LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA.

Evening Star, Issue 3308, 26 September 1873, Page 3

LATEST FROM EUROPE AND AMERICA.

(By Telegraph.) London, September 18. The Judges and jurymen in the Tichborne case have been anonymously threatened with assassination if the Claimant is sentenced. The Judges have forbiddeu the Claimant to attend public meetings. The steamship Great Eastern has failed to repair the Atlantic cable of 1865. A despatch has been received at the Admiralty, under date 20th August, stating that the town of Ynmas, on the West Coast of Africa, lias been destroyed, on account of the inhabitants treacherously firing upon an exploring party, several of whom were wounded —Commodore J. E. Commerell, C.8., severely. The Times's correspondent at the Gold Coast describes an affair which took place at Chawat as a serious disaster. The enormous mortality amongst the English troops has been of value to the Ashantces by lessening the numbers opposed to them. Of several boats filled with men to effect a landing on the coast, not a single man escaped unwounded. Colonel Sir Garnet Wolselcy intends constructing a wide road and railway to the Ashantee capital. The Duke of Edinburgh has gone to Livonia to meet the members of the Russian Imperial family. France. 107 deaths from cholera occurred in Paris last week. •

The last German soldier quitted France on the 16th inst.

The British traveller Storaes has arrived at Paris. He announces that Dr Livingstone at the commencement of July was alive and well. The Comte de Chambord partially yields to the demands of the Constitutionalists to grant a charter. Spain. Dissensions exist amongst the besieged at Carthagena, and there is a great scarcity of provisions. The Cortes has voted the extraordinary powers demanded by Senor Castelar. 14,000 Carlists have been defeated by the Republican troops, with great loss. The bombardment of Carthagena has commenced. Austria. King Victor Emanuel was cordially received at Vicuna. Netherlands. The King opened the States-General. He announced that the Acheen war would be prosecuted vigorously. New York. A serious conflagration has occurred at Chicago. Yellow fever is raging in Louisiana. LATEST UNPUBLISHED TELEGRAM. The following telegram is from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, under date London, September 15 “Nothing doing in metals. Limited trade in preserved meats. Too much liquids ” (sic). The London Gazette announces that L 2,750,000 of the surplus income has been applied since April to the reduction of the National Debt. 100 tons of American iron have been sold at Liverpool, underselling the English. Jay, Cooke, and Co., the New York bankers, have suspended payment.

THE SUEZ MAIL,

London, August 8,

The first ordinary meeting of the shareholders of the National Bank of New Zealand has been held. The chairman said the Bank did not intend to compete with merchants in any way, but to do a purely banking business. The report was adopted. A prospectus has been issued at Glasgow of a New Zealand Meat Company, with a capital of L 200,000, to purchase the business of the existing New Zealand Company. A petition to dissolve the New Zealand Quartz Crushing Company -was dismissed with costs.

One of the chief attractions of the Vienna Exhibition is Mr Brogden’s collection of New Zealand birds.

'The wool reports confirm previous telegrams. Good New Zealand wools continue to command keen competition. The current prices are about the same as in February 1872. Greasy combing is in strong demand. Arrived.—Agnes Muir; City of Dunedin. Sailed.--For Wellington —E. P. Bouverie and Queen Bee. lor Otago—Otago and Lady Jocelyn. For Auckland -Hydaspes and Ferndale. For Canterbury—Merope.