NEWS BY THE MAIL

Southland Times, Issue 1279, 15 July 1870, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL

VIA SUEZ. .[A portion of the foUowing .was issued as att Extraordinary shortly after noon on Wednesday.! A A * y The recall of the Imperial troops has been suspended. The 18th Begimeht remains.-- Australia till August. Sir Soger. Tichborne is in the Bankruptcy Court. . 1 The Queen has left for Scotland after several state appearances in London. The Princess Christian was safely delivered of a daughter. __ Mr .Disraeli's new novel, "Lothario," has created a great sensation, and a large sale has taken place. . A conference of all the evangelical alliances will meet in New; York next autumn. Ballarat is to be the seat of a new bishopric. Mr M'Culloch, of Victoria, has been knighted. i. The winner of the Derby was Kingcraft, and of the Oaks, Namos. : - The Falmouth and Malta cable hae been successfully laid. Colonel Uawley has been appointed to the command of the Staff Colleige. '■ Sir "Wm. Mansfield is appointed to the command in Ireland. Mr Disraeli is indisposed, a : " . Victor , Emmanuel has recovered hie health. Murders and threatening letters are still rife in Ireland. * The Mordaunt appeal case has been rejected. . .. ; , I .• The second reading of the Irish Land Bill in the House of Lords has been fixed for the 14th. Four Englishmen have been carried off by brigands near Gibraltar. A ransom of £6,000 is demanded. Disturbances from republican, bands have, occurred in Italy, but were dispersed wherever the troops appeared j they are, however, giving great trouble. Some Fenian troubles have occurred in England, and in the provincial towns a seizure of men and arms has been made. Extraordinary precautions are taken- in ther dockyards, r a< a \ - r r -* *r * r In" the three " matches between the American yacht .Sappho and the English .yacht, Cambria, the first and last America won, arid in the second the Cambria, refused to startthrough a misunderstanding. The Prince of Wales has offered a Challenge Cup Jar American and British yachts of a hundred tons and upwards. Earl Eussell introduced the Colonial question in the House of Lords, by moving an address for a commission of inquiry into the best means of guaranteeing security in every of Her Majesty's dominions.. ..... . A c Fenian raid in Canada of 20,000 men has; - been^ ignominioualy foiled President' Grant issued a proclamation, warning; the raiders of the illegality of their proceedings, arid this has produced a good effect between the two countries. Numerous Fenian leaders were captured and a quantity of stores seized by the American Government. t . a -; r - Prince Arthur is at present at the head of the volunteers. The laying of the submarine cable ftaxa | Malta has' been completed as far as Lisbon, and its completion to Falmouth is expected daily. , .- . The Great Eastern lias 1 ' home, after successfully laying the cable between Bombay and SueZi -*- The Royal Academy dinner in the new .galleries was a great success. The Prince of Wales and the Duke; of Cambridge were among the speakers. ' : " l ;.

