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being adopted at Moscow, and the police are using
LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
every endeavour to counteract the spread of the dis-
order by inspecting the food and dwellings of the (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
labouring classes. In the House of Commons last
last night Sir JOHN PAKINGTON very properly
called attention to the subject, which just now
may be regarded as one of the chief topics of
interest. The right hon. baronet asked whether the
Government had directed their attention to this
matter, and what steps they had taken to " ascer-
tain the true nature of the disease and to avert its
introduction into the country." Sir G. GREY said
that the Ministers had taken pains to find out the
particulars of a statement that they had seen con-
cerning this case, and had immediately sent instruc-
tions to Sir A. BUCHANAN, at St. Petersburg, to
make the fullest inquiries, and to report to them
from time to time what he learned. A medical
officer has been sent to St. Petersburg, for the pur-
pose of investigating the nature of the disease, and
the officers of Customs have been ordered to
use the greatest care in examining vessels that
come from the Baltic. So far, it would seem,
that every precaution had been adopted by our
authorities at home, and though in this they have
performed a most important duty, yet still it is
satisfactory to find that time has not been lost as
too often occurs in such affairs. It will be gratify-
ing to the community at large to find from the
perusal of Sir G. GREY'S speech that so many useful
steps have been taken of a provisionary and precau-
tionary nature, and the intimation of the right hon.
gentleman concerning the accounts he has received
from Russia is also of a cheering character. How-
ever, forewarned is forearmed, and all who have
the power and oppopunity to act had better bear
this in mind, and not be too ready to thiLk that
danger is over, when, perhaps, its worst form has
not yet been assumed.

NEW ZEALAND.

We have received the following official commu
nication from the War-office :

" From G. F. Stanley, Esq., H.B.M. Consul at
Alexandria, to the Secretary of State for War
and Quartermaster-General.
" The following telegram has been received from
General Cameron :

" ' Hostilities commenced in the Whangaura dis-
trict on the 24th January. Lieut.-General Cameron
advanced with a force of 800 men towards the
Whaitolara River. On the same day a skirmish
took place with the rebels, in posting a picket at
Nukumtrar, near which village the troops had en-
camped. On the 25th the rebels attacked the camp
in force, and were repulsed with a loss of 70 killed ;
number of their wounded unknown. Our loss in
the two days was Lieutenant Johnson, 40th Regi-
ment, Deputy Assistant-Adj utant- General, mortally
wounded (since dead) ; Lieutenant Wilson, 50th
Regiment, severely ; and Ensign Grant, 50th Re-
giment, dangerously wounded ; 15 men killed, and
30 wounded. On the sth of January we crossed
the river, and encamped on the left bank.
" ' D. A. CAMERON, Lieut.-General."'

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7.

The barque Wigtownshire, of Newcastle, from
the Tyne, to Genoa, with a general cargo, was towed
in here this morning by the steamship Corea, from
Greenock, for China.
The Corea found the Wigtownshire in lat. 47
North, long. 9 West, abandoned, and with four feet
of water in her hold.

Mr. Cobden's Funeral.

THE RUSSIAN PESTILENCE.
BERLIN, April 6.
The plague continues at St. Petersburg.
The total of cases is 10,000, of deaths 2,000,
There area hundred cases a day.

The remains of Mr. Cobden were buried to-day
at West Lavington, Sussex, by the side of his only
son. The cortege started at 12 o'clock, special
arrangements having been made for the accommoda-
tion of mourners and others from a distance. A
special train left London this morning, conveying a
large number of the members of the two Houses of
Parliament and the admirers of the deceased states-
man. In Manchester, where Mr. Cobden had
many personal friends, the usual demonstrations of
respect were paid to his memory, and that, as in
the case of the late Prince Consort, these signs of
regret extended not only to warehouses and shops,
but to private houses. We understand that the
shops in Market-street were closed (though busi-
ness - was not entirely suspended) from ten to two
o'clock, and that many of the leading firms closed
their places of business after Exchange hours—
two o'clock.

Forty physicians are dead.
The Ismailoff barrack is converted into an hospital.
Precautionary measures are taken at Moscow,
where the food and lodgings of the labouring classes
are inspected by the police.

It is not cholera, but plague, with dilated pupils
carbuncles, and pestilential bubo.

SPAIN.

MADRID, April 2.

A Royal decree has been issued, according to
which the only duty payable upon flours imported
into the Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, after the
Ist July, 1865, will be, for each barrel of 92 kilo-
grammes (nearly equivalent to 2001bs. Castille) as
follows :—National flours from Spanish ports under
Spanish flag, two crowns ; national flours from
Spanish ports under foreign flag, four crowns ;
foreign flours under Spanish flag, seven crowns ;
foreign flours under foreign flag, 10 crowns. All
the regulations now in force relating to the import
of flours from the Island of Cuba and Porto Rico
are cancelled from this date.

THE FEDERAL DIET,

FRANKFORT-ON-TIIE-MAINE, April 6.

The Federal Diet adopted to-day the resolution
proposed by Saxony and Bavaria that Austria and
Prussia should be requested to cede Holstein to the
Duke of Augustenburg, and to communicate to the
Diet their mutual arrangements in reference to
Lauenburg. Nine votes were given in favour of the
resolution. Luxemburg not voting.
The representatives of Austria and Prussia there-
upon presented separate declarations.
The principal points of the declaration of Austria
were that she is prepared to surrender to the Prince
of Augustenburg her title to the possession of Hol-
stein should Prussia agree to adopt a similar course.
Otherwise, Austria would maintain her title to the
Duchies until a solution was arrived at in conso-
nance with the interests of Germany.
Prussia announcel her willingness to come to an
understanding on the subject, but such an under-
standing must indispensably depend upon a pre-
vious investigation of claims to the Duchies, and
especially of her own. She would maintain her
right of possession until a solution had been arril ed
at in accordance with her own convictions and satis-
factory to the other parties interested in the Duchies.
In conclusion, the Prussian representative said that
Prussia could at once declare herself unable to hold
out any prospect of realising the expectations ex-
pressed in the resolution which had just been
adopted by the Diet.