LATER ENGLISH & AMERICAN NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 552, 17 February 1868, Page 3

LATER ENGLISH & AMERICAN NEWS.

By the arrival of the s.s. Ahuriri, Captain ■ Fiowerday, from Tauranga and Auckland, 1 at a late hour on Thursday night, we have < received Auckland papers to the evening 1 of Tuesday last. From the Evening News 1 of that date wo copy the following intelli- t gence. LATER EUROPEAN NEW 3. The barque Doming" arrived this morn - it ing from California, bringing California! i papers to the 14th December. We make i the following extracts from the Daily Alta California, for copies cf which to the latest date we have to acknowledge our obligation to Mr Von der Hayde, of the firm of i Messrs Henderson & Macfarlane. 1 [PER ATLANTIC CABLE.] | London, 12th December. 1 Several British soldiers who participated in the Fenian funerals at Dublin, yesterday, were placed under arrest, and will be court-martialed. Despatches from all parts of Ireland give accounts of demonstration of sympathy for the Fenians hung at Manchester. ■ Dublin, 12th December. The Lord-Lieutenant has issued a proclamation declaring the holding of public funerals in honor of the Fenians executed at Manchester as seditous, and prohibiting such a demonstration for the future. London, 12th December. The Times comments on the prospective abolition of the cotton tax by Congress. ' It says the financial difficulties of the United States are extreme. It expects the , country will be compelled to resort to increased National taxation and a higher tariff, and believes that the people will t disavow the payment of the bonds in paper. Florence, 12th Dec. Rossini, the celebrated Operatic composer, is dead. London, 13th Dec. The Times counsels the acceptance of ' President Johnson’s views of the disputed ! question of naturalisation and allegiance, as expressed in his annual message. | The Government has decided to prosecute Martin and other persons who made . treasonable speeches at Dublin on Satur- ; day. _____ ; LATER AMERICAN NEWS. ! CONGRESSIONAL. ! SENATE. ! Washington, 12tb Dec. 1 The President sent to the senate official notice of the suspension of Secretary ! Stanton, with the reason therefor. Re- - ferred to Judiciary Committee. The 1 document covers some of the official cor- ■ respondence. Stanton says General Baird in 18661 legraphed to him that a Conveu--3 tion was about to assemble iu New Orleans. 3 He said the city authorities intended to 3 break it up. The General asked Stanton ■ for instructions immediately, but Stanton 3 neither gave instructions nor informed the 3 President of the reception of the despatch, 1 who knew nothing of its existence till after 3 the riot occurred. The President takes the ground, therefore, that Stanton was • responsible for the delinquency, for if he • had been informed that General Baird 3 had asked advice, the riot might have beeu 1 prevented. The President adds, so far as 3 public interests are concerned, there can a be no cause for regret at the removal, • because his successor, by means of econo--1 my has saved millions of dollars to the 3 Government.

HOUSE. A large number of bills and resolutions were introduced. A resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, inquiring into the expediency of passing a law requiring diplomatic and consular representatives to Hayti, Liberia, and other parts of Africa, to be selected from colored citizens. A joint resolution was referred retaining the volunteer officers of the Freedmen’s Bureau in the service till July. Other unimportant business was transacted, and the House adjourned

POLITICAL. Montgomery, 12th Dec. The Council of the Union League, in this city denounces the new Constitution, and calls on the Colored Leagues to defeat it as an infamous fraud on the rights of the people. The Conservatives are organising clubs throughout the State in opposition to the Constitution.

Chicago, 13th Deo. The Times’ Omaha special says the Coyer no'.' of Colorado has signed the bill removing the capital to Denver. The Montana papers contain the veto of the bill removing the capital to Virginia City. _ The Times’ Richmond special says that the Conservative Convention has met, and is composed of the ablest men in the State. Nine hundred delegates were present. The grandson of Thomas Jefferson was temporary President; A. H. H. Stewart, former Secretary of the Interior, permanent Chairman. The resolutions of the Convention recognise tlie abolition of slavery 5 assert the right of Virginia to restoration to the Union; declare it to be her intention to perform her duties to the Union in good faith ; protest against the governing of Virginia in a manner not defined by the Federal Constitution; disclaim hostility to the black race, bat declare that white men should still retain control of the Government. Measures are to be taken to test the constitutionality of the Reconstruction acts. A committee was appointed to prepare an address to the people, and the Convention adjourned.