LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

West Coast Times, Issue 309, 19 September 1866, Page 2

LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(FROM TIIE S. M. lIERAT.n's KT>'O' george's sound special telegraphic CORRESPONDENT.) London, July 27. A Parliamentary committee have recommended a weekly mail to Bombay, and a direct line* of telegraph via Alexandria. • July 28. Preliminaries of peace were signed yesterday, and an armistice indefinitely proclaimed. Prussian troops remain in Bohemia and Bavaria. The Reform League was refused permission by Government to assemble in Hyde Park.

July 29. The preliminaries of peace have been ratified. Austria recognises Prussian arrangements for the future of Germany, and Italy requires the unconditional union of Venctia by phbiscituni,August 2. The* truce between Italy and Austria has been prolonged for eight days, pending Austria's reply. Mr-- Gladstone's Church Rate Abolition Bill has been read a second time. August 3. Four weeks' armistice is proposed between Italy aud Austria, the basis Being the unconditional cession of yenetia.

The total sales of cotton during the week amount to 70,000 bales, and, of Surats, 40,000 bales. Total imports of week, 86,000 bales, and of 'Surats, 60,000. The total stock of cotton amounts to 900,000 bales. •

August 3. An armistice is proclaimed, and preliminaries for a month's peace have been agreed upon. Austria is excluded from the new German Confederation, and is to pay a war indemnity of 20,000,000 thalers.

Victor Emmanuel is at Padua. An Italian proclamation has been issued for the reconstruction of Yenetia.

The Atlantic cable was successfully laid by the Great Eastern, and communication with New York is perfect. The Queen and President Johnson have exchanged congratulations on this great event. Monster lie form meetings were held after the Hyde Park affair, but they passed off quietly, The Derby Ministry was entertained at a banquet at the Mansion House. Parliament passed a resolution declaring unnecessary the punishments aud executions that took place after the Jamaica rebellion was suppressed. Of the Queensland loan, LI 14,000 has been taken up, the balance was offered at LBd minimum. The London Registrar reports*cholera on the increase. * The bank rate of discount is still 1 0 per cent. ♦The Government promise a revision of the Bank Act next session. Augus,t 11. At the opening of the Prussian Legislature, i the King's speech was silerit about .French, mediation. ' • Prussia rejects the Conference proposed by Russia. Fiance demands the restoration of the French frontier as existing in 1814. This point is anxiously avoided as yet. The Empress of Mexico is in Paris. Tho English Parliament has, been prorogued. The Queen's speech was silent on Roform. Cholera is still spreading, but active measures arc being taken to arrest its progress. The Bank rate of discouut is still maintained, and great dissatisfaction is expressed. A deputation on the subject waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The fight between Mace and Goss for the championship was won by Mace. A private telegram states that France has demanded the Rhine provinces. It is feared this will lead to serious difficulties, perhaps to a general European war, as the German states are not likely to yield them. it is now admitted by atl military authorities that the .victory of Sadowa, which completely ruined the Austrians, was owing to the Prussian needle guns which routed the cavalry. Prussia, is reported to be making military preparations. All soldiers on furlough have been called in. A resolution has been rejected in the House of Representatives in i America for conceding belligerent rights to the Fenians. A tremendous fire occurred at Portland, in the State of Maine, the loss being 10,000,000 dollars. The Birmingham Banking Company has stopped payment, the liabilities amounting to two millions sterling. Hungary is said to be raising recruits for Austria.

< August 15. Ihe liquid itors of the Agra 'Bank announced a first dividend <jf 5s in the bound, payable on the Ist September. In the Liverpool and Manchester cotton markets, prices closed firmly. The proposal to station a man-of-war at Aden was vetoed by the Viceroy. A breach has occurred between President Johnson and the Congress which caused dissention in the Cabinet. The number of deaths from cholera in London last week amounted to 1400 There has been a great storm in the Adriatic. The Bank of Ofcago directors recommend no dividend for the past halfyear. The Union Bank of Australia have declared- a dividend for the half-year of 8-h per cent. The annual dividend of the London Joint Stock Bank is 20 per cent.