LATE TELEGRAMS;

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 999, 9 October 1871, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS;

Military manoeuvres are to be held in the neighbourhood of Alderahott and Cobham instead of in Berkshire. 33,500 troops will take part. } . The army agency system is to b« abolished. Mr Charles BoxtonY motion in the House of Commons for the appointment of a- Royal Commission to decide on the reorganisation of the army is withdrawn, Mr Cardwell assuming the entire responsibility, v • The Government has announced that the establishment of amoney-ordersystem between ludia and Europe has met with difficulties in India; Several incendiary fires have occurred in Algeria, and the revolt there continues, i The Emperor of Austria dissolved the Reichsrath on the 13th of August, and a very friendly meeting of the Emperor with the Emperor of Germany afterwards took place at Gastein. . A pamphlet called Prussia in % East has appeared, in which is stated a plan of Bismarck, allied with Russia,- to seize Egypt, Trieste, . and- Antwerp, while Russia will occupy Hindostan. Mr Charles Buxton, M.P. , is dead.; The Government has announced the appointment of a commission of inquiry into the conduct of the police at the recent meeting in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Henceforth meetings in the park will not be molested.

A Conservative candidate has been elected for East Surrey. M, Arnim arrived at Versailles on the 26th, as German Envoy Extraordinary, in the place of GountWaMeraee. ; ' Berlin journals on the 28th state that the doubtful attitude of the French Assembly towards M. Thiers diminishes the confidence Germany reposed in Franc© for the fulfilment of the treaty. '. " l It is proposed that the minimum valu,e involved in Indian appeals to the Privy Council must be LSOOO. r

On the 24th insfc., the reserve of notes in the Bank of England was L 14,687,000. Total bullion, L 25,437,000. Captain Vivian was appointed, on the 30th, Under-Secretary of State for War, in place of Sir Edward Lugard, who i§ appointed first commissioner for the settlement of purchase claims. ••• London, Sept, 2, The Kreuz-Zeiiung states that it was arranged between the Emperors of GerI many 'and Austria that Prussia shall make a communication to St. Petersburg 'tending to obtain concUiatoiyexplanationa. between Russia and Austria. A great hurricane and an earthquake have occurred at St. Thomas's, Island, killing and injuring 150 people. -,' London, August lft. The Queen is indisposed. The Emperors of Germany and Austria have had a frendly meeting at Gastein. The attention of Parliament has been called, by Mr Taylor, to the traffic in South Sea Islanders. Ihe Secretary ot States for the Colonies protested that it was the determination of th • Government

to suppress slavery, and exonerated the Queensland Government. Mr Kinnaird was not satisfieU6f>ish the official reply. , ~-An'a>p a llm^ explosion has occurred at Stowmarket. 25 persons were killed and 57 wounded. , The town is half ruined. The affair produced a great sensation, and a public subscription for the sufferers has been commenced. The Bank of Australasia has declared a dividend of 9 per cent. The question of wool consignment by Australian banks is revived. The practice is defended by the bank directors on the ground of a saving of merchants' commissions. Arrived.— Etter, Strathnaver. v Sailed. — Shannon', Ben Lomond, Royal Dane, Patriarch, Harmodias. London, August 29. ..>■■ The Queen's visit to Inverary is post-, poned through her illness. Great rejoicing took place on the return of the Marquis of Lorn, when the "Campbells' present" to the Princess Louise of a diamond necklace, worth 14,000 guineas was made. Sir Alexander Campbell represented Australia. The correspondence between Mr Bailie Cochrane and Mr Monsell in reference to an Australian mail service fortnightly has been published. Mr Monsell prefers the route, by San Francisco to that by the Cape of Good Hope. The question is to be referred to Victoria. The bilL providing a new court for colonial appeals has been passed. Renforth was seized with apoplexy, and died, whilst rowing in the Anglo-Canadian lace. Arrived. — Wagoola, Cceur de Lion, Asia, Sussex, Hawkesbury, Jubilee. ' . Sailed.— Craigendarrock, Elm Grove, Enrkham, Wave of Life, Antiope, True Briton, Sir John Lawrence. LowpoN, Sept. 2. After violent discord in the French Assembly, and the threatened resignation of M. Tniers, he has been elected President of the French Republic. The foreign Governments have sent their congratulations. Three hundred millions of francs on account of the third half-milliard of the war indemnity has been paid. A brisk correspondence is still proceedin the Time* relative to consignments of wool to the Australian banks. The action of the banks is defended by the chairman of the Bank of Australasia and by Sir Daniel Cooper, Arrived.— Agamemnon. . Sailed.— Orient, Vincent, Windward, Braunah, Shanghai, Paramatta, Border Chief. London, Sept. 4. The Queen's health is causing anxiety. Mr Gladstone, at Whitby, in replying to the. working men's address, vindicated the late Ministerial policy. § .There is fine harvest weather, but the wheat crop is deficient; Money is abundant. The rate of dis-count-is unaltered. Walter Montgomery, the actor, .has committed suicide. v The Brindisi and -the Nevada's mails were delivered together, and the August telegrams from Australia are now coming through. ,; Arrived.— Hampshire. Sailed.— Lammermoor, with the Mcl bourne Town Ball organ.