The Prussian Beichsrath have re-esta-blished capital punishment in the Federal Code by 127 votes against 119. -Two hundred Fenians of all factions united in an invasion of Western Canada. The Canadian Government adopted energetic defensive measures. President Grant issued a proclamation, warning persons of the illegality of taking part in the invasion. The troops repulsed the Fenians in two engagements, in which the invaders lost one gun. The United States marshal arrested the Fenian General, Biel, whose expedition has been disavowed by tne president of the Fenian Council. Prince Arthur marched to the frontier with the volunteer companies. The Fenians being attacked, fled precipitately. Tiie "Washington Government ordered the arrest of the chiefs of the invasion, and the seizure of all arms and ammuni tion. The English Minister at Washington has expressed the satisfaction felt^ in England at the conduct of the American Government. Much of the success against the Fenians is attributed to the prompt action which President Grant took. Precautions have been taken at the Woolwich powder magazine against possible Fenian attempts. Police-boats are : cruising in the Thames. Further agrarian crimes have occurred in Drogheda and Enniskillen. Colonel Battley is appointed to the command of the staff. The Government has granted £1,000 for ah expedition in search of Dr Livingstone. The receipts of the Suez canal to the end of April amount to £77,000. A family of seven persons have been murdered near "Oxbridge. The murderer is arrested. The crime was committed from motives of revenge. The troop steamer Jumna has passed through the Suez Canal, and arrived home. A great fire has occurred in Pera, one of the suburbs of Constantinople, by which the British Embassy, the American and Portuguese Consulates, _ and a vast amount of property, were destroyed. The estimated los 3 amounts to five millions sterling. A fearful loss of life. also occurred — 250 bodies have already been recovered. ■ An earthquake has occurred at Oaxaca, Mexico, by which 100 persons were killed. An odrei* of the Privy Council throws '*" open i;o competitive examination the entire civil service, with the exception of the Foreign Office. A plot against the French Emperor's life was discovered on the 29th^ April, . and seems to have been hatching for months. Large seizures of revolvers and * explosive materials have been made, and '.; numerous arrests have been effected. The of the plot was fixed for the -Bth of May. Bourie/ a soldier and deserter, was first arrested, when a *. revolver and some suspicious letters were found upon him. He was to present ai petition to the Emperor, and seize the opportunity- to shoot him. The object of the conspirators was to proclaim a republic, and destroy the Tuileries. The , ' Opposition papers treat the conspiracy as an invention of the police, which had - been successful in adding one million to the affirmative votes in the plebiscitum. , — The Emperor has been congratulated on his escape by every European sovereign. Napoleon's satisfaction with the result of the plebiscitum has been diminished " "by the majorities who voted against it in the large towns, and by the fact that ,50,000 soldiers voted "No." . _ New Ministerial appointments have been made as follow: — Due de Gram- . ; mont, Foreign Affairs ; M. Miege, • Publi- Instruction ; M. Plichon, Public • Works. ■ ■ The French Cabinet are* preparing a new electoral law. The financial position of the Papacy is almost desperate. An apology .has been extorted by the a English ambassador from the Papal Goyernment for the expulsion of English ladies from Borne. News has been received, that four Englishmen have been captured by brigands near Gibralter, but have since been released. Disorders have occurred in the Italian province of Como, but they were checked by the defeat of the republican band, who escaped into Switzerland. They were afterwards captured by the authorities there. The report that fresh bands of brigands were in course of formation is contriadicted. Some Italian war ships have arrived at Caprera, having been sent there by the Government, who feared the formation of revolutionary bands. The (Ecumenical Council terminated the discussion as to the infallibility of the Pope, and the proclamation of its definition is to be read on Saint Peter's Day. - •; An attack on the King's palace at Lisbon was made by Marshal Saldanha, with six battalions of troops. of the Bang's guards were killed and wounded. Saldanha has forced the King to dismiss the Soules Ministry, and accept his. Spanish affairs are unchanged. Esparterb, after prolonged negotiations, has refused the Spanish Crown. The Emperor Napoleon, on the reception of the plebiscitum report, thanked r = ~~the-_nation, and promised to persist in a illiberal policy. ' _$Ie conspirators against the Emperor's life are to be. tried at the High Court. , ; The indignation which was first excited \-v;.t. in England against the Greek Govern- -> merit has. gradually subsided, but a deter--H: mination has been arrived at to reform „ and uproot brigandism. i.yyZ nd^fr Gladstone stated that despatches had been received explaining the relations '' "betw-en. the Marathon brigands and persons of rank at Athens, but several 1 " weeks must elapse before the English -^.Government can decide upon tho policy

