The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1866. ENGLIJSH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 221, 20 November 1866, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1866. ENGLIJSH NEWS.

By the arrival of the Raugatira, from Sydney, we have telegraphic English news to the llth October. We avail ourselves of telegrams published by our local contemporaries. The Queen is in Scotland. Princess Dagmar is on her way to St. Petersburg!*, to be married to the Czarovitch. The body of the Prince De Conde was deposited in Weybridge Church, in the vaults ofthe Royal Fnniiljj^of France. The French Government has issued a circular to its representatives at Foreign Courts, on the present state of affairs, which is pacific. Peace between Prussia and Saxony is not yet concluded, Saxony giving no signs of adhesiou. A conference between the Plenipotentiaries to the States failed. The Prussian troops entered Berlin last week, in triumphal order ; it was a grand ceremony. Prospects of the American cotton crop reported very bad. The Liverpool and Manchester markets are firm, and prices are advancing. Sir Henry Storks has arrived in England per West India mail. At a meetings of working men held on Clerkenwell Green, at which 2,000 were present, a resolution was unanimously carried that Governor Eyre, of Jamaica, had been guilty of great cruelty. Mr. Osborne presided. An effigy of Eyre was subsequently burned. Mr. Bright ha's accepted an invitation to a Reform Banquet iu Dublin. Enthusiastic meeting in favor of Reform are still being held in the metropolis aud the provinces. A Treaty of Alliance has been concluded, between England aud Madagascar, the chief provisions of which' are, equal religious liberties to subjects, both Powers having the right. to erect places of worship to teach the Christian religion ; British subjects to have full and complete protection for themselves aud property. The G. V. Brooke life-boat has been launched, and eloquent speeches made on the occasion. A destructive fire at the goods-station on the London and North Western Railway iu the Minories, entailing a loss of about £200,000. A severe storm occurred iu the metropolis aDd surrounding districts, unroofing houses and causing several accidents. On the river several vessels broke adrift, and many collisions occurred. A terrific explosion occurred iu Chatham dockyard, by which two men were killed and thirty injured. Henry Telbiu, son ofthe celebrated painter, fell from the Wazificlh while sketching, and was killed. Congratulatory messages have been sent through the old Atlantic cable. The Prussian Chamber had been prorogued to November 12th, to enable the Government to prepare measures to submit to the Chamber. The financial difficulties between Austria and Italy have been settled. The Bank of England rate of discount has been reduced to ih per cent. The Cretans defeated the Turkish troops, and large reinforcements have been sent from Constantinople. President Johnson has returned to Washington. Demonstrations were made in New York iu support of thePresident's policy. Secretary Seward is ill. The growing crops of cotton in Louisiana and Mississippi are seriously injured. . President Johnson is losing popularity, and his partizans less favorable. Lord Cranbourne has announced that further relief for sufferers by the Indian famine is unnecessary, Government having appropriated sufficient funds ; and the Times urges prompt measures for irrigation. The Lon don journals unanimously condemn

the decision of the Simla Court Martial ou Captain Jervis, especially Sir William Mansfield's refusal to entertain the recommendation to mercy appended by the Court to the sentence of dismissal from the service. Government has reserved sentence. -' .Garibaldi has left Florence for Caprera, and the Italian Volunteers who served in the late war with Austria have been disbanded. It is reported that Sir Bartle Frere succeeds Sir John Willoughby in the Indian Council, and Sir Robert Montgomery succeeds Sir Bartle Frere as Governor of Bombay. The trial of JefFersou Davis is indefinitely postponed. Disastrous inundations have occurred in various parts of France, but arc now subsiding. . ■■ P The King of Hanover has protested against the annexation of his kingdom by Prussia. Treaty of peace between Austria aud Italy has been signed. Another battle was fought in Candia between the Turkish troops and the insurgents. Reuter's submarine telegraph between England on the Contineut is finished. Prussia has formally taken possession of Hanover. The King of Prussia and Hanover has absolved the subjects of the late King of Hanover from the oath of allegiance. The King of Greece declares his intention to remain neutral during the insurrection in Candia. The United States debt was reduced fifteen million dollars in September last. In Mexico martial law has been proclaimed in five districts. A conspiracy and arrests were reported. The Liberals destroyed and sacked Medellin. They captured 200 French troops near Tuxipan. The Circassians are again in arms. Ou the 27th July, a large force attacked Soukkoum Kale, on the coast, of the Black Sea. The insurgents made repeated attacks, but, finding them useless, sent delegates to the Russian commander, offering their submission. VThe man who attempted the assassination of the Emperor was executed on the 15th September. The Bombay and Bengal Company's steamer Bhima foundered in the Red Sea immediately after a collision with the steamer Nada. Twenty-nine lives were lost. The Bishop of Calcutta has been drowned at Rooshtea. The body was not recovered. The ship Raugpoot, from London to Calcutta, is a total wreck. Cargo valued at £85,000. The following obituary is given: — General Sir Charles Menzies, Commander Spalding Mitchell, R.N., Commander Richard Venn Edwards, R.N., Sir John Edgar, D.D., Mr. Hindmarsh, Q.C., Sir E. F. Ager, Rev. E. Woolnough, Mr. Serjeant Manning, Q.C., Sir A. P. Gordou Gumming, Mr C. C. Martin, Vice-Admiral Richard, Sir G. E. Pocock, Rev. F. J. Staynforth, Lord Northbrook, Count De La Field, Sir J. P. Willoughby, General Mouravieff, Lieuteuant-General Henry John Savage, Lord Ponsonby, Sir A. Is lav Campbell, Bart., Alderman Dillon, Colonel M. G. White, Mr Charles M'Laren, Mr D. K. Hay, Mr C. Hulliday. The sporting intelligence is as follows : — Doncaster St. Leger: Lord Lyon, 1 ; Severnak, 2 ; Knight of the Crescent, 3. Doncaster Stakes: Severnak, 1; Rustic, 2. Doncaster Cup : Rama, 1 ; Ackworth, 2.. Newmarket October Meeting : — The Great Eastern Railway Handicap : Plu tus, 1 ; Out-and-Outer, 2. Grand Duke Michael Stakes: Lord Lyon, 1 ; Knight of the Crescent, 2. The Otago Daily Times, iu commenting on Mr. J. Cargill's speech, contaius the following piece of plain speaking :— We do not wish to impute to Mr. Cargill wilfnl misstatement ; nor, in* the course which he took in the House, wilful abandonment of his pledges. . That he " ratted "as much, if not more than any other member, was notorious, aud the subject of amusement ; but, like many another, "ratter," he excused by hair-splitting aud nice distinctions aa to the precise meaning of his votes.