ARRIVAL OF THE "TARARUA," WITH THE MAILS VIA SUEZ, AT BLUFF HARBOR.

Southland Times, Issue 1051, 4 November 1868, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE "T A R A RUA," WITH THE MAILS VIA SUEZ, AT BLUFF HARBOR.

! The following General Summary is taken from the Melbourne papers : — London, 11th September. The Queen and the younger members of the Eoyal Family have returned to Windsor to-day after their Swiss tour. The Queen's health is much improved since her residence at Lucerne. Excursions have been made in the neighborhood by Her Majesty, accompanied by Princesses Louise and Beatrice. Prince Arthur has ascended Eighi. The Duke of Edinburgh honored by his presence the marriage of Commander Campbell, of the Galatea, with Miss Archer. The Prince officiated as best man. The Czar is about to visit the King of Prussia. The great Crystal Palace demonstra tion, on behalf of the Throne, the Church, and the Constitution, was a conspicuous failure. Only one peer and one member of Parliament took part in the meeting. One speaker said that, compared with Gladstone, Judas Iscariot was a gentleman. Only 2200 persons were present. Next day 50,000 persons attended a Foresters' fete. Eichard Baggalay is the new SolicitorGeneral. The French journals still write on the subject of the Queen not returning the visit of the Empress of the French when passing through Paris. An explosion of fire-damp had occurred on board the small steamer Briton, about to sail from Southampton for the Cape of Good Hope. No lives were lost. The team of English cricketers have played in the United States and Canada, and sailed for Liverpool. A furious hurricane occurred on the 22nd of August. Scores of vessels were wrecked on th c north-east coast and the Mersey, with great loss of life. Four thousand cabs struck work in London in consequence of a dispute with the railway companies. Great public inconvenience was occasioned thereby ; but the strike has at length terminated. The intended fight for the Championship has collapsed — Allen Goss was arrested by the police and bound to keep the peace. A committee has been formed to present Mr Beales with a testimonial of LIO,OOO, in acknowledgment of his services during the passing of the Eeform Bill. John Bright, Mr MiU, and Professor Fawcett are on the committee. The honor of knighthood has been confirmed on Andrew Fairbairn, Captain Arrow, and on Mr Watkin, M.P. Count Louis Cambaceres has been killed by falling down a precipice on the Alps. Stephens, the Fenian head-centre, has returned to Paris, and resumed the teaching of languages. A cathedral in memory of Cardinal Wiseman is about to be erected at Westminster. A central site has been purchased for L 50,000. Archbishop Manning and the Archbishop of Paris are to be made cardinals. Five artillerymen returning from the regatta at Loughrea were drowned by the upsetting of a boat. A committee of scientific gentlemen has been formed, for the purpose of surveying Mount Sinai, to determine the Israelites' line of march. Six sailors have been drowned at Portland Eoads by the sinking of a boat. Sir E. Phillimore has been seriously injured by rolling down a precipice at Aschal. A dry dock, weighing 9000 tons, and costing a quarter of a million sterling, has been launched at Woolwich. Formosa won the St. Leger. The British Association's annual meeting took place at Norwich; Dr Nookes presiding. The iron-plated ships Warrior and Eoyal Oak came into collision in the Channel. Both suffered damage. The International Exhibition is to be held in Berlin in 1872. The Times expresses surprise that no telegraphic communication exists between Australia and India, and considers it inexplicable that the Home Government should so long have discouraged such an undertaking. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, at a banquet given by the Mayor of Londonderry, congratulated the audience on the cessation of all disturbances. Colonel Pringle, of the Coldstream Guards has been found dead, having fallen down a ravine near Geneva. A destructive fire took place in the ballroom and picture gallery of Northumberland house. Very rich specimens have been received from the Natal goldfields. The discovery is attracting much attention. The captain of the ship Vinieira has been fined for serving bad flour to passengers. Dr Pusey has addressed a remarkable letter to the Church conference, praying that body to assist the Church in resisting Coleridge's Bill for the Abolition oi University Tests. The request was unfavourably received. Mr Gladstone, Mr Childers, and other Liberals assail the Government for increasing the public expenditure. The Chancellor of the Exchequer makes a vindicatory explanation. The Eev. Mr Drew has been attacked at Youghal by a party of men, who demanded arms. Many shots were exchanged, but the assailants ultimately retired. 1 An extraordinary trial has takes place

