ARRIVAL OF THE LORD ASHLEY.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 163, 26 February 1864, Page 1 (Supplement)

ARRIVAL OF THE LORD ASHLEY.

ENGLISH NEWS TO 2 6th DECEMBER. The I.C.R.M.C’s. S.S. Lori Ashley, Capt. Randall, from Southern Ports, arrived here on Wednesday, at 2 o’clock p.m., with the. English December Mail, The Mall was brought to-Otago by the the a.s. Alhambra , which arrived there on the 19th inst., having left Melbourne on the 18th inst., making a passage of five days, nineteen hours. The Northam reached Melbourne on the 13th inst. _ From the Daily Times we take the following Telegraphic summary of the news:— . The Australian 'October Maila were delivered in London on the 14th and 18th December. The Queen left Windsor for Osborne on the 18th December. The Prince and Princess of Wales are visiting there. The Prince of Wales has been introduced as a member of the Privy Council. Earl Russell has been elected Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen. William Makepeace Thackeray died suddenly on the 24th December, of effusion on the brain. Colonel Crawley has been fully and honorably acquitted on both charges brought against him. Bir William Somerville raised to the Irish Peerage as Baron Athumney. Phe Bishopric of Tasmania has been offered to the Rev. Canon Allwood of Sydney. A great fire has occurred in the City of London. The destruction of property is estimated at £IOO,OOO. Townley, the murderer of Miss Goodwin, has been sentenced to death. Scarlet fever lamentably prevalent among all classes in England, and very fatal among the poor. The report of the Lancashire Relief Committee shows an increase of applicants, amounting to 169/ on the 12th of December. Several Government employees in Sheerness dockyard have been discharged for violating the neutrality laws of England by volunteering to equip the Rappahannock as a war ship for the Confederates. Sergeant Shee has been appointed to the Juckoslup rendered vacant by the death of Judge Wightman. The appointment gives universal satisfaction. Violent gales were experienced early in Decemhe, and caused au immense number of disasters by sea and land throughout England and many parts of the continent. The Emperor Napoleon's proposition for a European Congress has been acceppted by all the Sovereign States except England, but with reservations. M. Drouyn de L’Huys has issued a despatch proposing a Congress of those powers by whom the Emperor’s invitation has been accepted. The Mexican army under Juarez, has been scattered and demoralized, and offers no resistance to the French. The fight between Heenan and King has terminated in the defeat of the former. At the end of the 26th round, Heenan lay senseless, beaten out of all semblance of himself. The principals and seconds have been bound over to appear for trial at the Sussex quarter sessions. Mr. Chichester Fortescue, Under-Secretarv of State for the Colonies, in addressing a publicmeeting at Essex vindicated the New Zealand colonists from the aspersions cast upon them and stated the intention of the Government to make the present war a final one. The Times has another article on New Zealand, backing up the colonists and urging the prosecution of the war. Obituary. —Canon Maltby, Lady Prendergast, Lord Middleton, the Rev. J. J. WEite Jervis, Mr. Salt, F.S.A., Professor Thelwall, the Very Rev. T. Gamier, Justice Wightman, Mr. Wra.'Showbell. Dr. Parks, Admiral Bruce, Mr. John Henry Green, F.R.S., Admiral Plummeridge, K.C.8., Mr. Thackeray.