ARRIVAL OF THE PANAMA MAIL

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 410, 23 November 1868, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE PANAMA MAIL

{BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Wellington, Saturday. The s.s. Mataura arrived in the harbor at 9 a.m. She left Panama on October 21st; arrived at Opara on Nov 8 ; and left on the 10th. On October 24th, William Johnston, a fireman, fell from the rail of the vessel into the sea, and he was not missed until it was too late to save him. When leaving Opara, a seaman fell overboard from the fore-castle. Every effort was made to save him, but without avail. On November 18th, the engines were stopped for twenty-four hours, in consequence of an accident to the machinery. PASSENGER LIST. Eoit Wellington.—The Hon. G. M. Waterhouse, J. Harding, Mr and Mrs Cowper. For Nelson. —Mr and Mrs R. J. Creasy, Mrs Weitzel, Mrs Finney and child.

Foe Hokitika.—Mr and Mrs D. Quadrie, Mark Holly word, Bernard Grollogloy. Fob, Auckland.—G-. W. "Williams, Capt. C.JJr.S r . Eivett, M. Conroy. Fob Qtago.—Mrs Jackson, Win. Morgan, Mr and Mrs Cuthberfc. Fob Melbouene.—Mr and Mrs Pearth, J. G-. Kenyon, Miss E. O'Shannessey, J. Howell Thomas, Mr. Austen, Cupt. F. A. Baker, J. E. Hogg, Mr and Mrs Ward, Greorge B. Nye. For Sydney—Mrs Whitton, Misses Whitton (2), and servant, Master Whitton, Mrs Austen, two children, and servant; A. Henry, C. H. Peppery, Miss A. Blyth, Mr and Mrs Slalter, Mr Marshall.

GENEEAL SUxMMAEY. London, Oct. 2. The Queen has returned home and is at Balmoral. Her health is partially restored.

Parliament has been prorogued till the 24th of November.

The Eevising Barristers are hard at work everywhere, refusing votes to women.

The Dissolution is to take place soon.

Several leadin'Ministers' seats are to be contested—even Lord Stanley's. A fund for a monument to Lei°-h Hunt is being raised. Sir John Dean Paul is dead.

Dr. H. H. Milman, Dean of St. Paul's, poet, critic, and historian, is dead.

The Irish Hierarchs are commencing to fight over the disestablishment of the Irish Church.

The Queen of Spain escaped to Prance with the King-Consort, her four children, Don Sebastian, and the Minister of State, on September 30. Madrid is tranquil. A Provisional Junta, composed of four, sit in permanence. Barcelona pronounced against the Queen. The elections for the Constituent Cortes, by universal suffrage, commenced on Oct. 1.

Orders for arming the Militia and National Guard have been issued. The new Government has been congratulated by the English residents. The chief commercial firms in Andalusia have offered the Government aloan of 160 millions of reals.

There is an upward tendency on the bourse.

The Prince-Eoyal of Greece has received the title of Duke of Sparta. The Greek Chamber of Deputies is engaged on the question of new taxes. It is not known if it will be favorable to Government.

There has been a frightful explosion at the Green Pit, of the New British Iron Company, near Euabou Station, m North Wales. Ten men killed, and eleven seriously injured.

There has been a serious accident on the London and North Western Railway, iioar Rugby. Several persona were lulled and others injured. Count Walewskt died at Strasbourg on Sept. 27.

BY ATLANTIC CABLE. London-, Oct. 9. At the Newmarket October meeting \V. S. Crawford's Heather Bell was first ; Lord Glasgow's SToung Melbourne, second; Merry's chesnut iilly, by Thormanby out of Sunflower, third, The Committee appointed by the House of Commons to consider the Laud Laws of Ireland, will report early next session. Gladstone's election for Lancashire is despaired of. He will probably sit for Greenwich.

