LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2243, 15 July 1870, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Air Frank Hill succeeds Air Dicey as editor of tho Daily Xrtr's Tho Pali Mall Gazette is now issued in the evening only.

Mr Disra-li’s new novel Lnthair has created a considerable sensation, and has met with a large sale The opinions expressed as to its merit are generally favourable. Many anniversary meetings of religious societies have been largely attended. Moot

of the societies show increased incomes!; but the Church Missionary Society confesses to a deficit of LI 2,000. The Prussian Reichsrath have re-esta-blished caoitai punishment in the Federal Code by 127 votes against 119. Further agrarian crimes have occurred in Drogheda and Enniskillen. The Suez Canal traffic is increasing. New Dalian, French, and English steam companies are started to provide cheap passages between Bombay and Europe. Several murders and attempted assassinations arc reported from Ireland. The French Derby was won by Biggarean. The next aeries of London wool sales will commence on the 16th June. The stock is large. An advance is expected. An enormous outflow of emigrants to Canada and the United States still subsists.

The financial position of the Papacy is almost desperate. An apology has been extorted by the English ambassador from the Papal Government for the expulsion of English ladies from Koine.

The Queen and the American press have expressed their condolence on the death of Dickens.

A plot against the Emperor’s life was discovered on 29th April, and seems to have been hatching for months. Largo seizures of revolvers and explosive materials have been made, and numerous arrests have been effected Tire execution of the plot was fixed for the Bth of May. Bouric, a soldier and deserter, was first arrested, when a revolver and some suspicious letters were found upon him. He was to present a petition to the Emperor, and seize the opportunity to shoot him. The object of the conspirators was to proclaim a republic, and destroy the Tnilcries The Opposition papers treat the conspiracy as an invention of the police, which had been successful in adding one million to tho affirmative votes in the pleb:scitum

The Emperor has been congratulated on his e-cap.i by every European sovereign. On the 2nd May Mr Newdegatc’s motion for a committee of inquiry into conventual and monastic institutions was discussed, and it was eventually modified into an inquiry into the property of these institutions. Tho bill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife’s rister was passed in the House of Commons, but was thrown out lost night in tho Lords.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is so much lictter that it is reported he will soon resume his public duties. It has been decided to confer Royal attributes upon the Regent of Spain, Serrano. Serious disturbances have taken place at Cantazaro, in Italy. It is reported that the Mormons are secretly arming themselves to resist the enforcement of the national laws against polygamy. London, June 6.

Large bodies of Fenians invaded tho eastern frontier of Canada, and engagements occurred on the Trunk River and at Franklyn between the Fenians and tho Canadian volunteers. The Fenians were totally defeated, dispersed, and utterly disorganised. President Grant has published a proclamation against the Fenian raid. The Fenian General OLN'cil has been arrested by the American authorities, who ordered the arrest of the chief promoters of tho Fenian disturbances, as well as their ammunition. Much of the success against the Fenians is attributed to the prompt action which President Grant took. Tho American authorities refused to allow the Red River expedition to cross St. Mary’s Canal.