SHIPPING.

Southland Times, Issue 1541, 23 February 1872, Page 3

SHIPPING.

Arrived. — Ascalon, Jerusalem, Newcastle, Maeduff, Martha Birnie, and ' Carnaquheen. | Sailed. — Hernandez, Challgrove, Mary Blundell, Galatea, Lalla Rookh, Thoa. Bell, and Decapolis. Jan. 20. A national thanksgiving will take place to morrow for the recovery of the Prince of Wales. Prince Arthur was present at the Berlin anniversary, and received the Order of the Black Eagle. The Telegraphic Congress at Home has terminated. At the Colonial Institute Mr "Westgarth read a paper on Colonial delations. The Tiehborne trial has been resumed. The Attorney- General denounced the claimant as a conspirator, perjurer, forger, impostor, and villain. He considered, the pretender to be Arthur Orton. The claimant's prospects are gloomy. The French Assembly rejected Thiers' proposed tax on the raw material. The proposition was vehemently opposed throughout France. England pledges itself not to raise the wine duty. Frenchwomen are subscribing liberally towards the German indemnity. Wool is firm ; wheat, 645. ; copper, £97 ; tallow unchanged ; Sydney oil, £37; sperm, £92; Queensland cotton, lOd. Debentures. — Victorian, sixes 114^, fives, 105; Sydney, 104| ; Adelaide, short 109, long 114 ;. Tasmanian, 110£ ; Queensland, 112. Consols, 92-f. Arrived. — Goolwa, Duke of Argyle, and Annie Duthie. Sailed. — City of Dublin,' City of Florence, Dilharee, Damascus, and Windsor Castle. The Brindisi mail was delivered yesterday. Jan. 22. The Queen opeas Parliament on Feb. 27 with a public state ceremonial. The Crystal Palace festival will take place on May 1. It is rumored that the French Government has entered into negotiations with leading financiers, pledging itself to allow them a tobacco monopoly for 30 years, for guaranteeing the indemnity and the evacuation of France by April next. A new trial in the Firebrace case has been refused. The English and Scottish Bank has declared a dividend of 7 per cent. The Nevada's mail is not expected until the 30th January.