LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 732, 4 October 1867, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Lonbon, 9th Aug. ■;

A long and exciting debate took place in the House of Commons on the night of - theßthinst., on the Eeform Bill, which had been returned from the Houße.of ., :r Lords. - It is denied that the Danish G-ovent-' ment has any intention of entering' into negociation with the United States Government for the sale of the Island of St. Thomas. ■■'- ; ' The British Government is about to despatch a large body of troops' to Canada, to repel a threatened Fenian iavaaipa from the IJaitei States,

In the House of Lords last evening, a B.ilLtQaibolish Church^Rates was rejected by a large majority. I Upwards of a hundred miners have been killed by an explosion in Moravia. Napoleon is making extensive preparations for war. No explanation is given. The Reform Bill was returned from the House of Commons to the House of Lords yesterday, when a motion was made tore-consider the action upon the disagreeing amendments. | An express train got off the rails at Brayhead, Ireland, yesterday, when in transit from Dublin to Wicklow, and eight passenger-carriages ran down the side of a. deep bluff into the sea, causing the immediate death of thirty persons. The ex-Queen of Naples, Marie Sophie Amelia, is dead. In the House of Lords, last evening, the Government submitted the new Postal Treaty with the United States for reducing the rates of postage between the two countries. Despatches from Paris announce the occupation of three Provinces in Cochin China by the Trench forces. New Yobe, 10th August. The jury in the case of John Suratt are still out (12 noon). There is no prospect of their coming to an agreement. Santa Anna has been removed from Campeachy to Tera Cruz, where he will be tried for conspiracy against the Liberal Government. Senator Harris has published a letter, in which he says that the present attitude of party leaders to secure political power by making the Southern States, Ne^ro States, is most alarming, and people of the North must not allow its success, if they value their own freedom and prosperity. Secretary Stanton still retains possession of the War Office, but the President is preparing for action, and will soon eject him. Jerry O'Brien, who murdered his mistress some months ago, was executed in the Tombs yesterday. He richly merited his fate. London, Aug. 10. Consols, for money, 94£. Shipping.— Arrived— July 29, Electric, from Auckland. Sailed— Csssarea, for Nelson.