LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2225, 24 June 1870, Page 2

LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(From Reuter to Oreville’a Teleyram Company.) London, May 11. In the House of Commons last night, Sir W, Lawson’s motion condemning the Indian opium revenue was opposed by Mr Grant Huff, because it would involve a loss of revenue of six millions annually. It was also opposed by Mr Grant attd Mr Gladstone, and subsequently rejected by 150 against 46 votes. London, May 14. The bodies of Messrs Vyner and Herbert, who were murdered by the brigands, have arrived at Southampton from Athens. ; A firm of Marseilles has with a view to commercial speculation, a portion of territory on the coast of Arabia, opposite the Island of Perim, This territory extends six miles inland. . ; . The traffic bri the Suez Canal increase's constantly. . ~, Mr Lowe, replying to Mr Beaumont in the House of Commons,, stated that. Spain owes England L 7,641,000 for provision? supplied during the Peninsular war. and that Portugul owes L 2,489,000. The payment was never asked for, but England has not abandoned her claims. Central Prim has: stated ’that the 1 three canditates to thy timme ■ being Montpensier, Espartero, and himself, he would not take it. Espartero would not take it, and that the nation would nt take any of the three. Many priests hare refused to take the oath to the New Constitution. ‘General Cabrera has a]|andonef| the direc: tion of Carlist movements. The Portuguese Government is about to send new reinforcements to Mozambique, in consequence of Uh f avorablo intelligence received from the expedition ip Zambcza, •‘A. violent gate has caused great destruction of shipping and loss of life in the Tagus. Tfie Ncn Fm Press, of Vienna, states tbft the surplus of revenue from last year is ten millions of florins, in consequence pf which the Minister of Finance .intends to reduce by b?lf, Ifie newspaper stamp duty. / The Wnrtemburg Qpvarnmfsnt. inupuucea a reduction jn .thp , aiwy.i but it prote?ts against the SHipiciqh'otPji*saifl|Uinfluence, and 4s resolved to preserve the iindependence of Wpptehlburg., i; The organ of the North German Govern' meat states that the persistence of Denmark in asking for the boundary line of Flensburg has rendered impossible any conciliation he* tween the Inyo countries. The accounts with regard to the rebellion in the West of China continue unfavourable, and tfie subject is attracting increased attention. Fj,orisnok, May 14, An armed band has appeared in the town of Cecina, Italy, but wai dispersed by the troops. In Florence some students have made a seditious demonstration. Three parsons were in consequence arrested. London, May 14, 2.55 p.m. (Received Galle, 16th May, via Russia.) Consols, 941; Now South Wales five per cents, 88S tq 1896, 103£ ; South Australian six per oedta, 1892 to 1915, 113; Victoria six per cents, 1894, 104, closed easier. Tile wool market is drooping, in consequence of large supplies.

y'-fe.. America. , The a Legislature of Newfoundland has againadopted," by 19 rotes against 5, the resolution in favor of a federal union with Canada. The Venezuelan Revolution has made progress. The insurgents, commanded by Blanca; were marching towards Carracas. A Frenchman having been crowned King of Araucania, the new Government of Patagonia intimated to the Government of Chili that, if Araucania were not evacuated, war should begin at once.