ARRIVAL OF THE PANAMA MAIL AT WELLINGTON.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 283, 27 June 1868, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE PANAMA MAIL AT WELLINGTON.

(From the Grey River Argus Extra)

Wellington, Tuesday, 23rd. June, 5 p.m. The s.s. Rakaia, with the English Mail, arrived at 3 o'clock this morning. She left Panama on the 24th. CraNEBAX, SUMMARY. News from New York to May 9, and Europe, via Cable, May 8. Prince Humbert and Princess Margureta have been received with acclamation in Florence. Whelan has been committed for trial for the assassination of D'Arcy M'Gree. The murder was planned by 46 Fenians, and lots were cast who was to be the murderer. A Bill has passed the Roumanian Chamber, regulating the position of the Jews in that country. The articles are hard, as by them Jews cannot settle in surban districts without consent of the Municipal Council, and even with it, not in rural districts; cannot hold freehold property; cannot hold or rent land, wine shops, mills, distilleries, bridges, vineyards, sheep, runs, cattle, stalls, or hotels on the high-road; cannot undertake contracts for State ; cannot undertake business without special act; caDnot recover debt; cannot deal in food or drink for Christians. Five hundred Jewish families were evicted from the District of Bacon. A select committee of 19 Peers has been nominated by the House of. Lords to consider the compulsory Church Rates Bill. The Conslitutionel denies any disagrement between M. Rouhier and Marshall Neill in the Commission on the Budget. Difficulties on financial subjects are reported to exist between France and Tunis. The Egyptian G-overnment has contracted a loan of 250,000,000 of francs. The Roumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs in a Circular addressed to the representatives of European Powers at Bucharest, denies the persecution of the Jews, and complains of the Austrian Consul-General at Jassy. Austria still affirms they are persecuted. Refic Effendi, the Schikhul Islam, has been dismissed by the Sultan, and Sassan Effendi appointed instead. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) New York, May 9. The arguments for the prosecution of President Johnson were concluded on the 6th. The Senate met on the inst., and, with closed doors proceeded to the consideration of various orders presented relative to taking a final vote for impeachment. The Senate finally agreed to adjourn to Monday, and to take a final vote on the articles cn Tuesday, at 12 o'clock, without debate. Senators will be allowed until Thursday to file written opinion

regarding their votes, Senate then adjourned to Monday, 11th inst. Decision of the impeachment question has been definitely postponed until Thursday, the 14th inst., when the fate of the President will be decided. Judging from from the tone of the New York press, and proceedings in Congress, appearances are more in favor of Johnson's acquittal than his conviction. The question to be answered by Senators are : —lst, Has the President the power of removal without the concurrence of the Senate ; 2nd, Does Secretary Stanton come within the tenure of the Office Act; 3rd, Can the President lawfully make an ad interim appointment during the session of the Senate; 4th, Was the President guilty of misprision or perjury in scheming to prevent the operation of the tenure of Office Act ; sth, was the President guilty of a misdemeanor in making his Washington, Cleveland, and St. Louis speeches. The steamer River Queen was burned to the water's edge on Wednesday night, at Marine City, Michigan ; value 16,000 dollars. Ex-President Bnchanan is dangerously ill at Wheatland. A cyclone, half a mile in width, passed over portions of Davidson and Williamstown counties, Tennessee, on Wednesday afternoon, Ist instant, sweeping away houses, trees, and fences, for a distance of some ten miles. The Canadian House of Commons passed a resolution appropriating £1,100,000 sterling, for the purpose of building fortifications ; also, by a majority of 61, to reduce the Governor's salary of 50,000 dollars to 32,000 dollars.

London, May 4. At a Cabinet Council, during a discussion, Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Earl of Malmesbury, Keeper of the Great Seal; and Gathorne Hardy, Secretary of the Home Department, openly seceded and refused to serve longer under Mr Disraeli's lead. Mr Disraeli sought an immediate audience with the Queen, and placed his resignation in her Majesty's hands; but it was not accepted.

Mr Disraeli had said that the right to dissolve Parliament was only reserved by the Ministry in case an issue upon the Irish Church question was pressed to a division. After speeches by other members, the debate ended. A large and noisy meeting was held in St. James's Hall on the 6th, in favor of the continuance of the Irish Church Establishment. The Archbishop of Canterbury in the chair.

Mr Whit bred moved in the House of Commons a resolution to withdraw the annual grant of £30,000 to Maynooth College. Motion agreed to. The Reform Bill for Ireland was read a second time. Petitions for the commutation of the punishment of the Fenian prisoner Barrett, convicted of complicity in the Clerkenwell explosion, got up by John Bright, were presented to Mr Gathorne Hardy. George Francis Train is still in prison for debt. General Nagle aud other Fenian prisoners have been released from confinement on giving the required pledges. Paris, May 8. It is decied that the French Ambassador at St. Petersburg had had a consultation with the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in regard to the Eastern question. France has suddenly bronen off all diplomatic relations with the Government of Tunis. The amount of specie in the Bank of France has increased during the past week to the extent of 14,000,000 of francs.

