MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 748, 31 March 1866, Page 14

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

New Yobk, 18th January. Advices from Guadaloupe via Bermuda report the cholera still prevailing there, the average deaths being 131 per day in a population of 10,000. The rumoured proposal to cede the island of St. Domingo to England is creating some comment at Bermuda.

The Kingston (Jamaica) Standard, of 9th December, in noticing the outcry with which the wholesale executions on the island had been received in Europe, affirms that the negro plot was a stern and horrible reality, and was only prevented from developing itself by the rapid movement of troops. The Herald's Toronto despatch says : — " General Sweeney's address, promising hostages for Fenians convicted in Ireland, has renewed fears of Fenian invasion of Canada. The Toronto Leader promises Sweeney a baiter if he comes within Canadian jurisdiction."

An Ottawa paper asserts that the volunteers behaved badly when called on during the recent Fenian scare at Prescott.

John Sherman ia elected United States Senator for Ohio.

Congresß has conferred the franking privilege on Mrs Lincoln for life.

Washington, 19th January. It is asserted by parties usually well informed, that some Northern politicians in connection with leading men from various parts of the South, are soon to hold & meeting in this city to see what can be done to inaugurate a formidable party to vigorously support Johnson's policy. The Chilian Minister to-day received official intelligence that the Spanish fleet was about to raise the blockade of the Chilian ports.