GREAT BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 883, 6 January 1873, Page 2

GREAT BRITAIN.

London, December 20. The prosecution against the Tichborne claimant for perjury will endeavour to prove that he is Arthur Orton. Witnesses have been obtained who will identify him as the son of the Wapping butcher. A serious failure, which lias taken place in Manchester, caused uneasiness in commercial ClThe'ship Annie Leslie, for Melbourne, with a cargo of timber, was stranded on Dungeness. The crew were saved. 150 tons of Australian tin have been sold by tender at £88 to £89. December 21. Tenders are called for laying a cable between the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and Aden. , _ . The ship Calcutta has repaired damages and again sailed for Melbourne. . Money is easier. The reserve in the Bank of England is large. Stocks are depressed. New Zealand Consolidated, iives, 10.^ ? ; sixes, 112. Wool, firm. Tallow, sperm oil, hides', and bark unchanged. December 24.

The Germania, Atlantic steamer, of Allan's line, has been wrecked .and thirty lives lost. The November mails are delivered. Wheat is inactive. 200,000 quarters have been lost during a storm. December 20. The steamship Great Britain arrived on Christmas Day after a passage of sixty-three days from Melbourne. Capt. Gray committed suicide by jumping overboard when thirty days out. The San Francisco mails are delivered. Capt. Hunter'scertilicatehasbeensuspended for one year, for negligence, in losing the Royal Adelaide in Portland Route. December 27. The Behar arrived at Galle on the 20th.

R enter denies the rumour at St. Petersburg^ that Lord Loffcus, the British Ambassador, had delivered a note to Prince Gortschakoff, announcing the resolution of the British Government to refrain from interfering with Prussia in Central Asia provided they are not menacing Afghanistan. Sailed: Somersetshire, Calcutta,andAtrato, for Melbourne.

A strike of colliers in Wales is threatened. About 7030 are expected to stop work. Captain Goodenough relieves Commodore Stirling of the charge of the Australian station.

The Pell River Company have declared a dividend of 4 per cent. The Press is discussing a letter from the Due de Grammont, asserting that Austria pledged herself to support France during the late War. The statement is being contested at Vienna.