LATE TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 427, 20 January 1875, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS.

London, December 3. The Pope, on receiving Archbishop Manning, said that he rejoiced greatly aL the Progress being made by the Roman Catholic religion in England. Paris, December 3. A letter published from the Comte de Chambord recommends his adherents to do nothing which may tend to delay the restoration. London, December 5. Advices from Paris state Marshal M'Mahon's message has been generally approved.

The insurrection in Buenos Ayres has ended, General Mitre, the commander of the insurgents, having surrendered with his entire army. December 8. Mr. Disraeli, who has been suffering from gout, is improving. He has gone to Bournemouth for a change. Russia has invited the Great Powers to send delegates to St. Petersburgh in continuation of the Brussels Conference. The Board of Trade gives the November exports at eighteen and three-quarter millions, and the imports at twenty-eight and threeeighths millions. Madbid, December 12. General Loma. with 80,000 troops, attacked the Carlist position towards Tolosa. After two days' obstinate fighting he was repulsed with heavy loss, and forced to retreat on San Sebastain. # London, December 13th. A telegram published by the "Times" states that the Russians are making a campaign against the Turmocans ; that the Schikishlow column is marching up the Pttrek Valley, while the petrolovic - force has crossed the Amoudaria and commenced operations on I Khiva. i Parliament will reassemble on the sth February. The kingdom of Karfur has. accepted the annexation to Egypt which "tlie Viceroy has for some time been negotiating. December 15th. Lord Napier of Magdala retains the command of the Indian army for another year, at the request of the Indian Office. - The steamer Lombardy has returned to Southampton greatly damaged. 'A succession of heavy gales on the English coast has caused many disastrous sttipwrecks. m Pabis, December I7fch. - The Assembly "has adopted a bill subjecting all foreigners wbo are 1 bom in France to military service in the French army. Calcutta, November 10th. Upwards of 1000 deaths from an earthquake are already reported. Several districts have still to furnish statistics. December 10th. The transit of Venus was successfully observed here. The Italian astronomers' first examination at Mudnapoh was disturbed by small clouds, but good spectroscopic observations of Venus were obtained with an ordinary speculum. Professor Tacchini observed details relating to the planet's atmosphere. At Roorkee, over 100 photographs were taken. Elsewhere the results are generally fair. Kubbachie, Dec. 9.

General Addison's arrangements for taking observations of the transit of Venus were most elaborate, and all hia previous computations were correct. The first external contact happened before sunrise, at lOmin 26seo past 6 ; the first internal contact was when the sun was about four or five of his diameters above the horizon at 13 mm before 7. The second internal contact happened about 25min to 11a,m. ; the last external contact happened about 11.3 a.m., when the planet quitted Ihe sun not far from its highest point. _________________