LATE TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 93, 18 April 1872, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

London, February 23 to March 10. The New York Herald says the American members of the Joint Com mission are placed ia an awkward position by the iudirect claims which cannot be well withdrawn. Vice-President Colfax says that neither America nor England dare destroy the treaty of Washington. Earl Granville'e dispatch, reached Washington on the 23rd instant. Ihe American reply was dispatched on Ist March. The reply is firm and courteous, but declines to change the case. The London Observer states that should Jblngland repudiate the treaty, America will contend ior her rights to fish in Canadian waters, as they are valid ami will act accordingly. The Navy Estimates amount to £9,508,000, being a decrease of .£2B i ,807 . The yacht Enchantress leaves for Suez on the 29th, to meet the Glasgow. Her state cabin is fitted up as a mortuary chamber for the reception of the budy of Karl Mayo. . , The Queen, Prince of Wales and two children, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Beatrice, and Princes Arthur and Leopold were present at the national thanksgiving, The Peers and Commons

were separately seated. Undpr the dome were , the army and navy. The Mayors were seated in the nave. The greatest enthusiasm prevnilpd The streets and houses were profusely decorated, and triumphal arches were erected on the line of procession along Pall Mall and Fleet streets. The procession returned by Holborn and Hyde Park. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution to present an address of condolence and sympathy to Lady Mayo. A youthful Irishman, named O'Connor, apparently deranged, claiming relationship with Eergu" O'Connor, clim'oed rails outside Buckingbam Place, passed the gatekeeper, and presented a pistol unloaded with a broken lock in one hond. and a petition for the release of the Fenians in the other as the Queen was preparing to al'ght from her carriage. The equerries instantly seized and gave him into custody The Queen ►bowed no fear, and merely leant back in carriage. O'Connor was examined at Bow-street Police Court on the 2nd March. Prince Leopold and John Brown were -witnesses. He was committed for tri*l. Great indignation was felt at the act, and official bulletins and telegrams were issued to prevent exaggerated reports. Prussia has accepted payment of the balance of n fourth half milliard francs of the Indemnity, 5n advance, allowing fbe per cent, discount. Obititary. — General Lane. The Queen has written a touehinsr letter expressing her deep sense of the reception accorded on thanksgiving day to herself and family, by millions of her loyal subjects. Her words were too weak to express how touched and gratified her Majesty and family were. All the Washington correspondence and the American Pres» concur in the opinion that the tone of the American reply ia eminently pacific. The New York World says the American interpretation of the treaty has completely broken down. The Queen's health is good ; she goes to Germany shortly. The Prince of Wales will spend thf sprintr in the South of Europe. In the Tichborne trial 'he claimant was nonsuited, and next day he was arrested for perjury, lie was taken to Newgate. Dixon's attack on the Education Act has failed The Magasra report fixes the chief responsibility upon Sir Spencer Robinson, and blames Mr. Reed Carherv, Lord Morgan, and others. The French Indemnity, fourth half milliard, was pai<i under discount.