LATEST MAIL TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2371, 7 November 1870, Page 2

LATEST MAIL TELEGRAMS.

Mr Bruce, the Heine Secretary, made a speech at Glasgow, when he stated that it would become England’s duty to offer assistance towards terminating the war. _A. stable peace was to be secured by moderate terms, not by sowing the seeds of future discord. If the efficiency of the British Volunteer force was untrustworthy, the defences of the country must be placed on a more satisf -.ctory footing; but every other expedient should be exhausted before the abolition of the Volunteer system. The reserve of notes in the Bank of EugImd on September 29 was I3J millions. Two hundred and eighty thousand pounds was paid into the Bank in a day. Sir John Young, la l e Governor of New South Wa’es, and Viceroy of Canada, is raised to the peerage r s Baron Lisgai’. Sir Henry Young is dead. Shipments th's year to Melbourne have declined 30 percent., to Sydney 23 per cent., to Adelaide 50 per cent., and to Tasmania 30 per c- nfc. On the 13ih September the eighteen survivors of the ironclad Captain arrived at Portsmouth, ■ and reported that the vessel had capsized and sunk in three minutes. The greater jio: tion of the cable of the British-Indian Extension Telegraph Company, for submersion between Madras and Penang, was despatched from the Thames on the 21st ult., by the steamer Edinburgh ; ami the remainder, as well as the PciiangS ngapore portion, will be sent early thia month. It is expected that these cables will be laid before the end of the year. The cables between Singapore and Australia, and Singapore and Hong Kong, will be subsequently submerged, and complete electrical coinmuu cation between this country and Austra’ia and China will probably be effected in the summer of next year. CHINA AND JAPAN. There is no sett'ement of the affair at Tien Tain. Ihe . Chinese are preparing for war. They are buying arms and massing troops. Foreigners are in danger. Many are leaving the northern ports. The French Minister’s terms are not acceded to. The Japanese hive declared war on the Coreans. It is apprehended that there may be a light between Prussian and French men-of-war in Japanese waters. Two German vessels with general cargoes and coals have been captured by a French gunboat off Singapore.