ARRIVAL OF THE PANAMA MAIL.

Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1183, 29 January 1869, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE PANAMA MAIL.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

Wellington", January 27,

The Panama Mail steamer Kuatrine arrived in harbor at four o'clock this afternoon. She left Panama on the 27th December ; arrived at Opara on the 15th Januarj'. Experienced fine weather.

Passengers.—Por "Wellington: Dr. and Mrs. Turner, 6 children, and servant, Mrs. Morant and 5 children, Messrs. Jamioson, A. Lascelles, Ingham, Kingscotfc, A. Birch, W. Gunor, Deardon, W. Gi-unst, Darden, Major Stafford, Miss A. Miller, P. Milier, J. Miller, E. Muer, M. Alexander, and Punch. Por Hokifcika: Mrs. Blake and child. Por Nelson: Mr.. P. lientou{^ Por Dunedin : Bishop of Dunedin. Por Auckland: Mrs. Chapman and child, Mrs. Barker and 2 children, Miss A. Scott, and Mr. Walton. For Napier: Mr. J. Stewart. Por Sydney : Mr. Davenport. Por Melbourne: Messrs. L. Altazan, Carraichael, wife, and child, and Lonsada. Total: 47, including children.

GENERAL SUMMAKY. London, December 2

The Queen is at Windsor. The elections are over. Ministers are in a minority of over 100.

Mrs. Disraeli is raised to the Peerage by the title of Viscountess Beaconsfield.

Dr. Tait has been made Archbishop of Canterbury ; aud Dr. Jackson, Bishop of Lincoln, has been made Bishop of London.

Judgment has beeu given by the Court of Common Pleas that women are not entitled to be on the electoral list.

A fearful colliery explosion has taken place at Hindley, near "Wigan. Sixty-one persons were instantaneously killed. The ship Australia, 1010 tons, from Sydney to London, was lost 130 miles north of Bahia. The crew, passengers, and specie were saved; cargo lost. A circular has been issued by the Spanish Government, calling on the Civil Governors to be on their guard against reactionary movements.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius has been exhausted since the outbreak of Mount Etna.

The scullers' race between Kelly& Saddler, for £400, was won by Kelly, on December 1.

There will be no formal meeting of the British Parliament en the 10th. An adjournment will take place until the 15th of February, in order to give time for the selection of the Ministry.

Mr. George Peabody, the American philanthropist, has made another donation of £100,000 to the poor of London. Count Bismarck has returned to Berlin.

The King of Prussia received the French Ambassador, and assured him of his friendship for France. The Austrian Delegation has passed the war budget. The Emperor has made Baron yon Beust a Count, as an acknowledgment of his valuable services.

The Sublime Porte will recall its ambassador from Athens, unless recruiting for Crete ceases in Greece. The Sultan has sent an intimation to the Hellenic Government, granting a short delay to enable an exchange of positive explanations, embodying guarantees for the future, or the commercial and diplomatic relatious between the t\yo powers will be immediately suspended. Troops have been despatched outside the Dardanelles to be ready for any emergency. The Greek Minister, resident in Constantinople, has furnished passports so as to provide for the possibility of a rupture. The Hungarian Parliament closed its sessions on the 9th.

Baron Charles Yon Becke has been appointed Ambassador from Austria to the Sublime Porte.

Francis Joseph, Count Bismarck, has made speeches expressive of his confidence in the maintenance of peace in Europe. Fresh eruptions of Mount Etna are reported.

The Sulfcan has sent his ultimatum to the Government at Athena, requiring an answer within five days. The Governments of France nnd■England sustain hia demands. The Greek Government still withstands the representations ot the Great Powers in the matter of the ultimatum of the Sublime Porte.

The French ambassadors at Athens is preparing to depart; hopes, however, arc entertained in Paris that a collision may be avoided.

The Turkish Government is making every preparation for hostilities, Turkish troops being concentrated on the frontiers. The King of Denmark and the Prince of Wales have written a joint note to the Kins; of the Greeks, urging him to accede to the demands of the Sultan.

