ARRIVAL OF THE HOME MAIL BY THE NORTHAM.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 46, 22 February 1864, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE HOME MAIL BY THE NORTHAM.

The Alhambra, which has arrived at the "Bluff, brought the Dec-ember Home Mail in nineteen boxes. The folloAving summary of intelligence is from the Age of the 12th :— ENGLISH AND MISCELLANEOUS. The October Australian mails arrived in London on 13th December via Marseilles, and Kith December via .Southampton. The Prince of "Wales has taken his seat in the Privy Council. The CroAvn Prince and Princess of Prussia have returned to the Continent. At the pedestrian foot race at Hackney "Wick, for the champions belt, Lang, the present holder, again Avon it, and £50 added. The Oxford • University beat the Cambridge University at the great foot ball match. Sir Rutherford Alcock will shortly leave for Japan. The Lords Justices have reversed the order of the Master of the H-olls, by which the Great Sliip Company was to be wound up. By this decision a judgment creditor is confirmed in his rights. i Aji action for libel has been instituted against Lord Leitrim at Dublin. The Palmerston scandal turns out a scarecrow. High officials crack jokes upon it. Ministerial colleagues propose calling him " our own co-re-spondent." King beat Heenan in the fight for £2000 aside and the championship of the world. He gave him' a tremendous thrashing. They. were both afterwardc indicted before the magistrates. The papers contain a long account of the fight. They say Heenan can't fight, he can only wrestle. Heenan has disappointed his friends greatly, They fought qwenty-six rounds, the fight lasting for forty minutes! It is understood the Bishopric of Tasmania has been offered to the Ilev. Mr. Allwood of Sydney. Mr. Maguire has been elected Mayor of Cork for the fourth time. Thackerary, the celebrated novelist was found dead in his bed. Colonel Crawley has been acquitted of both the** charges preferred against^ him. r .• Mr. * PaypaSter ' • Scales ; has been

placed on the half pay list of his rank from the time he was^strticl*; off the strength of the regiment. . . . : Sir William Somerville; has been created Baron Aihlumney. ,y -. A. great fire occurred in Wood-street, London. A "■ large number of ■warehouses were burned to the ground, and property to the value of £100,000 was destroyed; • ■ •*' Sir George Clarke succeeds Sir John Lawrence at the Indian Board. : Townley, the murderer of Miss Goodwin, haa been-' sentenced' ''to death; since then the plea of insanity has been raised, and memorials to the; Queen have been initiated in; support ofthe plea. - -IThe Judge recommended a Commission >■ of Inquiry into the case. Canon Wordsworth, of Westminster has written a phainphlet opposing the appointment of Mr.: Stanley, as Bean, on the ground of theological unsoundness. Mr. Stanley has just married LadyAugusta Bruce, sister to tbe deceased j Governor- Geheral of India. It is expected that the judgments' of the Privy Council Avill be favorable to the writrrs of* the " Essays and Eeviews." Mr. Justice Wightman is dead Sergeant Shee succeeds him. It is rumored that the Duke of Newcastle i.s about to resign the Secretaryship to the Colonies, in consequence of ill-health. Cardinal "Wiseman has been in A r ery bad health, and is also expected to resign. He will probably be succeeded by Dr. Manning. The P. and O. Company complain that their tender for doubling the mail service "to Australia, which was sent in to the Postmaster- General of England J at his OAvn request, had not been submitted to the colonial authorities. Cold is still being found where the Koyal Charter was lost. In consequence ofthe outbreaks the lash has been frequently used at Wool- | Avich lately. j Trade in Lancashire is improving, and things are in a hopeful condition. Tlie Wilhehnsberg, a German emigrant ship, bound to Australia, Avas lost getting out of tlie Elbe. Only -11 out of nearly -400 passengers were saved. hover has been raging at Whitehaven to a. fearful extent. Eully one-eighth oi' the population haA-e died. A section of the Warrior has been, destroyed by a 600-pounder Armstrong.gun. Mrs. Cook has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the mail robbery. A sentinel afc Windsor Castle has shot himself dead. OiiiTUAiti". — Dean of Lincoln, KeA". Professor A. S.' Thei wall, Sir li. Martin (eminent surgeon), Mr. Green, Sir Eirhard Glyn Harding (artist), Admiral Plumridge, Viscount Middleton.