and suppressing any Fenian demonstrationDcspatchcs have been received from Massowah, which report that the British Abyssinian expedition has ad vancod a considerable distance into the interior of the country ; but the lastcounts slate that the troops were suffering from scarcity of water.