LATEST NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 344, 27 November 1868, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

The Queen has returned home, and is at Balmoral. Her health is partially restored. Parliament was prorogued till the 24th November. The revising Barr'sters are har 1 at work everywhere refusing votes to women. A Dissolution is expected to take place soap. Chisholm Anstey is appointed Revising Barrister for Finsbury. Several loading Ministerial seats are to be contested, eve 1 Lord Stanley’s. A fund for a monument to Leigh Hunt is to be raised. Sir John Dean Paul is dead. Dr. 11. H. Milrnan, Dean of 'St. Paul’s, poet, critic, and historian, is also dea l. The Irish Heirarchs are commencing to tight over the disestablishment of the Irish Church. The Queen of Spain escaped to France with the King Consort, four children, Don Sebastian, and the Minister of State, on September 30. Madrid is tranquil. Prim and Serrano have entered Ma ! rid. Barcelona has pronounced against the Queen Orders for arming the Miltia and the National Guard have been issued. The new Governm nt were congratulated by the English residents. The chief commercial firms in Andalusia offered the Govermont the loan of one-hun- <- rcd-an.l-sixty-million reals. A frightful explosion took place at the Green Pit of the New British Iron Company North Wales. Ten men were killed, and eleven seriously injured. Serious accident s have occurred on the Lon' clou and North Western Rahway, near Rugby. Several persons were killed and injured. The Committee appointed by the House of Commons on the Land Laws of Ireland will report early next session. Mr. Gladstone’s election for Lancashire is despaired of. He will get in for Greenwich. The new submarine telegraph cable, from Malta to Alexandria, was completed on the 3rd. Samuel Eaton, station master at Abergele, who was prosecuted for manslaughter, has been acquitted. Mr. Disraeli has issued an address to bis constituents in Buchinghamshirc. He says the policy of the Whigs on the Irish question would ur.scttio property, make confiscation contagious, and give England over to Popery and the rule of Foreign Powers. Rumor says that Victor Emanuel’s second son may be called to the throne of Spain. The French papers anticipate a civil war in Spain. Queen Isabella has issued a protest against the Spanish Revolution, asserting that her right to the throne was not injured by it and that the acts of the Junta are nut binding. The Queen took all the Crown jewels and regalia, and twenty-six-millions of reals. The Barcelona populace publicly burned the portrait of Isabella. Napoleon’s speech at Chalons is said to indicate war. Admiral Farragut was received with ovations at Athens. The Spanish Minister at Washington, is still recognised by the United States as the Spanish representative. The returns from Connecticut show that that the Republicans are in a majority. That state goes with Grant in the Presidential Election. George Francis Train has boon nominated by the Fifth Congregational District for Congress. William Parker, Superintendent of the Panama railroad, was shot with a revolver as he sat in his office, on the morning of the 24th September, by James S. Baldwin, acting engineer, who, after firing two shots at Parker, fired at his own head. Parker die I in half-an-hour. Baldwin is expected to die in two days. On the 14th of September, at Conception on the coast of Chili, the waters of the sea became hot, the fish were cast ashore in a cooked state. The sea was at the time perfectly calm, but next day much agitation was noticeable. The “San Francisco Herald” says:—“ The wool clip is large and superior in quality, much of lower qua ities having been taken for use in local factories. Hops have yielded enormously, many growers gathering nearly a ton to theacre. The silk business, after many failures, has now fairly become established, with a good promise for the future. Some progress has also been made in the manufacture of flax and hemp. Viewed as a whole, California never enjoyed greater abundance and prosperity.” The proposition to wind up the Panama Mail Company was rejected by the Directors, who expressed the r determination to carry on the line with their individual means if necessary.” The raid by the attorney general of Victoria against lotteries and raffles for benevolent objects, appears not to have been very successful of late. The Sandhurst Bench has decided that where the promoters are not personally interested, there exists no breach of the law. The parties summonsed have turned the tables against the attorney general, and the brief of their Counsel, Mr. Hartley, will bo raffled for the benefit of the offending charitable object. On the 2Gth nit the Mayor of Melbourne, James Stewart Butters, Esq., M.P. (of Messrs. Baillie and Butters, stock and share brokers), entertained at luncheon the members of the metropolitan and the correspondents of the country press. About seventy gentlemen were present, and the proceedings were of an agreeable anl pleasing character.