LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 1034, 7 October 1868, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

London, Aug. 15._0 3i?-*»W Her Majesty is in Switzerland, travelling incognita as the Countess of Kent, attended by Lord - Stanley. She . passed through Paris on her /way to Lucerne, and visited the Emperor and Empress, when the Prince Imperial was introduced. The Queen urged the Empress to use her influence to prevent war. She devotes herself to excursions. Her health has improved lately. She has been subject to fainting fits. A man, reported to be a Eenian, has been apprehended at Lucerne on a charge of intending \to assassinate the Queen. He has been found to be insane. War is still imminent between Erance and North Germany. The dissolution of Parliament is fixed for the 9th of November. A dreadful railway accident has occurred at Holyhead. The limited mail train ran into a train loaded with petroleum, which caught fire. Thirtythree persons were killed or burned to death, including, Lord and Lady Earnham. A bailiff and a constable have been murdered at Tipperary. A landlord and four others were wounded. A disastrous fire has occurred at North-umberland-house. The Earl of Mayo leaves England in October to assume the- Governor-Gene-ralship of India. , The Emperor Napoleon has held a grand review in Paris, at which Lord Napier was present. Eairwind won the York Handicap. The Prince of Wales has been gazzetted colonel of the Rifle Brigade. The promotions consequent on the Abyssinian war have been gazetted. Theodore's son is to be educated for the Indian Civil Service. The new American Minister has arrived in London. A immense destruction of flax and f- hemp has taken place at St. Petersburg by fire. The beat was intense. , M. Rochefort/ ;of '__a I/anterne;' bas L been fined 10,000 francs/ and was 1 also : condemned to suffer one year's imprison- ° ment; He escaped to Brussels. : ..Only three days have been left for the London replies to letters; by the last Australian mail. The Atrato, with the Panama mail, left . .on August Ist, and put back on the 13th, totally disabled: > Tasmanian despatches of the 14th, by r the Ruahine, were detained at Panama. J. V. Hall is a passenger.

The wheat harvest is good. The.price fell 10s: in a fortnight. Obituary. — '- Jacob Omnium," Mr. Cooke, the editor of the Saturday Review,. General Winey, the Dean of Peterborough, Thaddeus Stevens, the Marquis of Downshire, Sir Edward Blakeney, Dr Elliotson, General Scott, the Earl of Shannon, John Pease, Eight Hon. Stephen Lushington, George Cattermole , the Earl of Bantry, Ada Menken.