LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 1265, 14 June 1870, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

London, May 12. The Atlantic yacht race between the ! English yacht Cambria and the American yacht Sappho was won easily by the Cambria. Mr Waters has been returned as member for Marlow. Mace has been declared champion of America after fighting 10 rounds. The Bed Biver insurgents -and the Canadian Government have agreed to terms, and the rebellion is at an end. Judgment has been given in the Bridgewater bribery prosecution. Mr Fentelley has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, and fined £1,000 ; Dr Kinglake has been fined £200 ; Mr Hard ment has been sentenced to six months' additional imprisonment ; and Mr Hulme has been fined £100. The Japanese Bailway Loan for £1,000,000 has been issued. The King of Italy has been unwell, but has recovered. A petition against the return of Mr Bernal Osborne has been dismissed. The (Ecumenical Council has adopted the Constitution de fide. The Pope refused to communicate the French despatch to .the Council. The French Government will not take further steps. An awful catastrophe has occurred at Bichmond, America. The floor of the Court of Appeal fell through into the House of Representatives, killing 59 persons, 20 of whom were deputies. One hundred and thirty-five others were injured. The French plebiscite, to which the ratification of the Senatus Consultum had been referred, has commanded the attention of all Europe during the month. The Legitimists and the Left strenuously opposed the plebiscite, but it was nevertheless carried out. The .plebiscite resultedin the confirmation of the Senatus Consultum by 7,257,379 ayes to 1,530,909 noes. In Paris, however, there was a majority of 200,000 against the Government. A disturbance took place at the Faubourg dv Temple. Barricades were erected, but after some slight fighting the insurgents were dispersed. The remainder of Paris was quiet. A conspiracy has been discovered in Paris to assassinate the Emperor by nitroglycerine bombs. The intention, however, was abandoned. Mazzini, Bochefort, Flourens, and others, are said to be implicated in the the plot. Arrests have been made at Creuzot, Lyons, and Marseilles. An alleged conspiracy to assassinate the Empress Eugenic has also been discovered, and arrests made. A quantity of bombs and cartridges has been seized. The French International Society in London has held a banquet, at which the charge of complicity in the conspiracy was repudiated. Toasts were drunk to Bochefort and O'Donovan Bossa. The Newmarket Two Thousand Guineas was won by Mr Merry's Macgregor ; Lord Stamford's Normanby was second ; and Lord Falmouth's Kingcraft third. The One Thousand Guineas was won by Mr Dawson's Hester ; Mr Lyndon's Erivolity was second ; and Baron Bothschild's Mahona third. The Chester Cup was won by Our Mary Anne ; Formosa was second ; and Sabinius third. Mr Torrens' motion for a select committe on Colonial relations was lost by 43 votes. An audacious case of brigandage in Greece has caused great excitement throughout Europe. The Brigands captured Lord Muncaster, son of the Duke of Muncaster, and other English gentlemen, at Marathon. Lord Muncaster was released on payment of £2,000 ransom. A colonel was sent with some troops to negociate, but failed in the use of conciliatory measures. He attempted to surround the robbers, who killed all the prisoners, including Messrs Herbert, Lloyd, Vyner, and Bayle. The news of the massacre has caused great indignation in England, where the weakness of the Greek Government has been strongly condemned. The press recommends the direct intervention of protecting powers for the formation of an internal administration to put down brigandage. A foreign expedition against the robbers has been suggested. The Greek Government is disposed to make liberal compensation to the relatives of the murdered men. The Tasmanian loan of £100,000 has been successfully negotiated at £100 7s 6d and upwards.

The House of Commons has read a second time a bill for removing the electoral disabilities of women. Cardinal Cullen has published a letter urging his clergy to support Mr Gladstone's Cabinet. Obituary. — Marquis Cholmondeley and Lord Auckland, Cardinal Gonelia at Eome, Lord Henniker, Dowager Lady Lyttelton; General Thomas, from apoplexy, at San Francisco ; Lady Hope, of Frome; Lord Tenterden; Mr Joseph Payne, assistant judge of Middlesex; Canon Wodehouse, of Norwich; Ward Goodall, the famous engraver ; Mr J. Campbell Colquhoun ; Mr Bose, literatenr; Hon Julian Fane ; Countess of Leicester ; Mr Geo. Henry Moore, M.P., the Fenian advocate; and Mr James Maxwell ; Maclise, the painter, Sir James Simpson, Bey. Chas. Woodhouse Payne, Thomas Goodwin Hatchand, Charles Green, Marshal Hess, Bey. W. WoodJ house, Lady Stewart, W. ..S. Prosie, I Christopher Erie. i M. Guizot and Colonel Akroyd are j dangerously ill.