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Otago Daily Times, Issue 1119, 22 July 1865, Page 4

Our London Correspondent writes :— " Your mails were delivered 15th and 19th inst.; but we seek in vain for encouraging news; and must evidently wait a long time to hear tha' rebellion is crushed in your land. The dilatory movements of General Cameron do not at all accord with our English warlike notiois, he may be right, nevertheless; as a'so may your Ministers and your Governor; we are expecting daily to rend something of your affairs in our Parliamentary reports. It is a source of congratulation that the impost of stamps on New Zealand papers is so speedily removed, and Sir George Grey deserves many thanks for his timely concession to public remonstrances; and the fact of rescinding such an obnoxious tax induces one to forego the inquiry why it was ever dreamt of being inflicted. Lords Russell and Palmerston and the French Emperor have all averted that the moment the Federals declare the blockade of Southern harbours to be ended, that moment all belligerent rights will cease—Galveston in Texas is the only port now in Confederate possession; the war itself is virtually over ; and any mail from New York may proclaim the blockade at an end—then we must look out, for President Johnson's views on treason are most stringent—with the present month, of May the last day of grace expires to the rebels, and no more surrenders will be accepted ; all parties after that time found, resisting the United States authority on land or sea will be summarily disposed of as traitors and pirates."

The "Stonewall," Confederate ram, left Havana 11th instant, ostensibly for Galveston.

President Lincoln's Fu.verai..—" Frank Leslie's Illustrate'! Newspaper " 'New York), in one of the numbers received by 7^®^*?'" mail, gives a very litrgo enpraving representing the funeral' cortege of the late President Lincoln on its way from the White House to the Capitol, at Washington ; and, in its description,: says :—" The procession was one hour and a half passing a P.ien point, and there was hardly any time when a halt was necessary, except for the removal of the coffin from the tuneral cur to the catafalque in the rotunda of the Capitol. It is estimated that -there were (ttf -least 150.000 personson the streets to witness the procession, me nnmber in the proemion was not less than 18.000, including 300 marshals and assistant marshals, 11 major-gen<rals, 84 bngaaiergeneralfl. 1200 other military officers, law naval officers, inchding Viee-udnnrai **"*•< gut, and 108 senators and members ot gress.'!