TERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN WAR.

West Coast Times, Issue 26, 29 July 1865, Page 2

TERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN WAR.

GENERAL SURRENDER OP SOUTHERN ARMIES.

RETREAT AND CAPTURE OF PRESIDENT DAVIS. ;L^

CAPTURE AVD DEATH OP LINCOLN'S ASSASSIN.

AMERICAN AGGRESSION UPON MEJKKK).

MONEY EASY.

By tho Lady Darling we are put in possession of a Nelson " Examiner" oxtra of 21st, which contains the following :-— Tho Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Royal Mail Company's steamer Tararua arrived this morning, with telegraphic intelligence, from England to the 10th of Juno. T!u'ouKh_Bojnejbmig]ing atthe Sydney Post office, tho mail wiuTtfoi; put on board the Tararua before she left that port, althoujHi notice had been given of her hour of sailing. The Jeddo with tho English mail was three days behind time, and would scarcely reach Sydney before the 17th or 18th ; we shall not therefore get tho mail till tho 30th. We take' tho following intelligence from the " Sydney Morning Herald" of the 18<h of July : — GENERAL SUMMARY. Parliament is to be dissolved on 10th July, whon a general election takes place. Gladstone's reduction of tea and incomo tax duties is uiuoh applauded. Lowe's Anti-Reform Speech against encouraging democracy has caused groat sensation. Sir; George Grey replied that Government Would bo guided by public opinion. Tho financial statement of tho Chanoollor of tho Exchequer shewed a surplus of rovenue ovoi. expenditure of L^OOOjOOO sterling. >

On receipt of the news of Lincoln's assassination, a universal feeling of indignation was expressed by all classes. . Lord Palmerston, upon resuming duty after a short illness, was received in the House with loud and enthusiastic cheers. Sir Charles Wood, it is reported, is to be raised to the peerage by the title of Earl of Halifax.

The proposed pension for Mis Cobden is stated at LIQOO per annum. The universal feeling in England is adverse to a continuance of the New Zealand war, and the policy of the local Government there is severely canvassed. It is stated that General Cameron has asked for reinforcements of 2000 men. The WaxSecretary declines, and repeats his instructions for tho withdrawal of five regiments. The Great Britain steamer arrived on May 20th, after a passage of sixty-four days ten honrs.

Constance Kent's trial for the Road Hill murder takes place in London instead of Wiltshire, owing to local prepossessions. Party rioting has again broken out in Belfast.

Emigration from Ireland to America is likely to exceed this year any since tho famine. *Xrho distress in the cotton manufacturing districts has almost ceased.

A letter to Mr Bright, M.P., stating that on the termination of tho American war two million and a half bales of cotton.will be^ available, is causing great decline iv price. Edmunds' pension has been rescinded after a long investigation. After six months' competition between the Armstrong and Whitworth guna, it has resulted in favor of the Armstrong. Mr and Mrs Kean's season tickets in New York realised 6000 dols at auction. Leech's sketches, &c, have been sold for L40OO ; . and a pension of £100 a-year has been conferred on his widow by the Queen. Tho fight for tho championship between Wormald and Mace takes place on November Ist.