LATEST NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 26, 29 July 1863, Page 6

LATEST NEWS BY THE MAIL.

arrival of the alhambra WITH THE MAY MAILS. • (From the Age, July 13.) The Rangatira, with the South Australian portion of the May European mails, arrived at Adelaide on Saturday morning last. London, June 2. A difficulty has arisen, and there is probability of rupture in diplomatic relations between England and Brazil. . Affairs in Prussia are hastening to a crisis. The Chamber of Deputies has been closed. The Greek affair has been settled. The Provisional Government agreed to accept the Danish Prince as King. The Prince and Princess of Wales are going a round of gaiety. Parliamentary news is dull, but better relations are established between England and the Northern States on the vexed question of international law. The proposals of New South Wales and New Zealand to establish a mail service via Panama are positively declined by the British Government. The distress in Lancashire and the manufacturing districts is slowly decreasing. Government proposes to employ 70,000 of the unemployed on municipal works, and the reclamation of waste lands, under the superintendence of the Boards of Health. One thousand emigrants left Manchester on the 28th April en route for New Zealand. Recruiting for the Federal army is extensively carried on in Ireland. Emigration to America estimated at upwards of 5000 persons per week. The garotting panic is over. The House of Commons passea a bill for flogging garotters. Transportation to Queensland and the northern coasts no more talked of. The Times says" Government fully recognises the difficulties of the New Zealand question to colonists, but requires from the latter a policv towards the natives most prudent and liberal, in return for the protection afforded them by the Queen's troops, at the cost of Great Britain." The Royal Geographical Society has awarded gold watches, bearinghonoraryinscriptions, to Landsborough, M'Kinlay, and Walker. The long sought for sources of the White Nile has been discovered by Captains Speke and Grant to be a lake 4000 feet above the level of the sea, four degrees south of the Equator. Livingstone's expedition is to be recalled. The cutting of the Suez Canal is likely to be stopped by the Sublime Porte, should great concessions and alterations required bv it not be made. If not granted the Porte will return to the company all the money they have expended. The Secretary of War has overruled the decision of the Horse Guards, and General Cameron will continue in command of the New Zealand

tro°ps. The postage rates via Marseilles are advanced one penny per quarter of an ounce. The Derby day was very wet The Prince of Wales was present. Derby Stakes, value £7OOO, Maccaroni, 1; Lord Clifden, the favorite, 2; Rapid Rhone, 3; Blue Mantle, 4. The Oaks won by an outsider, Queen Bertha ; Mangold, 2; Vivid, 3; value of the stakes, £5050. . ■ The boat race for the championship of the world, between Chambers and .Green, causes much attention and speculation. Green is in hard training. The American champion, Hammill, declares he can whip either of them. New York, 23rd May. The result of the recent military operations produced feelings of great dissatisfaction throughout the North. A sanguinary battle has taken place between Grant and Pemberton. Neither side able to claim victory. Yicksburg reported to have been evacuated, but this is doubtful. An unsuccessful attempt has been made on Fort Hudson.

General Hooker is withdrawing his army to the Potomac.

The invasion of Maryland anticipated. The Confederates have again invaded Kentucky.