ARRIVAL OF ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 105, 29 February 1868, Page 6

ARRIVAL OF ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

\The J,allowing was published as an Extra on Monday last]

The Omeo arrived at the Bluff on the 17th bringing English news. She passed the Geelong at the Heads, with the December mails from Europe. Adelaide, Feb. 9. The Rangatira, Captain Grange, arrived off Glenelg at half-past five p.m. The passage to the Sound occupied 96 hours The Geelong, arrived at the Sound on the 6th, and had it not been for advei'se gales, she would have left before the arrival of the South Australian branch steamer. SUMMARY TO 9th JANUARY. The Australian mails were delivered in London on the 13th and ISlh December. Her Majesty continues in good health, also the Prince and Princess of Wales. Fenian alarms are spreading. The Martello Tower near Queenstown and a gunsmith’s shop in Cork have been plundered. Attempts have been made to blow up Worcester Town Hall Thirty thousand special constables have been enrolled in London. All Government buildings are strictly guarded. Great agitation prevails. Proclamations against funeral processions to honor dead Fenians have been issued. The Government has discovered many plots to attack armouries, dockyards, banks, churches, gas works, &c. Police force very largely increased through England. The Military are ready to act at any moment. A reinforcement of troops has been despatched to Ireland. Great precautions have been taken at Woolwich. Burke and Casey have been committed for trial at Warwick. Assurances to support the Government have been sent from all quarters to crush Fenianism. In future the law will be strictly enforced. The leaders in the Dublin funeral procession have been apprehended and committed for trial. The attempt to blow up the House of Detention at Clerkenwell was made on the 13th of December. The object was the release of prisoners; a part of the Court-yard wall was destroyed, and a number of houses on the opposite side of the street. 140 persons were buried in the ruins, and a number killed. Seven persons have been arrested on suspicion. The last quarter’s revenue of the United Kingdom is £17,500,000. Faversham Powder Mills have exploded and eleven lives were lost. The Oriental Bank invited tenders for a Sydney loan of £758,000 The Abyssinian expedition has been largely debated in the House of Lords. The Earl of Ellenborough declared against the war, because the present state of Europe was such that it would be imprudent to involve England in a distant war when a near one might be expected. The expedition itself is progressing favorably. The natives are giving supplies, and the chiefs are rendering assistance. The liberation of the captives is considered probable ; their chains have been removed, The Egyptians object to the expedition. The latest telegrams state that the Italian Government have suspended payment of the Italian quota of the Pontifical debt. The Italian Parliament has been prorogued. General Menebras reconstructing the Ministry. An amnesty has been proclaimed in favour of Garibaldi. Sympathetic addresses have been sent to the Pope from London and Dublin. The proposed Conference on the Roman question has not yet assembled. Her von Benot is framing a special ministry for the whole Austrian Empire. Much political uneasiness prevailed on the Continent of Europe. Paris advices state that the Emperor Napoleon has received the representatives of the Germanic Confederation, and exchanged assurances of friendship. The Times opposes intervention respecting the affair at Affghanistan. The Ministerial crisis in Portugal is over,- a new Ministry has been formed. “ The telegrams from New York state that Congress has passed a vote thanking Mr. Stanton and censuring the President for rempving him, and also ordering the Committee of Foreign Affairs to take immediate faction as to the mal-treatment of American citizens in Ireland.

As to the Victorian crisis, the home papers state that political affairs in Victoria demand immediate attention in England, owing to the dead-lock and the dodging of the Government in the evasion of the law. They speak highly of the conduct of the Upper House. The latest expedient of Governor Manners Sutton, after the Government had rejected the Appropriation Bills, in dissolving the Legislative Assembly, is condemned. They also state that the Ministerial speeches indicated revolution against the Constitution. The Governor’s endeavors to restore peace are not thought much of. The opinion is that he has held too much with the Ministry. The Darling grant of 20,000 pounds is considered a blunderin England. Ihe latest intelligence as to the Postal Service is more favourable, as regards the arrangement of the sailing dates for Australian mails, than is shown by the last time table. The outward mails for China and Australia leave seven days later than the dates in the time table. The homeward mail will leave one day earlier. First outward mail to Australia on new plan will leave Southampton on the 21st March. The first homeward mail from Australia will leave Sydney on the 28th of March, thus avoiding the delay of the steamer to Ceylon and shortening the intervals for replies between Australia and London. WOOL REPORT. The last sales shew a slight decrease on former prices. The total number of bales catalogued is 199,535. Markets generally very quiet. A want of confidence generally prevails. The supply of foreign wool is abundant. COMMERCIAL. Colonial Government Securities. — N.S.W. Government 5 per cents (1871 to 1886), 98/. to 100/. Closing prices—Do. 5 per cents, (1881 to 1895), 98/. to 99/. Closing prices—New Zealand 6 per cents, 108/. to 110/.; do. 5 per cents, 98/. to 99/. Queensland 6 per cents (January to July), 104/. to 105/. South Australian Government 6 per cents 1878 and upwards, 110/. to 111/.; Victorian Government 6 per cents (April to October), 100/. to 102/ The money market is nominally quoted at If per cent — 5 per cent advance, owing to the outflow of gold from the Bank of England for the Continent. LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. London, 10th January. The new German Ambassador has been welcomed cordially by Napoleon. The Emperor’s speech affirms a constant desire to maintain the best relations with all powers. The Italian Ministerial crisis continues. A New Cabinet has been formed at Vienna Consols 92. The demand for money brought the rate of interest up to two per cent. Business is inactive. Australian securities are reduced one-third percent, from last quotations. At wool sales, prices have declined from l-|d to 2d.