ARRIVAL OF THE S. S. OTAGO, WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 822, 23 December 1865, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE S. S. OTAGO, WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

DEATH OF LORD PALMERSTON

The following appeared in our " Extraordinary" of to-day :

Lord Palmerston died on October 18th. A large number of people attended his funeral on October 27th. Ten Ministers of the Cabinet bore the Pall. Palmerston was sensible to the last. At the express desire of the Queen, it was a public funeral. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. Earl Russell appointed Premier, Clarendon Foreign Secretary, and Gladstone leader of the House of Commons. Outbreak of cholera in Paris. Great alarm created, which has been partially allayed by the Emperor and Empress visiting the hospitals. Fenian prisoners are being tried by special commission. Evidence shows large offers of American assistance in supjaort of Fenians.

Cambridgeshire stakes won by Gardevisaure. Gladiateur nowhere.

Jefferson drawing crowded houses in London.

Correspondence between France and America on Mexican affairs, and between England and America on the subject of the Shenandoah and Alabama are of a nonpacific character. Cholera still raging at Marseilles.

European powers holding joint-commis-sion on subject of cholera—Russia excepted. Evacuation of Papal States by the French troops has commenced. AMERICA. Messrs Stevens, Trenholm, and other Confederates released on parol. Jefferson Davis is expected shortly to be liberated. President Johnson's policy is very conciliatory. The Canadian Confederation scheme promises success. The American Minister proposed to refer to arbitration for settlement of claims for compensation for damage, sustained by cruisers. Lord Russell refused. The detention of the mails was owing to the incapacity of the Company's steamers LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. Parliament was summoned for 23rd November. Negotiations have been resumed between Italy and Rome. Two ships were embarking French from Rome. Bismark's treatment of Frankfort has exasperated Germany. The majority of the state elections endorse Johnson's policyThe cattle disease continues. The loss is estimated at trsv"erve thousand.

The Vauxhall Gas Works have exploded. Nine persons were killed, and twenty injured. The ship Duncan Dunbar has been wrecked; passengers saved. Negro insurrections have taken place in Jamaica. A Fenian Government has been formed in America. The Shenandoah arrived in Liverpool on November 10th. Wool sales opened on the 16th. Market firm; stock moderate; former prices maintained. Consols Bank discount 7.