EUROPEAN NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 56, 24 July 1862, Page 1 (Supplement)

EUROPEAN NEWS.

The intelligence—save from America, which was to some extent anticipated by way of San Francisco is not of an exciting character. * a t *? e usua l telegraphic summary ot English news furnished by the Melbourne Argus. m -r, . London, May 26. ihe Prince of Wales has visited Constantinople on his return. c The King of the Belgians has been severely ill, but is slowly recovering. The Marquis won the Two Thousand, Hurricane won the One Thousand Guineas. The American Minister in London has demanded the restoration of the Emily St. Pierre. The British Government refused. The distress is increasing in the manufacturing districts. Ihe unemployed operatives of Manchester remonstrated against being sent to the parish for relief. “ 1 The Japanese Ambassadors had arrived and were present at the opening of the Exhibition. A treaty between England and America for the suppression of the slave trade has been ratified U r § lve !_ to British vessels the right of search The Mouse of Commons has rejected the Church, rate Abolition Bill. The sluice of St. Germain’s, on the Ouse has £250,0«) 0 ’ 000 aCTeS ° f knd Under Water 5 dama ge th™B,hS r Se° f Pta »

General Guyon, commander of the French army of occupation in Home, has been recalled to Paris. France has declared war against Mexico. England and Spain have withdrawn from the expedition. M. Mires has issued proposals for a new loan. The French Government have prohibited the press publishing prospectus. Prussian elections show large majority for liberals ; the Minister of Finance rejected by former constituents. Elector of Hesse Cassel yielded to Prussian demands, and agreed to re-establish Constitution of 1831 The Austrian Government has 'announced the policy of non-intervention in the affairs of foreign countries, and takes a purely defensive course with reference to Italy. MUitary conspiracy in favour of Poland discoTered at St. Petersburg. Turkey has repulsed the Montenegrins in several attacks. The Porte declined to accede to Russian proposal for the independence of Montenegro. Prom America we learn that the Confederates have evacuated York Town, Norfolk. The Federajs pursued the Confederates within 20 miles of .Richmond, which the confederates will defend. Beauregard has strongly fortified Corinth. Battle daily expected. Blockade of New Orleans, Beaufort, and Port Royal, raised. Confederates, on Arkansas side of Mississippi, have flooded the country for forty miles. AU cotton alone tho banks being burnt, all sugar and molasses thrown into the nver. The Confederate army has evacuated New Orleans, after six days’ hard fighting, taking with them eighteen millions of dollars, and destroying snipping and cotton to the value of eight or ten millions of dollars. The whole of the Mississippi,Tfrom the coast to Memphis, is in the hands of the Federals. York Town, injYirginia, has fallen, and the great battle between Jefferson Davis and M’Clellan was daily expected to be fought, and on the issue depends the fate of Richmond. The Confederates have also abandoned Norfolk, after destroying the Merrimao and the 'Navy-yard. A bill abolishing slavery'in the territory of tho States has been'passed;in the House of Representatives'by 85 votes to 50. The King’of Italy has visited Naples amidst tho loudest demonstrations of loyalty and devotion, Prince Napoleon sharing in the general exultation. The~ltalian Parliament re-opens~on June s! Great efforts are been made to settle the Roman, question. The ex-King of Naples has left Rome. The result of the .Prussian elections gives an overwhelming majority on the Liberal side. The distress in Lancashire increases. 10,000 acres of land have been flooded in the middle stroying; P ro P ert y the £amountjj>f Assassinations are rife in Ireland. The great assemblage of Roman Catholics~prefates is being held in Rome. It is understood tho Secretary for the Colonies declined to advise Her Majesty to' reprove Mr. Justice Boothby. Owing to the fine whether for the growing crops, and the large arrivals of foreign grain, the wheat market has been dull, and it is expected that the very best samples, [which have sold at former rates, will be fully 2s. or 2s. per Quarter lower. INTER-NATIONAL EXHIBITION. ’ The opening of the Inter-national Exhibition has not only been the great event of the month, but has almost swallowed up all the rest. As a mere achievement of toil and energy, [the fact is one of the most remarkable on record. From the state of the building on the morning before" tho opening, it might have been concluded by ‘tho most experienced spectator that Mrs. Partington’s attempt upon the Atlantic was a feasible exploit in comparison with the exploit of removing within tT^, n< r four k° urs the chaos of obstructions thta filled the nave and transepts of the Exhibition. Yet it was done and done effectually; and the visitors who were admitted at half-past 10 0 clock on the morning of the Ist May, could not detect a vestige of the confusion that reigned throughout the building up to the night before. London has been, and continues to be given up almost wholly to, the excitement of this great event. At no former period in its history did it contain so vast and tumultuous a moving population The principal thoroughfares are densely crowded with people, almost every nation [of the earth is represented by its charicteristic costump m the streets ; and it might be supposed from the prodigious number of vehicles of all sorts seen careering through the town, that every nation had sent a locomotive contribution also. Upon tho whole, it may be justly said that this Exhibition of Inter-national Art and industry marks an epoch in the annals of civilisation to which future times will look back with wonder, profit, and admiration. And it is something to the purpose to add, that our Colonies occupy a position in this magmficent scene alike honorable to them and gratitying to the mother countiy. There are no departments in the Exnibition that have attracted more admiration, or been examined with greater curiosity, than those which contain the contributions of our Australian dependencies. The cotton and, to say nothing of the infinite multituda of other items of growth and skill, are of special interest, and are every day surrounded by crowds 01 spectators. —Hoyne News. LONDON WOOL REPORT.—MAY 24. The second series of sales for the vear commenced on the 2nd of May. Arrivals to that date, consising of—Australian, 46,523 bales: Port Plulhp, 45,497 ; Adelaide, 15,119 ; Van Diemen’s Laud, 4,520; New Zealand, 1,704 ; Swan River 2,069 ; Cape, 9,531; Total, 94,963 bales. Since the close of tho March sales business generally in the north has not been satisfactory, and the buyers, both home and foreign, seem little disposed to purchase (except for immediate wants) from tho parcels offered by private contract. Inferior and faulty parcels were not so much bid for. Tho average may be quoted on good and fine flocks. Id. to lid.; inferior to average, lid to 2d.; burred and wasty, 2d. to 2*d. At this reduction the sales continue to progress with uniformity-—an exceptional duiness only in faulty and Sydney, wnicn era in abundance.