ARRIVAL OF THE ‘PRINCE ALFRED’ AT AUCKLAND, WITH

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 345, 29 January 1866, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ‘PRINCE ALFRED’ AT AUCKLAND, WITH

ENGLISH TELEGRAMS TO 4xix DEC.

The arrival of the s a. Beautiful Star, Captain H. Morwick, from Auckland, on Saturday last, has placed us in possession of English news as above. The s.s. Prince Alfred, which vessel brought the news to Auckland, left Sydney at midnight on the 17th, having been detained 43 hours for the English mail, which, however, was only telegraphed a short time previous to her departure. We have to thank Capt. Morwick, of the Beautiful Star, for a copy of the Daily Southern Cross of the 24th inst., also a second edition of that day, from which we extract a few items, copied from the telegraphic correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald.

The detention of the mail was caused by unusually heavy gales encountered by the P. and O. Company’s steamer Tanjore, while crossing the Bay of Biscay, and towing a Spanish steamer in distress from Cape Trafalgar to Gibraltar, causing a delay of five days.

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, 27th November. The Australian September, mails were delivered in London on the 11th and 17th November.

The Queen’s health is much improved. She held a Cabinet Council, formally presenting the keys of the Treasury to Earl Russell. Parliament is prorogued to the 28th December, and will meet for business on the 25th of January.

Sir Robert Peel lias resigned the Irish Secretaryship, and Chichester Fortescue is appointed. Mr Hull has resigned the Vice-presidency of the Hoard of Trade. Mr Gosehen is appointed his successor.

England and France addressed energetic remonstrances to the Spanish Government against the proceedings of the fleet off Valparaiso. The matter is to be settled by arbitration. Great reform movements are going on in Birmingham and Bradford; resolutions of confidence in the Government are expressed. A severe hurricane swept over London and coast line, by which great damage and loss of life was caused.

The warehouses on Beals Wharf, London Bridge, have been burnt down. The loss is estimated at £IBO,OOO.

Murders, suicides, and railway collisions have been unusually numerous curing the past month, also frightful deaths by fire owing to crinoline Outrages on ladies in railway carriages increasing, and strong measures for their suppression are being adopted. The population of London is announced to he 3,000,000.

A national monument to Lord Palmerston by the people and Government is proposed, and an English peerage on Lady Palmerston’* family.

Thomas GarJyle is elected hector of the University of Edinburgh, beating Disraeli by a large majority. The Times, Morning Star, and other leading Journals reviewing the political crisis in Yictoria, condemn the conduct of the Ministry as arbitrary and illegal. Large shipmentsof angora goats, ostriches, pheasants, water-fowl, hares, &c., have been despatched per Martha Birnie to the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria.

The cattle disease continues great. The mortality by the cholera is decreasing rapidly. It is reported that the British Government have made a formal demand on America respecting the Fenians. Stephens, the head and centre of the Fenian movement in Ireland, escaped from Dublin prison by the connivance of the warders. £1,300 reward has been offered for his recapture. John Mitchell is head centre at Paris, and George Francis Train, combined with George Bennett, of the New York Herald, at New York, both with the view to gain political capital. The Fenian Government is established at New York in name, ■with houses of assembly, &e. It threatens to attack Canada. Preparations are being made there to resist aggression. Dublin is being fortified. Strange vessels appearing in the Channel. Deports are spread that Fenian cruisers will soon be afloat in numbers.

A serious insurrection has occurred at Movaut Bay, Jamaica. The blacks burnt down the Courthouse, brutally mutilatiug and murdering all the whites within. The rising is fortunately premature. The intended one was fixed for Christmas Day, when all whites, colored men and children, were to have been massacred throughout the entire island. The women and lands were to be divided amongst the blacks. The latter committed revolting atrocities. Gordon, a member of the Legislature, and a principle ringleader, has since been hanged with 200 others. The rebellion was suppressed by the energy of Governor Eyre and subordinates. A sanguinary collision has taken place at Martinique betweeen the French forces and garrison. Many were killed and wounded. G. V. Brooke sailed for Melbourne per London. OBITUAJIT. Hon. Francis Grimston, Dr Barker, Justice Compton, Commissioner Fonblanque, Professor LincUey, Captain Mee, Lady Lewis, Lady Calthorpe, Ball, M.P., Mrs (iaskell, Sir Diehard Brooke, Catherall, M. Dupide, Colonel Byrnes, Viscount Admirable O’Brien, Baron Dimsdale, T. J- Pettigrew. Tom Sayers the pugilist is dead. At his funeral disgraceful scenes were enacted at the cemetery. LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. London, December 4, 1 p.m. The Queen will open Parliament in person. Prince Helena is betrothed to Prince Christian of Augustenturg. The Victoria Cross has been conferred on Captain Cross for his services in New Zealand. A Ministerial Reform Bill is in preparation. Forster’s appointment to the Colonial Office as Under Seceretary is confirmed; Harley and Baxter decline Ministerial otters. The liberation of the Shenandoah and her crew causes feeling of hostility towards England in America. General Logan is appointed by President Johnson as Ambassador to the Mexican Republic. The Spanish Government supports arbitrary demands against Chili.