AERRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1118, 21 July 1865, Page 4

AERRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

NEWS BY TELEGIUriI TO THE

lOtii OF JUNE

BIRTH OF A PRINCE

TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

CAPTURE OF PRESIDENT DAVIS

AND SUITE

SURRENDER OF ALL THE CONFEDERATE GENERALS.

MENACING ATTITUDE OP PRE-

SIDENT JOHNSTON.

GREAT SUFFER[NG IN" THE SOUTHERN' STATES.

LATEST ANGLO - INDIAN

TELEGRAMS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

(FBOSt OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT )

GENERAL SUMMARY.

! London, May 26th. The Australian March Mails were delivered in London on the I4th and 20th oi* May. Her Majesty held her fifth Court at Buckingham Palace, on the 15 th of May. Parliament was to be dissolved on the 10th of July, after which a general election was to take place. Mx Gladstone's reduction of tea araii income duties is much applauded. Mr Lowe's anti-reform speech against encouraging democracy caused great sensation. Sir George Grey replied the Government would be guided by public opinion. In his financial statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer showed a surplus of revenue over expenditure of four millions sterling. On the receipt of the news of President Lincoln's assassination, a universal feeling of indignation through all classes was expressed. Lord Palmerston, upon resuming duly after a short illness, received enthusiastic cheers in the House. Sir Charles Wood, it is reported, will be

raised to the peerage _under the title jpf Earl Halifax. '

It is proposed to grant to Mrs Cobden a pension of LIOOO per annum. The universal feeling in England is adverse to the continuance of the New Zealand war. The policy of the local government is 'severely canvassed. It is stated that the General Government has asked for a reinforcement of 2000 men. The War Secretary declines ; and gives instructions for the withdrawal of five regiments. The Great Britain arrived on the lOtli of May, after a passage of G4 days and 10 hours. Constance Kent's trial for the Road murder taken place in London, instead of Wiltshire. Party rioting has broken out in Belfast. • The emigration from Ireland to America is likely to exceed, this year, that of any year since the famine. The distress in the cotton manufacturing districts has alm"st ceased. A letter to Mr Bright states that on the termination of the American war, 2,500,000 bales of cotton would be available. It has caused agrcat decline in prices. Edmunds's pennon has been rescinded, after a long investigation. After a six months' competition between the Armstrong and Whitworth gun", the result has been in favor of the former. Mr and "Mrs Charles Kean's season tickets at Nc.v York, realised 6000 dollars at auction. Leech's sketcbe', &c-, sold for L4OOO. A pension of LIOO a-year has been conferred on hi:-i widow by the Qic-n. The mntc r:i for tiie championship, between "Wormald and Mace, tnkei place on the Ist •of November. Obituary—Sir S.Cunard, The Honorable Edwin L-!Hcdles, Mr Williams, MP. ; General Kindy, Admiral Harvey, The Duke tie Coigny, Sir David Davis, Sir Thomas Staples, The Honorable Spring Hice,

AMERICA,

President Johnston is inclined to severity, and wilt treat treason as the greatest of crimes. A large number of accomplices of Booth are in custody. Johnston offered a reward of 100.000 dollars for the capture of President Davis ; and smaller amounts for the leaders in the plot fur President Lincoln's murder. The trial.3 are proceeding with closed doors.

Mr Seward's attempted murderer has been apprehended, and identified.

The Confederate cause is being abandoned. Johnston surrendered after Lee. Sherman offered terms so liberal, that they were repudiated by the President. General Johnstonc accepted the ?a:ne conditions as Lee. Ail the Generals followed his example.

The President conwiders the war over. The belligerent rights of the South are no longer recognised. The President is disbanding soldiers, withdrawing orders for new ships, and reducing his expenses 1,000,000 dollars per day,

An attempt has been made to make w:ir with the French in Mexico, by armed emigrants from the North.

The resources of the South are completely exhausted. The force surrendered by Johnston was 27,000 men, including •Generals Beauregard, Hardy, and Breckenridge, with the North and South Carolinian and Gulf States Militia. Texas alone holds out, resolving to maintain war.

No policy lias yet been brought forward as to the fu'ure settlement of the Union by the President. At the interview wit!) Sir Frederick Bruce, lie spoke sensibly of the importance of England and America preserving amicable relations, but his policy to the South is avowedly cruel.

Owing to the crowds of disbanded soldiers daily flocking to Mexico to support Juarez, in direct violation of the neutrality laws so much clamored for by the North, great anxiety is manifested as to the course of France. The opinion is expressed that she will declare war if American sympathies for Mexico be not put down at once.

The President has issued a proclamation for the renewal of efforts for the capture of rebel cruisers. He will refuse hospitality to the ships of neutral nations giving refuge within their ports to Confederate cruisers.

The latest Southern advices speak of the desolation and misery everywhere, owing to the prosecution of the war. The means of the rich, are exhausted, and the poor are reduce/! to want and starvation. In South Carolina and Georgia, those of gentle blood, and also the poorest, are almost starved to death, and wait daily for relief. Such havoc and ruin were never before witnessed in the world.

President Lincoln's death was unaccompanied by pain. 'He was utterly unconscious after receiving the fatal shot.

Within twelve days after the murder Booth and Harrold, the accomplices, w«re traced to a swamp at the mouth of the Potomac. They were concealed m a barn, which the Federal cavalry surrounded, giving five minutes' grace for surrender ; Harrold gave himself up. Booth refused, upon which the barn was set fire to. During the progress of the flames Booth wa3 6hofc by Corbett, an Englishman in the Federal service. One hour before his death he

.prayed, to be shot through the heart. His last words " Tell my mother I dip for my country."

President Davis and family, General Regan and others, comprising his suite, are supposed to have been captured by General Wilson's cavalry at Irwinsville, Georgia, 75 miles south-east of Macon, at daybreak on the 10th of May. The troops who made the capture divided into two parties, and as they approached Davis's quarters in the darkness from opposite directions, they mistook each other for the President's Escort. A fight ensued, and several lives were lost, including Mr Hunter, ex?assistant to the Confederate War Secretary, also Governor Chance, of North Carolina.

Details of Federal troops were made for the protection of the whites, to compel the negroes to nuppoit themselves; the latter, on being declared free, refusing to work. Conflicts between whites and blacks are taking place in consequence.

Gold, 130] ; Exchange, 109J, in gold

SHIPPING.

Exports to New Zealand, L44.G19. Departures for New Zealand: Leichardt, Adelaide Baker, Racehorse, John Temper-* ley, Kcdar, Andrew Jackson, Cornwallis.

WOOL REPORT.—May 26.

The l-'.st sales commenced May the 11th. Total bales catalogued, 108,700. Saks continue to date well supported, and there was a large attendance of home and foreign buyers. All good wools command more attention. Faulty and inferior sorts arc in lu-s request. Prices ruled Id lower.

Failures: Dirom, Davidson and Co., Liverpool ; liabilities, Llßo,ooo. Remington, Cartwright and Co., London; liabilities*, L 200.000. Hankey Bros._and Percival Bros , of Liverpool, suspended.

A confirmation of the stoppage of Wilson, Ritchie nnd Co., Ceylon, and Lindsay, of Shanghai, has been received.

A meeting of the creditors of Charles Joyce and Co., who failed on the Bth of April last, was held on the 10th May. The report was very discouraging.