afc Antwerp. Several colliers wera coiivioted of causing the death of two fellow workmen, by hanging them to a cross and other tortures, because they would not embrace the Catholic religion. The prisoners were sentenced to imprisonment. Greece has decided to adopt the decimal system. The Liberal programme at the ensuing election includes the reduction of the national expenditure. Lord Stanley writes to the British Minister at Washiugton to the effect that Government is prepared to entertain the question of naturalisation. A Boyal Commission will be appointed to examine into the subject, but legislation and a treaty must be deferred until next session. The international yacht race between England and France was won by an English yacht. The Anglo-American. I yacht race round the Isle of Wight was j won by the English, the American yacht's ' jibboom being carried away.Buildings of hewn stone, a ruined castle, and irrigating canals have been discovered on the banks of the Little Colorado. Lieut.-Colonel "Ward has been reappointed master of the Sydney Mint. An extensive fire has occurred in the workshops of the Royal Mail Company at Southampton. Obituaet. — The Bishop of Peterborough, Earl Abergavenny, Lord Howard De "Walden, Generals Cockburn and Mackenzie, Sergeant Goulbarn, Lord Normanton, Lord Ashburtou, Dean Milman, and Dr Mackenzie. A street celebrity in Paris, Ismail Khan, supposed to have been in the receipt of a large pension for having betrayed Herat, was found dead in his bed on Sept. 1. Deceased'was remarkable for his long white beard, his national costume, his obstinate silence, and his love of music ; he was constantly to be seen at the opera, and he contributed some Persian articles to the ' Eevue des Deux Mondes.' A Jew, the owner of a house in Wilna which caught fire, cried out, " Fire, fire," in the Polish language, the use of which is forbidden in the streets. The next day he was brought up before the magistrate, and fined 25 roubles for violating the law. For a single house in the Eve de Richelieu, Paris, at the corner of the Eve Menars, about to be demolished for one of the new streets leading from the G-rand Opera, the jury has awarded the large sum of 2,600,000 francs, or £104,000. In 1816 the same house was sold for 20,000 francs. Among the indemnities accorded to tenants of this and adjacent houses a money changer receives £1400 j a jeweller, £2400,- a milliner, £2600; a dentist, £3200; an hotel-keeper, £18,000. The late Cardinal D'Andrea, who was supposed at one time to have lost his faith, maintained his charity to the last. His will concludes with the following paragraph : — " I leave to the Holy Father the cardinals, the prelates, and my other enemies my sincere and complete pardon." The Berlin correspondent of the 'Daily News' mentions that two new improvements in the famous needle gun have recently been submitted to the Prussian War-office for approval. One, which is the invention of Lieutenant liandom, gets rid of two movements in loading, and increases the rapidity of fire about 25 per cent. The other, which is due to a country gentleman named Borst, also gets rid of some of the movements, and nearly doubles the rapidity of fire, raising it to 14 or 15 sjiots per minute. The latter invention moreover fills up the hollow chamber behind the charge, diminishes tha escape of gas, and increases the force oi' che exploison. The Paris paper mentioned a day or two since the arrest of a jeweller's wife, Madam Eaudard. for having sold ornaments for watch chains in the shape of lanterns. The Minister of the Interior has addressed a severe communication to journals which had reported this arrest, to the effect that Madame Faudard had been simply " invited" to attend at the Prefecture, accompanied by two or three agents of police. The ' G-azzetta del Popolo,' of Florence, gives an account of a new attempt at flying. An engineer officer had invented an apparatus consisting of a pair of large wings made of talc, and moved rapidly by cords attached to a