ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPEAN MAIL via SUEZ, AT HOKITIKA.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2267, 12 August 1870, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPEAN MAIL via SUEZ, AT HOKITIKA.

(by ele.tric telegraph. ) The Tararua arrived from Melbourne last night at 11 o’clock. She left Port Phillip Heads on Sunday last at 7 p.m., and has been 4 days 13 hours on her passage!' Melbourne, Saturday. The Avora left Galle, July loth, and arrived at the Sound on the morning of the 39th. She left again at midnight, and arrived at Melbourne this morning. London, A debate took place in the House of Lor.ls on the Co'onial policy of the country. Earl Russell attacked the Canadian policy hut withdrew his resolution during the debate. Earls Granville and Northbrooke defended the new polioy of colonial self-protec-tion. Emigration to Canada continues. The ~ New Zealand Loan Guarantee Bill was read a first time. The survivors of the ship, Mcrourius have been rescued from the Brazilian Coast after a long detention. The wool sales intended for October and November will be held as one ssle in November. The tendency is to higher prices. The harvest prospects are improve 1, and wheat is lower, . Obituary.— Earl Clarendon, Sir James Clarke, Lord Arthur Clinton, Professor Syms, and Jerome Bonaparte. In con equence of the death of Earl Clarendon, Earl Granville, has been appointed Foreign Minist r ; Earl Kcmberly, Colonial Secretary ; and Lord Halifax, Privy Seal. ‘ Prims nomination of Prince’LdopMcPof Hohczollern caused great excitement in Fran c. and at one, time war was considered inevitable. Up to tire ISth June there was great excitement in the Stock Exchange and Bourse, Communications of a thr atoning character passed between France and Prussia, .but ultimately Prince Hohenzollern withdrew bis claim, and poa.ee is considered secure. The mails via Brindisi were delivered on tire 6th July. The Irish Land Bill has passed the House of Lords. , - Five more brigands have been banged in Greece. A collision took place on the Great NortVern Railway near Newark, by which sixteen persons were killed, and a great many wounded. The Anglo-Mediterranean Company purpose laying a double cable to Alexandra. Earthquakes have taken place in the Archipelago; and in Egypt a small tov,n was destroyed and an island submerged. The Queen gave a ball at Balmoral on tho 3rd June, and returned to Windsor in good health, she was to preside at the Council on the 18th June.

The Education Bill is causing much ex< citenient, and amendments for the gratuitous education of children, were rejected. S'r Charles Trevalyoh, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, resigned, in consequence of a difference with his colleagues on the subject. The motion for dis-establisbing the Church in Wales, was defeated by a large majority, The reporters in the House of Commons were excluded on the debate on the Contagious Diseases Bill, but partial reports were afterwards published. The reporters were cheered on returning to the House. The University Tests Bill was passed by a majority of 125. Several female persouators have been prosecuted for felony and misdemeanor. The evidence disclosed very extended gross immorality. The Ascot Cup wag'won by Sabrinus. The April mad via California was delivered on the 28th June, The Duke of A (gyle has had the degree of D.C.L. conferred upon him. The petition for winding up the European Assurance Company was dismissed. The ship Aurora,-'which left Bombay on the 12th June, was burned at sea 55 miles out, under suspicious circumstances. The captain .and carpenter, and the brokers who chartered the vessel, were arrested, and bail wai refused. There has been great excitement ab mt this and other frauds. The trial takes place to-day. The French Government announce that it considers the enthronement of Prince Hobcnzollern as a threat, and would not suffer any power to place him on the Spanish throne. The announcement-was received with loud app’ausc in the French Assembly. The Cabinets of Loudon, Florence, and Vienna are understood to have joined in the diplomatic action of France. There was the greatest excitement in Paris on the subject, and there was a panic on she London' and Paris Exchanges.; The reply of Prussia on the subject of the Prince’s candidature is considered unsatisfactory'. Fiance ordered immediate military preparations. The Prussian journals state their Government to be disinterested in the matter, and consider ritar improbable. Theve was nevertheless a great fall in the funds. The Spanish svar minister ordered all conscripts to joihfthe regiments, and proceed to the occupation of strong strategic positions qu.the. northern frontier. There are strong hopes of a peaceful solution of the question. The King of Prussia admits that he an thorised t! c Prince of Hoheuzollern to .accent the Spanish Crown. The Corps Legislatif rejected by 112 to to 31 the petition of the Orleans princes for permission to return to France, fi; Karl Granville in the Lords, andlMdtHadstono in the Commons;, gave explanations of the steps taken by the British Government to pi event oamplioatidns arising out of the embroglio. They regretted;.that strong language had been used by theFrenchGovemmeut„.but t .e, Miuistty, wui4 . eJliilpa.yeLt o preserve peace without exercisirigTindue Interference with the; dignity foreign Coprt J . On the reception of the the French Press exhibited ,a warlike tendency. •’ ' Mr Lange, Secretary the Sues Canal