ENGLISH NEWS VIA PANAMA.

Southland Times, Issue 612, 31 December 1866, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS VIA PANAMA.

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S KAIKOUKA AT WELLINGTON.

ADDITIONAL INTELLIGENCE FROM EUROPE AND LATER FROM AMERICA.

(From the " New Zealand Advertiser," Dee. 24.) The s.s. Kaikoura arrived in harbor yesterday, at 3 p.m. We have the thank Mr Naylor, the Purser, for supplying us with our files. From the " Panama Btar and Herald" of the 24th November we "extract the following. [The mail was brought to the Bluff yesterday by the IJangitoto.] New York, Nov. 10, 1866. The elections on the 6th in the States of New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and New Jersey resulted in large Republican majorities, and additional Radicals were chosen to the next Congress, thus sustaining the action of Congress against that of the President. Elections on the same day in the smaller and former, slave States of Maryland and Delaware went the other way. Our latest news from Europe is yesterday. The Prussian army in Saxony is reduced to a peace footing ; military reorganization is progressing in Austria. The rumor of an alliance between Spain and Brazil against Paraguay, is denied. The deputation to England on behalf of the Nicaragua railway is said to have received encouragement from Lord Derby. Forty persons on board the American vessel G-eneral Sherman, stranded on the shores of Corea, in Northern Asia, were massacred by the natives. France has declared war sgainst Corea for similar atrocities. The London " Herald " says Mr Gladstone's mission to Eome is to reconcile the Pope to his fate. The trials of the Fenians in Canada are progressing, and several more have been convicted and sentenced to be hung. It is generally understood, however, that none of them will be hanged, but will otherwise be severely punished. Gold to-day 146.