By Electric Telegraph

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 198, 13 December 1872, Page 5

By Electric Telegraph

(From our own correspondent.) ENGLISH, AMEBIC AN, AND CONTINENTAL. Dunedin, Thursday Evening. The latest English date is De-ember 3. The French Assembly by 303 to 299-4e s ' clarwd that the addresses to Thiers were illegal. In consequence of this proceeding the gloomiest forebodings are entertained i regard to the political future of France, The Ministers have resigned. Cockburn has received an autograph letter from the Queen thanking him for his distiii guished services in connection with tlie Genev arbitration. The Government of the United States is sounding the British Government in reference to the maintenance of a Pacific mail line. The desire of. America appears to be that the line should be jointly subsidised ~by England and A merica. A telegram from the A»ent-General dates! Nov. 28, states that the Home mails did not reach San Francisco in time to ca'ch tle boat, owing to a break down of the At : antic steamer. D'.ne I in, 7 p.m. The Aihambra has arrived with English dates :o the sth Dec. At the opening of Congress Pr -sident Grant said that the set:lemont of the A. ihama question removes the last shadow of a doubt a« to the rela - ions existing between England and America. The situation of France is Th* Assembly insists on Ministerial responsibility. CBOiWKLL. A crushing fr;-m tha Heart of Oak claim yielded ILB ounces from 200 tons stone. AFSTBALIA. A dead lock has taken pla~e between the' Victorian Houses of Parliament in reference to ; the Education Bill. At Murrumbillah, during a quarrel about a j beehive, a farmer named Percival struck his opponent, named Delohy, dead with an axe. j The captain and mate of the Carl have had | their sentences commuted to fire years' im- : prisonment. | At Wooloomooloo » butcher named lodging with another but her named Ward, killed Mrs Ward, by cutting her head nearly off, and then cut his own throat. He lies in a precari >us condition. A cake of gold, weighing 5800 ounce , the produce of 18 days' work, has been obtained in the Munkland reef, Gympie. j