ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 848, 24 January 1866, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH .] From the Bluff. GREAT FIRE AT LONDON BRIDGE. DEATH OF BROOM AND SAYERS, THE PUGILISTS. DECLINE OF CHOLERA. THREATENED ATTACK UPON CANADA. INSURRECTION IN JAMAICA. TRIAL OF FENIANS. The following appeared, in our ‘ Extraordinary ” of to-day : Bluff, 9.1 a.m. The Tararua, from Melbourne, arrived at 4 a. m. with the English Mail, having left Melbourne on the 18th. The P. and O. steamer Alexandra arrived at Port Phillip oh the 16th. Detention of Mail caused by heavy gales in the Bay of Biscay, and assisting Spanish steamer in distress, by which five days were lost. The September Mails were delivered in London on the 12th and 17th November. Parliament was to meet on 25th January. . Sir Robert Peel has resigned the Irish Secretaryship. Chichester Fortescue succeeds him. Great Fire at Beale’s Wharf, London Bridge. ' Loss one hundred and eighty thousand pounds. National monument proposed to Palmerston, and English Peerage proposed to Lady Palmerston’s family. Carlyle elected rector of Edinburgh University by large majority over Disraeli. Harry Broom and Tom Sayers, the pugilists, are dead. Disgraceful scenes took place at Sayer’s funeral. Victor Emanuel, on opening Parliament, expressed his intention to occupy Rome and Venetia. England, France, and Russia are negotiating with the view of restoring Northern Schleswig to Denmark. The Times, Homing Star, and other leading journals strongly condemn the conduct of the Victorian Ministry during the present crisis. Cattle disease still producing great ravages. Cholera rabidly declining. Fenian organisation established with Houses of Assembly. Attack upon Canada threatened. George Francis Train and George Bennet are the leading Fenians at New York, and John Mitchell at Paris.

Dublin is being fortified, suspicions vessels having appeared in the Channel. Britain has made formal demand to America respecting the Fenians. Stephen, the head of the movement in Ireland, has escaped from Dublin prison. A reward of LI3OO has been offered for his apprehension. An insurrection has taken place in Jamaica, and the massacre of the whites was plotted. The women and lands were to be divided amongst the blacks. The latter committed frightful outrages, led on by Gordon, member of the Legislature. The rebellion was suppressed, and Gordon and two hundred were hung. A Conference has been proposed to settle dispute between England and America about Confederate cruisers. Arrangements have been made for Davis’s trial by civil courts. George Coppin, is .a passenger by the mail steamer. G. V. Brooke arrives in Victoria per the London. Cattle disease has appeared in Madras. Three thousand have died. Chinese rebellion has almost ceased. REUTERS’ LATEST SPECIAL TO 2otu DECEMBER. The Queen opens Parliament in person. Mr Foster is appointed Under Secretary for Colonial Office. Three thousand have been slain in the Jamaica insurrection. Fenian trials are proceeding ; Luby being sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment-

Departures -for New Zealand—Mary Shepherd, Himalaya, Epsom, Avavoir, Queen Dowager, Anita, Liverpool, Cissy. : The health of the King of Belgium is critical. ■ ■ The British Parliament is convoked for the Ist of February. Spain has declined the European mediation for the settlement of the Chilian question. The Tararua sailed at 7 a.m. COMMERCIAL. The Bank of England discount is reduced to 6 per cent. The Bank of France to 4.3 per cent. Consols 89|. Wool arrivals for sales commenced on the 16th inst., and have already amounted to 51,839 bales. Sales opened, and large attendance of home buyers. Prices established proved an advance on good combiiig*sorts of three-halfpence to twopence ; Sydney, of one penny to one' halfpenny. Hides shew decline with little demand. Passenger List—For Otago: Mrs Fems, Mrs Pitt, Miss Perkins, Miss Ahem, Mrs Reid, Capt. O. S. Burton (of the Staff, Cavalry, Victoria). For Lyttelton : Messrs Scott and Malpus. For Nelson: Messrs Scott, Lauder and Patcher. For Wellington : Miss Moeller, Messrs Horton, Moeller, and Ferris ; and 48 in the steerage. Mr J. Schrader is in charge of the mails.