EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 195, 22 November 1872, Page 6

EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS.

LONDON. November 4 A great demonstration of the advocates of Home Rule for Ireland and of Republicans was held yesterday in Hyde Park,•■to. demand the release of the Fenian prisoners. 30,000 persons were present. Sir Richard Dowse, Attorney-General for Ireland, has been promoted to an Irish Judge-ship. The seat for Londonderry is'therefore vacant. AdmiralGaUibier is a candidate. November 6. General Grant has been re-elected President of the United States of America by the Republican vote, and had large majorities everywhere. The election was decided yesterday. He had 35,000 majority in New -York and 10,000 in Pennsylvania. General Grant was re-elected President of the United States by 300,000 votes. The jN or them vote was given to him in consequence of Greeley making advances to Southerners.' '-■■••

Continuous rain lias fallen all over the country. Mr. Gerald Massey has been elected M.P. for Tiverton. Summonses have been issued on appli T :catipn of the Board of Works against the speakers at the Fenian and Republican meeting in Hyde Park on Sunday last, for travening the . Parks Regulations Act. iv The horse epidemic in America is subsiding. There have been large arrivals of American wheat. . Sir James M'Culloch declines the Agent-Generalship of Victoria. Mr. Webb has sold his steamers to the California, New Zealand, and Australia Company. The present service will be maintained. A steamer will leave Auckland for San Francisco every twentyeight days, commencing with the Nebraska on the iißth instant, The Colonial Secretary has telegraphed to the Sydney Government the expression of a hope that the Colonies will come to a speedy determination on the Suez Mail question. The steamship Parana has been chartered at Hong Kong for a. regular passenger service between China and Australia. The first steamer leaves on the 25th, consigned toKongMeng. The passage is to occupy 25 days. France pays Prussia this week a further instalment of two hundred millions (francs) of the indemnity. " There is a proposition to elect M. Thiers President for four years. The Czar has sent a letter to Prince Frederick. Charles, expressing friendly sentiments towards Prussia.