NEWS BY THE WHAMPOA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5098, 26 July 1877, Page 2

NEWS BY THE WHAMPOA.

The following items of news, brought by the s.s. Whampoa to T Melbourne on the 15th inst., are supplementary to the general summary received here by the San Francisco mail : - - In consequence of the English Press, Conservative, Liberal, aud Radical, with singular unanimity condemning the action of Marshal MacMahon in dismissing M. Simon, papers have been subjected to a censorship on entering France, and they are delayed for several hours.

M. Fourton is said to have stated that Marshal MaoMahon intends resigning if another Republican Assembly is elected. A quantity of pearls from Western Australia were sold by auction by Messrs. Debenham and Storr. They were bought by the trade in sixty lots, at prices varying from 3d. to 7s. a grain. Anthony Trollope is going to the Cape at the end of June, and purposes remaining there six months, prior to writing a book on the country. Both arms of the celebrated statue of the Venus of Milo, found in the Island of Melos in 1820, have lately been discovered in the immediate locality. The New Bedford schooner New Bedford left New York lately for London. The vessel is only 20ft. long and the only persona on board are Captain Crape and his wife. Her Majesty is stated to have purchased the extensive forest of Ballochbine, adjoining Balmoral, from Colonel ITarquharson, of Inveroauld. It possesses the largest area of natural grown Scotch firs in Scotland, and is unequalled in extent, size, beauty, and symmetry of the trees. The London correspondents of several leading country journals state that Lord Beaconafield was very much opposed to the Queen going to Scotland in the present crisis. Other members of the Cabinet are said to hold the same opinion. A gross act of treachery on the part of Russia was announced by the Berlin correspondent of The Times. A man named Krysiuski, a leader in the Polish insurrection of 1863, who escaped, applied for leave to return. In answer, he was invited to come back._ On doing so, he was tried and sentenced to Siberia. He made his escape, was caught and tried a Second time and shot.