LATER ENGLISH & AMERICAN NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 59, 17 February 1868, Page 44

LATER ENGLISH & AMERICAN NEWS.

By the arrival of the s.s.. Ahuriri, Captain Flowerday, from Taui;anga and at a late hour on Thursday Right, we have received' Auckland papers to 5 the evening of Tuesday last. From the Evening News of that date'we copy the following intelligence. 1

i LATER EUROPEAN NEWS.

_ : The barque Domiriga arrived this morning from California, 1 bringing Californian papers tb r the lith December- ’We make the following extracts from the Daily Alta California’ for copies of wliich-to the latest date our obligation to 7 Mr. yon ; der Heyde, of the firm of Messrs Henderson & Macfarlane. [PBB ATLANTIC CABLE.] ..,, London, 12th December. •_ 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 Hational taxation and a higher tariff, and believes that the people will disavow the payment of the bonds in paper.

Florence, 12th Dec. Bossini, the celebrated Operatic com poser, is dead.

London, 13tli 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 prose cute Martin and other persons who made treasonable speeches at Dublin on Saturday. LATER AMERICAN NEWS. CONGRESSIONAL. ~ SENATE. Washington, 12th Dee. The President sent to the senate official notice of the suspension of Secretary Stauton, with the reason th?refor. Referred ..to Judiciary Committee; The document covers some of the official correspondence. Stanton says General Baird in 1868 t legraphed to him that a Convention was about to assemb e in New Orleans tie Bft id the city authorities intended to break it up. The General ashed Stanton for instructions immediately, but Stanton neither gave instrucsions nor informed the President of the reception of the despatch, who knew nothing ol its existence till after the riot occurred. The President takes the ground, therefore, that Stmton was responsible for the delinquency, for if he bad been informed, that General Baird had asked advice, the. riot might have bem prevented. The President adds, so far as public interests are. concerned, there can be no cause for ..regret at the removal, because his successor, by means of- economy has saved. millions of dollars to the Government. HOUSE.' :.'fA large number of bills and resolutions were introduced. A resolution was referred to the Committee on Eoreign 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, 12thi Dec. Th‘e Council of-the XTnion League; in this city denounces <the new, Constitution, and calls' on the Colored Leagues to defeat it as an infamous fraud on tlie rights of the people. The Conservatives are organising clubs throughout the State in opposition to the Constitution.

Chicago, 13th Dec. - The Times’ Omaha special says the Goyernorof Colorado hasMsighed the bill removing tiiie' capital to Denver; The Montana’papers contain the veto of the bill’ removing' the capital to Virginia City.. 6 dhp Times’ Richmond special. says that the Conservative Convention has tnet.ahd is composed of the ablest; men in the State. Nine hundred dfiiegaies.yrere 'present." The' grandson of .’.Thomas / Jefferson was temporary j; A. Stewart, for-; mer‘Secretary, of.: joir,.. .fierniaiivht Chairman.V^The l j;resoiution&/of.vthe^Con- r vention recognise the abolition 'of slavery ; asßert. ( the right to Restoration to : the Dnibn;. declaredt.to . teller inteiir tion. to perform her duties’ ? to’the Union "iit.SOOfi* faitli’ j. protest,'. a^nst ! ,flie govern:-, ing lot Virginia in; a ; manherimot; defined by the Federal Constitution j :<• disclaim* hostility t 0.,, the;; that ofthe ’Governments Measures are tp be faked .to of.the Reconstruction acts.; 1 was appointed- to .'prepare an address sto the people, ahd tbe ; oooyeriti6ft aijourned.