THE NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 197, 21 August 1871, Page 2

THE NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The s.s. Taranaki with the San Francisco mail arrived at the wharf at midnight on Saturday. The following is a summary of the news of the month. FRANCE. P-iris, July 3. — Midnight. — The elections passed oft without disturbance, and little excitement is apparent throughout the day. The city is perfectly calm tonight. No idea of the results can be formed until morning. No definite returns received from other departments. The workmen voted for Gambetta and Hugo. The candidates elected in the first section of the seventh arrondissement of Scenux are favorable to the Government. Paris, July 5. — A general estimate of the supplementary election shows that of the 140 Deputies elected, 120 are Republicans, 8 Legitimists, and 2 Bounapartist.B. The official returns will differ hut little from this estimate. Faidherbe, Gambettfl, and Danfert are returned from three different assembly districts. A majority of the Republicans elected belong to the Moderate wing of the party, the proportion being 75 Moderates to 25 Radicals. The unexpected strength developel by the Republicans io the provinces discourages the partizans of Monarchy. The failure of tbe Imperial interest surprises nobody, but the weakness of the Legitimists produces a sensation. It is feared the Assembly will he more divided than ever, and that it will be impossible to obtain a compact working majority or to determine which party has the balance of power. The French Government has demanded an early evacuation of the forts near Paris, and of the departments occupied by the Germans. Bismarck declines to give a positive promise to comply with the_ demand. A commission has been appointed by the Government to take evidence in England and France as to the working of commercial treaties. London, July 6. — Paris raises a loan to j rebuild' the monuments. It is said that Napoleon goes to Geneva. Eugenic visits her mother, iv Spain. Paris, July 7.— The bank despatched to-day 14,000,000; francs to Prussia. It •filled fourteen dray carta, y ./ f .' Amiens is. declared in a state of siege, in consequence of the murder of Prussians, the, murderers remaining undiscovered. , The : . ''trial \ 1 ". df , u |tpcbefprt,\/;^flsy>/ aqdr Roaael, ia postponed for. a fortnight. „■;.:■ u• .

Paris, July 10. —Sixteen thousand Communist prisoners at Versailles have been released by order of the Government, and sixteen thousand are now held and will be tried in squads. The French Government has paid to Switzerland two million francs as partial reimbursement of the expenses incurred ia the maintenance of French soldiers who took refuge on her soil. Switzerland restores to France the greater portion of the war material brought across the frontier by the French army. It is thought that the French Legitimists have dissolved, and tbe majority will join the Republicans. A French representative goes to England to induce a modification of the Commercial Treaty. The Tuilleries Gardens will shortly be open to the public. There is an effective French army of 230,000 men. The army is reorganised with an effective force of 320,000. The Minister of Finance remitted one hundered and four millions yesterday to Strasbourg, to the German authorities. One hundred and seventy-five millions will be paid before the 10th, when the Germans will evacuate the Seine Inferieur. Paris, July 7. —Count de Chambord has issued a proclamation, announcing that he is about to leave France, in order that his presence in the country may no longer give countenance to agitation. He adds : *' Though absent, we shall not be separated from our countrymen. When Frenchmen are willing, we shall found a Government with decentralisation, liberty, and universal suffrage as our mottoes." He praises the army, and declares his unfaltering adhesion to the white flag of Henri IV. and Joan of Arc, which conquered Alsace and Lorraine. Madrid, July 15. —There has been an excited debate for two days iv the Spanish Cortes upon the colonial policy of the Government. A motion submitted by the opposition, looking to a vigorous prosecution of the war to prevent the loss of Cuba, was discussed, as was also a proposition made by General Sickles for the sale of Cuba to the United States, and it was resolved to keep the island at any Coßt. Paris, July 16. —A great fire was occasioned at Rheims to-day, by the explosion, of a quantity of petroleum. Fifty persons were killed and wounded by the explosion, and many buildings in the business portions of the city were burned. It is officially annonuced that the Asiatic Cholera has appeared iv several places in Poland.

