ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1624, 29 April 1875, Page 2

ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

(FROM OUR LONDON CORBESPONDENT.) London, March 9, EMIGRATION.

Before leaving the subject of the colony, I may say that according to the last emigration statistics published by the Board of Trade, the tide of emigration from the United Kingdom was setting very decidedly from the United States, and in the direction of our own colonies, especially New Zealand. CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY. The session of Varlimentis proceeding very smoothly. The only question on which there has been even a show of a fight is the .Regimental Exchanges Bill, the Liberal party a f,tempting very lamely to show that it is a measure of retrogression. Of course no one can see it in such a light, but it has served for a bone to snarl over, and the result of one or two divisions has simply been to show that Her Majesty's Goverenment have been growing in strength and solidity ever since the House met in section. Sanitary and other measures are the great questions of the present day and the Government have taken them in hand in a manly fashion, which promises well for success. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The vote of the Arctic Expedition passed the House the other night, and it is evident that nothing is to be spired in the way of expense to render the aff-dr a success. With the resources to be placed at the disposal of the leaders, and considering the great improvements made of late years in appliances for travel of all kinds I don't think there can be the slightest doubt that the North Pole will be reached. Lady Franklin and Mr Gordon Bennet, of the New York Herald, are jointly fitting up a vessel to accompany the Government Expedition. She is to be named the Pandora, and will be commanded by Lieut. Allen Young, who served under McClintock in the Fox Steam-yacht Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. There have been one or two murmurs that the Government have not consulted other nations in the matter and joined forces and funds in the great work, but it is justly said by Mr. Disraeli that to England alone should belong the credit of the great and final North Pole Expedition. DEATH OF ROSE EVANS. You will be sorry to hear of the death of Rose Evans, who was once the delight of your theatre-going friends. She waa engaged a short time ago to play the Princess Babroulbadour in the Pantomime of Aladdin, at the Tyne Theatre, Newcastle, but had to resign on account of ill health. She was 25 years of age, and made her first appearance in Newcastle in 1868, when she was one of ; the members of the local company. At one time she promised to take a high place as an actress. She married a Mr. Claremont, who played Harlequin to the same company, and then visited the colonies. For some time she has been breaking up, and finally she went off rapidly in a decline. • SIR JAMES FERGUSON. It is probable that Bir James Ferguson will, on hia return, sit for North Ayrshire, as Mr Montgomery, the present member, is to be appointed Solicitor and Controller General of .Inland* Revenue for Scotland. It is, as you probably know, Sir James' old seat. RITUALISM AT ST PAUL'S. The Public. Workshops Regulation Act comes into effect on July Ist, and it is expected that one of the first lot of people prosecuted under its provisions will be the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. Since Doctor Siddon and Mr Gregory became Canons they have been developing Ritualism to a tremendous extent, although nothing to, what ia done in some other London churches. However, it ia thought best to strike first at high game in the hope of installing terror into the hearts of the small fry, and avoiding the necessity of a multiplicity of prosecutions. THREATENED WAR AT THE CAPE. At the Cape they are threatened with native troubles in a serious way, The case of the chief Langalebalsle has exercised the minds of the colonists and the colonial office muchly. It appears to me to be a case of JN ew Zealand over again—history repeating itself. Here we have a bishop in the case, Bishop Colenso, and the Colonial Office, and the Colonial Government and " Exeter Hall," all jumbled up together and all working away with wrong ideas, and different and often conflicting interests. The Government at home say the chief with the disagreeably long name is to be liberated, and the colonists say they won't let him land amongst them. In the mean time the rebel natives are said to be waiting for a chance to pounce down on the. settlements. Altogether things must be in rather

a disagreable condition out there. Some of Her Majesty's ships have been ordered to the Cape, and their marines &c. are to be at the disposal of Sir Garnet Wolsely who has gone out to replace Sir Benjamin Pine, who seems to have been very unfortunate. Sir Garnet is a lucky man and always seems to be selected to do things which enable him to make his mark. The Red River affair, the Coomassie business and now the Battre troubles. How the Cape settlers will receive him one can't tell, as they approved of Sir Renjamin Pine and his course of action. Sir Garnet is to strike out a new native policy, and as his hands will most likely not be tied very closely, he may be able to do something brilliant.