THE PANAMA MAIL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 475, 2 May 1867, Page 2

THE PANAMA MAIL.

LATER FROM EUROPE. (Southern Cross.) We compile the following telegraphic summary, per Atlantic cable from the files of the San Francisco Bulletin, to hand by the Panama mail:—• London, February 27.—The Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company held a meeting on the 2nd of March, to determine what reduction shut! Do made in tolls. Vienna, February 23. —The Turkish garrison were on the Bch withdrawn from, the forts in Servia. London, February 23 —Evening.—A general feeling of depression prevails in financial circles, and stocks are prostrate, Havre, March I.—The steamer Arago, from New York , arrived to-day. London, March 1. —Consols closed at 91 for money ; five-twenties, 72*. London, March I.—The bill creating the now Canadian Confederation was rea twice in the House of Commons. Artemuj Ward is dangerously ill a( Southampton. His life is despaired of. Lord Stanley, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in answer to an inquiry in the House of Commons to-night, slated that nedh-n-Brazil nor Paraguay ever invoked the mediation of England. Consols, 91; five-twenties, 73}. Fivetwenties at Paris, 82J ; at Frankfort, TtiJ Liverpool, March I.—Breadstulfs are dull.

Venice, March L—A son of Garibaldi has gone to Candia to help the Cretans. Paris, March 2.—A despatch from Vera Cruz says, communication with the capita! is entirely closed, and Maximilian consequently has forbidden the transmission oi despatches to Europe giving opinions on the state of the country. St. Petersburg, March 2.—The Czar has strongly urged the Porte to cede Candia to Greece.

Berlin, March 3.—Herr Simon has been chosen President of the .North German Parliament.

The King of Prussia gives a banquet to the members of Parliament.

London, March 2 —Consols closed at 91 ; five-twenties a! 73J.

London, Mu ch 2 —i'ho Imperial Ministers have resigned, for reasons connected with the reform question. The Re’onn Bill produced by too Government will be presented to Parliament on the 11th. It is reported that despatches bare been received here announcing that war has broken out i . India.

London, March t.— Despatches received from Dublin announce the capture of Colonel U'Cunnor, the leader of the late I‘enian revolt in Ireland. He was overtaken at Athlone, Westunath countv. nearly 200 miles from the scene of the insurrection.

Five twenties, 73J. Breadstuff's quiet, California wheat firm a t 13s 3d. London, March 4—Evening.—Consols closed at 81; live-tw en ties, 73J.

Paris, March 4—Strikes for Higher wages among the operatives of France are very frequent. The cause is traceable to the increased price of food

Florence, March 4.—Garibaldi promises to go to Crete and take up arms for the Cretans.

Frankfort, March 4—Evening.—United States Bonds, Tt!|. Liverpool, March 5. The ship Bosphorus, tor Callao for Gibraltar, has arrived at a port in Spain, in distress. Loudon, March s.—The Duke of Richmond has declined the Colonial Secretaryship, and the Duke of Buckingham has accepted the position. The Government promises that the province of the Rciorm Bill which it is preparing for submission to Parliament will bo liberal.

Vienna, March s.—The Eastern question is becoming more complicated. Despatches have been received from the South which indicate a general rising of the Cnristians throughout Turkey.

Paris, March 4. —Bismark to-dny came forward before the North German Parliament with a draft for a new Constitution for the Confederation.

New York, March s.—The Herald’s Berlin correspondent chronicles the splendid triumphs of the Liberal Democracy in Germany, at the general election held under universal suffrage. The city returns from Berlin show Bismark, with ever, General of the late war, signally defeated by constituences to which they were nominated.

Brest, March (s.—The steamer St. Lawrence, from New York, has arrived. Londonderry, March 6.—The steamer Nestorian, from Portland, has arrived. London, March 7 —Noon.—Consols for money are 91 ; five-twenties, 73. Liverpool, March 6 Noon. —Advices from Manchester are unfavourable. Breadstuffs are firm. Corn, 37s 3d. Mixed West California wheat, 13s 4J. Lard, 50 to 60 cents for American produce. Ashes, 34 cents for potash. Loudon, March J , —There was a desperate fight on Tuesday night at Tobought. near Dublin, between the police and Fenians. Cue Fenian was killed five wounded. Eighty prisoners were taken, and six wagonloads of ammunition. HOO prisoners were taken in Dublin irAall. The main body of tbe Fenianwretired northward towards the mountains, vigorously pursued by the troops under the Lari oi Straihallan.

