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Evening Star, Issue 3690, 19 December 1874, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

ARRIVAL OF THE ALBION WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL. Bluff, December 19 The s.s. Albion, with the English mail, left Melbourne at 2.30 p.m. on the 13th. and arrived at the Bluff at daylight on the 19th. She brings 40 saloon and 30 steerage passengers, and 460 tors cargo for all ports. She sails for Dune iin at 4 p.m. Passenger List.—Saloon: Mrs Cunningham, Miss Low, Mrs Doughty, Mrs Musgrove, Miss Bell, Miss Capperton, Mrs Hart. Misses Hart (2), Mrs Coffin and four children; Messrs Whiteman. Coffin, Harris, Cfunpbell, Craighill, Shaw, Guthrie, Hannah, M‘ Donald, Williams, Banders, Morrison, Stewart, and Raine, Master Day; and 20 steerago, 260 tons of cargo for nnedin. Berlin, December 10. The trial of Count Arinin commenced on the 7th December. Exceptions were taken to the jurisdiction of the Court, but overruled. The indictment was read, charging the Count with the embezzlement of State documents. Examination of witnesses has commenced. SHIPPING. London, December 8. —The Jason, bound from London to Sydney, lias been badly injured by fire, and was towed into the Victoria Dock. On December 9 the fire on board the Jason broke out afresh, and'the vessel was submerged in the dock. COMMERCIAL. London, December 8. -The wool sales closed with increasing weakness, and quotations show a decline on September rates of Id to -2d in faulty sorts, ami in this description is the heaviest fall. Sound fleeces are scarce and comparatively firm. The new clip brought by the Great Britain commanded a better price. Twenty-two thousand bales have been exported, and ten thousand bales of old stock were offered, of which eight thousand were withdrawn. The produce telegrams of the New Zealand Company, -hated London, December 8. says wool sales closed flatly ; nearly all description declined from Id, lid, to 2d" The sales comprise above 85,000 baler;; 2,000 have been taken for export, and 400 withdrawn. During the past sales a good many second-hand parcels were offered. The prospects of the next sales are not so good. Tallow.—Public sales Australian comprised 400 casks. Mutton, 445; beef, 435. Leather.— Best sides fetched jd advance on previous rates ; others unchanged. Wheat.— Market quiet. Melbourne, December 13. A telegram has been received by the Government from Sir Andrew Clarke,'stating that O’Ferrall, the Lands Department defaulter, has been arrested in Singapore. It seems that 0 Ferrall, lulled into false security. left Noumea and proceeded to Queensland, and from thence by the Torres Straits steamer to Singapore. A detective has been despatched to bring him to Melbourne. It will perhaps bo a matter of surprise to many in New Zealand to know that the notorious murderer Sullivan, who was deported some time since from that Colony, has been arrested in Victoria under the Criminal Influx Act. In all probability lie will again be shipped to Now Zealand. Professor Wilson, of the Melbourne University, died suddenly on the 11th from paralysis at Scbnapper Point. ' ’ The E flora went ashore on the Pope’s Eye just inside the Heads, on the 11th, and was not got off till next day. The disaster is attributed to the thickness of the weather. Accounts received from all districts as to the result of the observations of the transit of Venus are generally satisfactory. A very lar<*e number of valuable photographs has been taken at nearly all the stations. In New South Wales the weather was remarkably fine, and the transit was observed under the most favor able circumstances. In Victoria, after eaily morning, the weather cleared, and the transit was seen well, but in Tasmania it rained nearly all day, and the results obtained were very few. A case is now before the Vice-Admiralty Court relating to a bottomry bond over the barque Lady Franklyu, belonging to Mr Geo. ihorne, of Auckland. The new Bishop of Ballarat and Archbishop Goold arrived by the mail steamer. Cacobau is returning to Fiji in the Dido, and will not visit Melbourne. The Sydney cricketers have left for Melbourne to play against Victoria on Boxing Day. Mr Weld, the new Governor of Tasmania, arrived by the mail steamer, but his family re . main in West Australia for the present. The election for East Sydney resulted in the return of Messrs Parkes, M'Tntosh, Stuart, and Davies—the Premier being the only Ministerial candidate. Mr Farnell, Minister of Lands, was defeated at Parramatta. The new Tones Straits mail steamer Normanby made a very good passage. . Wellington, December 18th. It is notified, for general information, that the competition for the Colonial prize firin* r will commence at the Thames on Monday January 25th. ' ’ The ‘ Times ’ and the ‘ Post ’ strongly condemn the appointment of Sir Arthur Gordon as Governor of Fiji. It is currently reported that Mr Travers has declined the appointment of Attorney-General, offered him by the Government, contingent upon Mr Piendergast’s elevation to the Bench. Ihe alleged cause of his refusal is said to be in consequence of a difference of opinion with the Government as to the position which the Attorney-General of the Colony occupies under the Act regulating his appointment. To-day’s ‘ Gazette ’ contains the followin'' - appointments ; —Mr C. C. Bowen, member o"f the Executive Council, Minister of Justice aud_ Commissioner of Stamp Duties ; Lieut.’ Irwin Charles Mailing, 35th Regiment, Secretary to his Excellency the Governor; Lieut hnnl Hcmy Phipps. New Zealand Militia, A.iXC. ; and Lieut. R. E, Lepatcharel, extra Aide to Ins Excellency the Governor. Lord Hervey Phipps has been appointed a lieutenant in the New Zealand Militia; commission dated December 3rd.