LATER FROM SYDNEY.

Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 1694, 24 January 1862, Page 3

LATER FROM SYDNEY.

BY the politeness of CaptainjClulow,of the "Jane Lockhart," we have Sydney papers to January 8

The Ranawick Races came off on th c Ist Jan. The attendance was very good, and the racing fair. There was considerable excitement about the great cricket matches in Melbourne, and great preparations were being made for the reception of the All England Eleven in Sydney. The great Southren and Western Railway will shortly be completed as far as Roper's Creek.

The revenue tables for 1861 have been published, and exhibit an increase of £113,000 on the receipts of the previous year.

The New South Wales Parliament was to be prorogued on the 14th. — Ibid.

ENGLISH NEWS TO 26th NOV. {From the Argus> 12/ A January.) The Benares reached Hobsou's Bay on the 12th January with the Englihs, November mails. The following important

telegrams are of later date than the intelligence in the London journals : — (Per Renter s Telegrams, via Alexandria.) London, Nov. 27. Shdell and Masey, Confederate commissioners, were forcibly taken out of English Mail steamer, Trent, while on a voyuge from Havana to Si. Thomas, by United States frigate San Jacinto. Consols declined to 93J. Liverpool, Nov. 27. American man-of-war stopped British West ludiau Mail steamer, and took out ', two Southern Comnr.issioners. Feeling here very strong against the North. Baron Tecco, Sardinian ambassador at the Court of Spain, has received his passports^, and quitted Madrid on the 27th, in consequence of Spain refusing to give up Neapolitan archives. LATEST INTELLIGENCE BY TELEGBAPK VIA INDIA. HUMOURED WAR WITH AMERICA. " A serious difficulty has arisen betweeu England and the Northern States of America. War not improbable. The export of saltpetre from Great Britain has been prohibited. Great excitement prevails, Consols lower one and one-fourth per cent. Cotton one penny lower."

A postcript to above telegram is as follows: — "Rumoured that war has actually been declared, but cannot vouch for the truth of it," London, Nov. 26. The Australian September mails were delivered in London on 14th and 19Lh November. There had been several violent gales on the English and Irish coasts, and in the Channel, and more were foretold. Heavy disasters were reported from sea. Four large steamers wrecked.

Great excitement has been created at Southampton by the arrival there of the Confederate war steamer Nashville, with the crew of a prize, the Harvey Birch, that she had destroyed in the British Channel. It is supposed that the neutrality of England will bo violated if the Nashville is permitted to refit at Southampton, although a Federal war steamer put into the same port three weeks before, and. underwent the needful overhaul. The rate of insurance on American ships has been greatly raised in consequence. The Scotsman reports that a United States war-steamer ran into Southampton water nominally to refit, but really, as it is averred, to seize the West Indian mail steamer then due, and supposed to have oq board Mr. Slidell and Mr. Mason, Confederate Commissioners, who were contraband of war. The mail steamer came in two days before she was due, and thus escaped the fate intended for her. Communications then took place between our Government and the American Minister, in which the latter disclaimed any such in« tention as that imputed to the proceedings of the United States steamer; or, rather, he disclaimed any knowledge of the matter. The United States steamer has now departed, but is supposed to be cruising ofi the Irish coast for purposes similar to those which brought her to Southampton.

It is reported on board the Benares thai: the West -India mail steamer La Plata was boarded and seized by the above American war steamer, called the James Adger, and the commissioners taken prisoners.

A feeling of deep hostility has been engendered in Canada in consequence of the outrageous language which has recently been held by the United States in reference to England.

The new Governors of South Australia and Western Australia have sailed from England, the former in the Suffolk, the latter in the Strathallan.

A house of seven storeys in Edinburgh has fallen to the ground, killing upwards of twenty-two people, and injuring twelve others.

•A new and vigorous National Reform Association has been instituted at Leeds.

The spinners throughout the Lancashire cotton distriots are making experiments for carrying out the manufacture of Indian cotton.

Obituary.-— General Sir H. Douglas, Sir John Forbes, M.D., Mr. Duucombe, and the King of Portugal.