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  2. THE NEWS BY THE MAIL.

    The P. and O. S. Avoca entered Port Phillip Heads at eight o'clock on Wednesday morning, and anchored in Hobson's Bay in the forenoon. The following are the chief items of intelligence in theEnglish papers:— ...

    Article : 2,494 words
  3. RUSSIA.

    The following official announcement was published at St. Petersburg on 1st January:—"Numerous vagabonds, hawking merchandise and furnished with Persian passports, having been found roving about in ...

    Article : 155 words
  4. SWEDEN.

    The Swedish Chambers wore oponed on 17th January by the King in person. In the speech from the throne his majesty said that tho warlike preparations which were being made in Europe rendered an increase ...

    Article : 81 words
  5. TURKEY.

    General Ignatieff, the Russian ambassador, left Constantinople on 28th December for St. Petersburg, via Trieste. Councillor of Legation, M. de Staal, remains in charge of the affairs of the embassy. ...

    Article : 60 words
  6. PRUSSIA.

    At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on 8th January the debate upon Deputy Lasker's motion, touching the liberty of speech of the members, was closed. Upon the vote of the House being taken, by ...

    Article : 311 words
  7. FRANCE.

    In the audience given to him by the Emperor Napoleon on 31st December, Count von tier Goltz, the newly accredited representative of the North German Confederation, spoke as follows:—"Called upon by the ...

    Article : 840 words
  8. BRAZIL.

    The Rio mail brings dates to 9th December. Advices from the seat of war state that the belligerents in Paraguay were quiet. President Lopez was disarming his outer lines, while the allies were ...

    Article : 98 words
  9. LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

    Advices from Senafe to 13th January state that no forward movement has yet taken place. Stores are rapidly arriving, News has been received from the captives, according to which they are in good health. ...

    Article : 473 words
  10. THE PAPAL STATES.

    On Christmas-day the Pope officiated at St. Peter's, surrounded by the customary imposing splendors of the Christmas solemnity. His holiness looked remarkably well, but the attendance of foreigners was ...

    Article : 460 words
  11. GREECE.

    A new ministry has been formed as follows:—M. Moraitinis, President of the Council, and holding the portfolios of Justice and Public Works; M. Delyanti, Minister for Foreign Affairs; M. Spiro Milio, Minister ...

    Article : 310 words
  12. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Mrs Yelverton (or Miss Longworth) has raised a new action in the Edinburgh Court of Session for the purpose of setting aside the judgments in the former litigations in the Scotch courts in the House of Lords. ...

    Article : 707 words
  13. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

    The government has obtained a great majority at the elections, 82 deputies being supporters of the Ministry, and 57 belonging to the Opposition. ...

    Article : 26 words
  14. AMERICA.

    The Secretary of tho Treasury has issued his usual monthly statement of the public debt, and tho crush in the Treasury of the United States. The total amount of debt on 1st January was 2,642,000,000 dols, against ...

    Article : 297 words
  15. FENIANISM.

    The martello tower at Fota, near Queenstown, was attacked on Friday night, 27th December, by an armed band with, blackened faces who surprised the three gunners in charge and seized some arms and a ...

    Article : 3,535 words
  16. SPAIN.

    The Roman question occupied a prominent position in the queen's speech at the opening of the Spanish Cortes. Her majesty congratulated the assembly on the fact that Spain had been able during the recent ...

    Article : 193 words
  17. ITALY.

    The New Year's reception was held by the king, at Florence, on 1st January. The presidents and deputations from the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, the ministers, the magistracy, the municipalities, ...

    Article : 1,224 words
  18. AUSTRIA.

    The Debatte of 1st January states that no enlistments for the Papal army will be allowed in Austria, as such proceedings would be incompatible with the home and foreign policy of the Austrian ...

    Article : 169 words
  19. THE WEST INDIES.

    The second session of the new Jamaica Legislature opened on the 17th of December, when the secretary of finance reported a deficiency in the revenue for the past year of 56,000?, which it was proposed to meet ...

    Article : 72 words
  20. THE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN NICARAGUA.

    A correspondent gives the following narrative of these phenomena. He dates from Leon, on 4th December:—"On the 14th of November last a new volcano broke out in Nicaragua, about eight leagues ...

    Article : 1,024 words
  21. THE LATE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN.

    On the evening of 17th. January a, special train arrived at Vienna with the remains of tho Emperor Maximilian, which were home to the Hofburg with great funeral pomp. The procession was accompanied ...

    Article : 107 words
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