ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. RUAHINE FROM PANAMA WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1312, 30 January 1868, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. RUAHINE FROM PANAMA WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Chronicle Office, Monday, 9 - 30 a.m. By the Government p.s. Sturt, which arrived in the river this morning, we have late English, news via Panama. • The s.s Kuahine arrived in Wellington on Saturday, at 5"30 p.m. This vessel left Wellington for Panama on the Bth iSovember, hud favourable N.W. winds for the greater part of the voyage, and made a fine run of twenty days eleven hours. The Ruahine left Panama on the morning of the 27th December, having been detained beyond the usual timeof sailing by tbe non-arrival to time of the mail boat on the Atlantic side; she has had favourable winds and fair weather up up to the 20th, since when she has encontered strong winds from the southward and westward with a heavy head s.»a. She called and coaled at the Island of Opara, taking in 242 tons of coal in twelve hours with her own crew, from which place she brought ■ aptain Rerr and crew (23 in. in all) of the ship Ksmeralda, of Greenock, 1188 tons, from Maiden Island bound to Cork,, which vessel foundered at sea on the 9th December. Amongst the Iwiahine's passengers are Lorbl Lyttelton and son, the Hon. C. C. Hewitt, and Mr. Selfe Selfe, the Metropolitan iMagistrate. has a large mail, and about 500 packages cargo. The news from \ merica is unimportant. The latest intelligence from Kurope is to the 16th December by way of .New York. The following" is extracted from the Panama Star and SeralS of the 26th December :— KUrtOPE. Our latest dates f'om Europe are to theevening of the 15tK inst. The Fenian excitement in England and Ireland is at fever heal, aud th.e greatest alarm preOn the 12th infant the Clertenwell Jail in. London was blown up with gunpower, and three persons killed and forty injured, and it was expected that Colonel Kenny, the rescued Fenian, in Manchester, hud some hand in the matter.

The Knglisli !u-w*papers have joined in a regular hue and cry agcinst the members of the Ft-fiian Brotherhood, which has only perved to ncrease tlie general excitement and. alarm.

Public funerals which were to have been held on the 15th instant in many of the principal cities in England and Ireland were prevented by the authorities in every place where the attempt was made to cany them out. Much indignation is shown by the crowds in some instances, but no violence "was committed. In London battalions of regular troop?, to the number of 6000 men, are kept constantly under arms, to assist the police in maintaining order and suppressing any Fenian demonstration. It has been definitely ascertained that the European Conference plan proposed by the Emperor Napoleon on the Eomnn question has failed. The assemblage was to have taken place on the" 9th instant, but some difficulty was experienced in diplomatic correspondence before the day arrived. Paris was then spoken of as the place of meeting. The form of representation was changed, but the same day adhered to. Subsequently, after the delivery of a speeeh by the French' Minister Kouher, to the legislature on the subject of the relations between Borne and Italy, in which he declared that Italy " could never go to Borne by force," the hesitancy of the Powers assumed the form of dpen objection on ground of inutility. It has since been ascertained that the conference or congress will not assemble, as all the great Powers have positively refused to attend. A deputation from the English Bible Society recently presented the Emperor Napoleon with a copy of the English Bible. The Emperor made a brief address io the gentlemen of the deputation, in which he declared it was his first rule to protect all religions. The great Powers have addressed a note to the Sublime Porte, asking that the navigation of the Dardanelles be made free to the shipping of all nations.

Despatches have been received in London from Massowah, which report that the British Abyssinian Expedition lias advanced a considerable distance into the interior of the country, but at last accounts the troops were suffering from scarcity of water. It is thought and hoped that the Fenians would cease all active attemps against law and order, in consequence of the universal horror and indignation caused by the disastrous attempt made on Clerkenwell gaol. Large rewards have been offered by the Government for the discovery and arrest of the guilty parties. Garabaldi is still held as a prisoner at Caprera. In the city of Liverpool precautions have been taken by the Government to check any demonstrations on the part of the Orangemen or Fenians. ——— COMMEECIAL AND FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE. New Tobk, December 16. Business in all departments is very much depressed, Bnd the cry of " bard times " is every where heard. Railway shares and Government securities are quiet. Gold is 134^. London, loth Dec, Evening. Consols for money, 92f; United States Five-Twenty Bonds, 71^.