ARRIVAL OF THE JUNE MAILS FROM EUROPE.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 33, 22 August 1863, Page 6

ARRIVAL OF THE JUNE MAILS FROM EUROPE.

(From the Argus, 10th June.)

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, June 26. The Australian April mails were delivered in London on the 12th and 17th June. Her Majesty continues in good health, and now appears often in public. On June 10th, the inauguration of the ■ statue of the late Prince Consort took place with the greatest eclat. The Prince and Princess of Wales are everywhere received with unbounded enthusiasm. On the 24th of June, a banquet was given at Willis's rooms by Australian gentlemen in London to the new Governor of Victoria, who could not be present owing to illness. Notwithstanding his indisposition, he intended leaving in the Suffolk on the 26th June. The House of Commons declined to discuss the Polish question until Russia had answered distinctly the notes of the Three Powers. Fortnightly postal communication with Australia via Galle still engages public attention, and will likely be carried out in about six months. The Peninsular and Oriental Company are making the necessary preparations at King George's Sound. A deputation waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the subject of a mail service via Panama. The answer was, that the Government were bound to reduce the public expenditure, but the Australian colonies could have the service provided they paid the entire cost themselves. Projects of emigration to Queensland and Albertland on a large scale have been made. They are inaugurated by the National Colonial Emigration Society 1,175 emigrants have been despatched to Queensland. Great distress still exists in the manufacturing districts. A grand national celebration of the three hundredth birthday of Shakespeare is to be held in London on the 23rd April next, and a statue erected. The Crown prosecution of the builders of the [alleged Confederate gunboat Alexandra has ended in a verdict for the defendants. AUSTRALIA WTSUS ENGLAND —ROWING MATCH BETWEEN GREKN AND CHAMBERS. This race was contested on the 16th June. The course was from Putney-bridge to Mortlake. Twenty steamers were in attendance, loaded with the friends and backers of the competitors, and thousands of spectators lined the shores. Many of the latter had gone to Putney by railway. Such a concourse of people never before assembled on the banks of the Thames to witness a boat race. Betting for days before was 2 and 3 to 1 against Green. At five minutes past two o'clock, Green having won the toss for the inside place, a start was effected. Tremendous excitement ensued, as Green led by a clear boat's length. For the first mile and a quarter the speed was something wonderful, Green rowing three strokes to Chambers's two. After that distance, Chambers gained ground, passed, and won with perfect ease. Time—twenty-five minutes; Green's time, twenty-nine minutes. Green was seized with spasms during the race. Two doctors had to attend on him on reaching the umpire's steamer. He feels confident that had it not been for the sudden attack he would have won, and has since challenged Chambers to pull in August for £2OO. Chambers has declined to row on the Thames, but is willing to pull on the Clyde. The race is likely to come off.