ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, VIA SUEZ.

Dunstan Times, Issue 334, 18 September 1868, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL, VIA SUEZ.

(Ahr'uljed from the, Daily Thn?s.) ■\Yei.un'(-jton", Sept. 9 The s.r. Mataura arrived at one o'clock this morning, bringing files of Sydney papers wi'h English news; via Panama. The P. and 0. s.s. Avoca arrived at King George's Sound on the 28th of August. The intelligence is to August 12. GENERAL SUMMARY. Los-DON.July 18 The Australian Mails, due in London on July 13, were not delivered till the 10th. The Quean is at Oaborn", in jood health. She proceeds to Germany in August. A State concert and public breakfast at Buckingham Tahce Gardens passed off with great success. The Duke of Edinburgh has been feted at the Crystal Palace. persons were present. Sir B. Napier has been raised to the Peerage, under the title of Baron Napier of Magdala, with a pension of £2,000 a year. Ho will also get the Commandershipin-Chic' of the Purees in India, worth £30,030' a year. The approaching General Elections arc causing much excitement. In re<p->n~e to a tho Lord Mayor calltd a meeting of the citizens at Guildhall, to express their views respecting Gladstone's Suspensory Bill. Tho names of the speakers were scarcely heard when a goner 1 row took pla.-o. The Lor I Mayor was struck twice. The meeting separated in confusion, and no mclim was put. A Bill has passed the c imnioms to make provision for the appointment of Members of the Legislative Council of J New Zealand, and to. remove doubts as to previous appointments. A Bill has also been passed defining the of too Legislature of New Zealand to abolishing any Province in the Colony, or altering tho boundary of such Province. Tho Government intend to grant a modal to the troops engaged in the lato Now Zealand w>ar. An importaat mooting of genttamen interested in the colonies was held at Willis's Rooms, for tho formation of a Colonial Society in Lnndon, to extend the knowledge of th.3 Colouiei, r.nd to strengthen the connection find good, feeling with the raothor country. A fire, covering twenty-four square mill's occurred at Cleveland Hill?, Yorkshire, occasioned hy sparks from the railway engines Th" moors burnei uninterruptedly for five cays. Sheep and other animals were burnt to death, while thousands of birds and young grou3D were destroyed at the same time. Kinj Cole, an-3 of the aboriginal black

cricketers, died from inflammation of the lungs, At the Newmarket Meeting, in July, the Two-pear oil stakes were run for as fol" lows:—Rysworth, first; Abstinence, second; and De Vero, third. At the Newcastle Summer Meeting, the Northumberland Plate was won by Fortune came in second ; and Farnham, third. The arrangements for the marriage of the Crown Prince of Denmark are complete. The Pope has issued a Bull, summoning an universal Council for December, 1870, to mark the twenty-sixth year of his hoi iug Office. This is the longest term a Pope has yet reigned. Mr. Wilkinson, late Manager of the Joint Stock Discount Company has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude for fraudulently appropriating monej', but was subse:_u mtly rele sad by an order of the Home Secretary. The proceedings against him were the result of a mistake. The Government have definitely arranged for the purchase of all the Telegraph Lilies, at twenty years' purchase. The heat during the last few days hja 3 been intense. Many deaths have occurred from sunstroke. At New York, no less than three-hundred deaths were caused by sunstroke. The French army has been considerably reduced, by six months' furlough having been granted to as many as possible. Fresh insurrectionary movements have occurred in Spain. Immense store-houses and their contents at Dunkirk, have been burnt. The loss is estimated at twenty-millions of francs. Mrs. Lincoln and her son are about to vi:dt England. - LATEST TELEGRAMS. London, Angust 3. Gallk, August 12. The Duke of Edinburgh sails shortly for China, Japan, and New Zealand. Mr. Du Cane is to bo the new Governor of Tasmania. The wheat harvest is satisfactory. The wool sales commence on the fourteenth and are expected to realise the last sales average. Parliament lias been prorogued. The Queen's speech states that foreign relations are satisfactory, and there is no reason to apprehend an European war at present. The policy will bo to secure p'aco. It expresses satisfactions with the Abyssinian expo'ition'and states that the immediate return of the army proves the undertaking was in obedience to the dictates of human. %• Alluding to Fenian rising, Her Majesty says the efforts made by Fenians to promote rebellion in Ireland, rendered neessaj-y the exercise of exceptional powers on the part cf the Executive. No person however is now detained under the Habeas Corpus Act and no Fenian prisoners are awaiting trial. Her Majesty enumerates the loading measures of the Session, and announces a speedy dissolution of Parliament. Lord Stanley intimated that Mr. Steward expressed his willingn sa to the settlement of the Naturalization Question, according to American views. Lord Malmsey declared the blockade of Mazatlan illegal, and ordered it to be raised. Passencors from America arc now soerched at Queo"stown. The treaty between China and America has been signed. The Volunteer Review at Wimblaton was a failure. TheChinose Peiho River Territory iaopen to America. The Marquia of Abcrcom has bem created a Duke. Several new Peerages are contemplated. The Goodwood Stakes wero won by Sobriquet, and the Cup by Speculum. Twenty-three persons were killed, and several injured, owing to a false alarm of fire at a Music Hall in Manchester. Tho House of Commons has adopted a Telegraph Bill. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Union Bank of Australia was hold on July 13. A dividend was declared of 15 per cent, per annum. Concessions for tho establishment of an Electric Telegraph lino between France and the United States, have been granted by the French Government to Reuter and Baron Emile Delanger. The lino will run from Brest to near Boston. It is expected to bo laid next year. The concession is for twenty years. Maximum tariff, £5 for 30 words. WOOL REPORT. After tho absorption of so largo a quantity that has recently passed tho hammer, there is no inquiry for Colonial wool in tho London market since the close of tho May and June series of sales. Prices arc well maintained. It is not expected that the demand will spring before the Angust sales. The importations already amount to 153,046 bales, tho estimated quantity wil bo increase! by some 50,000 to 60,000 bales.