The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-17 00:00:00

SPAIN.

ILIDItID. JuLT 15.

It is stated that Senor Mon has resigned his func-
tions ae minister plenipotentiary of Spain at the
court of the Tuileries, and that he will be replaced
by Senor Isturitz.

It is not true that disturbanosa have broken out
in Arragon and Navarre.

THE OVERLAND MAIL

rflilhe arrival of the above mail we bare advice'
from Calcutta to June 10 ; Madras, June 14 ; Co-
lombo, June 17 ; Hong Kong, May 30 ; Melbourne,
May 25, am.
Everything continues quiet on the Bhootan
frontier, though there are rumours of preparations
on the part of the Bhooteas to attack the Dooars
after the rains. The government of India have, it
is said, determined to send a native agent, but not
an accredited one, with the Kokanee envoy, to
ascertain the real state of affairs iu Central Asia,
with reference to the alleged movements of Russia.
The Englishman says that the depression pervad-
ing the money market has, under the influence of a
succession of unfavourable news from Bombay,
become greater since its last despatch. All kinds
of stock, ezoept government paper, had receded
still further.

The last mail from China brought the intelli-
gence that Prince Kung had been restored to
power; and we now learn that this circumstance
has afforded considerable satisfaction at Peking.
The Overland China Mail says that the time is
drawing near when no mercantile house of note
will maintain agencies at Tientsin, Newohang, or
Chub°, and that those places will consequently
drop quietly out of the roll of treaty ports.
The drought under which the Australian colonies
suffered sines last November had terminated, and
copious showers had fallen, giving an impetus to
mining enterprises and agricultural pursuits. The
weather for some time bad been very cold and
unsettled, and in some places there had been severe
storms. At Adelaide the gales were very de-
structive to life and to the shipping. There was
a disastrous flood at the Port, by which a con-
siderable amount of property was damaged. On
the goldfields, the want of water for many months
paralysed the exertions of the miners; but
since the weather bad changed there bad
been a noticeable improvement in the yield of gold.
In Gipps Land, however, but little has been done,
in consequence of the heavy weather and the diffi-
culty of access to most of the district..

Tile agricultural statistics for the year ending
31st March, 1866, have been published. The ex-
tent of land in occupation at that date was 6,064,936
acres, being an increase of 510,405 as against 1864 ;
the enclosed land amounted to 4,884,536 acres, as
against 4,098,500 for the previous year ' • the extent
of land under tillage wail 476,646, a decrease of
31,262, as compared with 1864. At the departere
of the mail the farmers were busy putting down
their seed, and notwithstanding the losses which
have been experienced within the last two years from
rust and the caterpillar, a larger amount of land
was being brought under tillage than was the case
last year.
The population of the colony on the Slat March
last was 610,250 persons, including 350,698 males
and 259,552 females. The increase during the
first quarter of the year was 5,192 persons.
The experiment for the introduction of salmon
into Victoria has so far been successful. The ova
which were retained out of the consignment for-
warded to Tasmania by Mr, Youl have progressed
so well that they have been turned from their
breeding ponds into the creek which runs into the
River Yarra.

The Melbourne Herald of May 25 says :—" The
Border Customs difficulty has not yet been settled.
There is at present free trade across the Murray so
far as colonial products are concerned, but the
Sydney government maintain that such an arrange-
ment is illegal. The people of Riverina object to
paying our duties, which are just now in excess of
those charged by New South Wales, while those
landed in the latter colony by steamer from South
Australia object even more strongly to pay accord-
ing to the protective tariff of Victoria."

§We read in the same paper :
Incited by the example of the Victorians in the capture
of Morgan. the notorious bushranger, who was for a long
time the terror of the southern portion of New South Wales,
the constabulary of the latter colony appear to have at
last adopted strenuous measures to put down the blab-
ranging which hos been the diagram of the couotry. A
pert, of the police, under an officer named Davidson,
surprised Ben Hall, on. of the gang, on the morning
of the 4th flay, as he was looking for his horses. Hell
attempted to escape, but he was soon surrounded,
and as be ref need to surrender, several volley. were
' ered at him and he died literally riddled with balletic.
Johnny Gilbert, one of his companions, was discovered by
another detachment of the conetsbulare, on the 13th inst.
He sad Wean:oracle Dunn attempted to resist, hat lifter
some skirmiehing, Gilbert was shot dead, though Donn
managed to get away. There is little doubt that the me-
ow which has lately attended the authorities has been in a
great measure doe to the enforcement of the
Wiesen% provisions of the Films A pprelsensiou
Act, • law recently pawed by the colonial legis-
lature, and which punishes severely any permits suspected
of assisting the outlaws. The government offered a reward
of 1,0001. for the capture of Hall, which has been distri-
buted as follows :-4501. to Sub-Inspector Davidson, 1501.
to Sergeant Condell, 80/. to each of the four troopers of
the party, 601. to one black tracker, and 201. to another.
Mr. Davidson has also been appointed an inspector, and
Sergeant Condell has been raised to the rank of sub-
inspector. The sum of 1,0001. offered for the aprreben-
sioo of the boshreager Mamma, whose death we recorded
in our last summary, has been divided thus —To
John Weodlan, 3001. ; Alersadrina Macdonald. 2501. ;
James Frazer, 2001. ; David Clarke, 100/. ;• AliceKeeosn,
501. ; volunteers and police, 12 in all, 81. 6a- Bd. each, 1001.
Efforts are in addition being made by private individuals to
supplement the amount clews to Wendlan, who fired the
shot which proved fatal to Morgan. The body of the dead
outlaw was dreadfully mutilated after death, and the go-
vernment have suspended the local CIOrODOT (Dr. Dobbyn)
and Mr. Cobham (one of the inspeatom of pollee), who did
not interfere to prevent the outrage. A board of inquiry
was appointed to inveetigste their conduct, but their re.
port has not yet bee. made public.
From New Zealand the latest intelligence is that
there has been a split between the Governor and
General Cameron, and it is said that the former has
declared that one or other of them will have to go
home. A proclamation hie been issued announcing
that the Bari Mazire fanaticism will be Boppe
by force of arms, if necessary. The mew supersti-
tion, however, appears to be spreading daily. The
supposed murderer of the Rev. Mr. Volkner, one
Rereopa, has been arrested at Opotiki. General
Cameron has returned to Auckland and a memo-
randum has been drawn up by the government
proposing that in the event of the imperial forces
being withdrawn, military operations will be con-
ducted by a force of 1,1500 men.

MADILTD, JULY 15.—The Spanish journals of to-
day (mann the enneuncensest that dews, Mee will
shortly be sent to Floseries.
MATISZILLTB, JOLT 15.—The Disessgeries Imps-
risks 'Wismar &id wired here this somag with the
Mauritius sad Reunion Ras.
Our Victorian neighbours are going foto the
culture and manufacture of tobacco with great •asrp, and,
we nodes-stood, with considerable emcees. Totseea is
added to thoir lewd isdastries, and promisee to Mora en
important branch of colonial psodtioe.—South Attention
Aglitter•