ENGLISH NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE JULY MAIL.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 349, 12 September 1868, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE JULY MAIL.

VIA. SUEZ. "Wellington, 12.30 p.m Arrived English mail via Suez : The s.s. Mataura arrived at midnight ast night. Brings files of Sydneypapers with English news, via Suez. The P. and O. s.s. Avoea arrived at St. G-eorge's Sound, on the 28th Aug. with intelligence to Aug. 12.

GENERAL SUMMARY-

London, July 14. Overland mails due in London on the 13 th Julv, Were not delivered till the 15th. Queen at Osborne, in good health. Proceeds to Germany in August. State concert and Public Breakfast at Buckingham Palace Gardens, was a great success. Duke of Edinburgh has been feted at the Crystal Palace, 30,000 persons were present. Sir R. Napier has been raised to peerage under title of Baron Napier of Magdala with a pension £2OOO a year, He will get commandership in chief of forces in India, worth £30,000 a year Approaching general elections, causing excitement in response to requisition Lord Mayor called meeting of citizens at Guildhall, to express views on Gladstone's Suspensory Bill. Nine speakers heard. Then general row ; Lord Mayor was struck twice, the meeting separating in confusion, and no motion put. Conservatives of Edinburgh invited Lord Stanley to stand for the representation of the City. Graduates of the University of London support Lowe. Parliament rapidly preparing for dissolution. Bill passed Commons to make provision for appointment of members of Legislative Counci, of New Zealand and remove doubts as to previous appointments. Bill also passed defining powers of General Assembly of New Zealand, and to abolish any province iu the Colony or other boundaries of such province. Government intend to grant a medal to the troops engaged in the New Zealand war. Lord Shaftesbury has introduced a bill into the House of Lords regulating Clerical vestments. Lords Amendment Scotch Reform Bill accepted by Commons Important meeting of gentlemen interested in the colonies held at Willis' rooms for formation of Colonial Society in London to extend the knowledge of colonies and strengthen good a feeling with the mother country. It is denied that Sir James Ferguson has accepted the Governorship South Australia or Tasmania. A fire covering twenty four square miles occurred at Cleveland Hills, Yorkshire, occasioned by sparks from a railway engine. Moors burned uninterruptedly for five days sheep, and animals were burned, and thousands of birds and young grouse destroyed. Professor Grote is elected President of the London University College in room of the late Lord Brougham. New Foreign Offices inaugurated by Lord Stanley at a grand dinner. An address from a large number of gentlemen connected with the East Indies has been presented to Mr Eyre. King Cole, aboriginal black cricketer died from inflammation of the lungs. Newmarket] meeting, July stakes 2 year olds, Lyssworth, Ist; Abstinence 2nd; Devere 3rd.

Newcastle Summer meeting. Northumberland Plate. Fortune Ist; Tynedale 2nd, Farnham 3rd. Arrangements for the marriage of the Crown Princess of Denmark have been completed. The Pope has issued a bull summoning a Universal Council for December, 1870, to mark his 25th year of oflice, the longest term a Pope has ever reigned.

Government has definitely arranged for the purchase of telegraph lines at twenty years purchase. Heat the last few days has been intense, and many deaths have occurred from sun-stroke. ; At New York three hundred deaths have occurred by sunstroke.

Wilkinson, Manager of the Joint Stock Discount Company, who was sentenced to five years penal servitude for frandulency in appropriatingmoney has been released by order of the Home Secretary, proceedings against him being the result of a mistake.

The French army has been considerably reduced by six month furlough being granted to as many as possible. Fresh insurrectionary movements in Spain are reported. An immense storehouse and contents at Dunkirk is reported, to have been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at 20 million francs. OBITUARY. Lord C. Dumferline Dr. Ramsbottom, Mr. Archebald Campbell, Dean Kirwan, Mr. Pauline, G. M. Vinel;, Viscount Talin, Robert Vaughan, Archdeacon Dodgson, Lord Cran worth. CONTINENTAL. The " Moniteur" says that the Haytian ports of St. Marc, Miragotne, and Idemls, are in a state of blockade. The Chamber of Deputies has been constituted in Greece. Etendard says recruiting is going on in Central Italy, under General Garibaldi. In Italy a credit Mobilier has been formed, capital five millions with" power to increase at the will of the Government to 18 millions in gold, payable by six months instalments. French and Pontifical officers gave a dinner at Civita Vecchia,'to celebrate the Pope's accession. General Dunmont presided, and said the Emperor of France would never abandon Pope Pius IX. The Prince of Milan is appointed Sovereign of Servia. The High Court of Justice have passed sentence for contumacy on Count Platen. Heleymund, lately minister for Foreign affairs to the ex-King of Hanover who was arraigned for high treason was committed to 15 years imprisonment in the House of Correction, and ten years surveillance by the police.