The police stationed at Kilmarnock repulse. 1. Throe were killed ami fourteen taken prisonss. Tlie Police Barracks at Lcnuroe (?}, near Belfast, '.Vi):'e burned. The Manager of tno t n-o:; Bank, and & Police Messenger, were shot. They attacked, and took arms from, the coastguard stationed at Kilb-dia. At the police stations of Cary-foot and Holy Cross there is great excitement; so also is there at Tipperary, (ieneiul Beeson was reported there. It will be noticed that the disaffection is Arternus Ward died at iSoulhamplon, ou March 6th. Xew York, March B.—The corresoondent of the Tribune, under date of Dublin, February 22, anticipating the late uprising, says : Tne Fenian organisers claim to have. 8,000 sworn men in the county of Kerry. Messages from O’Connor, received by the Brotherhood in Dublin, state that supplies have been sent to Killarney, notwithstanding the extraordinary vigilance of the police. Boidiers are watching the roads and passes with spyglasses. Tha favour of the peasantry prevents capture of tha pirties employed . The populace are not likely to co-operate openly, though they are deeply disaffected and hostile to the U-overnment. The Fenian organization is too attenuated to hold ground anywhere for a day in the face of troops. The failure of Stephens to keep his word ha» paralysed the -organization in Dahlia. During the last fortnight 100 persons were arrested in Dublin alone, who came across in trading vessels and bp the steamers from Holyhead and Liverpool. Lord JS’aas, Secretary of Ireland, in a speech in -Parliament, February 2lst, denied that there was any great amount of sympathy with Fenianism among the rural population. Taere was not a single Catholic clergyman who had not exercised all his inlluence against it. Dr, Monarty. Bishop of Kerry, preached a sermon near Killarney, in which lie said eternity was not Jong enough, nor hell hot enough, tor punishment of the Fenian leaders.

It. is understood that the entire garrison for the counties of Cork, Kerry, and Ei* meriok, are only 3,0 ( i. The Herald says a Fenian messenger arrived on Wednesday with despatches tor the O Connor head quarters here. Ha gives a narrative of the uprising in Kerry. The same steamer brought two F- tiaas who participated in the alTair at Cacster Castle.

The Nelson Colonist of the 26tbalt. contains the following summary of telegrams received from Wellington on the 25t!i :

Colonel Nelson and Lieut. Brand hare been committed to take their trial at the cornin'* sessions. A frightful railway accident occurred on the Lancashire and Carlyle Railway, about twenty miles from the latter-city.

The following changes have been made In the British Cabinet; —The Duke of Richmond has become Colonial Secretary ; Sir J. Pakington, Secretary for War ; Sir Stafford Northcotc, First Lord of the Admiralty ; and the Right Honorable H. J. Carry, Secretary for the Colonies (Undersecretary ?) C. F. Drown, better known as “Art emus Ward,” is dead. His remains were deposited in Kensal Green on the Sth. His illness was a brief one.

London, March If.—The leaders of the great English Parliament parlies have held outside meetings—the Liberals assembling, at Mr Gia istone’s London House, and the Ministerialists at Earl Derby’s otii.daf residence, Downing-street. At the last-named, meeting the Premier declared that this was. the last ti no he should attempt to deal with the question of Reform, and tnat if ho failed now he should, bid iarewoll to ofticial life.

An attempt ha? been m vie to assassinate the King of Italy, near Milan, which failed.

THE ROYAL HUSH. The Daily Cross, of the 29tli Apri'-. publishes the following fioin ils Wanganui correspondent;— lt is supposed that the distribution of tin18th Hogi merit will be us follows: Four companies ami head-quarters to Auckland, two companies to Wellington, two companies to Wanganui, cue company to Napier, and one company f ~ vr— *m .» i'icw iijiii'jutu. ±itv ujcu ui the battalion are eager to get out of this part of the country, having been located here since Jaunary, 1865, since which time many a man in the bloom of health aud vigour has bit the dust through what is called “pomp and circumstance of glorious war,” The Aburiri arrived here yesterday, and it is supposed will be employed for a while conveying the several detachments of the 18th to their several new stations. Ail the outposts up the country are being abandoned, and the loops are on their way to Patea.” The forgoing may be quite correct as regards the other Provinces, but vre believe that so far as Hawke’s Bay is concerned, it is not verified by any ofJicial authority.