LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

West Coast Times, Issue 629, 30 September 1867, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

London, August 9. A long and exciting debate took place in the House of Commons on the night of the Bth instant, on the Reform Bill, which had been returned from the House of Lords. / Amendments had been made in the Upper House, modifying the lodger and the copyhold and leasehold franchises,^ * allowing use of voting yapers and con- J ferring franchise upon undergraduates* 1 * of universities, all of which were re* ™ jected by the House of Commons. But another amendment, providing for the representation of minorities, was agreed* to. It is denied that the Danish Government has any intention of entering into • negociations with the United States Government for the sale of the island of St. Thomas. The British Government is about to despatch a large body of troops to Canada immediately, to repel threatening invasions from the United States. Over 100 miners were killed by an explosion in Moravia. Napoleon is making extensive preparations for war. No explanation is given. The Reform Bill was returned from the liouse of Commons to the House of Lords yesterday, when a motion -was made to re-coiisider the action upon the rejected amendments. Some debate ensued, when the subject was postponed to the 12th inst. An express train got off the track at Bray Head, Ireland, yesterday, when on transit from Dublin to Wicklow, and eight passenger carriages ran down the side of a high bluff into the sea causing the immediate death of thirty persons. The ex Queen of Naples, Matrie Sophie Amalie, is dead. In the House of Lords last evening the Government submitted the new postal treaty with the United States for reducing rates of postage between the two countries. Despatches from Paris announce the occupation of three provinces in Cochin China by the French forces. Aug. 10. Consols for money 94£.