EUROPEAN NEWS to 6th JAN.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1835, 26 February 1863, Page 3

EUROPEAN NEWS to 6th JAN.

[The following appeared in an ' Independent Extra,' yesterday afternoon.]

Independent Office, Wednesday Morning, The s.s Queeu, Captain Robertson, from Otago via Lyttelton, arrived in port this morning, at 11 o'clock, bringing the English December Mail, and telegraphic intelligence up to the 6th January. ■ ■■- ■

The mail was brought to Otago by the Alharabra which arrived at Port Chalmers on Sunday morning last at 5 o'clock. The Queen left Otago on Sunday at 2 p.m. Through the courtesy of the steward of the Queen, who furnished us with a Melbourne Examimer of the* 14th instant., we arc enafejed to present our readers with the following summary of intelligence. The Raugatira, with the South Australian portion of the mail from England, reached Glenelg about miduight on Thursday. That mail, it appears, was detainee! to. allow of replies lo the letters by the October mail, the delivery of which was delayed; by the wreck 6f the Colombo. 'It is stated that the Australian mails , by that uufoiluuate steamship were safely recovered and delivered, 'the dates from London aye to the 29tli December. It will lie seen that the news. , is highly interesting and important. The ' Confeaevatps

have signally bealcn tta Federals beFore Fredericksburg. The English Government has declined to accept the thione of Greece for Prince Alfred, and the young- Prince is now on his voyage to this"colony, in H.M.S. Racoon. Adelaide, Feb. 13, 1 a.m. Tho Rangatira arrived at Gienelgat 11 p.m., after a passage of 10G hours from King George's Sound. The P. and 0. Company's steamer Northam, Captain Brooks, arrived at the Sound at six a.m. on the Bth inst. She left ' Gallo on the 23rd January, at six p.m.