ARRIVAL OF THE N.Z.S.N. Co.’s ‘AHURIRI' WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 397, 26 July 1866, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE N.Z.S.N. Co.’s ‘AHURIRI' WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

NEWS TO 14th JUNE. The arrival of the s.s. Ahuriri, Captain Flowerday, yesterday afternoon, has placed us in possession of the English Mail by both Panama and Suez routes. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, 26th May. The Australian March mails were delivered in London on the 11th and 18th May. . The Queen and the junior members of the Royal Family are in good health. The Queen resides at OsTmrne. The Princess of, Wales has held a drawing room, and is becoming very popular. Prince Christian and the Princess Helena’s marriage is fixed for the 9th of July. The Princess Mary of Cambridge’s marriage with Prince Teck is fixed for the 12th of June. The Ministerial Reform Bill, as explained by Ministers, was the Franchise Bill. The Opposition demanded that the Government should produce their whole scheme of reform. Mr Gladstone was forced to produce the re-distribution of seats measure, and finally fused it into the other measure. The redistribution scheme proposes no disfranchisement at all; but to take away one member from each of the small boroughs now electing two, and grouping the other small boroughs in pairs or threes. Government thus obtained forty-nine seats to dispose of, which were allotted as follows :—English counties, 26; four large provincial towns, 4 ; University of London, the Tower Hamlets, a new district, 2; and Chelsea and Kensington, 2. Seven seats were given to the third-rate towns, and the remainder to Scotland. Reports dated the 26th of May, in the daily journals, state and Prussia, Austria, and Italy have armed against each other,, but none of them wish to strike the first blow. England, France, and Russia attempted a pacification, by Congress; but Italy, through her treaty with Prussia, wishes to seize Venetia. Italy wants Venice, Prussia wants Saxony, and Russia wants Roumania; and a great crisis is expected. The United States Government have announced that the Rinderpest has broken out along the.Penola Railroad, Hundreds of cattle are dying daily. Lord Clarendon and Lord Statford de Redcliffe have stated that her Majesty’s Government sought to make peace, but the answers were not encouraging. There is every prospect of Europe being involved in the most expensive and bloody war ever known in history. The Bill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife’s sister was lost by a majority of 19. Captain Rocheford Margurra, R.N., of the Challenge, screw corvetta, 22, succeeds Sir William Wiseman as Commodore on the Australian station. ■ Serious apprehension of a visitation of cholera to England are anticipated. The Fenian arrests continue to be made in Ireland. Emigration from Ireland to America is still increasing. The Times of the 18th and 21st May speaks of the late crisis in Victoria thus : ** The more closely we examine the history of the late controversy it shows the impolitic conduct of Sir C. Darling.”

A daring attempt was made on the 20th of May to assassinate Warner at Cork, the Fenian informer.

The hop harvest promises to be very prolific.

: Several large failures have occurred in Italy. The failure of the Merchants’ Bank in New York is announced.

Mr Peabody refuses to receive ovations in New York.

Telegraphic communication between Cuba and the United States has commenced. The fight for the championship, between Mace and Goss, came off on the 24th May. The conduct of both combatants created much disgust. Obituary.— -Lord Glenelg, Rev. Canon Wray, Lord and Lady Rivers, Sir J. C. Thorold, Sir Philip Dering, Sir James William Drummond, Mrs Beely, the Rev. Francis Mahoney (known as Father Prout.) CONTINENTAL. The war between Prussia, and Austria, and Italy seems certain; their armaments are enormous, and none of them will disarm. Austria has a million, Prussia 500,000, and Italy 100,000 men under arms. Prussia demands for herself the Danish Duchies; Austria refuses her consent; and Italy wants Venetia, and Austria refuses to give it up. Garibaldi, by authority of the King, is raising 30,000 Volunteers. England, France, and Russia, as a last resource, have suggested a Conference, to hi held on the sth June, at Paris. All the three belligerents agree, but evidently are agreed to nothing else than to listen and complain, and defend their own course. The English Government itself announces that it has no hope of a peaceful issue, and that war is inevitable. There has been a severe panic and preasure, not upon merchants only but upon credit, finance, and discount banking companies. LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS London, June 2nd. Bank discount, 10 per cent. The political situation on the Continent is not improved ; and a peaceful settlement of the German difficulties is less hopeful. June 3rd. The Conference is to assemble at Paris on the 12f h. Austria, Prussia, and Italy accept the invitation to be present under reservations. All the foreign Ministers will attend; hostilities are deferred. The Reform debate closes on the 4th. The bill meets with determined opposition and obstruction in committee. The Chilian Minister has demanded his Government passports. Friendly relations are still maintained. Callao was bombarded on May 2nd by the Spanish fleet, which was defeated, and Admiral Nunez wounded. " The Consolidated Bank having stopped payment, Australian Joint Stock Bank drafts are payable by the National Provincial Bank of England. The panic is subsiding. It is reported that the Agra and Masterman’s Bank have stopped payment. At the Bank of England the rate of discount is 11 per cent. June sth. The Conference has been abandoned in consequence of the reservations; Austria refuses to discuss territorial changes. Prussia is about to occupy Holstein. June 6th. The Holstein Parliament has been convoked, which Prusssa declares to be in violation of the Gastein Convention. American cotton is advancing. June 7th. The Agra and Masterman’s Bank has failed. The Congress is abandoned. War is not yet declared. Money easier.

June Bth., The Prussians have entered HolsteinOrders have been given to avoid a conflict. June 12th. Cotton is steady. Austria has energetically repelled the accusations of Prussia. A circular has been issued proposing the mobilisation of the Federal contingent. The Austrians have evacuated Holstein. June 13. “The war in Europe may be said to have commenced. Garibaldi has entered Venetia, and the Pope has fled from Rome. Cotton is advancing in price. June 14. The monetary panic in England is still raging, and some of the greatest financial houses are freely spoken of in connection therewith. Bombay, June 11. The suspension of the Agra and Masterman’s Bank has caused great consternation. A run has been made on the other banks. The markets are. completely paralysed. At Calcutta heavy failures are reported. Business is suspended, and there are prospects of a short crop of indigo. New York, May sth to 12th. —The Fenians captured the British schooner Wentworth, off East Port, in the State of Maine, and made a descent upon Grand Menan Island, in the same State. Stephens, the Head Centre, is denounced by the Fenians in America as a British spy. The Epsom Summer Meeting took place on May 16tb : Tlie Derby Stakes,—so sovs. each ; colts, 8 st. 10 lbs.: fillies, 8 st. 5 lbs.—Mr Sutton’s Lord Lyon, by Stockwell out of Paradigm, 1; Lord Auesbur’s (?) colt, by Stockwell out of Bribery, 2; Dnke of Beaufort’s Rustic, by Rustic out of Village Lass, 3.