ARRIVAL OF THE N.Z.S.N. CO.’S S.S. STORM BIRD, WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 555, 27 February 1868, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE N.Z.S.N. CO.’S S.S. STORM BIRD, WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

xii£i uppuiiiiuo arrival, at about uius o’clock on Tuesday evening last, of the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company’s s s. Storm Bird, Captain Doile, from Wellington, has placed us in possession of English December Mail, via Suez, and telegraphic news from London to the 10th January. It will be seen that the news is unusually interesting this month. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. GENERAL SUMMARY. The Australian Mails were delivered in London on the 13th and 18th December. Her Majesty continues in good health, also the Prince and Princess of Wales. Fenian alarms are spreading. The Martello Tower near Queentown, and a gunsmith’s shop in Cork hare been plundered. Attempts have been made, to blow up Worcester Town Hall. Thirty thousand special constables have been enrolled in London. All Government builings are strictly guarded. Great agitation prevails. , Proclamations against funeral processions to honor dead Fenians have been issued.

The Government have discovered many plots to attack armories, dockyards, banks, churches, gas works, &c. Police force very largely increased through England. The Military are ready to act at any moment. A reinforcement of troops has been despatched to Ireland. Great precautions have been taken at Woolwich. Burke and Casey hare been committed for trial at Warwick. Assurances to support the Government have been sent from all quarters to crush Fepianism. In future the law will be strictly enforced. The leaders in Dublin funeral procession have been apprehended, and committed lor trial.

The attempt to blow up the House ol Detention at Clerkenwell was made on the 13th December. The object was the release of prisoners ; a portion of the Courtyard wall was destroyed, and a number of houses on the opposite side of the street. 1-10 persons were buried in the ruins, and a number killed. Seven have been arrested on suspicion. The last quarter’s revenue of the United Kingdom is £17,500,000. Faversham Powder Mi'ls have exploded, and eleven lives were lost. The Oriental Bank invited tenders for a Sydney loan £758,000. The Abyssinian expedition has been largely debated in the House of Lords. The Earl of Ellenborough declared against the war, because the present state of Europe was such that it would be imprud nt to involve England in a distant war when a near one might be expected. The expedition itself is progressing favorably. The natives are giving supplies, and the chiefs are rendering assistance. The liberation of the captives is considered probable ; their chains have been removed. The Egyptions object to the expedition. The latest telegrams state that the Italian Government have suspended payment of the Italian quota of the Pontifical debt.

The Italian Parliament has been prorogued. General Miuebras reconstructing the Ministry. An amnesty has been proclaimed in favor of Garibaldi. Sympathetic addresses have been scut to the Pope from London and Lublin. The French troops have all left Home, and an extensive Mazzinian conspiracy has been discovered in Italy. The proposed Conference on the Roman question has not yet assembled. Herr von Benot is framing a special ministry for Lie whole Austrian Err pro. Much political uneasiness prevails on the Continent of Europe Paris advices state that the Emperor Napoleon has received the representatives of the Germanic Confederation, and exchanged assurances of friendship. The Times opposes intervention respect ing the affair of Afghanistan. The Ministerial crisis in Poriugal is over a new Ministry has been formed. The telegrams from New York stats that Congress has passed a vote thanking Mr Stanton and censuring the the President for removing him, and also ordering the Committee of Foreign Affairs to take immediate action as to the maltreatment of American citizens in Ireland. OBITTifiST. Mr Melvyn Prower, A rchdeacon Greenall, Col. Sawther, M.P., Mr Charles Gray, Commissioner Edmund Molyneux, and Mr Charles. WOOL HKPOBT. The last sales shew a slight decrease on former prices. The total number of bales r catalogued is 199,635. Markets generally Tciy quiet. A vant of cor.fidsucs generally prevails. The supply of foreign wool is abundant

COMMERCIAL. Colonial Government Securities.—N-8 W. Government 5 per ceut(lß7l to 1886,) £9B to 100. Closing prices—Ditto 5 ,- er cent- (1888 to 18951, £9B to £'3o. Closing prices—New Zealand 6 per cent, £l9B to £110; ditto 5 per cent, £9B to £99. Queensland 6 per cent (January and July), £lO4 to £lO5 South Australian Government 6 per cent, April and October, £IOO to £lO2.

The money market is nominally quoted at 1$ per cent—s per cent advance, owing f 4l- ~ - _jp 1J £• ,1 Tj i e tv/ KUO UUIUUH Ui England for the Continent. LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

London, January 10. The new German ambassador has been welcomed cordially by Napoleon. The Emperor’s speech affirms a constant desire to maintain the best relations with all powers.

The Italian Ministerial crisis continues A New Cabinet has been formed.

Consols, 92. The demand far money brought tbe rate of interest up to 2 per cent.

Business is inactive. Australian securities are reduced one-third per cent from last quotations. At wool sales, prices have declined from to 2d.