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PLYMOUTH, July 17.
The Union Company's steamship Briton, from
Table Bay, June 14 ; St. Helena, 22 ; and Ascen-
sion, 26, has arrived here with 100 passengers.
The Uitenhage left Table Bay on the 9th, and St.
Helena on the 17th ult., with 37 passengers and
mails.

steamer, with 80 passengers, left that port on the
same day.

Deaths from cholera in Alexandria, 94; Cairo, 365.
Telegrams from Smyrna dated the BthjusLtaYtel3th.at
the passengers of the Lloyd's steamer Erzherzogin
Charlotte were
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of cholera have declared them-
selves in that city and terminated fatally.
Telegrams from Constantinople dated the 11th
say that several fatal cases of cholera had occurred
there in three of the suburbs on the 9th and 10th;
whereas from Alexandria advices dated 11th also
announce 91 deaths on the 9th, 64 on the 10th, and
55 on the 11th. In Cair9 t_ye deaths from the same
fatal disease were. 389 on the 9th, 347 on the 10th,
and 252 on the 11th.

The hurricane which took place on the 17th May
was one of the most destructive gales that had ever
visited Table Bay-18 vessels parted from their an-
chors and went ashore, viz., the bark Alacrity, Cap-
tain Gooch ; the mail steamer Athens, Capt. Smith;
the bark City of Peterborough, Capt. Wright ; the
clipper schooner Carstens, Capt. Deane ; the bark
Brabner, Capt. Fred. Bassil ; the bark Glendinning,
Capt. Fernande ; the schooner Gales, Capt. Figil-
ante ; the Danish schooner Closter ; the brig Gala-
tea, Captain Kingston ; the cutter Gem, Captain
Parrow ; schooner Isabel, Captain Nelson ; the brig
Jane, Captain - Picota ; the schooner Kehrwieder,
Captain Haverburg ; the D utch brig Maria Johanna,
Captain Driest ; the bark Royal Minstrel, Captain
Andrew ; the bark Royal Arthur, Capt. M'Dougal;
the bark Star of the West, Captain Ellbry ; cutter
Benjamin Miller, Captain Hampel.
Fearful loss of life accompanied these wrecks.
The captain, surgeon, and 27 of the crew of the
Athens ; the captain, wife, and child, and 14 of the
crew of the City of Peterborough, and 12 boatmen
belonging to the port, have all perished. The barks
Royal Minstrel and Star of the West had since been
floated off without sustaining much damage. The
brigs Galatea and Jane and some of the schooners
had been hauled off thebeach and might be repaired.
In Simon's Bay, also, the gale was very severely
felt: The French steam corvette Primonguet was
driven ashore, but subsequently got off with the as-
sistance of H.M.S. Valorous.

Advices from Athens to the Bth state that the
sanitary condition of that city wasvery satisfactory.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
inspected two battalions of the Foot Guards this
morning in Hyde Park. It is expected to be the
last field day this season.

The number of ships of war in Plymouth Sound
was increased on Monday by the arrival from the
eastward, in the afternoon, of the iron-cased cupola
ship Royal Sovereign, 5, the construction of which
will no doubt make her an object of great interest
to the numerous visitors attracted there by the Ex-
hibition of the Royal Agricultural Society. Yester-
day morning the Austrian frigate Frederick, Capt.
Whiplinger, arrived from the eastward. The Royal
Sovereign, the Achilles, and the Prince Consort are
the three ships appointed by the Admiralty to meet
the French ships Magenta, La Flandre, and Ariel.
Besides these there are in the Sound the British
frigate Constance and the sloop Gannet. The iron-
cased cupola ship Scorpion will probably join them
from Hamoaze to-day. The Turkish frigate from
Greenock is not yet arrived. Within the last few
clays a considerable 'number of yachts have entered
the Sound, and are at anchor in the northern part.
The Prince of Wales is expected here this afternoon.
The United States' screw frigate Colorado, 50,
bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral •Goldsborough,
arrived at Falmouth on Sunday evening from New
York, and after obtaining a Channel pilot pro-
ceeded on her voyage to Antwerp.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—William J. Talbot, midshipman,
to the Arethusa ; Gordon Jackson, surgeon, to the
Vigilant ; and Henry S. Collins, paymaster, addi-
tional, to the St. George.

The Fusilier, Black Ball, an Austrian trader,
was lost on the Natal Bluff on May 26. She was
laden with coolies for the West Indies, and had put
in at Natal for the purpose of obtaining medical aid,
having small-pox on board. Two hundred of the
coolies were said to have been drowned ; the sur-
vivors were landed and placed in a lazaretto. Her
official report states 302 coolies well, 77 sick, and
189 dead since leaving Calcutta, and 20 dead from
drowning. A large number of bodies that have
washed up were alleged to be those of coolies that
had died the day before the vessel wrecked.
Along the frontier the gales had also done a great
deal of damage inland. Large forest trees were up-
rooted by hundreds, and a great portion of the con-
vict station at the Katberg was blown down.
Trade had been much affected by the wrecks,
every shipping house being more or less interested.
Otherwise a fair amount of business had been trans-
acted for the season.

