TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 189, 3 May 1860, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

[From the Home’News.'] A commercial treaty has been signed between France and England. The Treaty with France was signed on the part of England by Mr Cobden, as the Queen’s Plenipotentiary. AH expectations of a Congress for the settlement of Italy are at an end. Austria has refused to retract any of the engagements made at Yillafranca, but will not oppose-the English proposal for obtaining an expression of public opinoa in Central Italy. The Pope has declined to follow the advice of the Emperor of the French; and refuses to renounce any part of his temporal power.

Serious discontents have broken out in Venice and Verona, where attempts have been made to set up the tricolor, and Austrian officers are personally attacked.

Tetuan, after a severe battle, has surrendered to the Spaniards. Marshal O’Donnell does not propose to pursue the Moors farther. The Queen of Spain haa offered an asylum to the Pope. Subscriptions in aid of the Holy See are levying in Ireland; The American House of Representatives lias at last elected a Speaker, Mr. Pennington being chosen by a majority of one. Dulness pervades the Colonial Wool market, buyers cautious, and dealers anxious to sell. Accounts from Bradford and Leeds not quite so satisfactory. A new Neapolitan ministry has been formed. Count Cavour has formed a new ministry in Spain. Caveur has dissolved the Chamber of Deputies, and convoked a new one. The Sardinian electoral law has been proclaimed in Legations, Modena, and Parma, and electoral writs have been issued.

The Bank rate advanced to 4 per cent. The Money Market has been very stringent, but closes rather easier, ENGLAND. It is rumoured that Lord Elgin is about to go out to China again as plenipotentiary, to endeavour to arrange the present dispute. Intelligence is said to have been received from Pekin via St. Petersburgh that the Emperor of China is disposed to make peace.

An address of the Roman Catholics in support of the Pope’s temporal' sovreignty has been sent to Lord Palmerston. It is signed by eight peers, four sons of peers, three privy councillors, seven baronets, eighteen members of Parliament and two hundred and ninety five deputy lieutenants, justices of the peace, landed proprietors, &c.

The Wakefield .Election Commissioners have made out a list of 99 persons guilty of corrupt practices in respect to the votes of others, of 86 persons guilty of bribery in respect to their own votes, and a shorter list of those guilty of bribery on both sides. The least sums put down as spent by the candidates are—Mr. Leatham, £3900 ; Mr. Charlesworth, £4150. The Queen was to hold a lereo of the officers of the Volunteer Rifle Corps throughout the kingdom on the 7th March. The force now numbers at least 70,000, and will only cost £20,000 per annum for arms, adjutants, &c. Some German journals announce, that a company of English capitalists have offered to contract with the king of Naples for the extinction of Vesuvius for 2,000,000 francs. They propose to cut a canal from the sea to the crater, the principal seat of the fire of the volcano being several thousand feet below the level of the sea. The “Hull Advertiser” has the following modest advertisement, —“ Wanted to borrow, £SOO on a manuscript poem, the estimated value of which is £10,000.”

The Prince of Orange arrived at Windsor Castle on a visit on the 28th January. The Belgian journals state that his marriage with the Princess Alice is now fully arranged. At a meeting af. the Great Ship Company held on Feb. 7, the report of the recently appointed committee of investigation was submitted and adopted. It passes no judgment on the past management of the Company’s affairs.. A new Board of Directors has been appointed. M. T. Baines—General Sir Thomas Macdougal Brisbane—Dr. Thomas Alexander (Direc o -General Army Medical Department) —Dr. R. B. Todd—Colonel Wood —Lord North—Gen. Sir W. F. P. Napier, K.C.B. Bishop of Rochester have died during the month

Mr. Cobden has lost nearly the-whole of his fortune by investment in American railway shares. It is rumoured that the loss will be repaired to him promptly and deli cately. Within a few days subscriptions were made to the amount of .£40,000, in sums varying from <£soo to £SOOO each. Mr. Cobden declined the cross of the legion of honour offered him by the French Emperor, as an acknowledgment of liis assistance in negotiating the treaty of commerce. Lord Brongham is said to be engaged on a history of the “ British Constitution.” Death of Captain Harrison oe 1 the Great Eastern,— Captain Harrison, of the Great Eastern steamship, whose name lias been a “ household word ” during the past two years, owing to his connection with the magnificent vessel of whicli he was the selected commander, was drowned on the morning of Jan. 21. owmg to toe upsetting of his gig while entering the mouth of the tidal dock at Southampton.

The extra imposts on newspapers sent to New Zealand and Australia is abolished, on condition that the Colonial Governments pay a share of the Egyptian transit charges. The trial of the Whitworth ordnance on the 16th February,was attended with marvellous results..

The following ships had sailed for" New Zealand in January :—The Avon, from London to Auckland ; the Avalanche, from London to Auckland, with 144 passengers ; and the Atormcloud, from the Clyde to Otago, with a full complement of passengers. On Feb. 10, the Constantine, from the Downs , for Wellington. On Feb. 13, the Gananoque, Morris; and on the 15th, tlie Avery, Jellard, from the Downs for Canterbury : and on 6th Feb., the Ben Nevis, Turcan, for Otago, and Wellington from Leith. -

In February the following vessels were loading in London for New Zealand For Auckland—Persia, Smith; Egmont, Gibson; Nugget* Bond. For Nelson and New Plymouth, Anne Longton, Mundell. For Nelson, John Phillips, Thomas; for Otago and Canterbury, Isabella Hamilton. Wittleton; for Wellington and Nelson, Stirling, Rowe; Ediptic, Zanglois.