ENGLISH TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 691, 30 July 1870, Page 3

ENGLISH TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Prom the San Francisco Neivs of the World, June 10.) Cyrus Redding, the author, died on June 1, aged 85. A strict censorship over telegrams is established in Rome. A new telegraph cable has been laid from Falmouth to Lisbon. In the House of Commons, a motion for inquiring into the dock-yard abuses was negatived. A sculling match, between Kelly and Sallee, has been fixed for the 14th of July, at Newcastle. Agents of the Ottoman Government demand of the Pope the return of their church property. The Emperors of France and Austria, and the King of Prussia, meet this summer in Germany. Of a party of thirty or forty, who recently ventured on rafts on the Swiss lakes, twenty were drowned. The Colonial office has despatches from the Canadian authorities, representing the Fenian war as a final failure. A despatch from Lisbon reports that the popular demonstrations in favor of Peninsular unity have been renewed there. Despatches from Bombay state that within a few days, 31,000 bales of cotton were shipped to Europe by way of the Suez canal. In the champion billiard match, J. Roberts, jun., defeated J. A. Bowles, 1,000 against 754. The game was slow and careful. The weather the past few days has been unseasonably dry and warm ; the growing crops are already suffering. Apprehension of a serious drought is felt. The statue of Palmerston, by the sculptor Jackson, was unveiled in Westminster Abbey to-day; the cere-

mony was private, only the relations being present. A party of missionaries, consisting of Mr and Mrs Earasey, and Mr Knobe and attendants, have been captured by the Atshantes, and taken to the interior of Africa. The proposed race between the Tyne watermen and the St. John crew will be rowed in September, on the St. Lawrence. The prize is dGIOOO, and the course six miles. General George Napier writes to the papers on the promptitude and prowess displayed by the Canadian Volunteers in the late engagements with the Fenian out-posts.