THE PANAMA MAIL.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 39, 30 September 1867, Page 242

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 W ellington, has placed us in possession of the English Mail via Panama. We append a brief summary of the news to band The s.s. ‘ Ruahine,’ 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 hoard 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 hot been for the inferior quality of coal put oh 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 Welling-ton—-Mr Beaufort. For Nelson—Mr Maxwell, Mrs Smith, Captain Barnet. . For Melbourne—-Madame arid ; Miss Marzetti, Miss Lehman/ Mr and Mrs Schmidt,; Mr and Mrs Martinetti,;Ma> -. dame Ma thieu.;;and son,; Mr and; Mrs . Biusley and child, ,Mr, and: Mrs Bur- • rill,; Massaetae,. Messrs Jloyte, Glapp, Haslem, P. and,;s.on, / Lehman/ ; Scotti: and Johnson,For , Sydney—r . Mrs 6 children, servants, •:.,.Mr. ; l)arbeshi.re./i/V.’'; ; ’.:- : - We take the following from the Paand Peraldj^August j24:;~r f 5, f The news - ; almost 4 , received iirom Mexico, .continues to be. of. the r inost startling character, - The, carnival .pf blood is' up, and there is - no4ey% w£ea"6r where it;'is soiag

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 has at last come to pass. •/''v Secretary Stanton declares that he will not resign, nor permit the President 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. V-

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 been 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 making extensive war prepartion, for which no explanation is given. President Johnson a few days since notified Mr Stanton, Secretary for War, that his resignation would be accepted if tendered. Mr Stanton replied that public considerations constrained him not to resign until Congress met in November nexil It is now said the President 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.

London, 9th August.

The Morning Post declares that there is no present cause to fear any disturbance of the peace of Europe. It says that it may surprise the ingenious authors of the Russo-Prussian alliance, which they have created as the last bugbear, to be informed that the Cabinets of St. Petershurgh and the Tuileries are acting together in the Schleswig question, and holding the same language at Berlin. It then remarks that the true cause v of the general distrust ,is the restoration of the French army to what is called its normal footing—in a word, the increase of armaments in France. France is agitated on finding that she is 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.— Thirty-three of the Fenian prisoners who have been on trial before the Commission in Tipperary have been convicted of treason.

Prussia. —Berlin, 9th August.— Count' Yon 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. Consols for money, States Five-Twenties, 73f. .

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 r death of 30 persons. ,

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

Napoleon’s Minister of State has declared;that,/German unity is a matter df indifference to Fraiice. ,; ; ■v .Prussia ; is about to- form a Baltic fleet. ‘ .... obme insanb/ C- ; '"Vr v: ?• ’ ///:• y*///'V £

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 ; l2th June, arrived safely at Southampton the 28th July. Her captain and 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 for such a contingency, and orders have been issued balling out the entire reserves of that little kingdom.