QUEENSLAND.

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We extract the following from a telegraphic sum-
mary of the Queensland Guardian of May 19 :
Parliament was opened on the 2d inst. with great
eclat. The volunteers turned out to form a guard
of honour for his excellency,who was well received.
Very little business has as yet come before the
Assembly. A bill for the purpose of regulating the
affairs of the Anglican Church has been introduced.
It is a measure which, if passed, will have an im-
portant effect upon the position of the bishop of this
diocese. There is, however, small probability of its
passing unless greatly modified.
The Governor's opening address recommended the
consideration of the advisability of taking steps for
the establishment of a.steam postal service through
Torres Straits ; of establishing district courts, and
reformatory schools ; and of amending, the pastoral
and agricultural laws of the colony.
Revenue returns for the first quarter of the year
have just been published, and show an increase of
40,per cent. over the corresponding quarter of last
year.

The statistics of the year 1864, compiled by the
Registrar-General, compared with those of 1860,
show a centesimal increase during the interval, in
population 195 per cent., in revenue. 139 per cent.,
in trade 178, and in shipping 189 per cent.
It has been stated by two members of the Oppo-
sition that the " organised opposition" in the assem-
bly here is no longer in existence.

The 25th instant is set down upon the notice
papers as the date for the delivery of the treasurer's
budget. It is looked for with great interest.
The Government has announced its intention of
removing the prohibitions on the importation of
stock from the neighbouring colonies. This will have
a very beneficial effect on our pastoral affairs.
Surveys are being made for the extension of the
railway in the North, and plans for the extension
of the Warwick branch of the Southern and Western
line have been laid before Parliament. A railway
connecting Gladstone and Rockhampton is much
talked of.

On the 22d of last month the Minister for Lands
and Works and 150 visitors had a trial trip upon the
railway line. An engine, with three carriages at-
tached, took the party along the line for seven miles
at the rate of 16 miles per hour. The trial was in.
asy to Dalby willga g
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every respect satisfactory. The tunnel through the
Little Liverpool Range is all but completed. It is
said that
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on the line between Ipswich and Toowoomba. Ten-
ders foropened on the 15th June. Part of the line will be
opened for traffic in that month.
There is not much news of
importance from the
gold-fields, except that, at Gladstone, quartz crush-
ing has commenced and promises
well.
The copper mines at Peak Downsthereextension are turning oub
well, and about 70 men are employed upon them.
Three furnaces are kept t
cons antly at work.
Very fine cedar has been discovered near Rock-
hampton.

Cotton picking has commenced on the plantations
near Ipswich. A good crop is expected. About
21,9051 b. of cleaned-ginned cotton have already
been inspected, and a large quantity yet awaits in-
spection. _

Buiness during the past month has been rather
dull. The money market is unaltered, and dis-
counts are at former quotations.
Wages are still high, and labouring men can
easily obtain employment at current rates, but
mechanics, unless in the building trades, are quite
sufficient to the present demand. Clerks and pro-
fessional men had better remain at home.
The weather is dry and cool—too dry for agri-
cultural purposes.
A jetty has been commenced at Port Denison. Ib
will make a vast improvement in that port

THE BREADALBANE PEERAGE.—An interlocutor
in the Breadalbane case was issued by Lord Barcaple oa
Friday, finding it proved that "John Alexander Gavin.
Campbell (Glenfalloch), Earl of Breadalbane and Holland,
is nearest and lawful heir" to the late Marquis of Breadal-
bane, to the exclusion of the claim of Charles Willianz
Campbell (Borelaud).
YACHT LOST AND THREE MEN DROWNED.—A
melancholy and fatal accident happened in the Firth
of Forth on Thursday, which suddenly deprived three

families of their support and heads. On the morning of
the day named, about 9 o'clock, James Pottinger, a seaman,
70 years of age, and James Pottinger, his son, a carpenter,
40 years of age, both belonging to Leith, and John Laing,
a millwright, about 40 years of ago, residing at Penicuik,
but who had been on a visit to his friends in Leith,
sailed from Leith in a small sloop-rigged yacht for
Inchkeith, to see Alexander Stevenson, a brother-in-
law of Laing, a mason, then employed on the island.
They reached Inchkeith about ten o'clock, and left it soon
after noon. Stevenson, who was down at the bay when
they left, saw them hoist sail and stand out for the north-
west, as they had to tack against a westerly wind on their
way back to Leith. In less than ten minutes after he had
spoken to his friends., he turned round, on his way back to
lighthouse, to see how she was sailing in the breeze—for a
squall had suddenly sprung up—but she was not to be
seen. He alarmed the lighthouse keeper, and they all ran
down to a fishing boat in the bay, tho crew of whidh at
once put to sea to save the men if possible, for it was evi-
dent their small vessel had gone down. Though a care-
ful search was made, not a trace of the yacht or men could
be found, except an oar, which was found floating near
the spot where the yacht was last seen. On Friday an
outlook was kept for the missing mon and yacht, but up
till evening no trace of them could be found. All the men
were married, but Laing only has left a family—five ail-
dren.—Scoteman. -