ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 654, 29 March 1870, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF TH E ENGLISH MAIL.

[By Electric Telegraph.] (from our own correspondent.) [The following was i9aned as an " Extra" from thia office yesterday mornitig :]— Bluff, Sunday. The s.s..omeo, G. Calder, commander, arrived here at daylight this morning, ■with the New Zealaud portion of the English mail. She left Port Phillip Heads at 8 p.m. on the 19th inst. After c'e-iring Bass's Straits, she encountered terrific * easterly gales, which continued four days/ Passenger List.— Sal on : For Dunedin — Mr and Mrs Charles Swanst<n, Miss. Laura Swanston, Miss Jessie Swanston, Miss Maud Sw: n .ton, >.o erness, aud two servants, Mr E wins, Mr Reeves, Mr Alex. Inglis, Mr Bleckly; and twenty in the steerage. For Ljttelfon — Mr and Mr» Beun, Mr Grice ; and fiyo in the steerage. For Wellington— Captain Page, Mrß:illeir, Mr Twemlon, Mr Glascodine, Mr Hardinge, Mrs King; and four in the steerage. Two in the steerage for Greyniouth ; and twenty-three men, discharged from H.M. Fourteenth Regiment, with their wivea and eleven children. Cargo.— For Dnnedin : 140 tons. For LytteltW: 50 tons. For Wellington : 100 tons. London, January 28. The exports to New Zealand for the month- show an increase of L 28,771. New Zealand Trust Loan Company has declared a 10 per cent, dividend, and also the Loan Mercantile Agency. The New Zealand medal for the campaigns of 1846 and 1847 are to be issued at once. • Sailed. — For Auckland, on the 27th January, the Mary Shepherd; on the 22nd January, the Kate Waters ; and on the 17th January, the Jan Van For Otago, the Albatross. For Wellington,, the Gloucester. Loading — Achilles, Argyleshire* Huasquina-Santon, for Auckland ; Ceres, for Canterbury. ; . Albion, for Nelson ; Equator, Pembroke, Schiehallion, for Otago ; Alexandrina, for Wellington. Share list quotations of the New Zealand loan are a quarter to a half premium; New Zealand Trust and Loan Company, one and* a half to one and three-quarters premium ;- Otago and Southland, a quarter premium : New Zealand sixes, 1891, 107 to 109-; .ditto fives, 96 to 97 ; ditto fives, . consolidated, 9G| to 97i ; ditto sixes, consolidated, 108 to 110 ; ditto sixes, June-December, 107 to 109. New Zealand flax is quoted at from L2O toL42porton. The flax market is exceedingly flat. The quantity arrived is' large,, being .with what arrived late in December and ■was held over, till January, over 3000 bales. At recent sales buyers held off. Prices receded, for the portion sold LS to LlO per ton. At this decline only a small proportion of the quantity offered coiild be placed. There is still some doubt in the minds of buyers as to its application for Manilla hump purposes. The Australian December mail was delivered in London, via Marseilles, on 24th January, and via Southampton on the 31st. The Queen is at Osbome ; latterly she has been suffering from neuralgia. At the departure of the mail she was slightly better. The Prince and Princess of Wales have been staying at Gunton Hall, Norfolk. - Mr Gladstone returned to town on the 20th January,. Cabinet meetings have bean resumed. Mr Bright addressed his constituents at Birmingham on the 11th. On the following day he was entertained to breakfast by the Liberal Association, at which he is reported t> have 9aid that working men were not always desirable as representatives, simply becanse they were working men. This observation haa given great offence amongst the laboring classes. - ■ It is decided that Lord Napier will succeed Sir William Mansfield as Coni-mander-in-Ghief in India. Capt. Scott and Mr R. Napier will act as his aide-de-camps, and Colonel Dillon as Military Secretary. ■ • | Large sums of money are ibetig subscribed to the various emigration funds. , A National Emigration League has been formed, with the Duke of Manohester as Presideut. : .• .-.,..:. •A- dreadful accident happened .in a Catholic Chapel, at Liverpool,. on Snnd.'ly last. A man, in a state of intoxication, who obtained .admittance during service, raised an. alarm of fire. An immediate panic ensued, followed by a rush to the doors. • After -some difficulty order was restored, and sixteen persons .were found to have been crushed to death. , : Serious colliery riots have taken place at Thorncliffe colliery, near Sheffield. The riot commenced lasi Friday, whop, the unionists attacked the, works and also the dwelling, houses of the non-unionists, destroying and wrecking them. The services of the police and military were called in, and the riot was ultimately quelled. Several ringleaders were arrested. ; The old Star and Garter hotel at Richmond was burnt on the 12th January, resulting in the death of the manager. : Another meeting' of old colonists was held on the sth: January^ in. Cannon, street, Mr You! in the chair.- Resclutions were passed forming the meeting into a National Oolonial Leagiie 1 . • •A'ctmnnittee was appointed, consisting of Sir George Grey, Hon — Tobin, Messrs Youl, Wilson^ Sewell, Westgarth, Buchanan", Hamilton, Paterson, ' Beau mart, Briggs, and Dr Eddie, with power to add to their number. r ':: .'.-:. : : ' : An inaugural meeting of the Royal Colonial Society was held on, the 17th January, under the presidency of, the Marquis of Normandy. A private meeting of influential London merchants was held, in the London Tav!em to discuss the proposed steam communication to Australia, including New Zealand, via Milford Haven,' ' Portland, and San Francisco, within forty days; Sir George Grey was in the chair. meeting was numerously attended, and passed resolutions in favor of the company. : Edward Norman lias been gazetted' a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia. Letters have been received from Dr Livingstone, but their dates h*ve been anticipated.

