HOME NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 39, 30 September 1867, Page 241

HOME NEWS.

The Eeform Bill had passed the,Commons and was in progress through the Lords, it would become law early in August. The Home Hews says:— “The Conservatives are tongue-tied: They have carried their bill, but there is rage in their hearts. The moderate Liberals dislike the form of the , measure, and feel that the House has - been humiliated by the way in which the bill has been passed: Only the Kadicals exult with honest joy. They have got a great deal'more than they ever asked for, or than tne Liberals would have conceded. Household suffrage, absolute, is, they declare with rejoicing, the law of the land. Some of them say that a million of working men will be placed on the register. Mr Disraeli’s estimate is about a third of that number, but. nobody knows u ueh about it. But the Refoftn League, and the people who broke the rails in the park, are quite content, thinking they have hold of the end of the lever which is to overthrow sundry and manifold things. In this Summary, and writing frankly and honestly to fellow-citizens at a distance, we have ever held ourselves bound to speak out the exact truth, divested of any prudential involutions, which may be politic and justifiable in addressing readers who are close to the excitements of the hour. In that spirit we are bound to add that a large class, represented by Mr Disraeli, are believed to hold the hope that the degradation of the suffrage will not be unfavourable to Conservative interests, and that a very large body of the new' electors, especially iu the counties, will be amenable to social and other influences, in a degree impossible in the case of the artisan of a higher jgrade, who has affiliated himself to his union, and its plausible but dabe economy, and who 'ktiows no rule 1 but the bidding of his' council. Ohesbt of objectionable voters are thus'to 1 be counteracted by another, and' it is hoped that the democratic tendencies of the new measure may be thus; neutralised.” V

The question of Imperial Troops'in New Zealand was brought before the House of Lords on the Bth July by a question from the Earl of Canarvon, who wished to. know what was the intention of the Government, and was told that it was not: desirable that any opinion should be expressed; as the subject was still under the ‘consideration of the New Zealand Legislature. The subject was again brought forward on the by the same, gentlemah ; moving for ah- address for a return of the regiments in inr New Zealand sincA. January 1865;" Tho address^as-agreed ivt!! V England has; been visited jfoy; 1 the the great chief of the Mussulmaq'race --rand; suite,i also the Viceroy: ofjEgyptj and the taken of fora*Beriesref grand demft&tSfe&msy

including, , amongst other . things, a naval review, a ball at the India Office, during which docured a most painful eudden illness, wMbfi* shbsequenthjir:! fatal, of Madame Musuriis, ; the wife of the Turkish Ambassador; death ,is ascribed .to heart disease; accelerated by excitement.- ’• - ; ’ ; ■

The Volunteers of Belgium, in number, 2,400, have also paid a visit .to their English confreres, and madd a piiblie entry into London on the 12th July, they were metby the Lord Mayor in state, and escorted,. to , the Guildhall;r where a banquet was provided for them. Next day they, paid a- visit to Wimbledon, but the intended fdte there-was spoiled by the raini which fell in . torrents. They made other visits, under more favourable circumstances, to Windsor and the Crystal Palacev’and took their final departure on the 22nd.

Mrs Yelverton’s case is again before the public ; i she appeared personally ks-her owS advocate before the House of Lords on the 27th Jane, and thfeir Lordships take time to consider the case before giving judgment.

The case of Bertrand, which. has occasioned somuch excitement iii these parts of the world, has at length been decided by the Privy Council, the judgment of the Judicial Committee being that “ no miscarriage of justice had taken place, and that the judgment of the Chief Justice of New South Wales must be affirmed, and the order for a new trial reversed.”