man's feet. The inventor was so certain of the success of his scheme that he laid a wager with some of his brother officers that he would cross at Aequi the Bortnida, a wide but shallow river, in the air. He commenced his flight and at first all went well, but suddenly he fell on the pebbly bed of the stream, breaking an arm and a leg. He is now in a fair way of recovery and determined to recommence his experiments. One of the sons of the Grand Duchess Mary of Leuchtenberg has run away with a fair lady, living, as it would appear, under the protection of Prince Gortschakoff. His imperial uncle of Eussia is pretty accustomed to this sort of escape on the part of his nephews, and provided they do not terminate fatally — that is, in marriage — usually forgives the delinquent. The eldest, Prince Nicholas, carried off a charming Russian danseuse, Mdlle. Caroline ; and the second, called after his grandfather, the popular Prince Eugene, Vice-King of Italy, did his best to marry a French actress ; the third, Serquis, has fled accross the frontier on the wiugs of love, in company with Prince Gortschakoff's friend. Count Louis Cambaceres, in an excursion to the Col de Balme, when descending from the upper part to the G-lacier dv Trient, suddenly lost his footing on the ice, and fell down a tremendous precipice. His guide immediately went to Martigny and gave the alarm, and the authorities of that place had the dead body removed and carried to Chamounix, where the countess was awaiting tier husband's return. The

deceased was son of Count Etienns, formerly deputy of the Aisne> and nephew of the Dake de Cambaceres, Grand Master of the Ceremonies at the IPrench Court. It is understood that the mental derangement of the Empress Charlotte has resumed an acute form; that she is now subject to attacks of furious mania ; and, on the authority of her medical attendants, ihe %< beginning of the end" is now so near that telegrams are passing daily between Vienna and Lacken, her place of confinement. • " Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" was true of the ill-starred empress during her tenure of power ; and now that recovery seems more than doubtful, it is hardely humane to hope for the prolongation of a life which has had scarce a gleam of happiness for last three years. The accounts received in Paris from the wine districts of France are, on the whole, very encouraging with respect to the prospects of the vintage. In several districts the crops will be above the average ; in others they are reported " fair ;" Lorraine and Alsace promise a magnificent yield. It is only in Provence, Languedoc f and the Bordelais that there will be any ground for complaining of a deficiency. A communication from Lequeitie, in the Bay of Biscay, says : — " Two of the ministers of the Queen of Spain, M.M. Marfori and Belda, who accompanied the court to this place, have narrowly escaped drowning. Both these high personages went out in a boat for a sail ; the Minister of Marine took the rudder, and as this was the first time the statesman who directs the Spanish navy had seen the sea, he steered so well that the boat capsized. Both ministers were of course in the water, and neither being able to swim, would undoubtedly have perished, if aid had not reached them. Much mirth has been indulged in among the visitors here at this incident." On the 17th August, about 9 at night, an extraordinary meteoric whirlwind appeared between Ballengo and Ivrea, in Italy. In its passage it spread desolation around, devastating houses and fields, and uprooting the largest' trees. Happily there is no loss of life to deplore. Count de Montalembert the other day was seated in a light carriage, the horse of which was rather fiery. The driver, in order to give the animal a feed of hay, imprudently removed the bridle. The horse at once attempted to darfc off, and the coachman, in endeavoring to restrain him, was killed. The count was thrown from his seat, but happily escaped with only a few slight bruises. The will of Thaddeus Stevens gives most of the property of the deceased to a nephew, one Captain Thaddeus Stevens, on the condition that he abstains entirely fro oa the use of intoxicating drinks. Should the captain fail to conform to these conditions the property is to be appropriated to the erection at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ot an orphan asylum, to be conducted without distinction on account of race, color, or religion.