LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Issue 63, 7 June 1866, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

By the arrival of tho s.s. Itangitoto, from Melbourne, we have files to the 30th May. We make the following extracts : — Dr. Beany's trial waa .brought to. a conckision on Monday. The jury were locked up aU. night, and on Tuesday morning. Tfere discharged, being unable to agreo, in a verdict ; nine were favorable to an acquittal. Prisoner was admitted to bail, to be tried again at tho nsxt Criminal Sessions. Lieutenant-Genera! Carey insisted, and the Government yielded, and agreed to pay the remaining, judgments obtained in the soft goods' actions; with costs. Lettersfrom the Attorney-General's office hp,vebeen received by the firms .concerned ; they explain that the reason for the decision- arrived at by the Government is their anxiety to avoid the scandal of a collision between tho Government and the Supreme- Court. The Leichardt's .search party write to tlio committee that they have searched unsuccessfully all the tributaries to the Flinders' River. They intend interrogating the natives, and then starting for the western interior. Adelaide, May 29. Parliament has. been called together for the 15th June, to consider Judge Boothby's extraordinary proceedings . . A quartz reef has been discovered twelve milea from Adelaide. Sydney May 29. The body of the Prince of Conde, who died from the effects of a severe cold, was embalmed, and lay in state in St Mary's Cathedral. The ceremony was most imposing. The Atfcorney-Gsneral assisted to carry the body. Tiia coffin was afterwards removed to the French Mission House. California via Sydney. The Australian arrived' at Sydney, from California, on- Sunday, the 27th. She reports a terrible tornado as having occurred at Illinois and Indiana, on the ■2Qth March, which destroyed much life X property, •'-'o^ie Zephyr is chartered to Otago, from :; j Vnia, at £2. \ v I Canada, Toronto, March 29.' Ox sps have been issued by tho Canadian Government to enrol ten .thousand. Volunteers for protection against Fenians. Central America. 3000 Paraguayans crossed the Parana River, and gave battle to the Allies' vanguard, destroying rafts, and afterwards r'ecrossed in order. . The Brazilian fleet ia awaiting the arrival of the Admiral at Corientue.