LATEST EUROPEAN TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 449, 24 December 1866, Page 3

LATEST EUROPEAN TELEGRAMS.

(Via Torres Straits.) London, 15th October. News from Candia very conflicting. Reported that the insurgents are negotiating terms for submission, Hungarian Diet opens on November 15. 16tfa October. The Times approves LordCranbourne’s proceedings with reference to the Indian famine, and says that the Indian Government is especially responsible for the distress. An aide-de-camp of the Sultan has reported that no further engagements had taken place in Candia, The latest account is that the Turks were about to attack the centre of the insurrection. The Ottoman Porte has recognised Prince Charles Hohenzollern as the new Hospodar of Roumania. Liverpool cotton market firm and and active. Manchester market firm, but little doing. Reports of growing American crops continue unfavorable.

17th October. Great Reform demonstrations at Glasgow. The Italians have occupied Yerona. Prussia is about to form three new army corps in the countries she has annexed. 18th October. The Emperor of Austria has convoked the Diets of the Empire for the 19th November, except the Hungarian Diet, which is deferred in consequence of the prevalence of cholera. Peace negotiations between Prussia and Saxony are progressing.

Affairs In Candia are reported as favorable to speedy pacification.

19th October.

A meeting of shareholders has bean held at the Mansion House, in consequence of a telegram from Sir John Lawrence, urging subscriptions for relief of sufferers in the Indian famine, and the previous resolutions were maintained. Conscriptions are ordered in Schleswig-Holstein. The Prince of Wales is about to proceed to St. Petersburg!! to assist at the marriage of the Princess Dag mar.

Spain has resolved to support the Pope after the departure of the French troops, and has proposed to Austria to form a joint protect of rate. Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay, has accepted a seat in the Indian Council. Mr Seymour Fitz Gerald has been mentioned as bis successor, but is reported to have refused the appointment. Octoca won the Cambridgeshire Stakes. 27th October.

The Home Hews mentions a rumor that Sir Henry Storks will proceed to Calcutta to relieve Sir William Mansfield during the investigation of Jervis’s ease in England. The liquidators of the Commercial Bank report it probable that a surplus will remain. A terrible fire has occurred in Quebec ; 2500 houses were destroyed, and 18,000 persons rendered houseless.

The cotton crops have suffered severely throughout Lousiana and Mississipi. The health of the Emperor of the French has improved. Ho has reviewed the ironclad squadron at Biarritz.

The trial of Jeff. Davis is again postponed. Bank of England discount 4J per cent. Prussia has taken formal possession of the kingdom of Hanover, the ex-king having first protested against annexation, and released his subjects from their allegiance. Hesse Cassel, Frankfort and Nassau have also been formally incorporated with the Prussian monarchy.

The Senate of Frankfort have protested against annexation.

At Newmarket the Csesarewitch Stakes wore won by Lecturer, Lothflria second.

Tue.report recently circulated as to the insanity of the Emperor of Mexico has been confirmed.

General Butler has demanded that General Lee as well has Mr Davis shall be hung. The Commander-in-chief is expected to advise her Majesty to restore Capt. Jervis. Cholera still prevails in London, with a tendency to spread. Her Majesty has promised to be present at the opening of the new water supply to the City of Aberdeen.

Reform meetings are still being held in different parts of the country in support of manhood sufrage and vote by ballot. A monster demonstration of working urn has taken place at Leeds. Lord Cowley has withdrawn his resignation of the Paris Embassy. The obituary includes the names of General Sir William Clayton, aged SU, and Lady Frederic Beauclerc, daughter of the twelfth Viscount Dillon.