NEWS BY THE PANAMA MAIL.

Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 256, 3 September 1867, Page 3

NEWS BY THE PANAMA MAIL.

(By Atlantic Cable, July 10. JBond, Miller, and South, all engaged in the Brazilian trade, have suspended payment. Mr William Scholefield, M.P., is dead. The Russian Government has addressed an important circular to the Czar's ministers at London, Paris, and Washington, requesting them to call the attention of those Cabinets to the condition of Ireland, and to represent that in the opinion of Russia the state of that country should be enquired into by a joint commission appointed by the United States, France, Russia, and England. General Prim, who has been for some time an exile from Spain, has landed in the province of Catalonia. It was feared that his appearauce was the signal for a revolution in that province. Congress is still in session. The House has passed a bill defining the reconstruction law, and making the military superior to the civil authority in the South. • The Senate has a similar bill before it. Advices from Quebec of July 10 state that July 1 was the birthday of the dominion of Canada. The day was ushered in by ringing of bells, firing of salutes, bonfires, and general rejoicings. Lord Monck was sworn in as Viceroy at Ottawa, and announced that by order of her Majesty he had conferred on the Hon. John A. M'Donald, the dignity of Kniget Companion of the Bath, and on Messrs Gartier, Gait, Tilley, Tnpper, Howell, and M'Dougall that of Companions of the Bath. The new Canadian Ministry is as follows : — Sir John A. M'Donald, Minister of Justice ; Hon. G. E. Cartier, Minister of Militia ; Hon. A. F. Gait, Minister of Finance ; Hon. S. L. Tilley, Minister of Customs ; Hon. W. Howland, Minister- of Excise ; Hon J. Mitchell, Minister of Marine and Fisheries; Hon. W. M*Dougall Minister of Public Works ; Hon. Ai. Campbell, Postmaster-General ; Hon. Jean C. Chai)ias, Minister of Agriculture ; Hon. M. Archibald, Secretary <>f the Provinces ; Hector L. Lacgeon, Secretary for Canada ; Hon. J. Ferguson Blair, President of the Council ; and Hon. M. Kenny, Receiver - General. Reports from every city, town, and village in the dominion agree as to the heartiness and unanimity with which the day was celebrated. No, previous event in the- history of the country has called forth such universal rejoicings. The population of .the dominion is abcvu.t 3,800,000 souls ; the extent of the territory, 377,045 square miles ; the public debt 75 million dollars ; and the income 18 million dollars. ■Report says Santa Anna was not yet executed by the Liberals (in Mexico) but is a prisoner at Campeachy, liable to be shot any moment. The Emperor Francis Joseph is to visit Paris in September. The Emperor Napoleon lias suspended the functions of all French Consuls in Mexico, on account of Maximilian's execution. ' Mr Jefferson Davis was lately serenaded at Niagara. He expressed his thanks in the following speech: — "Gentlemen, I thank you sincerely for the honor you have this evening shown me. It shows ihat true British manhood to which misfortune is always attractive. May^ peace and prosperity be for ever the blessing of Canada, for she has been the asylum of many of my friends, as she i» now an asylum for myself. I hope that Canada may for ever Temain a part of the British empire ; and may God bless you all, and the British flag never cease to wave over you." In Cincinnati, says the New York Times, an old lady, over 62 years* of age, has given birth to triplets; making in all 13 children of which she is the maternal parent. . - Very rich and extensive goldfields have been recently discovered in Chihuahua, one of the largest and most important of the Mexican States, lying immediately to the south of the Texas frontier, and beSonora and Cohahuila, An eminent member of the bar, who recently took a prominent part in the defence of Fenian prisoners, is now in prison in Dublin under process for debt. The learned gentleman was arrested on a judgment for L6O, and the circumstance having been made known to his friends, steps were taken to have the execution removed by the payment of the money. Before, however, the necessary lee^al formalities could be' complied with detainers to the extent of upwards of LSOOO- were lodged with the sheriff. Since then the amount of the detainers has risen as high as Lll,ooo. A pleasure party came to a most tragic end near Tralee on June 20. Captain Blennerhassett, with, a large party of ladies (including - his wife, his young daughter, and several of his immediate connexions), and accompanied also by Mr James Redmond Barry, Inspector of Fisheries, a gentleman far advanced in life, went but in a sailing boat for an excursion, to Inch Island, in Castlemainebay. He took with him to assist in managing the boat two men named Costello, father and son. The intention of the party was to land in Inch Island and dine there, for which purpose provisions were taken in the boat. When out some distance in the bay something got wrong about the rope attached to the punt to the large boat, and the younger-Costello was directed to look after it. He went into the punt, which was upset, and, being unable to swim, he was in danger of being drowned. Captain Blennerhassett, a good swimmer, undressed, plunged in, and swam to where the young man was struggling for life.. He would have been saved, and all would have ended happily, had the sailing boat been brought to ; but old Costello and Mr Barry became utterly paralysed, and incapable of managing it. Accordingly it drifted on before the wind, leaving the owner to his fate. There was a fishing boat in the offing, and to it the agonised ladies made signals by waving their handkerchiefs and. pointing to the s,pot. The fishermen responded, but too late. Captain Blennerhasseit, being exnaußted, was obliged to let go the young man, who sank to rise no more. When th« captain was drawn into the fishing boat he was still breathing, but he died in a few minutes. The Queen v. Bertrand. — On June 27, before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, present-^— the Lord Chief Baron, Sir John Coleiidge, Sir W. Erie, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir R. Kindersley, $pd S'r.L. Peel, the important question of the "Queen v. Bertrand' 1 ' was brought ferward. It is an appeal from the.judg- ;'.;. '/■:■ ■ ;. .:-..-..■