Earl Londerdale said it gave everything to the United States, without securing an equivalent for England. Lord Houghton was satisfied with the compact because it would- prevent future - quarrel c. Granville closed tbe debate with a vigorous defence of the action of the Government. The motion of Lord Cranmore was defeated with decision. In the House of Commons Gladstone hoped that an early day would be fixed for the discussion of the treaty of Washington. Sir Charles Dilke opened the question of ballot. He denied that voting by ballot had proved a failure in the United States. The debate was continued by Sir Stafford Northcote, Foster, Gladstone, and Disraeli, until adjournment. The Emperor aud Empress of Brazil arrived in London to-day. London, June 30. — The statement is officially confirmed that the treaty of Washington has been ratified. Canadian ports will soon cease to be honord by the British North American fleet, aud the fleet in Canadian waters will he reduced to a Commodore's ship. London, July 3.-— The French loan is high, because the elections have been quiet. London, July 3.— The Queen to-day invested M. de Lesseps with the Order of the Star of India. LondoD, July 6. — Frederick William, Crown Prince of Prussia and Prince Imperial of Germany, accompanied by the Princess Victoria, arrived in London this evening, and were received at the station by the Prince and Priocess of Wales. The Crown Prince brings with him the Order of the Black Eagle, which he will confer on Count Bernstoff, the German Ambassador to the Court of St. James. London July 6. — [Special to the World."} — The jury in the Tichborne case privately informed the Judge that they were convinced that the plaintiff was an iroposter, and they were ready to give a verdict to that effect, without hearirg a single witness for the defence. The Judge refused to give his consent, aud the trial will proceed. AMERICA. New York has been the scene of one of those disgraceful rows which have beeu so common in Ireland. It appears that a certain number of orangeman decided to march in procession on the 12th of July, and that a number of other persons determined to prevent them doiug so. The result was that an armed mob took possession of certain streets, attacked the OrangemeD, and caused considerable alarm. The police and military were called out, and the military having been assailed, fired on tbe mob. About one hundred persons have apparently been killed, and some three hundred wounded. The New York papers coudemn in the .strongest language the conduct of the rioteiH, and insist upon tbe liberty of any class of citizens to march in procession and celebrate any event whatever in a peaceable manner. Mob-rule cannot be permitted, and the law of the country puts it out of the power of any portion of the population to take upou itself the prevention of any procession whatever so long as the law of the land is not brokeD. A large number of arrests were made, and it was asserted in Court, when the prisoners were brought up, that they had heen incited by leaders who deserted them in the hour of trial — the ofttold tale of rogues and dupes. ARRIVAL OP THE HON. JULIUS YOGEL. The News oj the World says :-— The Hon. Julius Yogel, Colonial Treasurer and Postmaster-General of New Zealand, accompanied by. his wife, children, and sister, arrived last evening, having come overland in the special Pullman car " Cambria." " It will be remembered that Mr. Yogel arrived here in February last, and after having addressed the Chamber of Commerce on the subject of tbe Australian and New Zealand line via our port, proceeded to Washington and New York, where he successfully arranged the postal contract on behalf of the New Zealand Government, with Mr. W. H. Webb and Ben. Holladay. He then proceeded to England, where his first business was the negotiation of a loan of £1,200,000 for New Zealand, mainly for immigration and public works. After a very , short notice the whole amount asked for was subscribed, at a price which,. allowing for all deductions represented about £95 15s. This loan. is of , the " unguaranteed debentures," the £1,000,000 previously guaranteed by the Imperial Government remaining to be used as, ih fact, a reserved fund. Amongst other matters to which Mr. Yogel is understood „to have- devoted his attention -was the rendering abßolutely j

