SPECIAL TELEGRAM.

Evening Star, Issue 3379, 18 December 1873, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAM .

Bluff, December IS. The Albion has arrived with the English mail. She left Melbourne at 8.15 jo.m. on the 13th, and arrived at the Bluff,at 3.30 p.m. on the ISth. She brings 57 saloon and 22 steerage passengers ; 500 tons cargo for all ports. She sails again at midnight for Dunedin. Lon PON, December 0. The Emperor of Austria has created Mr Tal Jerman a Knight of the (fraud Cross of the order of Francis Joseph, for his services in the introduction of Australian meats. Colonel Wolseley, Coinniaudcr-in-Chief on the Gold Coast, is ill. December 10. A Consei'vative has been elected for Exeter, in room of Sir John Coleridge. Paris, December 10. Marshal Bazaine has been adjudged guilty by the Court Martial of the charges brought him, and condemned to death and military degradation. , , A New York, December 9. _ Feeling in respect to the Cuban affair is calmer. (‘ongress is supporting the ( at'inet in its refusal to recognise the belligerency of the The conduct of General Sickles, the American Minister to Spain, having been disapproved of. hj. resigned. Decmb „ lo . _ President Grant approves of General Sickles’ conduct, and refused to accept his resignation. The Spanish authorities have decided on t.ie surrender of the Virginia, and the survivors of the expedition, on December IS. A prospectus has been issued of the Aew Zealand Land Improvement Company; capital, half-a-million; first issue, quarter million One feature of the scheme is to make advances to land purchasers at interest on mortgage. Point de Galle, December 10. The P. and O. steamer Ellora left Galle for Melbourne at daylight on the Bth.