ARRIVALOF THE AUGUST MAILS FROM EUROPE.

West Coast Times, Issue 333, 17 October 1866, Page 2

ARRIVALOF THE AUGUST MAILS FROM EUROPE.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS- TO SEPTEMBER 11. The P. and O. Company's steamer Bombay arrived in Hobson's Bay on the 10th instant. She brings intelligence from Europe .by electric telegraph to. the 11th September. LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. London, Sept. 6. A great Reform demonstration has taken place at Brookfields, in Birmingham. There were 20.000 persons present. Mr Bright denounced the Tory Government, and recommended a general reform organisation Chief Justice Cockburn refused to reappoint Mr Beales, the leader of the Reform League^ and a lising barrister. The last year's Atlantic cable has been recovered and spliced. M. Drouyn d'Lhays, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, has resigned. Napoleon anticipates an era of tranquility. Peace has been ratified between Austria and Prussia, and an Indemnity Bill has been passed in the Prussian Chamber. President Johnson had been enthusiastically received at New York. At the wool sales, the opening prices have been fully maintained. Bank rate of discount, 6 ; Consols, 89f, The cholera in England is subsiding. The formal negotiations for the conclusion of peace between Prussia and Saxony have commenced. The demobilisation of the Prussian army will commence on the 7th of >Sep timber, Discount 3 \w cent,

September 11. The Radicals in America continue to abuse President Johnson. An Imperial decree has been published in Vienna, ordering the reduction of the army and navy to a peace footing. The Liverpool and Manchester cotton markets are quiet. The difficulties between the United States and Mexico are increasing. France and Austria have signed a treaty regarding the cession ., of Venetia. l The Austrians have transferred Venetia to a French Commissioner, who arranges the transfer, i The Venetian population are to choose their deputies by univeisal suffrage. Napoleon wrote to Victor Emmanuel stating that it was always his intention that Italy should be free from the Alps to the Adriatic, and mistress of her own destinies. President Johnsop has restored Texas ta the Union, and expressed his determination to maintain his previous policy. , The stock of cotton at Liverpool on the 31st of August was 880,000 bales. The Bank of England returns fo» the week ending the 6th September show the following results as compared with the previous , account : — Increase in reserve of notes, L 43,000 ; increase of bullion, L 363,000; decrease in bills discounted, L 712,000. Fair Dhollera cotton, 9d.

Additional items, extracted from Messrs Greviile and Company's (Router's agents) telegrams :—: — INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAMS. London, August 31. A proclamation from President Johnson restores Texas to the Union. The Canadian authorities ask for two regiments of infantry. N Italy and Austria have concluded negotiations of peace. A deputation of bankers have waited upon Mr Disraeli, and urged the necessity of adopting measures to mitigate the commercial crisis. Mr ' Disraeli promised his earliest consideration of the matter. An insurrection of 1000 Polish exiles has taken place at Stikitzkx, near Siberia, ivhich has been suppressed. " The Times " denies the rumor as to a matrimonial alliance between the King of Greece and the Princess Louisa. , Prussia has withdrawn her troops from Bohemia, and is disbanding them. September o. The Austrians have commenced the evacuation of the Quadrilateral. September 7. The Emperor of Austria has reduced the expenditure of his Court to five ■millions of florins. The Archdukes have rencmnced a portion of their appanages. New conspiracies have *been discovered in Mexico, and many arrests have been made. President Johnson has declared the blockade of Matamoras, which had been ordered by Maximilian to be null and void. September 10. Mr Seward presented Rimera to President Johnson, who expressed a hope that Mexico would be freed from foreign invasion by November next. At Doucaster, to-day, / the Great Yorkshire Handicap was won by Caithness. Civil war is reported to have commenced in Japan. Schosbam and the Tycoon have had three engagements, all of which have terminated favorably to the later. The foreign consuls at Shanghai are about to make a formal protest to the Chinese Minister at Pekin on the subject of the existing commercial and municipal regulations, and they intend ask- > ing for fresh concessions. • A court martial has gone to Jamaica to try the officers implicated in the proceedings which took place in the suppression of the- insurrection, The Prussian Chambers have voted an address of congratulation to the King. Orders have been issued by the Italian Government reducing the army by 120,000. Wool is higher, copper higher, and imports are lighter than they were last month. Confidence is being rapidly restored in commercial circles. . September 11. The Emperor has published a decree in Vienna ordering the reduction of the army and navy to a peace footing. The Russian Government have asked the aid of the Chinese Government in preventing the escape of the insurgent Poles 850 have already been taken prisoners.