LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 234, 25 July 1872, Page 5

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

The smallpox is creating great alarm in British Columbia. The steamer Prince Alfred has been quarantined th°re. There is a dispute in Victoria as to whether the City,

Provincial, or Dominion Governments regulate quarantine. The steamer ldaha, from Esquimalt, ran on the Chain Rocks. The steamer California, bound to Litka, has been wrecked. The passengers in both cases were saved. Washington. The correspondt nt of the Alta California.^ writing Tinder date the 19th, sayß the' American Government will not object to the postponement of the arbitration, and thinks it will lose nothing by giving Great Britain a pretext to withdraw. No extra session of Senate will be called, and there is no information to warrant the belief that the efforts to adjust the differences will be inefectual. The eastern strikes are subsiding. At a p ; ano makers' meeting, a resumption of work was strongly urged. Singer's sewing machine workmen and sugar refiners arc still out ; also the workmen on the central railroad. The German men-of-war Venietta and Gazelle captured two Haytian corvettes, and hold th'm till payment is made to German merchants for losses inflicted on German shipping. 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 convents, which he denounces as a violation of international law. He declares that a regard for highest interests only prevents his leaving Rome. Reconciliation is impossible, and a conflict between the Holy See and Italian Governi* inevitable. The Pope cannot submit to such usurpations and requests Antonelli to protest against them to the Foreign Powers. A cable telegram, dated June 10th, referring to the boat race between England and America, says the Atalanta crew entered the \ race to day under most unfavourable circumstances. After the storm ceased the water was rough and lumpy, the tide running very str ng. It was half-past six before the race commenced. The Atalanta crew won the toss and chose the Su- rev side of the river. The F.nglish crew got a length a-head dining the first two hundr< d yards, and soon increased the gap to a length and a half, and though the Ainei icans made desperate efforts to recover their loss and partiaLy succeeded, they soon began to fail, and although they rowed the race out pluckily, the English crew came out easily more than twenty leugths ahead. The time was twenty-one minutes sixteen seconds, over a course of foul? miles and two furlongs. The Spanish steamer Guadaya exploded her boilers at Marseilles. Forty-four passeng' r3 and eleven of the crew were killed. The steamer afterwards conflagrated, the fire communicating to the deck. Several hundied bales of cotton were burnt. Marguerite Dixblauc has been sentenced to death for the murder of Madame Kiel. The barque Attend, from Bremen, has arrived at New York after one of the most disastrous voyages on record She had 475 passengers, and no doctor. Small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever broke out during the passage. Twenty children and seven adults died before reaching Sandy Hook, and five more children died since her arrival. The passengers were chiefly Poles. Fmall-pox is raging in Dublin. By the explosion of a powder-magazine at Oswestry, Shropshire, several persons were killed.