THE SEPTEMBER MALL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 8, Issue 456, 26 November 1864, Page 3

THE SEPTEMBER MALL.

GENERAL NEWS. ' London, September 26. The Australian July mails were delivered on the 24-th via Southampton, and the 15th via Marseilles. . The Queen enjoyed good health, and was residing in Scotland. _ - The Prince and Princess of Wales embarked at Dundee on the 3rd of September, for Elsinore, on a visit to the King and 'Queen of Denmark. The, Royal Couple have since visited various public places in Copenhagen, where they were expected to remain for about a week, after.which it was thought that they would proceed to Paris. The Princess Dagniar of Denmark, sister to the Princess of Wales, is about to be betrothed to the Czarovitch, heir to the Imperial Crown of Russia. • The Crown Princess of Prussia gave birth to a Prince, on the 3.sth' August. The mother and the infant .were progressing favorably. , . The Duke of Newcastle’s health is considerably improved. One of the vacant Garters is conferred on the Marquis of Lahdsdowne. ■

Lord Palmerston, though in his 81 gt year, appears to be almost uhiquitous, .'performing his duties as actively as ever. , The British Government despatched the Earl of Airlie to the United States with their views on the present a meet of ■■affairs,, and to offer himself to.-the as amedium of commurucaiion with the British Government.

The con viel question continues to excite much discussion. A scheme is ventilated that, by means of convention with Russia for compensation, she might take charge of our convicts, or cede a portion of her. Siberian, possessions where our, convicts could be sent.

Captain Speke, discoverer of the source of the White Nile, is dead ; he accidentally shot himself while crossing a fence. . The Emperor of Abyssinia still keeps the* British Consul in irons because he delayed making a favorable reply to his offer of; marriage with Queen Victoria. The owner of the Georgia received intimation from the Foreign Office that tlie seizure of that vessel must go before the American Prize Court, and the owner mustdefend bis own interest in that Ccuvt.

Assaults in railway carriages continue to' increase. The London and Southwestern Company caused circular panes of glass tobe inserted in the various compartments oftheir carriages, so that the occupants in; various divisions can see each other.

Accounts of the Shakesperian festival committee, at Stratford-on-Avon, show a deficiency of £3OO. A new screw propeller has been invented by James Steel, of Liverpool, which averages four times the speed of an ordinary screwwith the same engine and the same pressure of steam. The news of the month discloses an unparalleled increase of brutal murders and other criminal offences in England. A frightful colliery explosion occurred near North Shields. Eighteen persons were killed.

Colonel M'Murdo retires from the inspectorship of Volunteers. - - A shock of. an earthquake was distinctly felt in Cheshire, on the 21st.

During the past week forty-seven wrecksliave been reported, making a total for the present year of 1255. The poor law expenditure for the year ending the 25th of last March amounts t0£6,527,000, £6,527,000, being an increase on the previous year .of L 450,000. . ■Official'documents issued show that there are 1,142,684 insane and paupers in Great. ; Britain.

The statistical details in the ‘ Gazette’ show that the total net value of our foreign trade at eleven ports in China amounts to--104 millions sterling. The Queen has conferred the Victoria Cross on Assistant-Surgeons Manley and Temple, Lieutenant Pickard, Ensign Down, and Drummer Stagpole, for bravery in the New Zealand campaign. " The Roxburgh Castle and Light Brigade have sailed .with reinforcements for New Zealand.

At a great five m London; the estimated loss is LIOO,OOO. Haberdashers’ Hall,. Gresham-street, was almost totally destroyed. The Admiralty have resolved to do away with much of the rigging in iron-clad ships, giving them each a lighter rig, as in the Enterprise and Defiance, which beat all the-' Channel squadron under full sail; Lord Palmerston, on the 3rd September, unveiled the statue erected to the late Sir George C. Lewis, at Hereford. The annual meeting of the British Association opened, on the 14th September, under the Presidency of Sir Charles Lyell. Tho meeting is likely to be a very successful one.

The Social Science Association meeting opened .on the 22nd at York. A special commission for the trial of the Belfast rioters is to be held at the end of this month or the beginning of the next-' Some claims already made in respect, of damages sustained during the fourteen day. 4 riots amount to between nine and ten thousand pounds sterling. A hundred ancl seventy-six persons were wonnded ancl nine killed. Fifty rioters,.were arrested, and are now awaiting trial. The drawn fight for the pugilistic championship and LSOO aside, between Coburn and Mace, not having been adjusted, the fight i 3 to take place on Tuesday, October 4th —the articles of agreement, say in Ireland. The men, who have been in training under professionals, recently shifted their quarters, to prevent police interference. Prior to the fight Mace is to hand over LIOO to Coburn, who is now the favorite in the -betting. ‘ The powder mills at Erit-h, near Gravesend, containing3o,ooo barrels of gunpowder, were blown up, laying everything in ruins within a radius of six miles ; and the Thames embankment at Westminster, was destroyed by the shock, which was felt distinctly at Windsor. Loss of life not yet fully ascertained. Meditated attack on Australia. —A supplementary ‘Times’ says that it has just been discovered that, last year, Australia had. a narrow escape from being destroyed city after city by the Russian fleet had England gone to war on behalf of Poland. The Russian fleet in American waters had orders to join others that would be despatched for the destruction of the Australiaii colonies. The story is given with’ solemn authority. ' Wool. —Since the close of sales little has been doing. For the continent there is more demand for certain descriptions. The market is quoted firm, with 'little business. The Bailafat loft Gravesend for Wellington on the 23rd August. ' Obituary. —Duke of Cleveland, Princess Polignac, Capt. Speke, Vice-Admiral Thos. Best, Earl Cadogan, Lieu f . -General Bigan, and Walter Savage Laiidor, the poet, who,, died at Florence.

GERMANY AND DENMARK. The peace negotiations at Vienna are still in progress. It is reported that the two,great Germanic power’s are on the point of coining to an understanding with the Germanic Diet as to the future Government of the Duchies.

At Vienna it is suspected that England, and France are about to overthrow the preliminaries of peace, and advise personal union. A secret treaty, therefore, is alleged to have been agreed to between the two German powers, consisting of four clauses :—-First. Rrusaia engages to submit the question of the .succession to the Diet. Second —Schleswig-Holstein is to enter the Zollverein. Third—Rensburg to become a Federal fortress. Fourth—Solidarity to bo established between the land and sea forces, of the new State and those.of-Prussia. SPAIN. The new Administration formed in Spains’ hinder the Presidency uf Larridge, had announced a conciliatory policy. It had ■ axis?* pended the Frees pre seditions•