The Two Thousand Guineas Stakes were run on the 2nd May, at Newmarket, and won easily by Mr Merry's Macgregor ; Lord Stamford's Norman by being second, and Lord Falmouth's Kingcraft third. The wool sales terminated on 12th May, in which 164,277 bales were sold at a higher average than in the preceding series. The next sales commence on 16th June. The stock is large ; an advance is expected. Tallow is firm. Copper unchanged. Money market firm. The value of money is rising. The Tasmanian loan of £100,000 has been successful. Australian debentures in brisk demand. The Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Mauritius on 24th May, and would probably leave on Bth June, to meet Commodore Stirling at the Cape of Good Hope, and proceed to Australia. In a Calcutta Derby sweep, the first prize of £10,000 was won by an editor. The traffic of the Suez Canal has greatly increased. Numerous steam companies are competing. Five steamers are loading tea at China, to proceed home via the Canal. Storms have taken place in the China Seas. A gunboat, steamer, and ship have been lost. President Grant has published a proclamation against the Fenian raid. The Fenian General O'Neil, has been arrested by the American authorities,' who ordered the arrest of the chief promoters; of the Fenian disturbances, as well as their ammunition. The present Fenian council has disavowed General O'Neil's attempt upon Canada. Prince Arthur left Montreal for the frontier with several cprhpariies of volunteers. Mr Gladstone stated in the House that the correspondence regarding the Greek question had not yet been collected, but information had been received concerning secret relations between some high officials in Greece and the brigands who captured and massacred the English travellers. Much time would be necessarily occupied before the Government can decide upon their policy. The Irish Land Bill has passed its first reading in the House of Lords. Mr Disraeli has been prevented through indisposition from attending Parliament. Sir William Mansfield, late Commander-in-Chief in India* has been definitely appointed to the command in Ireland. The Peninsular and Oriental Company has declared a dividend of 3 per cent, for the past half-year. Begarreau has won the French Derby. Small-pox prevails to an alarming extent in Paris. The editors of the Beoiel and Bappel have been condemned to imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 1,000 francs each. In the course of his speech on the reception of the report of the plebiscitum, Emperor Napoleon thanked the nation for the result, and said that the object of the plebiscitum was to ratify the constitutional forms of the Empire; and added that he would not deviate from the liberal policy which had been initiated, but would enforce respect for the national will. Sir Francis Smith haa-beea gazetted Chief Justice, and Mr William Lambert Dobson Puisne Judge of Tasmania. The Archbishop of Canterbury is so much better, that it is reported he will soon resume his public duties. The rumor that Mr Bright intends to resign his seat in the Cabinet is quite unfounded. The Abyssinian "War Committee has resumed its enquiries into the extravagant expenditure connected therewith. The Court of Chancery has arranged certain terms upon which the claims of the existing policy-holders in the Albert life Insurance Company are to ba settled. The Chester Cup was won by Disturbance, and the Great Northern Handicap by Bobstay. The Marquis of Hartington, on behalf of the Government, has introduced a Ballot Bill. A bill has been introduced in the American Senate to provide for a telegraphic cable of 8500 miles, from America to Asia. The capital required is ten million dollars. An enormous outflow of emigrants to Canada and the United States still subsists. The Earl of Minto has been invested with the Cross of the Thistle. The high commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is Mr James Bryce, professor of civil law at Oxford "University. The bishops of Chichester and St. Asaph have been consecrated. Earl de Grey and Kipon is installed grand master of the order of Freemasons, the Earl of Carnarvon being deputy. An address and a costly testimonial were presented to the Earl of Zetland, the retiring grand master. Mr Barnes, ex-mayor of Manchester, has given £16,000 for the erection of an hospital. The new Stanley-park is opened at Liverpool. An art and industrial exhibition has been inaugurated at Derby by the Duke of Devonshire. A statue of Mr Gladstone, by Acton, has been presented to the Corporation of Liverpool, and unveiled at St. George's hall. A ship canal from Manchester to Liverpool, is proposed. Many anniversary meetings of religious societies have been largely attended. Most of the societies show increased incomes; but the Church Missionary Society confesses to a deficit of £12,000. The Liberation Society has resolved on a more aggressive policy, seeking the disestablishment of all state churches. The half-penny stamp on newspapers and book packets comes into force on the Ist of October. A ship's name-board was found at the Lizard on June 6. The name was partly obliterated. There was also an empty box found at the same time, marked " Barron and Austin."

