CALIFORNIA, VIA SYDNEY.

West Coast Times, Issue 220, 2 June 1866, Page 3

CALIFORNIA, VIA SYDNEY.

Wednesday, March 23. The Sorata brings 7420 bags of wheat, ' and Californiau papers to the 26th of Marsh, The news is unimportant. "The markets were lower. The Adeline Burke, Australind, Kedar, and Vrienschap, were loading for Australia. The Pembrokeshire, with 12,406 bags of wheat, the General Cobb with 1375 bags of barley and 77 bags of wheat, the Princess Alice with 3621 bags of wheat and 2250 half-sacks of flour, had sailed. Previously, also, the Dublin, with timber, for Melbourne. General Lee, in giving his evidence before the Reconstruction Committee, said he believed that the result of the war was generally accepted in good faith ;, but that some dissatisfaction and delay would occur in admitting into Congress the Southerners who were not connected with the rebellion. The Belgian Senate has adopted, by thirty 'three votes to four, a bill abolishing tolls on all the roads of the kingdom. A clergyman, the Her. Grevillo J. Chester Vrites to the " Guardian" that his Englsh bible, Italian New Testament, with some standard English works of divinity, and seven of his own sermons, were seized by the Custom House officials at Oivita Vecchia. On enquiring at Rome, Mr Chestor was told that the police could give him no redress, as the books were in the Holy Office of the Inquisition. He was distinctly assured that tho Bible and Testament were prohibili. In South Carolina, the negroes on the Sea Island cotton lands luddenly determined, a day or two before Christmas, that no white person should land on the islands. They Bred upon several boats that attempted to land white men, and drove them off, and a regiment of troops had to be lonfc to keep tho blacks in subjection. — American oorrespo-n donee of "The Times." Ex officio informations, arising out of tho Leeds Bankruptcy enquiry, have been filein the Crown Office, at tho instance of Sir BoundelL Palmer, Her Majesty's AttorneyGeneral. They are laid against the Hon. Eichard Auguqiur Bothell and Patrick Thomus Welch. A Rich Flat. — A gentleman, in speaking to a real estate agent about the situation of an estate which he was about to buy of him (the agent) in a level neighbourhood, said, 4 The country is exceedingly beautiful, and I do so admire a rich fiat! — ' So do J, sir,' said the obsequious but grinning agent. One of the double-humped or Bactrian camels in Edmond's menagerie has lately given birth to a fine male calf at Bilsden, Suffolk. This is the second instance of the kind occurring in this country, the other having been calved at Hackney in January, 1864, in the same collection. " Clothier.