SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 46, 24 February 1870, Page 3

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

London, January 11. The prospectus of the British Australian Telegraph Company was issued on the 3rd instant, capital £600,000, which was eagerly subscribed for. It is intended to complete the line by Port Darwin. The balance of the Victorian Loan has been negotiated, the offers amounting to £3,000,000 and upwards, at the advertised minimum of IGO_. The English Emigration Society have offered to co-operate with the National Emigration League. The Committee of Colonial Delegates forward by this mail a temperate letter. Mr. Beaumont's resolutions were adopted at a subsequent meeting (?) A National Colonial League has been formed. Professor Gamgee asserts that he has solved the difficulty of meat-preserving, and sample eases have been forwarded to England. The wool sales commenced on the 19th February ; stocks limite d. A man named George Eyer surrendered himself to justice, and made a self-accusation of having murdered a man named George Willsat thir seen years ago. at the gold diggings in Victoria ; he has been remanded for further inquiry. Australian securities are firm. The Union Bank have declared a dividend of 15 per cent., and the South Australian Bank 8 per cent. ; the Van Dieman's Land are quoted at 11 per cent. Lucy Escott is dead. GENERAL ITEMS, There has been a Fenian attack upon the Salford militia, in order to seize 899 stand of arms. The Welsh fasting girl died on the eighth day of a fortnight's watch, in the presence of nurses from Guy's Hospital. The parents refused to offer the girl any food. A verdict of manslaughter has been returned against the father. The acquittal of the Overend and Gilrney Bank directors was received with loud acclamations in Court. The verdict was approved by the Judge, and the decision gave great relief to all concerned. The sitting Judge refused costs to the prosecutor. A Times telegram from Berlin last week states that France has proposed a disarmament at Vienna, St. Petersburgh, Berlin, and Paris, and it is also supposed at London. There is no confirmation of the statement. The mission entrusted to Fleury to detach Russia from the Prussian Court signally failed. Lord Clarendon sent the congratulations of the British Government to M. Lesseps, who was so pleased that he communicated to the Emperor. Last Monday evening eighteen people were ■crushed to death at Bristol in a theatre panic, caused by a cry of fire. The performance proceeded. The Archbishop of Canterbury is convalescent. ' The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon has experienced a relapse into his former serious illness. There have been destructive gales on the coast, with, heavy rains, great floods, and high tides. These were followed by the frost and snow of true Christmas weather. The iron roof of King's College dining-room gave way and fell in, but happily the apartment was unoccupied at the time. The disaster was occasioned by the vibration from an adjoining tramway. The engineer's report states that there are cracks in the granite columns of the Holborn Valley viaduct, but that there is no danger to be apprehended from the defect.