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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 129, 18 August 1871, Page 3

By Electric Telegraph

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

(From our own correspondent.)

OCCUPATION of IiOME by VICTOR EMMANUEL.

STRIKES ON THE TYNE, WALES, GLASGOW AIND ROCHDALE.

RECONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS IN PARIS.

ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF WOOL.

RETURN OF M. GAMBETTA

PROTEST BY DR. JENNER

TRADE UNION OUTRAGES

THE TICHBORNE TRIAL CASE

CAPTURE OF THE COMMUNIST LEADEIIS.

[The following appeared as an ' Extra ' on Saturday last: —] Naseby, 12th August. Nelson, Friday, 11.50 a.m. The steamer Luna arrived at Nelson this morning from the Manakau, bringing the English mail news via Suez, which reached Auckland, per Charon on the 7th instant.

LATEST SPECIAL TELEGEAMS. London, July 4. A gr» md review of 100,000 French troops has been held at Longchamps. M. Thiers was most enthusiastically received, and no compromising manifestations have been made. The Orleanist princes were present incognita. The new French Loan has met with extraordinary success, and tenders to more than double the amount required have been received. Confidence, consequently, has been completely restored. The ruined buildings of Paris are being rapidly reconstructed ; 60,000 masons being engaged ou the work. The French elections have resulted in a large majority declaring in favor of the moderate republicanism. M. Gambelta has been returned, and ■will support M. Thiers. Victor Emanuel has arrived at, and taken up his residence in, Rome, which is to be the future capital of Italy. The Queen held a review of 6000 Household Troops in Bushy Park. The Duke of "Waldemar and the Prince Imperial were present. The Ballot Bill has been sent to Committee by a majority of ninetyfour. The Army Reorganisation Bill has passed three readings by a majority of fifty-eight. Owing to the French and American competition, the price of wool has advanced on opening rates. The rise ranges from ten to fifteen per cent, over the mail sales. The iron-clad Agincourt has been stranded near Gibralter. July 5. Paris returned sixteen moderate republicans and five radicals. The provinces returned moderate republicans. Only one-tenth of those elected are Conservatives or Liberals.' The Washington treaty hasbeen ratified. The King of Italy was received with eit<: usiasm at Koine. The theft of arms from the Mallow barracks created great uneasiness. Several suspected Fenians have been arrested. July 8. The French elections give M. Thiers a majority of LOO. Count de Chainbord issued a farewell conciliatory address to the French people. lie will return wlvn wanted. The transport of the Communists to New Caledonia is not derinately decided on, as M. Gambetta disapproves of it, and recommends clemency.

The Conference on Colonial questions was to be re-opened. M. Froude will deliver the Opening Address on the 19th July. The Imperial princes and princesses of Prussia are on a visit to England. The Tichborne case is adjourned to November 7th. The wool sales are progressing favorably, and prices are fully maintained. Cotton is active, and has advanced id. The ironclad Agincourt has been floated. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, June 17. The latest advices from the Cape of Good Hope state that 2000 bales of wool have been obtained from the wreck of the Queen of the Thames. It is rumored that the Duke of Edinburgh will be placed in command of an ironclad. The Duke of Edinburgh's elephant killed his keeper while on a journey from Plymouth to Sandringham. Dr. Jenner has issued a strong protest against the Rev. Mr. Neville's appointment to the bishopric of Dunedin. He is determined to maintiau his spiritual rignts. Rumors that Great Britain has ceded Heligoland to Germany have been contradicted. The freedom of the city of London will be presented to Prince Arthur on the 13th July. He is recovering from the injuries received through falling from a casement at Buckingham Palace. Mr. Gladstone is recovering from a fortnight's illness. The Tichborne trial grows more puzzling every day. The cl timant was in bad health when under cross-examina-tion. The favorable impressions produced by the earliest witnesses were much weakened by bis strange forgetf ilness of inci lents in his boy's life in Paris, his inability to speak French, and serious contradictions of dates, persons, and streets. He admits having seduced his alleged cousin, Miss Dougherty before leaving England. A strike anions 900 Tvneside engineers, has been followed by formidable turn outs in Wales ; and strikes are threatened in Glasgow and Rochdale. Serious trade union outrages have taken place in Manchester. Sixty thousand bricks, made by machinery, were destroyed in one night. A grand jury have found true bill for murder againsi; Edmund Pook for the filtham tragedy. The French peasant farmers' seed fund amounts to £17,000. PRANCE. The health of Paris is good. Ten thousand men are cleaning and repairing the streets and public edifices. One hundred houses have been destroyed out of 60,000. Many are mutilated. The gendarmes are to be increased to 100,000, and probably the National Guards will be universally disarmed. M. Grousset was taken in the disguise of a female, and Roussel as a railway guard. Courbet was found hidden behind a bed, and De Lecture behind the barricades The value of the property destroyed in Paris is estimated to amount to 800,000,000 francs. ADDITIONAL SUMMARY. Felix Pyat, one of the principal members of the Commune, is not yet arrested. The Emperor of Germany has made General Yon a Count, and Count Von Moltke a Marshal. The German troops iu France are united under the command of General Muiteuflel. Brussels was illuminated on the occasion of the anniversary of the Pope's {recession. The troops were in readiness, owing to the anti-pap .1 manifestation?, but. nevertheless the crowd broke the illuminated windows. Several arrests were made. Great damage has been done to the cotton crops in Louisiana and Arkansas, in consequence of the excessive rains. It is anticipated that the crop will amount nlto ether only to three and a half million of bales. A considerable rise in the price of cotton ha* taken place at Liverpool in consequence.