permanent the new mail service, and we hear that the British Post Office authorities are considering the whole question in order to decide whether or uot it shall become an alternation service with that via Suez, so as to secure a fortnightly mail between England and the Australasian Colonies. The Colonial Office is understood, at Mr. Vogel's suggestion, to have communicated with the Admiralty, and while it is believed to be the intention of the Government to increase permanently the naval force on the Australian station, it is understood that instructions will be given to the Commodore to so use his force as to show to the natives that the Colony has not been deserted by th> Home Government. Negotiations for the construction of railroad were opened by Mr. Yogel, with Messrs. John Brogden & Sons, the extensive contractors, and wiih other gentlemen. A preliminary arrangement was concluded, aud Mr. Henderson, as, representing Messrs. Brogdor, is now ou his way to the colony vvith Messrs. C. N. Bell an J J. G. Dees, as assistants. Mr. Fox, the able secretary of Mr. Yogel, himself an old litterateur, accompanies tho party, the members of which will leave us to-morrow, on the Ajax, en route to their colonial home. Iv crossing the Missouri at Omaha, the party had a rather rough experience. The special car " Cambria " was taken od hoard the H. C. Nutt, a side-wheel steamer. The works for the Omaha railroad bridt.es are progressing and the iron casting for the pirrs (to be filled with solid masonry, are standing in the river above water mark. Either through bad steering, or the force of the current, the steamer Nutt fouled one of the piers and smashed it over knocking it into a second. The steamer was considerably damaged and one wheel disabled. The commotion ou board was lively, and the engineer, fearing a coDfiftgrationon board, extinguished rhe fires iv tbe furuaces. A steamboat put ofl from tha Council Bluff's side of tbe river, to render assistance ; but the Nutt finally succeeded in making the Omaha landing to the joy of everybody on board, and of many on shore, who feared that she would sink before assistance could be rendered. A Colonial Artist. — Mr. .Nicholas Chevalier has struck out a new and most (ffective manner of instructing the people of England iv a knowledge of the Australian Colonies. Many colouists will remember Mr. Chevalier making a tour through the islands of New Zealand some years ago. He, artist-like, took advantage of his travels to make a large number of .sketches of the scenery of the country he passed through. This was done chiefly with a view to the publication of a work upon New Zealand, illustrated by drawings made from the sketches in question. Being busily engaged on various commissions, notaidy upon one for nearly 150 pictures for the JDuke of Edinburgh, Mr. Chevalier has had to allow the New Zeala id idea to rest for a while. He was not, content, however, to allow his labors to lie idle, and in order to show the penj.ilat home how pleasant a place New Zealand i., he has prepare! his ok-tehes for exhibition at the Crystal Palace. So well appreciated were the excellence of Mr. | Chevalier's works' of art by the authoring of the palace that they devoted a special chamber to the exhibition of them, and as might have been expected, they have J attracted a large amount of attention and j commendation. The London Press j has been uuanimous in its praise of them as works of art, whilst the general public has expressed its surprise and ! pleasure at the marvellous forms of | beauty portrayed by tbe artist. It will be enough for us to say that the pictures are perfect specimens of that fidelity of drawing, purity of coloring, aad faithfulness of characteristic for which Mr. Chevalier is so peculiarly distinguished. There are in ihe collections a few specimens of the Maori, and they always attract attention. Oue of these, "Paddling Her Own ! Canoe," is a great favorite with the lady j visitors, many of whom express a desire to relinquish all tbe " woman's rights of j Europe for the freedom of the New Zealand girl who is being carried down the stream so pleasantly. A view of the bar at Hokitika, with the town in the distance, is an exceedingly good specimen of the artist's power of reproducing the more subtle and delicate effects of neighboring objects one upon the other. Lake Wakatipu is another instance of this, as is a view from the top of Paikakariki, with the Riiapahu Mountains 120 miles away. Indeed, the whole of the 140 pictures are excellent, nnd will do more to teach people here the kind of place New Zealand is than a dozen books could do.— Melbourne. Telegraph. ;',.. , ; ■; : ■ According to Professor Leone Levi, the amount of. capital invested in, the liquor trades . of Great :. Britain is £117, lOty/000 as compared with; £85,000,000 in cotton, £22,200,000 in

wool, and £25,300 in iron manufacture. The number of persons employed in liquor trades is 846,000, or, iiicluding their depeudants, 1,500,000. There are 100,000 persons occupied in bottling arid coopering, 66,000 in malting and brewing, and nearly a similar number in the production of barley, and 12,000 in hops, 6000 in distilling and recti lying, and 2000 in hottfe and cork-nruikinjr.