LATER ENGLISH AND COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Press, Volume VII, Issue 799, 22 May 1865, Page 3

LATER ENGLISH AND COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

We take the following telegraphic news from the Daily Times of Saturday last:— Friday night. The barque William Watson, from Newcastle, brings Sydney dates to the6th, Melbourne and Adelaide to the 4th, and later English news. The Hydra, Affiance, Bengal, and Bella "Vista, had arrived at Newcastle. The Affiance was loading coal for Otago, and the Bengal, cattle for Auckland. On arrival of the Hydra, the captains of American vessels lying up in consequence of the Shenandoah's visit to the colonies, waited upon Captain Skene, as to the truth of the report of his vessel being boarded by the cruiser off West Cape. Captain Skene contradicts the report. In New South Wales, Ben Hall's and other gangs are still at work. One of Captain Thunderbolt's gang has been shot by the police. Winlan is to receive £300 for shooting Morgan. The rest of the £1000 is to be divided among those aiding at his capture. • Flour at Sydney, £23; seconds, £21.

At Melbourne, a new steamer, the Bangitoto, for the Panama eervice, arrived after a very Tapid passage, having been only fiftyseven days at sea. Brown was executed for the murder committed by him at the Whittington Tavern, Bourke street. The Colonial Treasurer had introduced a measure for the establishment of a branch of the Royal Mint at Melbourne. The estate of Carter and Watts,merchants, Little Collins street, has been assigned to trustees. The New Tariff and the Border Customs chiefly engage public attention. Important sales of sugar, ex recent arrivals, have taken place at the following prices:—£3o for rations, £31 for brown, £32 to £33 for medium counters, £35 to £37 for fine counters. Breads tuffs are reported in moderate demand. Adelaide flour is dull at £22. Wheat steady at 9s 6d. Active movement in kerosene; 7000 cases arrived, and changed hands. Consignment of Byass's stout, just arrived; quitted at 9s 6d. At Adelaide business was very quiet. Returns of past harvest showed 60,000 tons of wheat available for export. The quantity exported last quarter was 20,000 tons, being 10,000 tons less than last year. Flour, £19 to £20; wheat, Ss. 4d at port. Mauritius dates to April 2nd have been received. It was reported that Sir Henry Barkly had been offered the Governorship of Madras. The source of the English, news is not stated, but the following items are given:— A sugar-refining establishment at Edinburgh had fallen in, causing the death of several persons. Warm debates .had taken place in the House of Lords on a petition against transportation to Australia. A fire had broken out in Houndsditch, causing a loss of £30,000. The failure of several large houses in the China trade is reported. The Confederates had been defeated in Arkansas. Lee has withdrawn the Confederate armies inland, intending to form two bodies, one to operate in Eastern Virginia, the other in South Carolina. The Imperialists had been defeated in Mexico. The Government of Bogota refuses to permit the passage of foreign troops across the Isthmus of Panama. larvEBCABGELi., Friday, 6;p.m. Albion sailed at two p.m. Markets.—Flour, Adelaide, £25 ; Chillian, not quoted. '. . . . A meeting is to be held to-night, to memoralise General Assembly -with Teierence , to Land Bill for Southland. : Weather—Cloudy and uncertain.,