NEWS BY THE PANAMA MAIL.

Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 270, 5 October 1867, Page 3

NEWS BY THE PANAMA MAIL.

We take the following items of news from the Panama jStar and fferald of. August 24, ' The news from Europe is in reality no later than that brought by the Suez mail, but it is more detailed ; while the American news is later and of considerable interest ■?• — EUROPEAN. August 9, 1867-Thirty-three of the Fenian prisoners who have been on 'trial before the Commission in Tipperary have been convicted of treason. The reports of distress in the pounties of Mayo and Conneniara have been considerably exaggerated, and matters there have now assumed a much more cheerful aspect. Feniani'sm everywher3 in Ireland is most emphatically "played out." The House of Lords have given judgment in the Yelverton appeal case. The point to be decided was whether Major Yelverton, who, it was alleged by the appellant, had stated in the presence. of a person* since dead, that he had been married to Miss Longworth should be put upon his oath as to that declaration. The Court of. Session held the contrary, and their Lordships now decided nem. dis. ■that the judgment of the Court of Session must be affirmed, and dismissed the appeal. Debt Bill lias received the Imperial assent and the prison doors have been thrown open. The name of Bishop Dupanionp is prominent among those which are spoken of in connection with the Papacy. It is said that his choice as successor to Pius the Ninth in the Papal chair will be strongly urged by France, whose influence, it is believed, will largely preponderate at the next election of a Pope. The Athens journals publish the following telegram alleged to have been addressed to their Government by the foreign Consuls in Candia : — The Turks are massacreing women and children. The Turkish authorities are neither able to subdue the insurrection nor to put a stop to these massacres. Humanity demands the immediate suspension of hostilities or the transference of the Christians to Greece, The blockade-run-ner Arcadian had undertaken her twen■|vtieth voyage She was bringing back to 800 Cretan women and children. The Greek Government had called out reserves. Later despatches have been received from Athens, stating that the Greek Government has announced its determination of declaring war against the Sublime Porte on the Ist of September next, should tli© hostilities in the Island of Candia not be ended by that time. Great .military preparations are being made in i Greece for such a contingoncy, and orders i have been issued calling out the entire reserves of that little. Kingdom. Despatches have also been received from Athens announcing that the Christians have defeated the Turks ja Crete in several recent engagements, and that the Turks in retaliation therefore were committing the most terrible outrages, setting fire to village, driving women and children iiitoVrfives and destroying them, and sacking and burning, villages where there were no Christian forces, to oppose them. Advices have been received from Abys» sinia whioh/report that the British subjects wh:chi have been so long held prisoners by King Theodorus because Queen Victoria refused to accept his offer of marriage, are no longer held captive by his dusky and offended majesty. The Morning Post dot"a?es that there is no present cause to fear any disturbance of the peace of Europe. It says that it may surprise' the ingenious authors of the Russo-Prussian alliance, which they have created as the last bugbear, to be informed that the Cabinets of St. Petersburg and the Tuileries are acting together in the ■ Schleswig question, and holding the same language at Berlin. It then re-narks that the true cause of the general distrust is the restoration of , the French army to what is called its normal footing — in a word, the increase of armaments in France, It is, however, undeniable that after having seen an Austrian army overthrown >in a succession of battles in one week and J ienna aS but occupied, the French could not remain content with a force of four hundred thousand. For after deductions made for Algiers, garrisons and sickness, they would find great difficulty in placing one hundred and fifty thousand troops in line of battle, and how could such a force measure itself wjth the countless hordes of new Prussia? What we feel about our naval power France feels about her military pregtige. In like manner all France is agitated on finding that she is no longer the first military power of Europe, and will have to make great exertions to keep even a first rate place. Apart- from the uneasiness engendered by the precautions of our neighbors, there is as yet no single question upon which angry dispute exists, or upon which a quarrel could be fixed, The Moniteur asserts that there is no fear of a conflict-arising out of the internationalrelations of France, and denies the truth of the report that two camps are being formed and that extraordinary military preparations are being made. This disclaimer is received both by the public and the independent journals with general incredulity. The last day's sitting of the French Senate was marked by a speech from Baron Dupin, in which he explained the past hiatory of Prussia, and said shfjhad formed a Northern Confederation in' Germany which was " offensive, to France." He -farther expressed his opinion that Prussia, would not stop in her career of aggression, and hoped that the larger states 'would unite together and limit the empire of Prussia to acceptable proportions, ■ , The Empress Eugenic has come and made her visit to Queen Victoria and gone. It only lasted two days. Various speculations have been afloat as to the object of the visit ; the general conclusion, however, being that it was simply one of private friendship and goodwill. The Paris Presse says it has just learned on certain information that Mazzini is in Italy, and acting in concert with Garibaldi and the National Roman Junta. A Florence letter, of July. 21, in the Liberte, speaks of the sudden " disappearanae" of Garibaldi after he had been seen. in meditation over the tomb of Jerucci on the summit of one of- the_Appeuine mountains. The news had caused ten Italian regi-

