LATER NEWS FROM AMERICA.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1708, 18 March 1862, Page 3

LATER NEWS FROM AMERICA.

Surrender of the SOUTHERN COMMISSIONERS ! ! I The s. s. Storm Bird, Captain Mundle, from Otago via Lyttelton, arrived in port last night, with later news from America The steamship JLldinga, from Melbourne Bth March, arrived at Port Chalmers ou I Thursday evening, the 13th inst., without"! the English Mail. , I The Federal Government had released I Messrs. Mason and Slideli, aud they had 1 taken their departure for England. The I Jilta California of the 2nd Jan., says: — i " Official communications passed between i Lord Lyons and Secretary Sevvard on the 27th | December. The latter says Capt. VVilkes I acted ou his own au»boiity, and committed an I error for which our Government is willing 1 to ■ make reparation. Mr. Sewaid concludes saying 1 lh.it Mason and Slideli shall be given up, in 1 order that the principles for which the Araevi- 1 can Government has always contended may be I maintained, and he hopes England will adhere | to the same policy hereafter. I Providence, Jan. 2. i The British steam gunboat " Rinaldo " left | at 5 p.m , with Messrs. Mason and Slideli and | suite on board. I England was making great preparations for 1 war. A field battery, 1260 troops, and large am- § munition stores had arrived at Canada in the | Australian. I The British war steamer Cadmus had arrived | off St. Thomas, to protect vessels against another § Trent affair. I The Magdalene, had arrived at Halifax from I Southampton, with 1000 troops for Canada. I The s. s. Bohemia, with troops h;is also arrived. 1 The Steamship Parana, with 1000 troops, I had sailed from Southampton, for Canada, and I was reported to be lost on the St. Lawrence. i France was about to send reinforcements to I the squadron off Mexico ; also to the Squadron 1 of the north-eastern coast of America. s Madrid correspondence says Spain is to send j 7,000 men to Mexico. The French naval I division from the Antilles would proceed to ! Charleston, before which the English Squadron ] was lying at anchor. 1 Obituary. — The following names are the j most prominent on the Obituary of the month — i The Dowager Countess Grey ; Lady Robert | Kerr; Sir Peter Lawxie, General Alex., Arm | strong; Oountess Cunning, Lord Riversciale, 1 Principal Cunningham, Dr. Southwall Smith. §