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SUNDAY,

IUGUST 15

THE DAY'S NEWS

The second session of Parliament was prorogued
on Saturday. Tier Majesty was not in attendance,
and the Lord Chancellor prorogued by commission.
The Royal Speech read on the occasion regrets that
several matters and circumstances have caused an
interruption in legislating on important matters, to
which she had called the attention of Parliament in
a previous speech. On the. question of the European
Congress, the Ministry are not very explicit. " Her
Majesty," so runs the speech, "has not received the
information necessary to decide whether Her Majesty
may think fit to take part in any such negociations."
Some allusion is made to the state of affairs between
England and China, and our foreign relations gene-
rally, and Her Majesty congratulates the country on
the complete restoration of tranquillity in India.

The Africa arrived here on Saturday night with
four days' later news from the United tates. Politi-
cal affairs generally were very quiet, with the ex-
ception of some excitement in Albany, consequent
upon the meeting of delegates from all parts of the
State of New York in connection with the Demo-
cratic ticket.. At Baltimore there had been a riot
on the election of some municipal authorities ; the
ballot boxes were smashed to pieces, piktols were
freely used, and the city was the scene of riot and
bloodshed during the whole of the day—the 2nd of
August. The Indians were becoming very trouble-
some in Nebraska, Texas, &c., &c. The sudden peace
in Europe would seem to have caused some slight
uneasiness in commercial circles in New York. A
late paper, in discussing the bearings of the question,
concludes as follows :—" It will be seen from this brief
history that the sudden peace in Europe, together
with the vast importations and the misgovernment
of our banking institutions, will probably result in a
state of general perturbation, which, unless it is
managed with great skill and delicacy, will lead to
another revulsion, which may shake the commercial
and financial affairs of the whole country, and ruin
a few rotten concerns. Congress should enact a
general bankrupt law at the very next session, and
prevent such perturbations in future." _

The screw:steamer Imperador arrived here on
Saturday, with a month's later news from the Cape
of Good Hope. Cape Town advices are to the sth of
July. The newspapers were loudly complaining at
the way in which the Colonial Parliament was man-
aging its business ; not one important measure had
passed during the whole of the session, then 131 days,
and every Ministerial bill of any consequence had
been rejected. A dissolution was looked upon as being

most probable.
From the Continent, this morning, there are seve-
ral matters of interest worthy of perusal. It is stated
that the second Austrian Plenipotentiary has left
Zurich for Vienna

The Paris
asserts that the

resh instructions
correspondence of the Daily New
Conference has come to a dead lock

• The Ministerial journals of Vienna insist in very
stroll., terms on the stipulation of Villafranea being
carried out at Paris.

There are symptoms that Louis Napoleon is
annoyed at the conduct of the court of Vienna, and
recent articles in the journals in favour of Kossuth
and. Garibaldi are attributed to this feeling. An-
other thing;,the grand military spectacle which was
lately prohibited out of compliance to Austria, has
been permitted to re-appear.
The Paris correspondence of our London contem-
poraries records the preparations which are being
made in that city for the military fetes, which will
be on a large scale. As a further memorial of the
Italian campaign, the Moniteur contains a decree for
the striking of a commemorative medal.

It is to be feared that the King of Prussia ap-
proaches his end. A Berlin telegram informs us
that his Majesty was insensible on Thursday, and
that the Prince and Princess of Prussia, had arrived.
Some slight disturbances at Milan would seem tc
indicate that that city is not in a very settled state.
Indeed the state of feeling in northern Italy has
become exceedingly feverish. Riots have taken place
at Milan itself, and at some large mills near that city
the workmen have struck work and destroyed the
machinery. Persons, designated as agents of M. Maz-
zini, have been arrested at Bolo; na, where a con-
stituent assembly is convoked. With news like this
we cannot wonder at the announcement of the de-
parture of the French troops having suddenly been
stayed.

The special committee appointed to inquire into
the packet and telegraph contract system have issued
their report. The inquiry was chiefly, however, in
connection with, or relation to, the Dover contracts.
The committee report that on two occasions Messrs.
Jenking's and Churchward's contract for conveying
the mails from Dover to Calais and. Ostend was
extended Without due inquiry or consideration for
the public interest ; but while they, note the fact
that Mr. Chltrchward, while the extension of his
contract was under consideration, volunteered his
support to Captain Carnegie, who was at that
time requested to contest Dover, they acquit the
Admiralty and the Treasury, of any charge of having
been influenced in granting the renewal of the con-
tract by any corrupt or political motive. They,
howeier, submit the question whether Mr. Church-
ward, "in having resorted to corrupt expedients,
affecting injuriously the character of the representa-
tion of the people -in Parliament, has not rendered
it impossible for the House of Commons, . with due
regard to its• honour and dignity, to vote the sums of
money necessary to fulfil the agreement to extend
Mr. Churchward's contract from the 20th of June,
1863, to the 26th of April, 1870." The committee
abstain; in the present incomplete state of their
inquiry respecting .the general management of the
postal packet ' service, from 'offering any opinion on
the subject, "beyond the expression of a, desire that
the important matters referred for their investigation
may be again brought under the notice of a commit-
tee at the earliest oppoitunity.".
An. address has been voted by the
,non-electors of
Huddersfield to Mr. E. A. Leatham, M.P., on the
occasion of the termination of the inquiry before an
election committee of the-House of Commons. Mr.
Lea thain was unseated for bribery and corruption.

At the assizes, on Saturday, John Case, charged
with forgery at,Warrington, was acquitted on the
ground of insanity.