A telegra^^from Paris, dated 12th ' January, stages that Prince Pierre Bonaparte shot a ]b lrnalist named Victor Noir, who, with another journalist natiicd De Fouvier, wanted to challenge the Prince ; to a duel. ! The Prince is now in gaol awaiting his trial. Victc r ■ Noir was buried on the 13th. Fears were entertained of a ilia-" 1 ' t irhance, but everything passed off 1 quietly. After the homicide R'ochfort wrote a very violent leader in hi 3 paper, for which, on the 17th, the Corps Legislatif, by 226 to 34 votes, gave authority for his prosecution. The trial came off on Monday last, and Rochfort was con demned to six months' imprisonment and a fine of 2000 f. Traupmann, the Pautin murderer, was executed on the Kith. He made no further confession, but lost all courage before death. The CEc mienical Council at Rome continues sitting, and is engaged discussing the infallibility dogma. '..."': The Ministerial crisis in Spain has been surmounted General Prim remains Supreme Minister; Rivers, Minister of the interior ; Sagasta, Minister i.f Foreign Affaire; Topete, Minister of Marine; Mouter Rios, Minister of Justice^ Mr Peabody's remains arrived at Port-, land on the 25th January. Great preparations were made to receive them befittingly. The New York Times states, at the instance of Mr Motley, that the British Government had consented 'to transfer the Alabama negotiations to Washington, and had agreed that the question of neutrality of the seas shall be included among the subjects for future arbitration. No period for the renewal of the negotiations has been: fixed. :: ' : i The Porte has received a letter from the Viceroy of Egypt, intimating his willingness to surrender the iroh-clads and breech-loaders ordered by him, and explains that the delay has merely arisen from the desire of the Egyptian Government to ascertain the cost of breechloaders and iron-clads. The explanations are stated to be perfectly satisfactory to the Sultan. ■.'■'■' ' The Dalmatian revolt is entirely over. Latest cable dates from New York state that Prince Arthur visited the Treasury and other Departments at Washington on the 26th Jan. Mr Belinarkand General Dick have invited H.R.H. to a ball to be in his honor. Gold closed on the 27th at 12H. Disturbances still continue in Ireland; In Limerick . two policemen have been shot, one was- mortally wounded. The revenue of the United Kingdom for the last year was L 70,700,000. At the beginning of the month considerable uneasiness prevailed in Paris, but towards the closa a better feeling prevailed. The Great Eastern is. daily expected after laying the cable in connection with the Red Sea telegraphs The passage of vessels by the Red Sea and Suez Canal increases daily. Fresh Europoan lines are proposed, and Mr Green, the well-known shipowner, is now in ' India making arrangements to avail himself of this route for his line of vessels. . M. Hauss'nan, Prefect Of the Seine, to whom the Parisians are indebted for vast improvements in the city," has been dismissed, and Mons. Kyra appointed his successor. The British-Australian Telegraph Co., for lajung a submarine cable irom Singapore to Port Darwin, in Australia, through Batavia, and thence to Bourke Town, Queensland, has been organised. A memorial has been presented to the President of the United States, from . the inhabitants of British Columbia, praying for annexation' to the United States; A serious- strike has taken place among the artisans in the great iron works at C rons tad t, instigated by an agent of the International Association, which supplies fundi from England and Switzerland. Theee thousand five hundred soldiers were sent for the protection of the town. New workmen were introduced, but the dispute was a nicably settled, and tl.e strike terminated.