ment of the Supreme Court of New South Wales granting a new trial against the prisoner on a charge of murder. Sir B. Palmer and Mr Hannen were for the Crown ; Mr H. Giffard, Q.C., Mr F. H. Lewis, and Mr Clarke were for the prisoner, who had been 18 months in prison. In February, 1866, the prisoner was tried for murder, and the jury,' after being locked up 21 hours, could not agree and were discharged. The prisoner was tried before another jury and the evidence taken read over. He was convicted and sentenced to death.* The prisoner then appealed t» the Supreme Court. The judges were divided, and the AttorneyGeneral appealed- to her Majesty in Council ou the ground that a new trial could be granted in a case of felony and,, the prisoner was. rightfully convicted. The case will occupy some time. It is reported that the Lord Chief Justice' has been dogged by Fenians in the streets, and that he was recently obliged to take refuge in a- shop in Sackville street on his way home. The Irish constabulary officers who distinguished themselves against the Fenians have received L 34 each, and a number of sub-constables Lls each, out of the sum of L2OOO voted by Parliament as a reward fund. The order relating to the employment of volunteers in aid of the civil power has been issued. It differs materially from the former circular issued in- 1861. It explains that volunteers may- be called upon to act as Special constables, but the civil authority is not in any ease entitled to call upon or order volunteers to act as a military body with or without arms in the preservation of peace. All her Majesty's subjects, however, including volunteers, are entitled to use such military discipline and organisation as they may possess, to make their combined strength more effectual in supres sing riots and quelling disturbances. The Paris correspondent of the Argus, in describing the restaurant on the exterior of the Exhibition Building, of which Messrs Spiers and Pond, late of the Criterion, Melbourne, are the proprietors, says :— lf yon ask me whether this restaurant is usually as crowded as we find it to be to-day, I answer yes, and if you don't believe me, look at the London papers for a corroboration of my assertion. Some of them tell you the reason why — the first being, that it is the place where yon. are best served, and the second that it is where there is most beauty to wait upon you. Spiers and Pond ransacked London for pretty girls, each to be above a certain height, each to have golden hair, and each to be really handsome. And here behind the bar, are twenty of them. Their coaiely English faces, their joyous looks, and amber tresses, have driven all the flaneurs of Paris mad. Not one of the young ladies but has had an offer of inarria&e from a Count, Baron, or Russian Noble. All of them tell me so, and, of course, I believe them. Only Spiers and Pond have so contracted with them that they are precluded from marrying until the last day of. the Exhibition shall have come and passed. Then they will give up the bar and take to the ring.