ments to be sent to .the Pontifical fron- ; tiers, and a squadron of observation to the Pontifical coast. According to the i Presse, Garibaldi is now in the neighborhood of Pisa, where he has signed commissions for the officers of the bands which ; are forthwith to invade the Pope's dominions. The first Garibaldian attack is conjectured as likely to be made from the .Neapolitan frontier. He calculates on an invasion in Rome si»w«!taneous with his invasion. The word has been passed to the intended insurgents to proclaim a republic in Borne. Louis Kossuth has been elected a member of the Hungarian Parliament by the electors of the city of Wartzen. He was chosen without a dissentient voice, but it is said that he will decline the honor conferred upon him. Be that as it may, his election causes alarm among the members of the Conservative party of Hungary, who think that his extreme views and powerful prestige niay lead to a disturbance of the existing political agreement with the Emperor of Austria. W. R. Roberts, one of the leaders in the Fenian movement in the United States in the' raid upon Canada, and the head of one wing of the Fenian Brotherhood in that country, is now in Naples, where he is reported to be intriguing with the Radical Democrats and men of the party, of action in Southern Italy of which Garibaldi and Mazzini are the leaders. The Council of the Grand Chancelry of the French Legion of Honor has been convened for the purpose of degrading Colonel Miguel Lopez, the traitor who sold Queretaro and its defenders to the Literals. Lopez had been appointed to the rank of officer in the Legion by Marshal UaKaine, in consideration of his courageous deeds in some expeditions against the liberals, and in the summer of 1865 the Marshall married Miss de la Peua, a niece by marriage of Colonel Lopez. Bazaine is now called upon by the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor to give an account of this Lopez previous to the ceremony of his official degradation. The departure of the Emperor Napoleon for his visit to the Emperor Francis Joseph at Vienna has been postponed for a few days. Napoleon will be accompanied by M. Moustier, his Minister of Foreign Affairs, and remain in the Austrian capital for three days. The semi-official journals deny that the visit of the Emperor to Vienna has any political object, and declare that the published rumors which attribute a political significance to the interchange of courtesies between the two Emperors are erroneous. It is said that arrangements are being made for an interview also between Napoleon and King William of Prussia, to take place after the visit of the former to Vienna. The place of meeting, however, has not been designated. There can be little doubt now but that there is some hitch in the true interpretation of the terms of the Schleswig-Hol-stein Treaty. France, on the one hand, has been protesting that the strict letter of the treaty has not been acted up to by Prussia ; and the latter Power, on the other hand, has, it is said, been presuming largely on its fancied protectorate over Schleswig-Holstein. Matters have approached so urgent a crisis that Count Bismarck has gone post haste to Ems to consult his Royal master on the -best course to pursue ; and we are assured that the result of this consultation is anxiously looked forward to both by France and Germany. A motion which : was brought forward by Mr. Headlam in the House of Commons to the effect that an humble address be presented to Her Majesty, stating that in the opinion of the House the demand for compensation from "the Spanish Government made in respect to the destruction of the Mo-maid was just and. right, and that the demand should bo persisted in, has been v itlulrawn at the request of Lord Stanley, who considered that two great powers should not be involved in war m - til every other means of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion had been exhausted. _^& In answer to MwpVVatkins, Sir J. Pakington said the number of rifles converted in the Snic'ar principle was 216,223. There remained to be converted 114,237The daily rate of conversion was 1,100. A Paris letter says: "The dullness which overspreads the Exhibition will not pass away for many days. The court has gone into mourning, the fetes are countermanded, the Emperor is in retirement, and men's minds are perplexed with their dreamsabout the immediate future. The death of Maximilian and the very depressed state existing, they declare is a death blow to the Exhibition. It is at least a heavy calamity to the exhibitors, who have been doing a good trade with the majesties, excellencies, graces, and lordships, who have been crowding the courts and gallaries. The gala carriage # may be housed again at Versailles. The flags may be folded ; the pyrotechnic artists may pick up their red and blue fire. The last of the sovereigns have come, and soon there will remain in Paris only Napoleon the Third, in no mood for triumphal arches nor brilliant effect, with the ghost of Maximilian at his elbow. Most of the shopkeepers have been doing a brisk business. It is now the turn of the Maison de Devil. The only sovereign in men's minds is the miserable widow at Miramar." ThePallMall Gazette tells of an amusing " breach of privilege "case brought before the House of Lords lately : — The Marquis of Westmeath has a friend, a "leading Orangeman," who frequents the strangers' | gallery of the House of Lords, which is immediately above the gallery in which the reporters sit. On the occasion of the second reading of the Bill for the repeal of the Declaration against Transubstanliation, Lord Westmeath had given notice of a question, and was about to speak, | when his leading Orange friend, whose name is Harper, being in the gallery, overheard one reporter say to another, " I see that d d old idiot, the Marquis of Westmeathjhas a long notice on the books for this evening ; but I'll take care not to give a word' of what he says." Subsequently, the same individual observed in a loud voice, evidently intended for the occupants of the reporters' gallery, " What a pity it is that there is no one to send this confounded old. idiot to -a lunatic asylum." These remarks Mr Harper reported to Lord Westmeath, and his Lordship, on the'following night, brought them under the notice of the House of Lords, as constituting a breach of privilege. But their Lordships received the aggrieved nobleman's complaint with "roars of laughter," and after ventilating his anger at considerable length, he was at last induced to sit down and allow the House to proceed with more serious business.