ARRIVAL OF THE SEPTEMBER MAIL PROM ENGLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 626, 28 November 1863, Page 8

ARRIVAL OF THE SEPTEMBER MAIL PROM ENGLAND.

• -^ ~ The Steamship Alhambra arrived from Melbourne on Saturday evening, with the New Zealand portion of the English Mail. The P. and O. Steamship Northam arrived in Hobson's Bay at an early hour on Saturday morning, the 14th instant. She left Ualle on the 24th October, three days after her usual time, the delay having been cause*) by an accident to the machinery of the Poohnah, and the overflowing of the Nile. Her dates are to the 26th September, with a iupplementary telegram dated October 3rd. The following are the principal items ot intelligence Yrought by her : - The Australian July mails were delivered in London on the 16th and 17th September. The Queen returned to Windsor on Ihe 10th Septemter. Parliament has been prorogued to the Ist of December. The war feeling in England against Russia i 3 greatly increased. The Russian reply to the last. notes is cold and repelling. It rejects all further negotiations for a peaceful settlement of the Polish question. Russian accepts the responsibility of her acts, and says she is actuated by generous impulses towards Poland, but she demands surrender before she indulges them. The Confederate Government has recalled Mr Mason, their Commissioner in London. The head-quarSers of the 43rd He2iraent left Cal- - cutta for New Zealaud on the Bth October, per | steamer Lady Joceiyn. The steamer Australian follows immediately with H.M. 80th Regiment from I Rangoon. Reinforcements are also to be sent from England. A grand banquet was given to the ,'officers and seamen of the Channel Fleet in Liverpool, prior to the fleet leaving for Dublin Bay. The transportation question is being discussed in England with unabated interest. Mr Edward Wilson, in a series of letters to The Times, denounces the chartering of another convict ship, the Lord Dalhouise, by the Government, as an outrage upon the rights of the free settlements on the Australian continent The harvest is estimated as worth L 13,000,000 sterling more than that of last year. The distress in the manufacturing districts is decreasing. _ The necessary capital for the Atlantic Telegraph Company has been raisei. The completed cable will be laid before the end of 1854. Gold discoveries have been made in North Wales. In Ireland Federal recruiting goes on under the name of emigration. The inducements offered to emigrants are high pay, and a future war with England. The Robin Hood Company's total score in the match with the Milang Company was 1155 : that of South Australia, 1149. At Dencaster meeting the great Yorkshire Handicap was won by Voltigeur. The St. Leger, by Lord Clifden ; Queen Bertha second. The Doncaster Cup by Macaroni; Queen Bertha Becond. TheTyne Regatta Champion Cup was won by Chambers. The race was very unsatisfactory. Green wns too unwell to row. OHtuary.— Marquis of Huntly, Earl Beaucharnp, Marquis of Townshend, Rear Admiral Dundas, Right Hon. E. Eliice, M,P., Mr S. Read, Mr E. Stanley, Mr William Tooke, Mr P. R, 8. Jacabs, Mr Grimm, Count Alfred de Vigney, Admiral Hope. Rear-Admi-ral Washington, and Mr Potts, M.P.