CANDIA. A battle,, which lasted the entire day, was fought at Apocorona, on the 14th of April, and the insurgents claimed a victory. Fights are said also to have taken place between the army of Libron and the troops of the Sultan on the 11th, 12th, 15th, and 16th April, but without decisive result. JAPAN. London, May 6. A telegram from Hong Kong states that the United States Minister to Japan, General Yan Yalkenburg, is at Osaki, and has made a demand upon the Mikado for indemnity for the damage occasioned to the property of American citizens in the late disturbances. He is supported in his demand by the French Envoy, and by the presence of a portion of the American and French East India fleets.

RUSSIA. Count Stackleberg has been ap-

pointed ambassador at Paris, vice Baron Budberg rerigned. Baron De Talleyrand Perigord, French Envoy Extraordinary, has had a consultation with Prince Gortschakoff upon the subject of mediation by France and Russia in the Turko-Cretion question.

AUSTRIA. A despatch states that Baron Crevelli, the Austrian Ambassador at; Rome, died in that city on the 2nd instant.

(By Cuban Cable.) llavanna, May 13, 10 a. m. News has been received from Europe and the United States up to evening of the 12th Map. The Impeachment Committee was to give its decision yesterday, but proceedings were suspended until Saturday, when they will finally declare whether the President is guilty or not guilty. The general belief is that he will be acquitted. Lord Brougham is dead. The German commercial treaty, recently made with Spain, has been satified by the North German Diet. The South German States threaten to leave the customs diet, the address issued by the party of German united, should receive consideration at the hands ofthe Zullverein." Mr Bancroft, Anerican Minister, is urging the Bavarian Government to join in the natuarlisation treaty which was recently concluded between North Germany and the United States. The Westland Observer informs us that a very distressing accident occurred in Hampden street, Hokitika, on Monday morning, resulting in the death of a little boy three years of age, named Peter M'Farlane. The following are the circumstances —As the 11 o'clock train from Hokitika to the Hau Hau reached the Hamburgh Hotel, one of the passengers called upon the driver to stop, as a child had been run over by the train. The driver accordingly pulled up, and proceeded back to the spot where the child was lying. On taking him up he observed that the wheel of the carriage had completely smashed his head, scattering his brains for a considerable distance around. The child was taken to his mother's house, which was close to the spot, and Dr Rosetti sent; for but of course could do nothing the child being quite dead. An inquest was held on the following day at the Hamburgh Hotel, when the driver of the carriage, who had been taken into custody, surrendered to his bail. The jury having heard the evidence of several witnesses, whose testimony did not prove that there i was any blame attached to the driver, returned a verdict of, '' Accidental Death," with the following rider, " That they expressed a hope that the authorities will take some necessary steps to compel the tramway company to make some arrangement whereby the drivers of the respective carriages may be able to give notice of their approach either by whistle or otherwise." The driver was, of course, discharged from custody. A committee was appointed by the Provincial Council to report on the late Westport wharf, and it has brought up its report: —The committee conclude their report by expressing their intention not to recommend that any action should be taken on the matter referred to them, but they cannot avoid expressing an opinion that the supervision of the work at the Buller wharf was entrusted to inefficient hands, that as a consequence the contractor was not duly kept up to his duty, that he was paid (in fact over paid) for his work without sufficient enquiry, and that no payment should have been made under the circumstances without appeal to the Provincial Council.

The amount collected at the offertory of the Church of England, on Sunday last, was £3 Os 6d. Messrs Morrison, Wrigg, and gentlemen connected with the survey staff here, have made their excursion to Mount liochfort, have returned, and are now en route for G-reymouth, where they will examine the Brunner mine in the same manner. They no doubt have learnt at Mount Rochford what they could have known without the trouble of going there, namely that a magnificent coal mine exists in the bowels of the range, and that the " great lump of coal" is no bad designation for the mount in question. But that capitalists will gorge even such a bait as that, and the few other millions of acres, is not at all probable, and the whole present survey is a farcical waste of money. We shall have more to say on this subject, but in the meanwhile would wish our Nelson rulers distinctly to understand, that on the "West Coast, those who do not laugh are incensed at the folly of the whole affair.

ADDISON'S FLAT.

(FEOM OTJIt OWK COEBKSPONDEKT.) A sad accident occurred yesterday morning to a miner on Addison's named O'Brien. In attempting to go down a shaft, he carelessly put his foot into a bag which he thought was swung on to the end of the rope attached to the windlass, which not being so, gave way, and he was precipitated to the bottom, a depth of forty feet. Fortunately there was about four feet of water in the shaft, and a bucket lying on its side, the two iron bauds of which he burst in his fall. If his descent had not been thus checked he would inevitably have been killed. No bones have been broken, as far as can be ascertained as yet, but his present condition is verv precarious indeed. Mining affairs are looking very prosperous. Sherlock and party bottomed on the Shamrock Lead last week, and divided £2O per man for their share. Four Extended claims have been applied for, and been granted on the Shamrock lead during the past three weeks, and another was surveyed yesterday by Mr Coe, mining surveyor. All the claims working are now nearly on the bottom and have in every case struck good payable washdirt, except in Yizard and party, who took up their claims too near the range, but are so confident of success in obtaining good gold on the Shamrock lead, that they have applied for new ground further, and have already commenced operations.