LATEST FROM ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
London, August 15.
Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Hon. Algernon Greville have been gazetted Lords of the Treasury. A sailor of the ship Osprey recognises the claimant as the Tichborne that vessel picked up at sea and brought to Melbourne. Dr Kineally promises to produce eighty or ninety carbineer witnesses for the defence. He says tatooing leaves only a temporary mark. The ship Dumnail was wrecked coming out of Liverpool to Melbourne. The cargo was saved.
The English harvest is favorable. The estimated yield of both England and France is 15 per cent, below the average. Wheat is advancing, owing to the demand for export. Sir J. Coleridge, the Attorney-General, declined the Mastership of the Rolls. Mr Thomas Chisholme, of Australia, is dead.
The Spanish Government have seized the British steamer Deerhound for landing arms for the Carlists. It was the Deerhound that saved the life of Captain Sernmes, of the Alabama. The Deerhound’s crew are to be tried as pirates. Sir Chas. Cowper and the Hon. Saul Samuel have had an interview with Earl Kimberley on postal matters. The Colonial Institute propose an intercolonial challenge shield for Australian competition.
The Queen is at Balmoral. Typhoid prevails in parts of London, but no fresh cases of cholera have occurred in the City. Col. Wrllesley has been appointed Governor of the Gold Coast.
The contract has been signed for a cable from the Cape to Mauritius. Cholera is spreading in Hamburg and Berlin. A Legitimist deputation offered the Counte de Chambord the title of King of the French, which he accepted. The Cortes approve of the Bill for calling out 8,000 of the reserve. Carthagena is determined on resistance. The insurgents’ ships fired on foreign frigates, which replied, but no damage was done. Galle, August 7. The Bangalore sailed for Australia.
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Evening Star, Issue 3280, 25 August 1873, Page 2
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