LATEST AMERICAN AND ENGLISH NEWS.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 206, 22 January 1866, Page 2

LATEST AMERICAN AND ENGLISH NEWS.

[BY ELEOTEIO TELEGKRAPH.] Sydney, Bth January. (From the Argus, 9th Jan.) The Atrevida has arrived from California, with 580 tons of wheat. She sailed on the 23rd of November. The Kadosh and Anglo-Saxon were then loading for Sydney. The papers contain English news to the 10th November. The Danish ministry has resigned. Preliminaries for a treaty of commerce have been arranged between England and Austria. The Shenandoah has surrendered to the British Government. The captain and crew have been made prisoners. Cholera is raging fearfully in Palestine ; it still continues in Paris, but is decreasing in Italy. It has appeared at Oporto. j The British Parliament has been further I prorogued to the 23rd of November. ! Mr. Bright is mentioned as Secretary for India. Mr. Gladstone, at a dinner at Glasgow, spoke highly of Lord Russell as Premier. The Ereiich Government has decided to reduce the French army and navy expenses by thirty million francs. Prussia has joined the International Sanatory Conference. The Austrian Government has notified its intention to adopt a free-trade policy. The Pope has dismissed M. Merode. . The Italian elections gave an overwhelming majority to the modrate party. Hancock's corps has been ordered to Maine, to prevent the Fenians making an inroad into Canada. General Logan has been appointed Minister to Mexico. Preston King, Collector of Customs at New York, has committed suicide. The Georgia State Convention has adopted an anti-slavery constitution. Secretary M'Culloch intends submitting a plan for the national debt, with a view to its speedy redemption. Sir Erederick Bruce has been appointed umpire to adjust the claims between the United States and the Columbian Eepublic. The Eenians have engaged a spacious building at New York, as the headquarters of the movement. Mr. Seward has written to the British Government, declining to press the arbitrations, or to submit any questions to a joint commission, unless all claims between both Governments were submitted. "Wirtze was hanged at "Washington on 10th of November, and was buried with Payne & Co., the conspirators. The Eederal army has been reduced to 180,000 men. The Californian markets were rendered much firmer by the news that the Chilian ports had been blockaded, although advices have been received stating that the British admiral had refused to recognise the blockade unless the usual sixty days' notice is given. Elour 25c. higher ; wheat, 2 dol. to 2 dol. 5c. ; barley, 10c. dearer ; oats', 1 dol. 50c Mexican affairs continue unsettled. The reports in circulation are so contradietery respecting the progress of the conflicting parties that nothing definite is known. The Daily Alia of November 23, contains the following from London, of the 12 th November. When Captain "Waddell heard of the cessation of hostilities he left the Pacific, ran for Lisbon, and paid off the crew there. The Shenandoah then returned to Liverpool, where the American consul at once communicated with the authorities. Certain commercial houses there, interested in the Shenandoah's cruise, endeavored to raise difficulties ; but the Government promptly handed the vessel over to the American representative, and discharged the officers from custody. Captain Waddell wrote to Earl Russell, denying having committed depredations after hear ing from an English vessel that the Confederation had succumbed. He said that he then took the quickest steps to surrender his vessel intact to the British Government, believing that the ship should revert to the American Government. The Times acknowledges that the American Government cannot abandon their claims for losses occasioned by the Alabama, but still is unlikely to press them; and when public temper calms, there will be little disposition to dwell on present difficulties. The French Government are prosecuting the Opinion Nationale newspaper for publishing the Mexican war news. Public meetings have been held in Paris and Manchester, to raise funds to aid the emancipated negroes.