FURTHER INTELLIGENCE FROM ENGLAND.

Press, Volume XI, Issue 1339, 21 February 1867, Page 3

FURTHER INTELLIGENCE FROM ENGLAND.

[From the " Sydney Empire."] The mail steamer Alexandra, Captain tfrown, arrived off Glenelg at six p.m. on the 10th, after a passage of 113 hours from the Sound. The downward Y'P was under ninety-six hours. The Avoca arrived at the Sound at eleven p.m. on the 2nd February, and sailed at two p.m. on the 3rd from Galle. •the P. an d o. Company's mail Bteamer Geelong reached the Sound at nmop.m. on the sth Februa-y, and was to sail at ten a.m. on the Gth. [keuter's expuess.] EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN NEWS. Loxdox, December 27. Ihe bishopric of Calcutta has been ottered to a colonial gentleman, but

+ v A T , let . ter has °een addressed from the Jeman General Milligan to the SrS^ dCn ° Uncing the Propo3e(l

The increase in the reserve of notes iv the Bank of England is £770,000. w ooi realised August prices, and the price of tallow has improved. I 'Sating still continued in Candia.

Trance has advised the Porte to satisfy its Sclavonian subjects. The French newspaper "La Patrie" estimates the number of foreign volunteers in Candia at GOOO. The Italian Government claims 52,000 francs for damage done by a Turkish man-of-war. It insists further on the dismissal of the Turkish commander, and a salute of twenty-one guns to the Italian colors. The Turkish Government have protested against England in consequence of the conveyance of emigrants to Greece in a British ship of war. Advices received from China state that the French Admiral, Rozze, had taken possession of the town of Kanchoa in tho Corea, and was preparing for further aggressive movements to obtain satisfaction for tho recent massacre of the French missionaries. Maximilian intends to convoke a Mexican Congress. The Legislatures of both Xorth and South Carolina have rejected the Constitutional amendment, and affairs in Missouri have assumed a threatening aspect. The revenue of the quarter shows a decrease of £400,000.