ARRIVAL OF THE CLAUD HAMILTON WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1900, 28 July 1863, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE CLAUD HAMILTON WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

ROUT OF THE FEDERAL ARMY AT FREDERICKSBURGH.

FEABS FOR THE SAFETY OF, WASHINGTON. i DEATH OF GENERAL STONEWALL JACKSON. CONTINUED INSURRECTION IN POLAND. THE PANAMA ROUTE POSITIVELY DECLINED BY GOVERNMENT. GENERAL CAMERON TO RETAIN THE NEW ZEALAND COMMAND. THE DERBY WON BY MA.CCARONI. THE OAKS BY QUEEN BERTHA. [The following appeared ia an " Independent Extra," published yesterday.] Thes.s. Claad Hamilton arrived in this harbour to-day, at 11 a.m. She left Dnnedin on the 24th inst., reached Lytielton on the 25tb, left there on the 26th, and arrived here as above. A strong head wind was experienced during the passage. Amongst the passengers by the Claud Hamilton, are fifty volunteers, enrolled for the " Colonial Defence" service in this Province, through the efforts of Mr Leatham, the Prorincial agent appointed for that purpose. The hon. Mr Reader Wood, and Captain Sharp hare also arrived in her. We take the following from the Daily Telegraph of the 24th inst: — The B.s. Albambra with the English Mails for May arrived ut Port Chalmers on the 23rd inst. The' mail arrived off Port Philip Heads about midnight, on the 13th instant, and was detained three days in Melbourne, awaiting the departure of the Alhambra. The following General Summary is from the 2nd edition of the Argus of 14th instant :— London, May 26tb. The Australian March Mails were delivered is London on the 16th and 21st of May. The Queen left for Scotland on the 1 4th inst., and intends returning on the 7th of June. The Prince and Princess of Wales are going a round of gaiety. The vacant Garter is to be conferred on Earl de Grey. No candidate has yet offered for the City of London, in room of Mr Western Wood, deceased. Parliamentary newt is dull. Better relations are established bewteen England and the Northern States on the vexed question of international law. The proposals of New South Wales and New Zealand to establish a mail service via Panama are positively declined by the British Government. The distress in Lancashire and the manufacturing districts is slowly decreasing. Go* rernment proposes to employ 70,000 of the unemployed on municipal works, and the reclamation of waste lands, under the superintendence of the Boards of Health. One thousand emigrants left Manchester on the 28 in April en route for New Zealand. Recruiting for the Federal army is extensively carried on in Ireland. The emigration to America is estimated at upwards of 5,000 persons per week. The garottirg panic is over. The House of Commons has passed the bill for logging gatotters. Transportation to Queensland and the Northern Coastt is no more talked of. The Times says — " Government fully recognises tbe difficulties of the New Zealand question to colonists, but requires from the latter a policy towards the Natives most prudent and liberal, in return for the protection aflorded them by the Queen's troops, at the cost of Great Britain." The Royal Geographical Society has awarded gold watches, bearing honorary inscriptions, to Landsborougb, M'Kinlay, and Walker. The long sought-for source of the White Nile has been discovered by Captains Speke and Grant to be a lake 4,000 feet above the level of the sea, four degrees south of the Equator. Livingstone's expedition is to be recalled. The cutting of the Suez Canal is likely to be stopped by the Sublime Porte, should great concessions and alterations required by him not be made. If these are not granted, the Porte will return to the Company all the money they have expended. The Secretary of War has overruled the decision of the Horse Guards and General Cameron will continue in command of the New Zealand troops. The postage rates via Marseilles are advanced Id per quarter of an ounce. The Derby Day was very wet. The Prince of Wales was present. The Derby "Stakes, Value £7000, were won by Maecaroni ; Lord Clifden, the favorite, 2nd ; Rapid Rhone, 3rd ; Blue Mantle, 4th. The Oaks were won by an outsider, Queen Bertha; Mangold, 2nd; Vivid, 3rd ; value of the stakes, £5050. The boat race for the championship of tbe world, between Chambers and Green, causes much attention and speculation. Green is iv bard training. The American champion, Hamill, declares he can whip either of them, . Obituary — Lord Massereene, Lady Seaton, Sir Augustus Warren, Lord Hatherton, David Boswell Reid, Western Wood, and W. Youngbutband, late Chief Secretary of South Australia.