LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 234, 26 July 1865, Page 3

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

(Per Indo-European Telegraph Line.) London, May 20. President Johnson has accused Davis of planning the late President Lincoln's assassination. May 27. The United States Government has imposed an export duty of 25 dollars on cotton. June 2. The North has declared all Southern ports open, except Texas. June 6. The Grand Jury have found a true bill of treason against Davis, late President of the Confederacy. (VIA MARSEILLES. London, May 27. Lord Palmerston announced the receipt of a further despatch concerning the American claim. The Emperor Napoleon has declared that he will henceforth adhere to his uncle's policy admitting but one will and one course of action. LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAM. Galle, June 20. President Davis has been tried, and convicted of treason, but his fate is still uncertain. President Johnson has issued a proclamation declaring that evidence was in the possession of the Government which shows that the murder of Lincoln and the attempted assassination of Seward were incited, concerted or procured by Jefferson Davis, Jacob Thomson, Clement E. Clay, Beverly, Tucker, Grott, Sanderson, W. C. Cleary, and other rebels, who were declarrd traitors against the Government of the United States, and said to be harbored in Canada. Besides the 100,000 dollars offered for the apprehension of Davis, 10,000 dollars were offered for Cleary, and 25,000 for others.. All the persons named in this proclamation are in Canada, excepting Davis, It is said that the Government at Washington would demand of the Canadian Government their surrender. Tucker, Sanderson and Cleary indignantly denied all knowledge of the matter, while Sanderson and Tucker retaliated, by accusing Johnson of concerting a plot for the murder of Davis.

The contest for the Mayoralty, which is exciting more attention in Dunedin than the Superintendentship, has called forth several promises. A correspondent of the ' Evening Star' thus writes about one of them:—" Slß, Oh, please, Mr Editor, do try and get that dear old fellow Macgregor made Mayor. Only think, he promises to spend two or three times his salary in dances for the wives and daughters of the electors. lam sure I shall not let my husband rest until he promises to vote for the i nice old man.' lam sure I could kiss him, and so would any of us. It is a burning shame that we have no votes, else we would all plump for Macgregor. My daughter Annie has bought his carte de visite. and has put it in a gilt frame over the chimney-piece, next to her own ; and I'm sure he might do worse, although I say it, that shouldn't. Bless his dear old face, and that may he win, is the wish of—Mrs. Page." The Bame journal also says: —" Immense commotion has been created in domestic circles by the rash declarations of his hospitable intentions made by a certain candidate last night. We have it on the best authority that gloves, slippers, and ball dresses have advanced fifty per cent, and that a monster petition is in course of signature, pray ing the Government to establish a dancing academy in the Exhibition building." The following is the report that called forth the above: — u A person asked Mr Macgregor if it was for the honor of the office or the salary which was attached to it which tempted him to come forward, and what was the amount of the expected salary? He answered that he appeared as a candidate for the office of Mayor in consequence of the honor attached to it, and if he received any salary he would spend it in filling the office in a hospitable manner, and in getting up occasional dances for the wives and daughters of the electors. (Laughter.) He would see all his friends high and low, and if elected would spend two or three times the amount of the salary. (Loud applause.) A Voice—What does Dick say to that ? Mr Dick—l have no amendment to move to that. (Laughter.) The motion was then put and carried unanimously."

The 'Evening Star' in an excellent article upon the Mayoralty discourses wisely. The £35,000 it speaks of so contemptuously would have been the salvation of the Wakatip, Cromwell, Dunstan, Nevis and Cardrona districts. When will folly and centralisation cease ? The following is an extract from the article referred to" The rates of the city should be made to meet all ordinary expenditure, and pay the interest and sinking fund of loans raised for permanent works. Look how the £35,000 loan has has been frittered away. The greater part of it might have been pitched into the harbor at once for all the permanent benefit that has been derived from the expenditure. For the large and important works demanded, money must be borrowed, and the Corporation will have no difficulty whatever in procuring the money." The Lord Ashley sailed on the 20th inst., with several members for the Assembly, including Mr Haughton.