The new submarine telegraph cable from Malta to Alexandria was completed on the 3rd. Samuel Eaton, station master at Abergell, who was prosecuted for man-laughter, was acquitted. Disraeli has issued an address to his constituents in Buckinghamshire. He says the " policy of the Whigs on the Irish Que.-tion, would unsettle property, make confiscation contagious, and give England over to Popery and the rule of foreign power." The Liberals oppose the Irish Church disestablishment.

liutnour saya Victor Emanuel's secondson may be called to the throne of Spain.

Paris, Oct. 9. Trench papers anticipate civil war in Spain.

Queen Isabella has issued a protest against the Spanish revolution, asserting that her right to the throne is not injured by it, and that the acts of the Junta are not binding. The Italian Prime Minister is on hi 3 way to Paris to negociate relative to concessions by Prance. Farragut has been received with ovations at Athens.

The Eoyal Famdy of France went to Biarritz to meet the Queen of Spain.

The report of it being intended to reduce the Prussian army is contradicted.

The agitation and excitement as to war between France and Germany, and between France and Italy, and as to the New French alliance-negocia-tions with Spain, are progressing towards a panic. Napoleon's speech at Chalons is said to indicate Avar.

Madetd, Oct. sth. The Constituent Assembly elected, perfect order prevails. Madoz was appointed president of the Junta. He bas resigned. Aguire succeeds, and Serrano has been appointed General-in-Chief. Novaliched died on the Ist from wounds received in the engagement with Serrano.

General Colonze, of the Royalist army, has been arrested and awaits trial in the fort of Sentona.

Armed citizens occupy the guardhouse and posts about Madrid.

Pezuela fled to France

The Queen took all the crown jewels and regalia, and 26 millions of reals

The Barcelona populace publicly burnt the portrait of Isabella.

The diplomatic relations of the great powers in Europe with Spain, ave to remain in statu quo.

Vienna, Oct, 5. M. Deak, the Hungarian statesman, has been given a banquet and address from the Ambassador of Foreign Powers.

Copenhagen-, Oct. 5. The King says negotiations with the Prussian Government on the Schleswig Holstein question are thus far without result.

Denmark desires peace with Prussia. The ratification of the sale of St. Thomas and another Danish West India Island to the United States is postponed for one year.

Berlin, Oct sth. King William is reviewing the fleet at Keil.

Count Bismarck has been ordered to London for his health.

| sends a war ship to Parana. New York, Oct. 9th A torchlight procession of Democrats took place on the sth. 90,000 persons marched in procession. The screw-steamer Perseverance was burnt on Lake Ontario on the 6th • seventy lives were lost.

Disturbances between whites and blacks have occurred in Louisiana. Two whites and five blacks were killed*. The disturbance arose from the cowhiding of a " white" editor. General M'Lellan has been enthusiastically received in Philadelphia. A steam-tug exploded in the docks at New York, on the Bth. Two persons were killed, and eight wounded. The National Convention of French Candidates was held at Springfield, Massachusetts, on the Bth. Besolu-

tiona denouncing tho New Confederation and coercion of Nova Scotia, ami favoring annexation to the United States or the formation of a Republic; were passed! The English cricketers have, so far, beaten all opponents. The cl tsest match was with the Philadelphia Club.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. London, Oct. 9. There are rumours current in Paris and Madrid that the Island of Cuba has proclaimed its independence of the Spanish Government. The Junta will bring in a Bill at the session of the Cortes, abolishing slavery within ten years by general emancipation throughout the colonies of Spain. Panama. Intelligence has been received of the loss of the Panama Railroad Company's Steamer Parkersburgh off Tiger Island. The passengers, mails, and nearly all the cargo were saved. William Parker, Superintendent of the Panama Railroad, was shot with a revolver as he sat in his office on the morning of the 24th September, by James L. Baldwin, Acting-Engineer, who, after firing two shots at Parker, fired at his own head. Parker died in half an hour. Baldwin was expected to die in two days.