AMEEICA. Mrs Lincoln and son go to England. Democratic Convention unanimously nominated Horatio Seymour and Bepublicans, G-eneral Grant,|as President. Provincial Chambers of Buenos Ayres opened by Greneral Alsina, who condemned the Paraguayan war and censured the acts of the General Government. President Mitre inaugurated Congress on the 18th June. Latest advices from the seat of war are unfavourable to the Allies. Specie payments resumed at Monte Video, by order of Government; two banks stopped in consequence. Baron Mina announced he would place Monte Video Bank in liquidation. 2000 foreign troops landed to protect Custom Blouse and banks. COMMERCIAL. Money Market —Elunctnating, discount, 2 per cent. The demand for money is a little stronger. Consols, 94f to f, Australian securities in demand. Victorian 6 per cents, January and July, 112 to 114 ; do. April and October, 113 to 114. New South Wales fives, 1861 to 1863, January and July, 99 to 101 • do. fives, 1888 to 1889, January and July, 99 to 100. New Zealand fives, 1891 to 1898,100; sixes, 1891, March and September, 110 to 113. Queensland, sixes, January and July, 106 to 107 ; ditto, 1890, 106 to 107 ; South Australian Government securities, short date, 108 to 111; ditto, long date, 110 to 112 ; Hobson's Bay Railway shares, 48 to 50 ; Do bonds, 1880, 97"

The Board of Trade returns for May show a falling of one million and a quarter, exports as compared with corresponding month of last year. Annual meeting of the shareholders of the Union Bank of Australia was held on July 13th and a dividend of 15per cent per annum declared. A concession for the establishment of electric telegraph line between France and United States has been granted by the French Government to Eeuter and Baron Emile De Clanger. The line will run from Brest to near Boston, aud is expected to be laid next year. The concession is for twenty year. The maximum tariff is to be five pound (£5) for twenty words. -• Wool Ueport. After the absorption of so large a quantity as recently passed the hammer, there is no enuiry for colonial wool in the London Market. Since the close of May and June, there has been a series of sales, and prices were well maintained. It is not expected that any demand will spring up before the August sales. Importations already amount to 158,636 to 158,616 bales. The estimated quantity will increase some 50,000 to 60,000 bales.

LATEST TELEGRAMS. London, Aug. 3. The Duke of Edinburgh sails shortly for China, Japan, and New Zealand.

Ducate is the new Governor of Tas mania.

Wheat harvest is satisfae ory Wool sales commenced on the 14nt, expected to realise last sales average. Parliament has been prorogued. The Queens Speech states that [Foreign relations are satisfacory, and there is no reason to apprehend European War at present. Police will be to secure peace.—Expresses satisfaction termination of Abyssiniau expedition and states that the immediate return of the army proves the undertaking was in obedience to the dictates of humanity. Alluding to the rising of the Fenians there, Her Majesty says the efforts made by Fenians to promote rebellion in Ireland rendered necessary the exceptional power on the part of of the executive. No person however, is now detained under the suspension of Habeas Corpus Act, and there are no fenian prisoners waiting trial. Her Majesty enumerates Reading measures of the session, and announces a speedy dissolution of Parliament. Lord Stanley intimated that Mr Seward expressed his willingness to a settlement of a Naturalisation question according to American views. Lord Malmsbury declared Blockade of \ Mazatlan illegal and ordered it to be rai ed Passengers from America are now searched at Queenstown. The Volunteer review at Wimbledon a failure. A treaty between China and America has been signed, Chinese river territory declared open to Americans. is created Duke Several peerages contemplated. G-oodwood Stakes, won by Sobriquet, cup by Speculum. Twenty-three persons killed and several injured, owing to false alarm of fire at the Music Hall, Manchester.

The House of Congress has adopted Telegraph Bill. Both Government of India Bills withdrawn, Telegraph cable between Malta and Alexandria is interrupted.

Important Grold Discovery at the Society Islands.—By the arrival of the schooner Kate Grant after a long cruise among the islands, we learn that a very valuable discovery of gold has been made at Hapa, one of the Society Islands. A large number of Europeans are already on the diggings, and it is said are doing well. One person had found a nugget of solid gold, which weighed nearly one pound. Captain Heymet informs us that coal has also been found at the Society nroup.— New Zealand Herald. From the last census taken m Pans and London, a French contemporary publishes the following : —Paris occupies seven millions of hectares, and contains two millions of inhabitants and fifty thousand houses. London covers thirty-one millions of hectares, and about three millions of inhabitants and three hundred and sixty thousand houses. The population in Paris averages forty per house, and that of London eight. Most of the houses in Paris range from four to five stories, while in London they are chiefly only two stories high. From a return just pubbshed, it appears that durinS 1867 a total of 195, 953 emigrants departed from the United Kingdsm to various destinations. An analysis of this total number shows that 15,503 went to the North American colonies, 156,275 the United States, 14,466 to the Australian colonies and New Zealand, and 6709 to other places. As compared with 1866 there is an increase m the departures for the North American colonies, and other places, except the United States, and the Australian colonies and New Zealand, as to which a decrease is observable. A retrospect of emigration statistics during the past 14 years shows that the largest emigration to the North American colonies oecured in 1854, ot the United States in 1843, to the Australian colonies and New Zealand in 1854, and to all other places in 1859, — Economist.

Speaking of the late achievement of the telegraph—" To San Francisco and back in two minutes! "—th&Athencsum says : —" To accomplish this the wires-were'joined up' all across America, from Heart's Content to the great Californian port. The message was sent from Valentia at 7,21 a.m. on the first of February, the acknowledgement was received at 7.23 ; the San Francisco time then being 11. 20 p.m. of January 31. The distance travelled by the message going and coming was about 14,000 miles. This is a large instalment towards the telegraph that is to stretch all round the globe, and bring news from New Zealand and all intermediate places at least twice a day."