5 A debate on colonial relations took , place on April 26 in the House of Com- ; moDS, on Mr Torrens's motion for a , select committee to inquire into the political relations and modes of official interl communication between self-governing ; colonies and the mother country, and to I report what modifications were desirable, i and offer any practical suggestions as to i restriction of the Imperial veto, and the appointment of diplomatic envoys by the colonies. Mr Eastwick seconded the • motion, dwelling mainly on the commer- • cial advantages resulting from the colonies l as an argument for retaining them. Viscount Bury moved' the - previous, - question. He denied the existence of . colonial discontent, and feared that the ■ proposed inquiry would only irritate and , precipitate a rupture. If an investigation was really desirable, he would prefer a ; Boyal commission. Sir C. B. Aderley, Messrs Maguire, Fowler, and Mon3ell i followed. Mr Monsell defended the policy i of the Government;, and denied the i existence of a colonial grievance. Hej i contended that an inquiry would be likelyj only to produce jealousy and ill-feeling.i , Viscount Sandon and Sir C. Dilke, having ! spoken on opposite sides of the discussion,; Mr Gladstone closed the debate by assuming the full responsibility of all that had been done. He declared that no new : policy had been inaugurated, but only a development, and application of the principles which had beeu acted oh by ; former Ministries. He justified the withdrawal of the troops as being beue- ; ficial to the colonists, and refused to consent to the proposed committee. The previous question was carried by a majority of 43. ! The vagueness of Mr Torrens' motion on colonial relations is universally con--demned by the press ; but if confined to an enquiry upon New Zealand affairs, they woul_ have a definite result. The Government, however, have acted on the advice tendered in the debate, and will ask Parliament to guarantee a loan of one million for road making and the promotion of emigration to New Zealand. The bill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister was passed in the House of Comtaoris, but was thrown out in the House of Lords. Sir Boud dell Palmer's motion on the massacre of Englishmen by Greek bandits has been discussed. It appears that the troops attacked the brigands, whereupon the three gentlemen were at once killed; They had demanded a ransom of £25,000 and an amnesty. The payment of the money was agreed,,. to, but not .the • amnesty. It •is not- yet known what course the Government intends to take in the matter. Loutre, the Greek Minister for War, resigned immediately after the affair. " The "Greek Government have presented Mrs Lloyd, the widow of one of the murdered men, with -£1,000 sterling. It is very generally believed that the Greek Opposition party instigated the brigands to this atrocity. This' the Opposition strenuously deny; butno confidence can, of course, be- placed upon their words. '.; Mr Gordon, chairman of the Oriental Bank, has been granted £5,000. The JFalmoiith and Malta submarine cable has been successfully laid. The Wonga Wonga's letters via San Francisco were delivered May 24. The mails sent in April reached San Francisco on June 7. The London Chartered Bank has declared a dividend of 8 per cent, and bonus. The Australian Agricultural Company makes a call of ss. Victoria sixes, 116;' fives, 104£ ; Sydney, 104£ ; South Australia, 114. Three Italian war-ships have arrived off Caprera, the Government fearing the formation of fresh revolutionary bands. The Italian Minister of Public Works has declared that the Government was actively engaged in arranging for the adoption of the Brindisi route for the mails. Charles Dickens died at his residence at Gadshill on June 9. He was seized with paralysis the previous evening whilst sitting at dinner, arid never recovered consciousness afterwards. Obituary. — Charles Dickens, Mark Lemon ; Consul Cameron, of Abyssinia ; Bishop Grant ; Sir John Simeon ; Mr W. A. M'Kinnon, Mr Bichard Tattersall, the Dean of Bochester, Marshal Hesse, Earl Howe, Prince Demidoyt, Sir E. Antrobus, Lady Auckland, Bey. A. Campbell (rector of Liverpool), Count Stackleberg (the Busian ambassador at the Tuileries), M. Villemain (Secretary of the french Academy), General Grey on, M Marie (French lawyer).