The Liberal party in the British House of Commons has split on the Reform question. It is now thought the Derby Government is safe. Our latest news from Mexico represents Maximilian hemmed in at Quetaro, and fears are entertained that when he is taken prisoner he will he killed. Vera Cruz is also besieged on the land side, and communication with the country cut off. The Russian-American Treaty which President Johnson recently laid before the Senate and which took the whole country by suprise, has been ratified by that body by a vote of 3(1 to 2. It is looked upon as a master piece of diplomacy on the part of Secretary Seward who is the originator of it, to check the movements of England to confederate her North American Colonial possessions more firmly together, and erect them into a monarchy to be styled the “ Kingdom of Canada." Governor Eyre, late of Jamaica, has not been acquitted, his trial is going on.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 23, 8 June 1867, Page 4
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