TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 323, 10 November 1875, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH NEWS VIA SAN FRANCISCO. LONDON. October 10. Official despatches confirm the previous advices announcing the peaceful settlement of the difficulty with China. £25,000 worth of gold has been withdrawn from the Bank for America. An enthusiastic meeting has been held in Glasgow to protest against Vaticanism A letter from Mr. Gladstone was read, expressing his sympathy with the object. A telegram asserts that the insurrection in Bosnia is totally quelled. The Turkish Army has received orders to confine itself to the defensive. Lord Derby delivered a speech at Liverpool on the 7th. He said that, notwithstanding the recent assurances of the pacific settlement of the Chinese difficulty, it was still pending, and liable to break out fresh at any time. Martial law has been proclaimed at Montevideo. The Rev. Alexander Penrose Forbes, Bishop of Brechin, Scotland, is dead. Recent rains have swollen the rivers and streams, causing disastrous inundations in Leicestershire and Warwickshire. The destruction of property is heavy, and many lives have been lost. The railroads are badly damaged, and traffic is generally suspended. All Her Majesty’s ships in Japanese ports are ordered to China. Fifteen hundred troops left Cadiz for Cuba on the 10th. Referring to the Turkish insurrection, the Pall Mall Gazette publishes a Berlin telegram as follows: —It is now proposed that the execution of the provinces shall be entrusted to the GovernorGeneral, he enjoying the confidence of the Christians. Germany will demand this year 6,000,000 marks for military estimates. A despatch from the Swedish Arctic expedition reports its arrival at Hammirfest, Norway. All the officers and men are well. Important maps of scientific collections have been made. King Alfonso opened the Madrid University with a speech in the course of which he said I recognise the fact that existing circumstances are perplexing. Education and enlightenment can alone regenerate Spain and restore peace. It is painful to me to see civil war still continue. The Swedish steamer L. J. Abagen, running between Lubeck and Copenhagen, was burned in the Baltic. Twentyfour passengers and eleven of the crew perished. The steamer was a small one, and was built in 1858, at Gottenburg. Aiderman Cotton has been elected Lord Mayor of London. He is a City member of Parliament. The American ship Ellen Southard was lost on the Lancashire coast, between Formby and Cresby, not more than 20 miles from Liverpool. One of the life-boats which went to the assistance of the ship afterwards capsized. Nine of the crew of the Ellen Southard were drowned. A destructive flood occurred during a gale in the Valley, of Lee, Ireland. The river rose several feet, and inundated a portion of the City of Cork, and the country for miles around occasioning immense damage to property. Similar accounts have been received from other parts of Ireland and Scotland. The damage done to the crops by floods is reported to be enormous in Longford, Kerry, and Tipperary, in Ireland. At Cork the floods have subsided, but it is believed several persons were drowned. The Globe says a formal complaint of aggressions of Spanish Gardo Costos in the waters of Gibraltar have been made to that Government by the British naval commander of Gibraltar. Two letters from Stanley, the explorer, have been received in London; both are dated from the district of Victoria, Nianza. Two. of Stanley’s white companions Edward Peacock and Frederick Barker, died of fever. A telegram from Copenhagen says that sanguinary riots occurred at Stockholm, Sweden, between the militia, the police, and the mob. The latter stormed the police station, wounding a number of policemen. Some militia were also wounded. The Life Guards and Horse Guards had to be summoned from the Castle before order was restored. Sir Charles Cowper, the Agent-General for New South Wales, who has been ailing for some time past, died on Wednesday. The London newspapers have published a review of Sir Charles Cowper’s colonial services. England and Russia have declined to join the other Powers in a representation to Turkey, protesting against the non-pay-ment of coupons. The German Parliament is legislating to prevent abuses in connection with the Polynesian labor traffic. A Canadian loan of a million and a half sterling is announced. Obituary.—Professor Wheatstone, of telegraphic celebrity; the Dean of Chichester. The Prince of Wales has left Cairo, where he was splendidly received. Cambridgeshire Stakes.—Sutton, 1; Lord Gowan, 2; Grey Palmer, 3. Serious and destructive floods have occurred in England, but they are partially subsiding.