The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1866. ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 1, Issue 195, 19 October 1866, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1866. ENGL ISH NEWS.

By the arrival of the Taranaki we hfiye. English news to August 27th. Europe is at peace. Prussia has all she wants, takes no territory from Austria, Venetia being ceded, and a speech from the King has announced that the conquest is due to the visible blessing of heaven. Peace has been signed, and the Prussians are rapidly withdrawing troops. The Austrians take their defeat with sullenness, and attribute it to bad generalship. Italy takes Venetia with a bad grace. The Italians are furious with their leaders, Garibaldi excepted. The French Emperor declined to press for certain rectifications of frontier which he had indicated. He is to be commended for not disturbing, the peace of Europe. Parliament is up, and Lord Derby's cabinet is safe in office uutil the spring. Mercantile men are doing wonders by the aid of the atlantic telegraph. A line to North Australia is only a question of time. Mr. Eyre, the late Governor of Jamaica, has arrived in England. The persecution against him has procured him many sympathisers. The cholera is decidedly abating. Sanitary reforms are beiug carried out vigorously. Mace and Goss have had a real fight on , the banks of the Thames, and have beaten each other most savagely. Mace was victor, and his rival burst into tears, and Mace went to him and kissed his crimsoned face on both cheeks. The British Association has met at Nottingham. Mr. Grove, President for thc year, delivered a fine address. The war indemnity is fixed at 40 million thalers. * A fatal accideut hss occurred at the Emperor's fete at Paris. Several persons were killed, and 30 or 40 wounded, by the pressure of the crowd. A fearful storm has swept over the Adriatic. President Johnston has vetoed the Freedrnan's Bureau Bill upon the same grounds on whieh he vetoed a similar bill in February last. The political animosity betweeu the Radicals and the President's supporters is increasing. On July 30th James Stephens issued an address to the Fenian brotherhood, entreating them not to be led away by false lights. The New York journals have published long details of news received by the Atlantic cable. No further disturbances have taken place in connection with the reform movement." Meetings are taking place all over the country- . , .^ The deaths from cholera registered in A London during the week ended August 11, were 2299. "-- J A single message has heen transmitted by the Atlantic telegraph, the cost of which was £800. It must have consisted of 800 words containing 4000 letters. It is said a company make £2000 a day and as much at night, by messages from New York to London. In the obituary are the names of Captain F. E. Seymour, Dowager Duchess of Northhmberland, Rev. Dr. Nicholson, Hon. A. C. Plunkett, Sir James Wigram, Sir C. Hastings, M.D., Hon. Lady Capel, Lieutenant-General , Sir Henry Jones, Marquis Camden, Rev. Lord Bayning, Hon. F. J.'" Pellew, Rev. J.

.MSNgale,, Lady Hislop, Mr. T. B.- GA Smith, Prprtpso^r' Grbte^Lieutenant General'J*. Fogo. '; Tlie /"ships loading for Nelson are the' Bnt-i&h Merchant, and Scott. ""- The London ..Wool. Report,- August 25th, , includes 41,386 bales from New Zealand. The , opening sale was well' attended by the home itrad.e, but exporters were in small attendance. The sales continued to progress satisfactorily at full prices, the reduction in the bauk rate from. 10 to 7 per cent, creating- confidence. The alteration in the rate of discount is expected to cause a; material improvement in the produce market. The whole of the Queensland debentures, which were submitted to tender at the Union Bank of Australia, on July 27, have been sold at or above reserved minimum. It is announced that Messrs. Hopwood and; Son, of Burnley, have failed for £70,000. It is proposed to pay a first dividend of ss. in the pound nnder the estate of the Agra and Mas ter man's bank. The failure is reported of Messrs. Younghusbands & C0.,5 Mr. E. Tiernan, Great Tower-street, Mr. David Law, Glasgow, and Messrs. J. B. Kennedy & Co., Bankers, Dublin. The rate of 7 per cent, it is not thought will be long maiutained in the present state of the money market. The difficulty not r now being to find capital, but the proper ; class of paper in which to employ it. There '•are reports that the Bank of France will ; again reduce their quotations. With this /movement in England, many of the continental banks will follow suit, and lower their terms for geueral accommodation. Two New Zealand Bishops were consecrated August 24th, at Canterbury Cathedral. , They were the Rev. A. B. Suter and the Rev. ; H. Jenner: the former as Bishop of Nelson, and the latter as Bishop of Dunedin. Cholera is abating in New York, but raging fearfully iu the West and South-west. President Johnston has abandoned the Fenian prosecutions. One thousand Polish exiles have revolted at Irkutsk, in Silesia.