ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 45, 4 November 1867, Page 274

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

iJEWS BY THE SUEZ ROUTE, ENGLAND. Per Majesty’s speech at the prorogation of Parliament remarked that the foreign relations of Qreat Britain were satisfactory. Congratulation, was expressed at the successful offices of her Majesty’s Government with regard jfco the Luxemburg question, which were likely to remove all danger of war, The expedition to Abyssinia was briefly alluded to, and the suppresion ,of the Fenian insurrection was made a matter of congratulation, the more so, that the law had been vindicated •** without imposing upon me the painful necessity of sacrificing human life.” The reduction of taxes upon shipping, and the Postal Convention with the United States for the reduction of the transatlantic postage were mentioned with satisfaction; and the Act for confederating the British North American Provinces was expected to afford those Colonies “additional strength for the purposes of defence against external aggression.” Her Majesty expressed a hope that the new Reform Bill would effect a durable settlement” of the question of representation, and that those upon whom the franchise had been conferred would prove themselves worthy of the confidence reposed in them.”

In the House of Commons, the Secretary for the Treasury stated that, “no question had yet arisen with regard to the Australian Mail Contract, as no notice had been at present given for its termination.” Mr Pope Hennessey whose name has been mentioned with respect to the Governorship of New Zealand, was to leave England in September, to assume the Governorship of Labuan.

The heat in London and over the greater part of the country, has been intense. The thermometer has reached 134 degrees in the sun, and 95 in the shade. The prospects of the harvest are splendid. The Belgian volunteers are about to present Miss Burdett Coutts with an album containing all their portraits. Her Majesty is again in Scotland, and has visited Abbotsford. The Prince and Princess of Wales have gone to Germany. A curious claim has been made by an American family to nearly the whole town of Leeds, as inheritors of the once owners of the land whose will has, it is alleged, only now been discovered. SCOTLAND. The beautiful window in the west pnd of the nave of Glasgow Cathedral has been wantonly destroyed by a man named Marshall. A large fire occurred in Glasgow pn the Ist August, by which the premises of John M‘Farlane and Co., Mitchell-street, were destroyed. The loss is estimated at £IOO,OOO. Captain Spiers, M.P., is to succeed Sir Archibald Alison as Provincial Grand Master of Glasgow. IRELAND. , The Fenian general Fariola was committed for trial on the charge of treason on the 2Qth July. Regret is expressed by the Irish papers that the Prince of Wales will pot visit Ireland this summer. Troops have been ordered to hold themselves in'readiness to embark at jpangsto\yn fpr Canada, to meet a threatened invasion of Fenians. Lord JStrathnairn is to command. The Fenian trials at Kerry have terminated.. Sentences of from five to ten yeare* penal servitude have fceen passed. All but the most serious offenders amongst the Fenian prisoners are being gradually set free’ pn condition pf quitting the country. FRANCE . The Emperpr has given instructions for the constructiou of additional ljoes pf railway jn France, and for hpproyement of canals and rivers.

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the interview between the two Emperors was to concert resistance against any aggressive alliance between Prussia and Austria. ; , AUSTRIA. The Emperor Napoleon was enthusiastically received at Salsburg. The interviews of the two Sovereigns have been of “ a particularly intimate and cordial character.”

Formal steps have been taken for the revision of the Concordat with Rome. Austria is supported by the offices of France in the matter.

ITALY. Asiatic cholera rages at Rome and other places. In the Province of Messina (Sicily) the doctors have fled and in Calabria people cannot be got to bury the dead. Catauia has been almost depopulated ; 500 persons per day are attacked, but all the druggists and physicians have left. In Southern Italy, the disease is very prevalent, and at Leghorn it has assumed a most virulent type. Cardinal Alfieri died of cholera at Rome. SPAIN. The insurrection is spreading everywhere, and the Royal Regiments have been defeated. In Arragon the the Royalist commander was killed. GREECE. The Greek Cabinet has been informed that in the event of its taking any steps to provoke a contest with Turkey, France and England will hold Greece responsible. RUSSIA. The Government has approved of the concession for a direct and special line of telegraph connecting England India through Russia. TURKEY. The Sultan returned to Constantinople on the 7th August, followed by nearly sixty steamers. His Majesty expressed to bis people the highest gratification concerning his visit to France and England. MISCELLANEOUS, The Tycoon of Japan has purchased the late Confederate ram Stonewall, for £BO,OOO. The New York papers state that it has been gravely proposed to construct a tunnel under the Atlantic, to connect the new and the old Worlds. It is estimated to cost £500,000,000. A new Polar expedition is being organised in France, A regular mutiny has broken out amongst the Mormons, at Salt Lake. Brigham Young is openly denounced and disobeyed. A large portion of the cathedral at Frankfort has been destroyed by fire. Kossuth has declined to accept a seat in the Hungarian Parliament. Mrs Longworth Yelverton is about to institute fresh proceedings in the Scotch Courts. Charles Dickens is seriously ill, and his contemplated . visit to America is indefinitely postponed. LATER TELEGRAMS BY WAY OF PANAMA. (From the Evening Post, 28th Oct.) The s.s. Rakaia arrived yesterday morning with the European mails, passengers, and cargo from Panama. The Rakaia brings news from Europe to the 11th September; New York, 11th September; Panama, 24th September. Captain Cressweli, R.N., who lately died at the age of 39, was in the British Arctic exploration of 1853, and Admiral Perry asserted his claim to be entitled the discoverer of the North-west possage. John: Bright and Mr Beale urge that there should be no pause in political agitations in consequence of the triumph of the Reform Bill, that the ballot should now be demanded. 4 large orderly meeting has just been, held in Dublin under the auspices of the Reform League of that city, in which many manifestations of sympathy were made in favor of those of the Fenian Brotherhood who have been tried, convicted, and sentenced to treason.

The Lord Lieut, of Ireland hss decorated ; with : medals of honor. members of the Irish police \yho clisf tinguished themse}ye§ r (ferigg the late Fenian outbreak, ” ; ; j -:

Criminal persecutions have .been commenced in ihe Courts in Ireland against several persons - who are known to be bitter Orangemen, and who are charged with participating in the recent disorderly procession of Orangemen, and with being parties to the disturbances which occurred on those occasions.

The latest accounts from all parts of Europe show that the harvest will be about an average one. The Princess of Wales is still suffering much from the stiffness of her leg. It will, it is feared, be long ere she is completely convalescent.

The death is announced of Lord Polworth, who was the head of the clan of Scott, being the twenty-second in direct descent from the original Uchtred Fitz Scott, who lived in the reign of David. • Sir Henry Bulwer, whose chief claim to distinction is that he is a brother of “ San Edwig,” is making a book of his “ Diplomatic Recollections ” His books and his brother’s are the Bulwerks of British literature.

Rarey’s will is just published. He leaves the reclaimed “ Cruiser” to his brother, with the injunction that the horse is not to be sold nor exhibited for money, nor taken away from the stable which the testator built for him.

Mexico is again on the verge of either a horrid political revolution, which, without arms or the shedding of blood, shall end by laying aside the Indian and his favorites, or a revolution in which an appeal to arms will wipe out the last vestige of Mexican nationality, and leave the country a seared and barren desert, open to the adventurers of the world, if there be any desperate enough to laud on the pitiful wreck. There is no money in the country, and the government is in debt to its own people for millions and millions of dollars. The army has not been paid what is due to it, and the government fear to disbanded it. as the soldiers would undoubtedly form into bands of plunderers and rob bers, and make matters worse than they even now are. General O’Horan was shot on the 24tli August.