LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Issue 143, 24 July 1865, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

The Princess of Wales has given birth to a ion. Sir Joseph Paxton is dead. Gladiator, won the Derby (a French feorse) Christmas Carol second ; Athenian third. Regalia won the Oaks. The construction of the AtMffcic telegraph cable is completed. The French Emperor condemns Prince Napoleon's Speech at Ajaccio, and the Prince has resigned his seat in the Privy Council, and retires to Switzerland. Davis and his family are imprisoned in Fort Monroe. Europe regrets his capture. A terrible railway accident occurred in London. By which twenty persons were killed. An explosion has taken place at Mobile, and 300 persons were killed. Kirby Smith, the Confederate General, has surrendered. Davis has been removed from Fort Monroe to Fort Naujemoy near Washington. His fate is uncertain. The rebels intend continuing the civil war in Texas. 900,000 bales of cotton were captured at Augusta. Party] rioting has again broken out in Belfast. Emigration from Ireland to America is likely to exceeoFthis year any since the famine. • . , Sherman has been sent to quell the rebellion in Texas.

The conspirator's trial is proceeding, there is no evidence implicating Davis. The amnesty embraces all below Lieu-tenants-General. Illegal enlistment discouraged-'by the Federal Government. Seward is resuming business. The Mexican Envoy at Paris is urging the despatch of 25,000 French Troops. The steamer Bombay, with the Australian April mails, broke her shaft four days after leaving King George-'s Sound, and arrived at Mauritius, under sail, on the 21st May, where she repaired, and took the mails on to Aden. General Cameron has resigned his command in New Zealand, and will leave Auckland with his staff on the Ist of August. Brigadier-General Chute, C.8., succeeds General Cameron. ¦W&ladstone spoke at Chester, where his 7on is a candidate, stating liberal political views, and triumphantly vindicated Australia against the ungenerous attacks of Lowe and others. A The Peninsular mail contract is renewed — monthly, £120,000 ; semi-monthly £170,000. President Davis and family, General Regan, and others — Davis's suite — were captured by General Wilson's cavalry, at Irvinsvill, Georgia, seventy-five miles south-east of Macon, at daybreak on the 10th May. The troops who made the capture divided into two parties, and as they approached Davis's quarters in the darkness from opposite directions they mistook each other for the President's Escort. A fight ensued in which several lives were lost.