ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH NEWS VIA SUEZ, AT NELSON.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 29, 12 August 1871, Page 7

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH NEWS VIA SUEZ, AT NELSON.

Nelson, Friday. The steamer Luna arrived this morning from Manukau with the English mails via Suez. The mail reached Auckland by the Hero, from Sydney, on the 7th instant. LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. London, July 4. A grand review of one hundred thousand French troops took place at Longchamps. M. Thiers has been enthusiastically received, and there has been no compromising manifestations. The Orleanist princes are at present incognito. The new French loan has been an extraordinary success. Double the amount required has been tendered for, and confidence restored. The ruined buildings of Paris are being restored by sixty thousand masons. The French elections resulted largely in favor of moderate republicans. M. Gambotta lias been returned, and will support M. Thiers. Victor Emmanuel lias arrived and taken up his residence in Rome, which is to be the future capital of Italy. The Queen held a review of (5000 household troops in Bushy Park. The Duke of Valimar and the Prince Imperial were present. The Emperor Napoleon visited the International Exhibition. The Emperor and Empress of Brazil have arrived in London. The Ballot Bill was sent to committee by a majority of 94. The Army Reorganisation Bill passed its third reading by a majority of 58. Owing to the French and American competition, the price of wool has advanced on the opening rates. The rise ranges from 10 to 15 per cent over, the May sales; Sydney wool participating in this rise to the full extent. The ironclad Agincourt stranded near Gibraltar. July 5. Paris returned sixteen moderate republicans and five radicals. The provinces have returned moderate republicans. Only one-tenth elected are conservative or liberals. The Washington Treaty lias been ratified. The King of Italy wrs received with great enthusiasm at Rome. The theft of arms from the Mallow Barracks created uneasiness. Several suspected Fenians have been arrested. Consols, for account on July sth, 925. July 8. The French elections give M. Thiers a majority of 100. Count de Ghambord has issued farewell conciliatory addresses to the French people. He states that he will return when wanted. The transport of the Communists to New Caledonia is not definitely decided as M. Gambetta disapproves of it, and recommends clem ency. The Conference on colonial questions is to be re-opened. M. Fraude will deliver the opening address on the 19th July. The Imperial Princes and Princesses of Prussia are on a visit to England. The hearing of the Tichborne case is adjourned to November 7. The wool sales are progressing favorably, and prices are fully maintained. Cotton is active, and has advanced Id. Sperm oil, £B2. The ironclad Agincourt has been successfully floated.

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, June 17th. Latest advices from the Cape of Good Plope state that 2000 bules of w'ool has been obtained from the wreck of the Queen of the Thames. It is rumored that the Duke of Edinburgh wfill be placed in command of an ironclad. The Duke’s elephant killed his keeper while on a journey from Plymouth to Sandrighain.

Dr Jenncr has issued a strong protest against Re". Mr Neville’s appointment to the Bishopric of Dunedin. He is determined to maintain his spiritual rights. A rumor that Great Britain has ceded Heligoland to Germauy has been contradicted. .

Freedom of the City of London will be presented to Prince Arthur on 13th July. He is recovering from injuries received by falling from a casement at Buckingham Palace. It is rumored that an English Prince is to marry Princess Thyra of Denmark. Mr Gladstone is recovering from a fortnight’s illness. Mr Childer’s is still at Nice, and Mr Bright fishing in Scotland.

The Tichborne trial grows more puzzling every day. The claimant is in bad health. When under cross-exami-nation the favorable impression produced by earlier witnesses was much weakened by his strange forgetfulness of incidents in boyish life, in Paris his inability to speak French, and serious contradictions of dates, persons, and streets. He admits having seduced his alleged cousin, Miss Dougherty, Deforc leaving England. A strike of 9000 Tyneside engineers was followed by a formidable turn-out in Wales, and strikes are threatened in Glasgow and Rochdale. Serious trade union outrages have occurred at Manchester, and 60,000 bricks made by machine were destroyed in one night. The grand jury have found a true bill for murder against Edmund Cook for the Eletham tragedy. Four true bills were found against Agnes Norman for child murder. The French peasant farmers’ seed fund amounts to £47,000. FRANCE. Health of Paris good. 10,000 men are cleansing and repairing the streets and public edifices. Only 100 houses have been destroyed out of 60,000, but many are much mutilated. The gensclarme are to be increased to 100,000, and the National Guards will probably be universally disarmed. The Vendome Column is to be restored. Grousset was taken in the disguise of a female; Rosset- as a railway guard. Courbet was found behind a bed, and De Lecture behind the barricades. The property destroyed in Paris is estimated to amount to eight hundred million francs. The anti-German feeling is dying out The Pope lias published an encyclial letter, protesting against the violation of the rights of the Papal power and the freedom of the Church. A mass has been ordered for priests shot at Paris. Father Hyaointhe interviewed the Pope, and sent a letter of sympathy to Dellinger. Obbituary—Colonel Watson Mills; Sir Oswald Mosley, a Manchester celebrity ; Dr. Spratt, of Dublin; Sir Ed* ward Kanehbull ; The Hon. Frederick Byng, Lord Elbank, of Selkirk ; Sir John Rolk, Mr Moses, the French hanker ; John Briggs, of Leicester ; Mr Vincent Shurry Pollan, M.P„ Mr Urquhart, M.P., Mr McNeill Ingram, M.P. ; Alderman Sir Joseph Causton, Captain Wood, R.N. ; Christopher Ide, Captain Matthews, R.N.; Colonel Blunt, Major Townsend, General Ecclescombe, Genernl Bathrye, Lady Frances Cole, Lady Charles Fitzroy, and the Hon. Frederick Villiers,