ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 310, 16 September 1874, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

(PerOtaqo) ' London, September 1. The Australian mails via Briadisi and San Francisco were delivered together yesterday. The Mikado arrived at San Francisco on the 30th Anguit. Kaw York, September I. The Committee having investigated the charges preferred by Theodore Filtora against the Rev Henry Ward Beecher. pastor of the Plymouth Church, hare acquitted him. Lokdox, September 3. Mr George Berkley his been appointed Governor of Western Austrs'ia, as successor to Mr Weld who is appointed to Tasmania. The chip Suffolk, from London to Brisbane, is at the Mauritius rtfitting '! a lerm'an's Meat Company have declared a dividend of ten per cent. Septembers. The Australian Arctic Polar explorers have arrived at Norway, after abandoning the expedition. Tt-rgastofF reports travelling in ■ledges over mountain ridges beyond latitude 80 degrees. ' The Great Eastern has completed laying the new Atlantic cable The Marquis of Kipon has adopted Roman Catholicism, and resigned the Grand Mastership of the Freemasons ■ At the wool sales 100,000 bales were sold, principally to the home trade. The tone of the market is now weaker. Balnie and Co., wool brokers, report of the series that the advance in superior scoured was l|d to id; in washed faaf-breds, Id to Ijd; in greasy half-bred a jbalf penny to Id ; in greasy merino, a half-penny. Wheat i* steady, at a decline, for Adelaide, of 55s to s*s; flour, 37s to 43s per 2801bs. London, September 5. The fifth cable across the Atlantic has been successfully laid. Arrived: Lochinvar, Hudson, Bed Gauntlet, Nineveh. Robert Burnus, Dilharree, Galbraitb, Dallam Tower, Abbey. Pabis, September 5. On the 14th inst, a disturbance occurred in the dephttment of the Mi use. The Gendarmerie intervene!, a d one rioter was ki'led and nineteen were wounded. There were slight damomtMtions in other places, and at Lyons several arrests were made. September 5. The Zaballa Cabinet have resigned, and a new Ministry h*s bten forned wiih as Premi' r and Minister of the interior, and Bcdayar M'm»ter of War. The ministerial offices of finance, the colonies, and foreign remain unctutng'-d. Tbe Carlitts have abandoned Pinzcerdar. SepleinberS. The Cnrlistn at Guetarla in the Norcb. fired upon a German gunboat which replied, sending twenty-four shells into the town. Paris, September 8. The Univers newspaper is suspended f r a fortnight lor publishing offensive articles ag«inet Marshal Ferrano. Prussia, Septembers. An extrn*ire conflagration at Meinanzein has destroyed half the town, and 800 persons are rendered houseless.