ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ AT AUCKLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1235, 30 January 1872, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ AT AUCKLAND.

We continue our summary of news to hand by the Suez mail:— FRANCE. Rossel, Ferre, and Bourgois were executed last Tuesday at Satery. Rossel's fate is universally commiserated; the Commission of Pardons rejected all appeals to rave him. Lalliers and three petroleuses, and the eight assassins o± Generals Lecompte and Thomas, are condemned to death. Those charged with minor offences were released; 1,100 prisoners were discharged, and 800 sentences were defened.—Seyeral Paris journal. l -' have been suppressed or heavi.y lined for trivial offences. —The prospects of the Republic arc improving. —M Thiers has been proclaimed President for life. The Chamber is to be renewed gradually, one-fourth every year to preserve a continuity of policy. —G-ambetta has published a manifesto, and is condemned by the Democrats for his moderation.—Rumors of a fusion between the Orleans princes prevail. The Bonapartists are quite out of the field.

BELGIUM. Europe was startled by a sudden outburst of political excitement in the usually quiet city of Brussels. There was nearly a week of popular demonstrations made against the Ultramontane Ministry. The Chamber was sunounded by threatening crowds, demanding the resignation of the Ministry ; the Catholic members were hissed on entering. Notwithstanding acts of violence, the civil authorities refused to invoke the aid of the military. The immediate cause of the hostile manifestations was the appointment of Decker as Governor of Lumburg—a man compromised in several swindling schemes The storm was allayed by Decker's resignation, and the remodelling of the Ministry. The King's conduct was admirable.

AUSTRIA. Count Beust's forced resignation is regarded as a bad omen for peace and unity of the Empire. The Emperor warmly thanks Count Beust for his un selfish persevering service?, and has appointed him Ambassador to England, vice Apponyi, who received the grand Cross ot St. Stephen on his retirement. —Kellersperg failed, and Count Auesperg formed a Ministry; the Hungarian Premier-and Andrasey have taken seats in the Foreign Office, promising to continue Buest's policy,— The Catholic party are incessantly endeavoring to recover power over the Sovereign. The Bohemian difficulty is unsolved. A national subscription to purchase an estate near Vienna for Count Beust was proposed, but was discouraged by the Count.

GERMANY. The Prussian Diet opened on the 27ih November. The Emperor re ported the financial position of the country to be goo 4; referring to the Church question, he ppomised to maintain the independence of the State and liberty of conscience. A bill, proposed by a Bavarian representative, passed the German Parliament for prosecuting clergyman guilty of abuse in the pulpit. The Coinage Bill was carried. —The great war fund is to be stored up. —The Federal regulations for military service have been introduced into Bavaria; a second rank in the navy is to be established. The Emperor's reply to the remonstrance of the German Bishops is firm and uncompromising. Numerous trade disputes have occurred throughout Germany.

ITALY. The King arrived at Rome on Nov. 21, and was received b, Prince Humbert, the Ministry, Municipality, and national guard. The city was decorated, and immense crowds cheered; illumination took place at night. On the 27th the first Rqma.ii Session of tL?- Italian Parliament opened. The speech, celebrating the crowning of Italian unity, elicited boundless enthu siasm. Blanchi was elected President. —The formation of an Italian German bank is authorised.—The withdrawal of the Pope to Chateau Pau ? offered

him by Thiers, is much discussed; the Cardinals urge, but the Pope shuts himself in the Vatican. —There is a serious schism among the democratic followers of Mazzini and Garibaldi.--Count Girgenti, brother of the exKing of Naples, has committed cide. SWITZERLAND.. The Swiss Federal Assembly is engaged in a levision of the Constitution, —A destructive fire occurred at Geneva on November 13; incendiarism suspected. SPAIN. A severe Ministerial crisis has occurred, the Government being defeated twice on the question of the re establishment of convents. The vote of censure debate in the Chambers is prorogued till February.—The Malcompa Ministry will remain in office temporarily.—The abandonment of taxes on external debt is rumored. — inents are to bo sent to Cuba.. TURKEY AND GREECE. There is a new Ministry at Athens. --Cholera lingers at Constantinople, —The new Turkish Ministry are enforcing economy reforms. Peculators have been dismissed, and ex-Ministera are exiled.—Alarm is expressed at the appointment of Andrassy as Austrian Chancellor.—Russia is actively conir pleting her armaments. AMERICA. Brigham. Young is concealed in South Utah, fearing arrest for murder. —The conditions of a general amnesty will prohib.it polygamy in future. —The work of rebuilding Chicago is proceeding rapidly. The relief contributions, amount to" $3,000,000. Fort Garry is. reinforced.

The Uagli and Pompei Opera Company gave their first performance in Dunedin on the 19th inst, to a crowded house- The opera chosen for the occasion was "II Tro\ atore," perhaps the. most popular composition of Verdi, the. latest, if not the last, of the grand race, of Italian masters. The Daily Times, says the first appearance of the Opera, Company "must be regarded as a genuine success, and although there, were deficiencies, yet they vere neither, so many nor so palpable as to mar the. effect of the whole." •

The Zavistow.sky Sisters and Miss. Granger arrived at Auckland on the 26th inst from Sydney. They intend performing at the Prince of Wales Theatre.

Late intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope is to the effect- that the diamond fields continue most prosperous—Gold has been again discovered at Natal.

Referring to the wreck of the mail, steamer Rangoon, the London Times thinks that it is " the strangest ship-: wreck story ever related," and blames, the lax system of management.

The Thames Advertiser of Fridaylast contains the following :-We areglad to learn that the erection of the telegraph is proceeding most satisfactorily, and without interruption, at the Tauranga end of the line. The construction has been completed to seven-, teen miles on this side of Tauranga, and we believe that iu two days a station will be opened there, and messages sent to the South. At the Thames end; the line is also being rapidly extended, and we should think that in a week ortwo it will have reached to Hikutaia, near to which place it turns off to cross, the peninsula.

A hush five has taken place at Pine Hill (near Dunlin). The Daily Times, Jan. 20, says :--From the dense column* of smoke that have, within the past day or two, been rising from the Peninsula, there must, doubtless, be a, considerable destruction of timber in that locality. At an early hour yesterday morning this tire presented a very striking appearance, the large belt ot' flame at that time burning very brightly, and being visible a long distance oil

The ship Tweed, from arrived at Sydney on the 19th inst. The captain reporls that a passenger named Miss Bourne threw herself off the ship's weather rail on the 20th December, and was drowned. The ship was going 12 knots at; the time.

Mr J. 0. Hey worth, of Liverpool, as owner of property in Chicago, explains the destruction of that city in a very few words: "The roofs are of paper steeped in pitch, and covered with gravel." Slates are strictly protected, and are consequently too dear to use, #0 that Chicago has really been burnt down in order that Pennsylvanian qnarrymen might plunder the public .comfortably. Protection has in fact fur once been tried in the five, and has come out smirched, Professor Hnxley declines to enter into the investigation of spiritualism ; first, because he has no time, and secondly, because he takes no interest in the •subject ; he adds, that the only good he can see as resulting from a de monstration of its truth is to furnish an additional argument against suicide : " better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a * medium' hired at a guinea a seance."