, The Turkish ultimatum demands that the Government of Greece shall disband the Volunteer Corps, and forbid the Greekofficials from participating in the Cretan insurrection. Greece lookr upon these demands as offensive, ann has rejected the ultimatum.

A fleet has gone to Constantinople to bring back the Greek Envoy.

The representatives of France and England at Vienna have been instructed to represent to the Austrian Government the daugers that may result to the peace of Europe from its atcitude on the Eastern Question. The recall of the Austrian Ambassador at Constantinople has been the result of their representations. [BY ATLANTIC CABLE.] London, December 15. The new Parliament was opened on the 10th December. Tiie usual speech from the Throne was omitted. The House of Commons re-elected the Eight Hon. John Evelyn Denison as speaker. On the meeting of Parliament, the Conservative Government resigned office, and Mr. Gladstone became Premier. The following appointments have been officially announced:—The Eight Honor.l able P."G. D. Goschen, M.P., to be President of the Poor Law Board; the Marquis of Hartington (eldest son of the Duke of Devonshire), Postmaster-General; Mr. Layai'd, President of the Board of Trade; the Honorable A. Bruce, Secretary of State for the Home Department; W. I'orster, Vicepresident of the Board of Education ; James Stanfield, jun., A. S. Ayrton, and G. G. Glynn, Lords of the Treasury; M. E. Grant DufF, Under-Secretary for India; the Eight Hon. "William Monseil, Under-Secretary for the Colonial Department; Edward H. K. Giessen, Under-Secretary for the Home Department; John Arthur Otway, UnderSecretary for the Foreign Department; Serjeant Gifford, Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench ; Lord Dufferin, Chaucellor of the Duchy ot' Lancaster; Edward Sullivan, Attorney-General for Ireland; Charles Eobert Barry, Solicitor-General for Ireland ; T. G. Baring (Lord Norfchbrooke), Undersecretary for "War; Mr. Vivian being appointed Treasury-Lord, to supervise military expenditure; and Earl Spencer, LordLieutenant of Irelrand.

Lord Clarendon is the new Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and received the Foreign Ministers formally on Saturday last.

At Cork, six thousand persons followed to the grave the remains of a deceased American Fenian.

Negotiations for a treaty of commerce are to be opened immediately with Mr. Burlinghame, the Chinese Ambassador.

The burning of a hotel in M'Kensie, Tennesse, involved also the burning of four ladies and several children.

Petitions have been presented to the House of Commons contesting the elections of 31 Liberal and 37 Conservative memoers for boroughs.

"W. E. Baxter, M.P. for the Montrose Boroughs, has been appointed Secretary to the Admiralty.

The Earl of Mayo is to be recalled from India. Sir John Lawrence will be retained as Viceroy for one year, at the expiration of which the Marquis of Salisbury (late Lord Cranbourne) will be appointed to the post.

The Daily Telegraph says that Gladstone's cabinet is ready to consider any counter proposals made by the United States in the Alabama case. All that can be honorably granted, will be cviueded; America cau accept no less, and desires no more.

A collision between two trains on a railroad in Bohemia, killed twenty-three persons and injured sixty-one. Mr. G. F. Train has issued writs against the Lord-Lieutentant of Ireland for 100,000 dollars, as damages for false imprisonment.

A collision has occurred between two boats of the Eulton Eerry line, on the New York side. Two passengers were killed and about thirty wounded. The accident was caused by the incompetence of one of the pilots. Sherman House, in Syracuse, JMew York, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. [£26,000.]

A missing boat belonging to th 9 steamer Tlibernia has arrived off Donegal, in Ireland, containing the second officer and two other persons. Twenty-eight . had embarked in her, twenty-five of whom were drowned by the capsizing of the boat. Eighty-one were supposed to be lost. The interior of Jb'orfc Lafayette, in New York harbor, has been reduced to ashes by the carelessness nfa workman. The loss to the Governmen' is about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. There were 35,000 ppunds of powder in the magazine, in dangerous proximity to the fire, but the bomb-proof prevented an explosion.