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Colonist, Volume VI, Issue 596, 10 July 1863, Page 3

GENEBAL NEWS. Lord Elgin's great durbar at Agra on the 17th February is described as grander than even Lord Canning's at the same place. Crowds of chiefs from Bajpootana and Central India filled the grand tent, with numerous attendants. The place was a perfect blaze of jewels, such as no other spot in the world could display. The University boat race has been won by Oxford easily. Chambers,the Newcastle champion, has beaten Everson,the Greenwich waterman; and Chambers has since been challenged by Richard Green, the Australian champion. The race is to come off on the 16th June. The Queen was to leave England for Balmoral about middle of May. Lord Cardigan - has brought an action agamst Major-General Calthorp, for a passage in a work of his relating to the Balaklava charge. The case has been argued on one side only. The European and Australian Mail Company have recovered £15,000 damages from the Admiralty for losses in the execution of their contract. A despatch from Salt Lake City states that Brigham Young was served with a writ under the polygamy act. He was immediately held to bail in the sum of 2000 dollars. General Butler, who not unnaturally hates a community, which has unanimously reprobated his acts, proposes, in tne midst of enthusiastic applause, to prohibit the export of gold and of food to English ports. As far off as California, the State authorities ■„ are arming, on the pretext of resisting foreign invasion, but with the real object of seizing the fertile gold-fields of English Columbia. At Louisville a hogshead of the new crop of tobacco was sold at the extraordinary price of 118 dollars per hundred pounds, the hogshead bringing $1,604 80. This, we believe, is the highest price ever paid for a hogshead of tobacco in the United States* It was grown by Mr, J, C. Anderson, Meade Cwaty, . |