ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 107, 8 May 1871, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL

The U.S., N.Z., and A. steamer Nevada arrived at Auckland at mid-day oh Thursday, after a capital passage of 15 days from Honolula. The Nelson portion , of the mail was brought on by the Phoebe, which arrived here $>out ten o'clock on Saturday night. jle aiding events iOF the month. „. „ (JFrpm the Newspf the World.) Immediately after the departure of the. last mail steamer,' the internal dissensions of Paris increased— the insurgents setting

law and order at defiance, the troops in some cases fraternizing with the mob. Each day has brought us some new fact humiliating to France, and tens of thousands of pauic-stricken Parisians of the better order have fled from the city. The bullion of the Bank of France was removed to Versailles. On the Ist inst., Bismarck informed Thiers that unless the indemnity was paid before the 16th, 80,000 Germans would occupy Paris, suppress the revolution, and remain till the money was paid. The Insurgent Commune subsequently issued decrees abolishing alt connection between Church and State, forfeiting the property of the Church, and that of the principal members of the new Government. On the 3rd and 4th insts., a great battle raged in the neighborhood of Paris, between the Governmental troops and the insurgeuts, resulting in tbe complete defeat of th 6 latter with a loss of, it is stated, 15,000 men. . The Government appears to have gained a decided ascendancy once more. The Queen of Sweden is dead. The English news will be found interesting. Sir Henry Bulwer has been elevated to the peerage under the title of Baron Dalling and Bulwer. Louis Napoleon has arrived in England. On the 20th ultimo, Parliament voted £50,000 for the relief of Paris. On the 21st, the marriage of the Princess Louise was celebrated at Windsor with great brilliancy, the Bishop of London, assisted by the Bishops of Oxford, Winchester and Worcester, performing the ceremony. On the 29tb, the Royal Albert Hall at Kensington was opened by the Queen, in the presence of an immense assemblage. Cambridge has beaten Oxford in their annual boat-race.