ARRIVAL OF THE SEPTEMBER MAILS FROM EUROPE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8, 23 November 1861, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SEPTEMBER MAILS FROM EUROPE.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FROM ADELAIDE.I (From the Argus.) The Wonga Wonga, with the South Australian portion of the European Mails arrived on the morning of the 14th. The English mail had been detained in Egypt four days in consequence of the overflowing of the Nile, which had washed away a portion of the Railway between Alexandria and Cairo. London, Sep. 26. The Australian Mails were delivered on the 16th and 19th September. The marriage of the Prince of Wales with the Princess of Denmark is announced. Three thousand more troops have been ordered to Canada. Sir Edmund Head is to be replaced by Lord Monck. A combined expedition from England and France is to be despatched to Mexico, to obtain redress for injuries to English and French subjects; diplomatic intercourse is suspended. Much richer gold discoveries have been made in Newfoundland. The Great Eastern on her voj^age to America was" completely disabled by a heavy gale, and almost, lost; she had 400 passengers on board; she has returned to Cork Harbour. The following Cricketers have all signed an agreement to proceed to Australia, for the great juatch, Viz: H. H. Stephenson (elected captain of the team), Caffyn, E. Stephenson, Mortlock, Griffitn's, Sewell,' Chells, Hearne, Bennett,.^Mudie, Lawrence, and Harrison. A stronger twelve could scarcely have been found. Strikes still continue in the Building trade, and a great strike has commenced in the Iron trade. Obituary—Marchioness of Breadalbane, Earl Mount Edgecombe, Lady Ashley, and Earl Fortescue. * Money Market and City Intelligence. —Discounts have fallen to three and a half per cent., market closing very easy. Good . bills done in open market at \ per cent, below bawk rate. Funds have materially advanced. Colonial securities also shared in the general improvement.* -Mr. Augustus Cooper, one of the largest dealers in Consols, with a million of open stock, was unable to meet his engagements on the I.oth inst. Consols for money, 93-£; do. for account, 93j. A large falling off has taken place in experts of all drapery goods and wrought leather; shipments of rum and beer in glass heavy; also salt. American advices state, though in a guarded manner, weariness of the war, and desponding anticipations, whatever may be its termination. . Colonial Government securities — New South Wales, five per cents, 1861, 99£ to 100|. Victoria, six per cents (April, and" October) 108 i to 109. '2 (For continuation see Supplement.)

Inquiries in the wool 'market have been limited, excepting for well-selected New Zealands and greasy Adelaides, which have sold at Id. profit. It is feared that high prices will not be obtained at the next sales. Australian sheep skins sold at full prices. Tallow 435. to 465. Spain and Austria have offered to place troops at the disposal of the Pope in case the French troops are withdrawn from Rome. A lunatic has attempted to assassinate the Queen of Greece. , Austria is continuing to carry its depotic policy towards Hungary with a high hand. In Poland, affairs are no better. Tne Countess de Persigny is reported to have run away with her lover from her husband. Considerable dissatisfaction was felt in commercial circles, in consequence of the v' Aldinga's mail being kept for the " Victoria," Wstead of beinc forwarded by the " Samson," which arrived in Dunedin at 8 o'clock a.m., bringing up the passengers of that vessel, while the mail did not arrive till near 11 o'clock. The " Aldinga" sails again for Melbourne today '

and also to prevent them falling to the sideWhen a leaf of flax is dropped into one of these guides, it is immediately seized by the feeding rollers, and passing them, it is exposed to the action of the two rubbing surfaces below, and leaves the flax with the fibres perfectly disengaged, and hanging parrallel to each other, the mucilaginous matter contained in the leaf servino; to protect them from too severe action of the rubbing suriaces. ihe bo}^ who attends the machine sits before it, and with one hand supplies it with leaves placed beside him, whilst with the other he collects into handsfull the dressed flax. The flax.is then put out on lines to dry, and come to a proper colour, which it does in a few days."

Mr. Whytlaw states that one of these machines is only about two feet long, one foot hisrh, and fourteen inches wide, and will produce one hundred pounds of dressed flax per day, and that the cost will not exeed £10 each.

When it is considered that great quantities of flax are being burnt and destroyed as useless rubbish, it is to be hoped that some of our neighbours will, with- the description of Mr. Whytlaw's machine before them, endeavour to turn to practical purposes what is now nnprofitably wasted.