ARRIVAL AT ADELAIDE OF THE ENGLISH MAIL. VIA SUEZ.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1492, 21 November 1874, Page 6 (Supplement)

ARRIVAL AT ADELAIDE OF THE ENGLISH MAIL. VIA SUEZ.

(AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATKO PRESS TELEGRAMS.) Adelaide, November 13, 11.55 p.m. The mail steamship Nubia arrived at the Sound on November Bth, and sailed again early on the 9bh. She reached Glenelg at half-past 4. Head winds from Galle delayed her passage. The weather at Glenelg was rough, and delayed the landing.

GENERAL SUMMARY. The Claimant has been visited at MiUbank by his wife, by Lord Rivers, and by Dr Keneally. He has lost seven stone, and his hair is grey, but he is in good health. Line (or Jean Leuie) has lately been removed to Portland. Mr Bright, having refused to present a petition to the House of Commons for Orton's release, has been abused by Mr Onslow and Mr Meredith, of Birmingham. H.M.S. Sappho, commissioned for Australia, has met with an accident which •will detain her awhile. The Daring, 4 guns, has been appointed to the Australian station.

A Live Cattle Importation Company is announced, with a capital of £200 000. The published statement that her Majesty the Queen has paid the debts of the Prince of Wales is declared to be void of foundation, There are no debts that have been outstanding more than a year, aud they will be at once discharged. The Empress Eugenic and the Prince Imperial have returned to Chiselhurst from Switzerland. The Empress of Austria has improved in health by her sojourn in the Isle or' Wight. She ha 3 Visited Brighton and London. The Earl of Warwick has presented her Majesty with a splendid stud of horses. The Marquis of Kipon's suddenly resignin* the Grand Mastership of the English Freemasons is attributed to his perversion to Romanism. The Press, in discussing the subject, regards this step as the termination of his public career, as any Cabinet would be suspected of which he was a prominent member. The Oxford Conservatives have been celebrating Mr. Hall's return to Parliament by a dinner, a fefce, and self - congratulatory speeches. Sir C. Dilke made a trenchant speech at a dinner of Hammersmith Foresters, in which both political parties were severely handled. Mr. Watkins Williams, ia addressing his friends at Denbigh, predicted that before Easter there would be a complete reconstruction of the Cabinet upon a more enlarged and probably more liberal basis. Sir Stafford Northcote, at Exeter, has been defendiagjjthe Union of Church and State. Sir J. D. Astley, a Lincolnshire Tory, has indulged in such vulgar vituperations of Irish members as to be called to account, and compelled to apologise and withdraw his xnsulting remarks. . An article on Ritualism in the Contemporary Review," from the pen of the Kight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, has attracted much ttention. Mr. Stanley is busy with his preparation for a scientific investigation of Africa. He is now on the East Coast. A cedar boat 40 feet long has been built for him in sections, with fourteen oars. It was launched t Leddingstone, and christened Livingstone. Another expedition to the interior of Africa is preparing at Berlin, under the leadership of Yon Hormayer, ornithologist. The Grocers Company have given £20,000 for erecting a new wing to the London Hospital. A new Winter Garden, with an aquarium —the whole costing £100,000—has been opened at Southport. _ Encouraged by the success of the bnattesburv Park" enterprise, 80 acres have been purchased ne»r Harrow Road for the erection of a workmen's city. A thousand houses have already been applied for. After entertaining the Good Templars, Sir Wilfred Lawson has invited the members of the Licensed Victuallers' Defence League to a.picnic in his park. No drink is to be sold on the premises. A proposal to substitute cremation for interment at Hartlepool provoked riot among a crowd of working women. Mr Turnbull, solicitor, who made the proposition, was followed from the Town Hall with execrations by two thousand excited people. The formidable strike threatened in the cotton trade will, it is hoped, be averted by a spirit of mutual conciliation. For several days twenty-four mills in Bolton were closed and 13,000 persons thrown out of work. Several employers then withdrew their notices of reduction, and the hands resumed work. A committee of masters and men subsequently agreed to submit the question to arbitration, Mr Russell, Q.C., being appointed arbitrator, and both parties binding themselves to accept the award. Meanwhile the mills have re-opened at the old wages. Arbitration has also been resorted to in connection with the threatening Durham strike, which would have affected a hundred thousand persona. At a special meeting of the miners council 119 to 93 were for arbitration Messrs Dale and Leemau was appointed on behalf of the mine owners, and Messrs Burt and Lloyd Jones for the men. Notices on both sides were withdrawn, and the old rate wages were continued. After a duration of six weeks the dispute between Lord Penrhyn and 3000 quarrymen was settled, and the bulk of them returned to work. Finding, however, that some of the concessions were ignored, the men indignantly left the quarry en masse, pending a guarantee from Lord Penrhyn. Negotiations are still proceeding, but the aspect of affairs is not promising. The Fife and Clackmannan lock-out still continues. The men are suffering great privations and would submit to 15 per cent, reduction if the new by-laws were withdrawn. If resistance be prolonged, ejection from their homes is expected. The harvest being over some farmers are locking out labourers belonging to the Union, while others are reducing wages to the old standard on the plea of cheap bread. Emigration is still active. Many persons chiefly agricultural labourers and families, have sailed in the Indus for Queensland, under the care o£ Mr Richardson. Three hundred aouls chiefly from Warwickshire and Oxfordshire, have sailed in the Crusader for New Zealand, accorpaaiedV'by Mr Arlington, Union delegates, and three butchers. A. thousand persons— principally from the eastern counties—have I c ftfot Canada under Union auspices.

The Town Council of Glasgow by an almost unanimous vote have decided to ask Government to extend to Scotland power to punish robberies with violence, wife beating Ac, by the lash. Despite the increase of crimes of savage ruffianism Prefessor Levi assures us that from 1863 to 1872 indictable offences have decreased from 520 000 to 440,000.

The safety of all members of the Austrian Arctic Expeyition (with one exception I only) has occasioned great joy. At / Hamburgh after the feting Captain J Weisprecht gave a detailed account of the expedition at a meeting of the Geographical Society. Passing on to Vienna the explorers had a cordial reception from all classes, who vied to do them honor. The two leaders have been decorated by the Emperor, they have discovered a remarkable region. Preparations are already commencing to send a fresh expedition next summer to ascertain whether the newly discovered land is a continent or an island, Captain Wiggins, who started in June last, in the steamer Diana, to search for the lost Austrian expedition, has just returned to Dundee. \ Some petroleum springs fn Austria have i been on fire doiDg immense damage. 1 The cattle plague has v broken out in Russia and Poland. 1000 cattle cattle perished in two days. Prussia has interdicted importation. Rus3ia is augmenting its standing army by 16,000 men for service in Asia. To render j ! conscription less distasteful to certain Rus- j sian subjects, concessions have been made I regarding hair and beards. The Tartars are rapidly emigrating from the Crimea to escape military service. An insurrection has broken out in Rhokand. Russia declines to interfere. The position of the Khan is considered desperate. Fever is raging at Damascus. 14,000 persons have been attacked The following is the result of the race for the Middle Park Plate :—Plebeian Ist, Peise 2nd, Galioping 3rd. Bombay, October 22. The ship Udstone, from Melbourne to i/alcutta with 150 horses, went ashore. All the horses were suffocated, the holds being battened down.