THE PANAMA MAIL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 513, 30 September 1867, Page 2

THE PANAMA MAIL.

The arrival in port on Saturday evening last of the N.Z.S.N. Company’s s.s. ‘ Storm Bird/ Capt. Doile, from Wellington, has placed us in possession of the English Mail via Panama. We append a brief summary of the news to band : The s.s. ‘ Huahine/ Captain Beal, arrived at Wellington at 4 p.m. on Thursday last, with the Panama mail

on board. She left Wellington on the morning of the 9th July, had favorable winds and weather for the greater part of the passage, and arrived at Panama on the sth August, Mr Taylor, a first-class passenger, died on board, of consumption, on the 20th July. The ‘Ruahine’ received the English mails on board on the 24th August,

and steamed to sea at 11 p.m. She had fine weather and light S.E. trades, which continued to the end of the passage, and had it not been for the inferior quality of coal put on board at Panama, would, no doubt, have arrived at her appointed time. She called at the island of Oparo on the downward route. The barque ‘ Midas ’ had arrived at the island, and all the arrangements for coaling the steamers with as little delay as possible are complete, so that for the future the objection to arriving on the coast of New Zealand with too light a ship will be obviated. The French Government sent a steamer from Tahiti to Oparo in May last, to take possession and hoist the Tahitian flag, so that the island is now under the protection of the French. The ‘ Ruahine ’ was the bearer of a large mail (W. Grey, Esq., mail agent), a quantity of cargo, and the following passengers : —For Wellington —Mr Beaufort, For Nelson—Mr Maxwell, Mrs Smith, Captain Barnet. For Melbourne —Madame and Miss Marzetti, Miss Lehman, Mr and Mrs Schmidt, Mr and Mrs Martinetti, Madame Mathieu and son, Mr and Mrs Binsley and child, Mr and Mrs Burrill, Mr and Mrs Mussaetae, Messrs Hoyte, Clapp, Haslem, Duesberry, P. Martinetti and son, Lehman, Powell, Scott, and Johnson. For Sydney— Mrs Bibbs, 6 children, and 2 servants, Mr Darbeshire. We take the following from the Panama Star and Herald, August 24; New York, 9th July. The news almost daily received from Mexico continues to be of the most startling character. The carnival of blood is still kept up, and there is no telling when or where it is going to stop. New York, 9th August. The City of Washington is in a high state of excitement just now. The long looked-for trouble between President Johnson and Secretary Stanton lias at last come to pass. Secretary Stanton declares that he will not resign, nor permit the Presi dent to remove him, and what the upshot of the matter will be remains to be seen. New York, August 10. Our latest European news is to last evening. The House of Lords rejected the English Church Rates Abolition Bill passed by the Commons. The ex Queen of Naples is dead. A movement has beer, inaugurated by the South Germans to annex the Southern States to North Germany. Over a hundred miners were killed by an explosion in Moravia. It is stated that Napoleon is constantly niaking extensive war prepartion, for which no explanation is given. President Johnson a few days since notified Sir Stanton, Secretary for War, that his resignation would be accepted if tendered. Sir Stanton replied that public considerations constrained him not to resign until Congress met in November next. It is now said the President will suspend him. The trial of John H. Surratt for complicity in Lincoln’s assassination was concluded on Thursday, and the jury up to last night had not agreed to any verdict.

ENGLAND. Loudon, 9th August. The Morning Post declares that there ts no present cause to fear any disturbance of the peace of Europe. It says that it may surprise the ingenious authors of the Eusso-Prussian alliance, which they have created as the last bugbear, to be informed that the Cabinets of St. Petersburg!! and the Tuileries are acting together in the Schleswig question, and holding the same language at Berlin. It then |remarks that the true cause of the general distrust is the restoration of

.i- _ Tn i. t.^ Lilt; 4/iciicu aiuij r* no t* iS C«*ii£d 11^ normal footing—in a word, the increase of. armaments in France, France is agitated on finding that she i? no longer the first military power of

Europe, and will have to make great exertions to make even a first rate place. Apart from the uneasiness engendered by the precautions of our neighbors, there is as yet no single question upon which angry dispute exists, or upon which a quarrel could be fixed.

Ireland. —Dublin, 9th August.— x uaiijf *tuicc ui me j. uuiuii prisoners who have been on trial before the Commission in Tipperary have been convicted of treason.

Prussia.. —Berlin, 9th August.— Count Von Bismark’s official organ here strongly urges the Great Powers of Europe to interpose in the Cretan question.

The press of this city in commenting upon the reply of the Emperor Napoleon to the foreign members of the Exposition Universalle, express confidence in the sincerity of his aspirations for the peace of the world. London, 9th August. Consols for money, 94|; United States Five-Twenties, 73|.

The British Government is about to despatch a large body of troops to Canadaimmediately to repel threatened Fenian invasions from the United States.

A. railroad express train got off the track at Bray Head, Ireland, yesterday, when in transit from Dublin to Wicklow, and eight passenger carriages ran down the side of a high bluff into the sea, causing the immediate death of 30 persons.

Despatches from Paris announce the occupation of three provinces in Cochin China by the French forces. The Emperor Napoleon has announced his intention of sending a strong fleet to Yera Cruz to release Monsieur Dano, the French Minister, and to resent any indignity which may have been offered him by President Juarez or the members of his Government.

Napoleon’s Minister of State has declared that German unity is a matter of indifference to France. Prussia is about to form a Baltic fleet.

The mother of Maximillian has become insane.

Rome is being seriously menaced by the Garibaldians. The Pope has appealed to the Emperor Napoleon for the protection of the Holy See, and the Emperor has warned the King of Italy of the movements of Garibaldi and his followers.

The little raft Nonpariel, which sailed from the port of New York on the 12th June, arrived safely at Southampton the 28th July. Her captain ami crew, consisting of two men, were well and hearty. Despatches have been received from Athens, stating that the Greek Government, has announced its determination of declaring war against the Sublime Porte on the Ist Sept, next, should the hostilities in the island of Candia not be ended by that time. Great preparations are being made in Greece fur such a contingency, and orders have been issued calling out the entire reserves of that little kingdom.