THE SUEZ AND PANAMA MAILS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 174, 27 July 1867, Page 2

THE SUEZ AND PANAMA MAILS.

The following pensions on the Civil List, which exhaust the amouut available for the current year, have been recently granted : — £100 a year to Mrs Chisholm, in consideration of the valuable and disinterested services rendered by her to emigrants in New South Wales; £100 a year to the family of the late Dr Petrie, being peusions at the rate of £25 a year to each of his four daughters, in consideration of the eminent services rendered by him to archaeological science, both as an author and as a public servant ; £100 a year to Lady Harris, widow of Sir William Snow Harris, in consideration of her husband's valuable invention of the system of lightning conductors ; £100 a year to the Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley, on account of his eminent services, as a botanist, to practical horticulture and agriculture ; aud £95 a year to Mr George Cruikshauk, on account of his great merit as an artist. The following appears in the "Paris Temps : — The French press appears generally to have received somewhat coolly the news of this solution of the late Luxembourg difficulty ; even the semiofficial papers, with the exception of the Patrie, display but little enthusiasm. A speculator would perhaps say thafc this is owing to the event having been foreseen for the last two days and JdiscG.uuted, fco use the favorite expression of the Bourse people, by public opinion; but this reserve evidently proceeds from a more earnest sentiment and a more comprehensive appreciation of the reality of things. Ifc is because people are generally convinced that the Luxemburg question was only an incident of the international difficulties between France and Germany, resulting from the formation of a German military empire, that the successful issue of the Franco-Prussian conflict has not

moved the public more. We have ourselves too often dwelt upon the gravity given to the situation by the spirit in which Germanic unity was accomplished to be surprised at seeing this impressiou remain even after the settlement of the affair of the Grand Duchy. Intelligence received afc Vienna on May 29 from Washington states that the Austrian Minister iv that city had received a telegram announcing the capture of the Emperor Maximilian. On the other hand, information has been received at the Mexican Embassy in Vienna stating that the Republicans before Queretaro had been completely defeated. Austria has taken immediate steps to procure the release of the Emperor in case the first news is true. Reports have also arrived from St. Potosi, via New York, that Juarez has ordered the Emperor to be shot; but Lord Stanley stated in the House of Commons on May 30, that it was not credited at the Foreign-office. The New York journals of June 1, publish advices from Mexico partially confirming the reports that the Emperor and his officers had been shot. In the middle of May the thermometer stood in the centre of England during the night at 7 degrees below freezing point. Pieviously to this great heats prevailed, aud at the corameucemeut of June there was a summer temperature. The prospects of the harvest are said not to have been affected by these trying alternations. Earl Russell has pledged himself to bring the Irish Church question forward next session. The Queen has announced her intention of performing an act of great munificence. Duriug the five years that she has remained in retirement she has necessarily accumulated a large portion of her privy purse allowance, whicb, under happpier circumstances, would have been spent in royal hospitality both to her owu subjects and to foreign princes. Her Majesty, desiring it should not be supposed that she had saved this mouey for parsimonious reasons, has resolved to give no less a sum than 500,000/ sterling for the erection of a convalescent hospital. The new institution will be built more especially in connection with St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and wiil be erected afc a considerable distance from London, so as to give the inmates the advantage of pure air. The Times of the 29th May contains a short reference to the death at sea of Capt. Brown, of the Dona Anita, which we mentioned in yesterday's issue, and of the generous conduct of Captain Sanderson, of the barque Sanderson, towards the widow. It appears that the Dona Auita, from London, left Plymouth 2nd Marcli for Nelson, N.Z., with a full general cargo and 25 passengers. On the Hth April, when approaching the line, the master became ill, and he died on tbe 17th. Two days after, when 58 miles south of the equator, a homeward-bound ship hove in sight, aud the mate signalled for her master to come ou board. She proved to be the bark Sanderson, from Ceylon, and Captain Sanderson, who is part owner, instantly answered the request. On obtaining full particulars he remained three hours, and although a stranger to all concerned he carefully gathered Captain Brown's effects and papers, excepting charts and chronometer, and took them and the widow on board his ship. The Dona Anita pursued her course to New Zealand. The Sanderson put in on Saturday at Plymouth to land the widow. Mrs Brown expresses herself in grateful terms for the attention which she received from all on board the Sanderson. Her only child, a son two years old, born at sea off the coast of Peru, left the Dona Anita with her, but unhappily died two days before reaching Plymouth, and was buried at Sunday. The Sanderson remained in the Sound a sufficient time to land the widow, and then proceeded for her destination, London.