LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 46, 24 February 1870, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Toulon, January 13,

At the New Year's day reception at the Tuileries, the Emperor said that the year 1870 could not but consolidate the good relations that existed between France and the European Powers, and increase the concord of universal civilisation. In replying to the congratulations of the Chambers, his Imperial Majesty said, "Never was there an understanding between us morenecessary, and for mutual benefit more advantageous than now. Your priviliges have been increased without diminishing the position I hold from the nation. Sharing the responsibility of the great bodies of the State, I am more confident of overcoming the difficulties of the future. lam like a traveller who, after a long journey, relieves himself of a portion of his burden, which does not weaken him, but he rather gathers fresh courage and con. tinued force."

The constitution of the new Ministry gives great satisfaction.

The French Chambers assembled on January 10. M. Ollivier, in a short speech, said that the principles and aspirations of the Ministry were already known. While in power these principles would remain the same. When other members obtained a majority, they would hasten to transfer to them the burden of public affairs.

A very unpleasant affair has caused great excitement in Paris. Prince Pierre Bonaparte challenged Henri De Rochefort for attacking him in his journal The Marseillaise. M. Noir, a journalist, and friend of Rochefort's w-ited upon the Prince to arrange perliminaries for a hostile meeting. A quarrel arose and N>>ir assaulted the Prince, who took a pistol and shot him dead. M. Ollivier, with the approval of the Emperor, arrested the Prince, and caused him to be imprisoned at Magna. He will be tried before tt c High Court of Justice. Intense excitement prevailed at Noir's funeral, and immense crowds paraded the streets in the evening singing the " Marseillaise.'* They pelted the Prince, but no serious breach of order occurred. Rochfort's paper has been seized, and the Chamber of Deputies authorised him to be prosecuted for exciting the people to revolt, Rochfbrt made a violent speech in the Chamber, demanding that Prince Pierre should be tried before the ordinary tribunal. Ollivier defended the proceedings of the Government as conformable to law. He regretted the public excitement which had arisen, and stated his intention to defend the law by force if necessary. Ledru Kollin has been permitted to return to France. A Ministerial order authorises the sale of newspapers in the streets of Paris. All foreign newspapers in future will be admitted into France without restriction. Traupman's trial causes great excitement. 15,000 persons applied to be present. He was pronounced guilty and sentenced to death. The formation of a new Cabinet is entrusted to Ollivier. The Emperor, by a letter, requested him to select persons who can with himself form a homogeneous Cabinet faithfully representing the Legislative majority. Personal government appears to have surrendered, and the basis ot the Parliamentary regime is laid. The Spanish Ministry has resigned in consequence of a definite refusal of the Italian Government to accept the Crown of Spain. Prim is forming a new Ministry. Mr. John Bright, in a speech at Birmingham, said that the difficulty of the Irish land question increased with examination, but he hoped for satisfactory solution. The difficulty between the Sublime Porte and the Viceroy is finally settled ; the Viceroy has surrendered all the ironclads and breach-loading artillery. A steamer, drawing 17 feet, passed successfully through the Suez Canal. The entire capital is subscribed for the Australian Submarine Telegraph Company to connect Singapore with Port Darwin. The line is to be completed and ready for work in 1871. SPAIN. Prim obstinately adheres to the candidature of the young Duke of Genoa despite the opposition of his family and friends. Constitution guarantees are restored. The strength of the army is fixed at 80,000. A commission has been appointed to inquire into the disappearance of the Crown jewels. Two Republicans comprised in the late rising have been executed. Salnerno, ex-Minister of Finance, was stabbed by a former colleague, from revenge. The sale of Church and National property has been resumed. PORTUGAL. The Government is becoming unpopular and weak ; Duke Saldanha, a popular military chief, aged 90, attacking the Ministry. An insurrection appeared imminent, and the War Minister resigned. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, December 31. The Australian Mails for November were punctually delivered. The Queen and Court are spending Christmas at Osborue. Prince Leopold's health has improved. The Princess of Wafes has recovered ; her infant daughter is christened Maude Charlotte Mary Victoria. The Colonial Question continues to be dis* cussed and agitated. Three more Wednesday conferences were held at Cannon- street Hotel ; Mr. Beaumont showed, by striking statistics, how invariably trade follows the flag of England j apparently the only argument to some minds in favor of the retention of the colonies. On the 1 5th a deputation, introduced by Earl Bury, visited Earl Granville ; it consisted of the Duke of Manchester, Viscount Milton, the Hon. H. Kinnaird, Mr. Hamilton. Mr. Edward Wilson, Mr. Walker, Mr. Carter, Dr. Wray, Mr. Labii-

