LATE TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 70, 21 March 1872, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

London, February 1. — The Megasra Commission has closed. Mr. Childers was fully examined on the Admiralty administration. In memory of Bishop Patteson, a memorial church is proposed to be erected on Norfolk Island. The Bradford Chamber of Commerce has recommended larger supplies of deep combing wool. The Pope and the Czar have been reconciled. The Queen's speech promised a Bill for the suppression of the Polynesian slave trade. Both Houses of Parliament passed an address in reply. The Panic on the Stock Fxchangeis subsiding. Consols, 91-if. Bank rate of discount, 3 per cent. Mr. Denison, the ex-Speaker of the House of Commons, has been raised to the Peerage. The wool sales opened on Bth February, with 113,000 bales. There was a large attendance, ard a spirited competition took place, and the advance was established. London, February 17.-^Blanqui has been sentenced to transportation. The Prince and Princess of Wales are visiting the Queen at Osborne. Earl Mayo's assassination is deeply deplored. The Ballot Bill passed the second reading in the House 01 Commons by a large majority. A banquet was given to Mr. Verdon, Earl Kimberley in the chair. T:-e Dukes of Edinburgh Manchester, and other leading men were preset. It was a great success. Charles Cowper and Mr. Verdon have been knighted. In the Tichborne case, Sir John Coleridge's speech occupied twenty-four days. The case is still unfinished. The evidence goes to show that ihe claimant is Arthur Orton The wool competition still continues. Greasy, 2d. per lb; washed and scoured, 3d. per lb. higher than in December. Adelaide wheat is wanted at 645. Victorian six per cent, debentures, 114 ; fives 105. Consols, 92i London, February 20.— Lord Hobart has been created Governor of Madras. A reduction of a million on the army estimates is announced. America lias abolished the duty on tea and coffee. The Spanish ministry has resigned. Destructive inundations have occurred at Nottingham A Spanish gunboat captured an English schooner landing contraband goods at Cuba. The Imperial troops are to be withdrawn from the Cape of Good Hope. Large consumption of Ans'ralian meats continues. Pacific Islanders Protection Bill has been introduced into Parliament. Messrs. Fizherbert Vogel.and Walcot (?) have been created C.M.G. Large supscriptions have been received to the Livingstone expedition fund. The King of Spain has refused to accept the resignation of his Ministry. The Spanish Parliament is dissolved, and the elections are fixed for April 2. The English Government is confident that the provisions of the Treaty of Washington will exclude America's extravagant claims. The Times admits that the American construction of the treaty places England in an embarrassing poition, and recommends the Government to demur to America's claims. The Times says no Confederate vessel was equipped in England during the war — The Alabama excepted. The leading American papers are quite moderate of the subject. M. Thiers, in opposing Count de Chambord, say 8 he will neither abdicate nor become king without a revolution. Lady Mayo is created peeres3. The Viceroy ship of India has been refused by Earl Kimberh-. Bismarck < tfers to mediate between England and America.