DIRECT TELEGRAMS FROM EUROPE TO AUSTRALIA.

Southland Times, Issue 1672, 6 December 1872, Page 2

DIRECT TELEGRAMS FROM EUROPE TO AUSTRALIA.

London, Nov. 20. A serious crisis has arisen at Versailles. M. Thiers is unwell, and has" threatened to resign the Presidency of the Republic^ unless a large vote of confidence is given on the various constitutional projects submitted. Much uncertainty exists in consequence. At the East Indian wool sales, 6,000 bales were offered, and the prices realised were higher. Nov. 21. The London colonial yroail saies opened this evening. There was a preponderance of home over foreign buyers. The biddings commenced with great spirit. Upwards of 4,000 bale 3 were offered, Cape of Good Hope wools preponderating. | Combing fleece was eagerly competed for, at prices 2d better. Clothing fleece in fair demand, Id dearer. At the Liferpool sales prices advanced. H.M.S. Myrmidon, gun-vessel, is ordered on the Australian station. Viscount Canterbury has been created an earl. Mr Childers and Mr Cashel Hoey continue in temporary charge of the Victorian agency. The appointment of a Governor of South Australia has been deferred. The steamship Atrato has been condemned by the Board of Trade, her shaft and cranks being unfit. A great influx of bullion has taken place into England. Nor. 22, 12.7 p.m. Tbe crisis at Versailles continues, pending the reception of the report of the committee appointed to draw up a replj to M. Thiert's message, demanding a vote of confidence on the constitutional projects submitted. An appeal to the country is threatened. The Reorganisation of Counties Beforra Bill has been read a first time in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies. A rule nisi has been applied for in connection with the trial of the Tichborne claimant. The bar object to accept briefs. Altogether 189 metropolitan policemen have been dismissed from the force for insubordination, and the ringleaders in the affair are being prosecuted. Not. 23. Consols, 92|. At the colonial wool sales 55,000 bales

were offered, and an advance of from Id to 2d established. King Amadeus of Spain is seriously ill. A bill has been introduced into the French National Assembly for restoring the property of the Orleans princes. In the Prussian Chambers a bill has been introduced forbidding the imposition or proclamation of religious punishment in any legal or civil suit. Further large fires have occurred in America. M. Thiere consents to the adoption of a parliamentary system with Ministerial responsibility. Germany supports the Zanzibar expedition against the African slave trade, both morally and diplomatically. An amalgamation has taken place r between the British Extension, China, fc^and Australian telegraph companies. The Farl of Kimberley declines to receive the petition for separation from Northern Queensland except through th« Governor of the colony. The Admiralty have selected a site at Greenwich Hospital for the erection of a memorial to the soldiers who fell in the New Zealand war. Australian shipments are increasing:. New South Wales fives, 104 i; New Zealand fives, 101 i, sixes, 111 ; Bank of Australasia, 55 ; Union Bank, 46 ; London Chartered Bank, 25£. Wool, oil, tallow steady ; hemp firm ; Adelaide wheat, 64a to6Bt< Wallaroo «opper, £79 ; tin drooping.