ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL AT THE BLUFF.

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ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL AT THE BLUFF.

EXECUTION OF FENIANS AT MANCHESTER. QAPTTJRE QF THE FEN.IAN LEADER BURKE. DEPARTURE OF FRENCH TBOQP,S FRQM BQWE, EUROPEAN CONGRESS PROPOSED., SAFETY OF DR.. LIVINGSTONE. NEW AUSTRALIAN MAIL, CONTRACT, FEARFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN WALES— I?O LIVES LOST, ANTI r RITUALISTIC RJOTS IN • L.QNDON CHURCHES. FAVORABLE RECEPTION OF JULIA MATTHEWS IN LONDON. ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE AT ST. THOMAS. [By Electric Telegraph.] (fkom our own correspondent.) Bluff, January 18, 5 p.m. The P.,N.Z. and A.R.M. Co ? s s.s. Rangitoto, W. H. Bax, R.N.R., commander, arrived at the Bluff this afternoon at 4.40 p.m. Left Sandridge at 4 p.m. on the 13th inst. The Bombay anchored in Hobson's Bay at. 6 a.m. on the 13th instant. She brings intelligence of alterations in the mail arrangements. In future the mail will leave England every four weeks, giving thirteen mails yearly. Next mail leaves Sydney on 2nd February. There will be no mail on the 24th January. GENEEAL SUMMARY. London. November 26. The Australian mails were delivered in London on the 16th and 23rd. The Queen is at Windsor, and in good health. The Prince and the Princess of Wales are at Sandringham . The Princess is able to walk with the help of a stick. Mrs Disraeli has been seriously ill, but is recovering. Parliament has approved of the Abyssinian expedition. The Address in reply to the Queen's Speech passed unopposed. Of Five Fenians condemned to death for murder and rescue at Manchester, three were hung, one pardoned, ' and one reprieved. The gaol and scaffold were strongly guarded by military and police. 2000 working men acted as special constables. There was great anxiety throughout the country, but no disturbance. The Fenians threatened to burn every town in England if the men were executed, and great efforts were made to obtain their reprieve. A deputation of working men waited on the Home Secretary, who refused to see them/ Another deputation endeavored to see the Queen, who referred them to her Ministers. There were disgraceful scenes at the Home Office and at Windsor. News from St. Thomas states that 300 bodies have been recovered and buried. • The loss to the Royal Mail Company is estimated at £250,000. At Tortola the storm occasioned the loss of 100 lives and great distress w ,s caused. Relief funds are being raised at Southampton and London, to which the Queen has subscribed £200. Trustworthy information has been received of the safety of Dr. Livingston. Major Wesley Blackall, Governor of the West African Settlements, has been appointed Governor of Queensland. The apartments of the British Minister at Rome were searched during his absence by the police ; an explanation was. demanded and given, and is considered satisfactory. The new P. and O. contract covers 52 mails yearly to Bombay, 26 to China, and 13 to Australia. The subsidy is £400,000, and the duration of the contract tweW years. Earl Russell will introduce ed.uca.tion

resolutions in the House of Lords. He, proposes to extend aid to elementary and. middle class schools. Reform of. the Universities, and. the appointment of a. Minister of Education. Mr Disraeli and Lord Stanley attended a large Conservative banquet at Bristol in. January. John Bright has objected to the scheme of B§nd.in|K working men to Parliament. • Thomas Hughes has seceded from the. Reform League. - Lord Derby has refused the request of the Orangemen to repeal the Party Pre-» cessions Act. The Bishop of New Zealand has declined the bishopric of Ijichfield. Conservative working men's associations, are being successfully formed. The Danish journals contradict the violent death of Countess Banner. Charles Dickens is in America, and has. been well received. : Stephens, the Fenian,- is in France, in, great poverty. Burke, the Fenian, has been arrested. . Mr Gjgjdwin Smit|j emigrates to, America. . ..-•■' The Fenian General, Halpin, has bee|i sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude. The banquet tp Mr Disraeli, at Edin-. h.urg, was attended by 13.0Q gentlemen, He was presented with the freedom of the c^ty, and the honorary, degree by the. University. At a colliery explosion in Glamorgan-, shire, 170 men and boys were killed. . Serious riots have occurred in Ritualistic Churches, at Lambeth. A petition, has be§n presented to the House of Lords, signed by 3000 persons, accusing the Bishop, of. Salisbury of preaching nn? scriptura} doctrines. ' Dr. Russell has been, appointed the Titms correspondent at Paris. Mr Disraeli, a,t the Loyd Mayor's, dinner, expressed confidence in maintenance of peace. Julia Matthews has been well received^ in English Opera at Covent Qarden. Lord Stanley thinks a Roman confer-, enca useless, if a programme is. prepare^ beforehand. OBITUARY, . Lord Wrotterley, the eminent astronomer ; Earl of Murray ; Edward James^ M.P., Q.C.; Countess De Flahault, and, Marshall O'Donnell. COMMERCIAL NEWS, Lojrooif, November In the discount market, supplies o£ money are still large, at slightly advanced rates, the object being assimilation to the. Bank rate of two per cent. The latest, quotations in open market ara for best, paper If to If. Half a million, of bullion^ has been withdrawn from. th% Bank of] England for the Abyssinian expedition, but the reserve is still excessive. Business, on the Stock Exchange is, quie^. Confidence has been restored, but transactions, were limited to English, fands, with little, fluctuation during the month. Consols now stand at 94f to 945, with, discount for money. 93^ to 93f ex dividend for account reduced^ and nevt three per cents firm at 93 to 935. A second dividend oi 3& ha& been paid in, the estate of the New Zealand BankingCorporation, and a dividend of Is in. Overend and Gurney's estate, making 13s. At a meeting of the shareholders of the> Royal Bank of Liverpool, the call was increased from £5 to £10 per share. Great dissatisfaction was expressed with the, management, and a committee of investigation has been appointed. Government has resolved to take the. management of telegraphs, which haa. given great satisfaction. There have been no failures of import-, ance. The Australian Trust Agency Com-, pany have, declared a dividend of 10 per. cent. . LONDON WOOL MARKET*. The fourth series of colonial sales was, opened on the 16th November. The. catalogue! comprisjed 4237 bales. Thera was a fair attendance of English buyers, but the foreign attendance was under the, average. The bulk of the wool, catalogued consisted of Cape wppl and Australian — wholly of scoured descriptions. Prices, have fallen below the September rates. The fresh decline is attributed to very bad business and over-production of wool.