LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 631, 3 February 1870, Page 4

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation, pompany's dividend . of six percent, peif ahhu'ni' has been declared. ■. The. French Ministry has resigned. M. Olivier has been entrusted, with farming a new one In the Cha nber of Deputies, Paris, 151 membeis adhered to Emille Olivier's programme demanding the amelioration of the law for the public safety, the revision of the electoral laws, and the abolition : of r. immunity possessed.. ..by Government officers from prosecution . : The Constitutional pirty will in future possess a working majority. In America, President Grant delivered his address to Congress. He recommends a gradual return . to specie payments, reduction of taxation, and expresses his approval of the policy of the' present Financial Secretary, and recommends bonds falling due. to. be replaced by bonds '. bearing on|iy 4£ per cent; He expresses sytripathy with the : Cubatf insurgent^ But declares them not entitled to recognition as belligerents ; assents thatthe A|a]bamaclaims KaH "beuef remain "unsettled ttian r be inadequately settled, and expresses the hope of an early and satisfactory adjustment. Iv conclusion, he declares that the foreign relations with the Government are generally satisfactory. v • r ;:THjB ; (^c«jii^iiical Council "opened at ; Bftme-oh^the^Slih^- '"~A.\. .^..y:K ?.;.;:. j. , ; .:. . ' Mr Mayne is appointed Professor of Jurisprudence " in" ■ the ' University of • Oxford. The Berlin correspondent of the Times telegraphs that there is a proposal for a general disarmament at St. Petersburg, Vienna, Florence, and Berlin, and he believes i in > London. '■Mr; Olf aj£: iji .'.^ a^speecK* to- his consti"ttteiits/decilar^H -wat fhe #biterriment liad received satisfactory, explanations from Russia respecting the advances made by that power in Central Asia. He said the safety of the" British? Empire in India depended upon our ''ruling" for the berie'fit of the people ; that being dono, the Empire might endure. indefinitely,. \' ■'[ Theinew j;cable?for telegraphic cotnm'u- . riicaiion with India is-cothjoletod. « .-i, . : The trial of the; Directors of the Over-] end, r^ Gurney...: Company : .'ended . in ; th.c Directors being acquitted! .. ! ""•'..' :; ' ; ,; . , . Further correspondence with England on the subject : .of |; the = Alabama claims ; have ; been - jsubmitted- tbl GpngressE b.y ' Mr.Fjsh, . proposing- the ....',.'; wiump^ tioh of negotiations at >.W^shin<jtoii, Lr»rd Clarendon's reply to Reverdy Johh- - son: was, that England .modified many of . Her vie%s." On firm convictions, life could not risk any furthernegotiations lentil the. terms of such negotiations were more clearly intimated ; he was anxious for an early, honorable adjustment of claims, and was, willing to change the law. so. as to-pre- • 'Vent* -any <'reeuwencV--ttf -^ich-ian affair. Arrived : Ramsay and the Mataoka.. The Turco-Egyptian difficulty U amicably arranged.