LATEST TELEGEAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 1609, 23 July 1872, Page 3

LATEST TELEGEAMS.

Small-pox is causing great alarm in British Columbia. The steamer Prince Alfred has been quarantined. There was a dispute in Victoria as to whether the city, the provincial, or the Dominion Governments should regulate the quarantine. The steamer Idaha, from Esquimalt, ran on the Chain rocks, and the steamer California, bound to Sitka, has been wrecked. In both cases the passengers were saved. The Washington correspondent of the Alta California of the 19th June says that the American Government will not object to a postponement of the Geneva arbitration, and thinks it will lose nothing by giving Great Britain a pretext to withdraw. Ifo extra session of the Senate will be called, as there is no information to warrant ibe idea that the efforts to adjust tne differencea will be ineffectual. The Eastern strikes are subsiding. At a meeting of piano- makers, the resumption of work was strongly urged. Singer's sewing-machine workmen, and those of the sugar refineries, are still out, also the workmen on the Central Railroad. The German men-of-war Yenietta and Gazelle, captured two Hoyhen (?) corvettes, and hold them until payment of indemnity to German merchants is made. It is expected that the German influence will be largely felt at the next election of Pope. The Pope has addressed a letter to Cardinal Antonelli, deploring the approaching suppression of the Italian conTents, and denouncing it as a violation of international law. He declares that it is only a regard for the highest interests that prevents his leaving Eome. .Reconciliation is impossible, and a conflict between the Holy See and the Italian Government is inevitable. The Pope cannot submit to such usurpations, and he requests Antonelli to protest against them to the foreign powers. A telegram, dated June 10th, referring to the race between England and America says: — The Atalanta crew entered the race to-day under the most unfavorable circumstances. After the storm ceased, the water was rough and bumpy, and the tide running very strong. It was halfpast six before the race commenced. r lhe Atalanta crew won the toss, and chose the Surrey side of the river. The English crew got a length ahead in the first two hundred yards, soon increasing the gap to a length and a half, and though the Americans made desperate efforts to recover the losb, and partially succeeded,

: they soon began to fail, and although they rowed the race out pluckily, the ! English crew came out easily, more than twenty lengths ahead ; the time being 21 minutes 16 seconds, over a course of four miles and two furlongs. The boiler of the Spanish steamer Guadaya exploded at Marseilles, when 4-4 passengers and 11 of th« crew were killed. The steamer conflagrated, and the fire communicated to the dock, when several hundred bales of cotton were burnt. Marguerite Dixblanc, the servant who murdered her mistress in London, has been sentenced to death. M. Thiers objects to a triumvirate, but is in favor of the election of M. Grevy as Vice- President. The barque Attend, from Bremen, made the most disastrous voyage' on record. She had 475 passengers, with no doctor. Small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever broke out, and 20 children died before reaching Sandy Hook (New York.) Also, seven adults and five more children have died since her arrival. The passengers are chiefly Poles. Small-pox is raging in Dublin. By the explosion of a powder magazine at Oswestry, Shropshire, several persons, were killed.