EUROPEAN NEWS TO THE 27th AUGUST.

Marlborough Press, Volume I, Issue 44, 3 November 1860, Page 3

EUROPEAN NEWS TO THE 27th AUGUST.

TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. [From the Correspondent of the Sydney Herald J Adelaide, October 10. The New Zealand Bill has been withdrawn. Bad accounts are given of the harvests. Large orders have gone out of the country for grain. The Great Eastern has arrived at Milford Haven, after a ten days’ passage from New York, and seven from Halifax. Ministers ate their whitebait dinner at Greenwich on the 22nd of August. Parliament is to be prorogued on 28th August. The Fortifications Bill, after some opposition, has passed. This is chiefly attributable to a private letter from the Emperor of the French to his Ambassador'in London, denying all objects of aggrandisement, stating that his intentions were pacific towards England, and that his existing forces were greatly exaggerated. It is said Sir Charles Trevelyan has had an amicable interview with Sir Charles Wood, and has had an assurance that his recal from Madras will not be a bar to his receiving other high employment. The British Government have no idea of subsidising a postal line via Panama. The English Commissioners at Paris, with Mr. Cobden at their head, are working away at the Commercial Treaty. Mr. J. E. Fitzgerald returns to New Zealand on August 31st. Lord Stanley of Alderley succeeds Lord Elgin as Postmaster-General. One of Garibaldi’s aides-de-camp is in London organising a battalion. It is stated 500 have already enrolled. The Prince of Wales will be a student at Cambridge next year. On the 7th August the Queen reviewed 20,000 Scottish Volunteers in Holyrood Park. There were more than 200,000 spectators. Her Majesty and Prince Consort are expected in Coburg about 10th September. Mr. Jeremiah Chaffers, manager of the Royal Bank at Liverpool, has hung himself,

The charge of murder against Miss Kent has broken down. The Goodwood Cup was won by Lord Armsley’s Sweetsauce, Baron Rothschild’s Gustave second. Odgers, of the Niger, is to have the Victoria Cross. Mr. S. A. Donaldson, of Sydney, has been made a knight. The June mails reached London on the 6th and 9th of August. The Amalgamation of the European Forces in India Bill has been passed. Garibaldi is in Calabria, and is threatening Rome and Naples. The fort of Reggio capitulated to Garibaldi on the 21st. The Neapolitan garrison were allowed to leave with muskets and luggage only. After a short fight the Garibaldians occupied the Villa San Giovanni. The Neapolitan brigades, Melandes and Briganti, surrended at discretion, to General Consenz. The Garibaldians are masters of artillery, army, and of Fort del Pizzo. An Austrian fleet is in readiness to receive on board King Ferdinand 11. and his family, should Garibaldi drive them out of Naples. Austria preserves an imperturbable attitude. The disorganisation in Naples is beyond belief. The Count of Aquilla has been ordered out of Naples by his nephew the King, for conspiring against him. The convention between the great powers concerning the intervention in Syria is only to last so long as the Sultan permits it. 6,000 French troops are at Beyrout. Prince Danielo has been assassinated. There has been a meeting between the Emperor of Austria and the Prince Regent of Prussia at Tceplitz. The object is a defensive alliance. The volunteer movement is making rapid strides, in Germany especially, and in Belgium. A great international rifle match is to take place at Cologne, the first prize to be the Castle of Schuetzenburg, on the Rhine. Rumours are abroad of a probable rupture between Austria and Piedmont. Fuad Pacha is taking energetic measures at Damascus. Lord Dufferin is the British commander in Syria. The Prince of Wales has been enthusiastically received at St. John’s, St. Peter’s, and Halifax. He has reaheed Canada, where he was met by the Governor-General and his Cabinet. Lord Palmerston has stated that the Treaty of Turin, ceding Savoy and Nice, has not been recognised by any of the Powers of Europe. Large numbers of the Pope’s Irish Brigade are returning disgusted. The Count of Syracuse, the King of Naples’ uncle, has written, announcing that he is prepared to hail Victor Emmanuel as his king.