■MM«M^»°»'»iiMM»M«iM»»M----M»«ai»--l liere, Mr. Young, Mr. Sutherland, Mr. Tobin, Mr. Sewell, Mr. Storr, Mr. Youl, Mr. Goodlet, Mr. Booth, Mr. Louthwaite, Mr. Roache, the Rev. Mr. Herring, Colonel Synge, and Dr. Eddy. The os* ten sible object of the interview was to disavow all hostile intentions towards the Colonial Office) in a circular issued last August, and to urge a modification of the present system of colonial affairs. The principal speakers were : — Bury, Youl, Manchester, Sewell, Viscount Milton, and Tobin. Earl Granville said he could not assume any blame for the misconceiving the spirit of the circular, as illustrated by the tone of recent meetings, but he had not allowed this to influence him in the despatch to Colonial Governors. His objectors had proposed a Conference of a two-fold nature, but it was not agreeable to the colonists themselves, and was not calculated to accomplish the object sought. The first objection was confirmed by the want of response to the circular which Lord Bury had ascribed to Earl Granville's despatch. Earl Granville thought it Wad stunting the Conference while exciting the jealousy of the larger colonies, which would embarrass the Minister, and diminish his responsibility; he considered the proper mode of communication was by the Secretary through the Governors to the Colonial Governments. Earl Granville dis^avowed the remarks attributed to him respecting the separation of Ne w Zealand ; the present misunderstanding was like a matrimonial squabble which would be aggravated by any attempt to dtfine the relations of the colonists with the mother country : he was intensely dissatisfied with the interview. The Times and Daily News thought Earl Granville's speech would extinguish the agitation; but at the last meeting a resolution was proposed to form a (National* Colonial, and Emigration League; and whether the next mail will report a disapproval of proceeding remain to be seen.

An able and suggestive paper, by Sir 9. Drum* mond Wolfe, on the constitution, functions, and standing of the Colonial Council appears in the Times ; the Spectator urges that envoys should be sent from English-speaking colonies, so that they may be in constant communication with the Imperial Government.

Mr. Ross urges the speedy completion of telegraphic communication with Australia, as calculated to increase immigration by annihilating the prejudice against distance. A movement has been initiated to amalgamate the metropolitan Emigration Societies, and Government aid is still invoked.

Mr. Tallerman had an interview with the Emperor Napoleon respecting the extension of cheap Australian meat dinners to France. A Christmas-box of iJIOOO was presented to Mr. Miller, of the Jerusalem Coffee-house.

An Emigrant-Colonists' Aid Co-operative Society is announced with a capital of ,£250,000. More warehouses for storing wool at reduced charges will be opened at Mill-wall Docks in February. Mr. Lingen succeeds the* Hon. G. A. Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury.

Sir F. Sandford, Assistant Colonial Under Secretary, succeeds Mr Lingen at the Educational Board.

Parliament has been summoned to meet on the Bth of February.

Cabinet Councils have been very frequent 5 Earl Derby waited on Mr. Disraeli at Highendon; the leadership of the Conservatives is still unsettled.

Mr. Forster has been commissioned to draft a measure relative to Primary Education.

Mr. Childers and Mr. Baxter are zealously at work on Admiralty reform. Judgment was given against the Rev. Mr. Mackonichie for kneeling before the consecrated, elements. He was condemned in costs. Dr. Shorthouse 3 editor and proprietor of the Spirting Times, was fined £50, ahd sentenced to three months' imprisonment for libel, in imputing dishonorable conduct in the scratching of horses by Sir J. Hawley. The Times, by a suit in the Vice-Chancellor's Court has compelled the Clerkenwell News to drop the word London Times from the end of the title. ITALY. The Ministerial crisis has at length terminated by Laugar constructing a Cabinet. Sweeping Ministerial reforms are promisedj but additional taxes are foreshadowed. The disbandment of 464,999 men is rumored. Considerable excitement has been produced by the dissolution af a congress at Naples held in opposition to the CEcumenical Council. Several countries were represented by deputies. The Linti Council meets next September in Switzerland. Forty lives were lost by an inundation of the Arno at Pisa. Santa Maura has been totally destroyed by an earthquake. The French Ambassodor has warned the Pope of the probable consequences of his high-handed proceedings. One Cardinal is dead. It is conjectuted that Cardinal Manning will be the next Pope. GERMANY. Billa, who shot the Rev. M. Henricl during the service at Berlin Cathedral, was sentenced to twelve years' hard labor. Count Bismarck has returned to Berlin. The abolition of the newspaper stamp duty is promised. AUSTRIA. The Reichsrath was opened by the Kaiser on the 13th December. There was undue reserve in his speech in compliance with the wish of the Ministry, who are divided. The minority asked leave to resign. An interview with the King of Prussia is fixed for January 15th, at Ancola. The Dalmatian insurgents aire making sub* mission. RUSSIA. An expedition has been sent from St. Petersburg to discover means of connecting the Caspian and Aral Seas. An understanding has been arrived at between Russia and the British Government respecting the Central Asia question. Cholera rages in Russia.