ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SUEZ), AT THE BLUFF.

Press, Volume XIX, Issue 2817, 13 May 1872, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL (VIA SUEZ), AT THE BLUFF.

*. ( p er Greville' 2'elegram Company, Ratter's Agents.) Bluff, May 11. May 4th. —The Rangatira arrived off Glenelg at four this morning. The Baroda left the Sound for Melbourne at eight in the morning of the 29th. She brings dates from London to the 22nd March, and telegrams to the 10th April, and from Galle to the 13th. Passengers for Australia—Sir Valentine Fleming, Sir George Verdon, and Mr Gordon the water engineer for Victoria. SHIPPING AND COMMERCIAL. Wool sales terminated ou the Ist of March, and were characterised by almost unexampled animation, prices reaching higher than any in this generation. The prospects of the next sales are excellent. A thousand bales of New Zealand hemp were auctioned at full prices. Tallow sells freely ; mutton, 42s to 42s Gd ; beef, 41s 6d to 42s 3d ; mixed, 42s to 42s 6d. Hides sold freely at an advance of a fartbing per pound. Leather was less active. Thirteen thousand sides were sold. Sydney oil realised from 34s to 38a ; sperm was cleared at £98. Australian wheat fetched 4Ss to 61s. Preserved meats were considerably lower. New Zealand Consolidated Fives, January, April, July, and October, 103-2 ; ditto Sixes, 1891 ; March-Sep-tember, 112 ; ditto January-July, 111. Consols, 92|Money is abundant, and discount moderate, at Bank rate. There is a general rise in the Btock markets. Joint stock undertakings are very numerous. SHIPPING. Arrivals from New Zealand—Beth Shan, Countess of Kintore, Halcyon, and Mercop (Merope?) Sailed for New Zealand —Agamemnon. The Bulwer, Ironsides, and the Wave Queen were loading for New Zealand. The exports for February and March show a moderate increase. To New Zealand the increase over the previous month is £22,300. The supplement to Stable's circular reports three more departures for New Zealand. GENERAL SUMMARY. The publicity given to an attempt of the Commissioners of Sewers to seize 2000 cans of Australian meat has seriously prejudiced the sales. Macarthur will move an address to the Queen for the establishment of a Protectorate over Fiji. A, great meeting took place at Oxford to honor the memory of Bishop Patteson. Eleven thousand hands engaged in the flax mills at Leeds are out on strike. Four thousand silk weavers are locked out. Chaffers, an attorney, by statutory declarations, published some infamous details of the early life of Sir Travers and Lady Twiss. Chaifers was prosecuted for libel. The libellous statement was disproved, but Lady Twiss suddenly left London, and the case collapsed. Sir Travers has since resigned his position as Queen's advocate. The , total contributions from the United Kingdom for the Chicago Relief Fund amounted to £160,000. It is expected that the Lords will pass the Ballot Bill. The French military expenditure has been reduced by twenty-eight million francs. The protracted visit of Prince Frederick and Moltke" to Italy, alarms and irritates France. Mazzini died suddenly at Pisa, and was buried at Geneva. The funeral was attended by eighty-thousand persons. The Russian Government have determined to re-open Sebastapol as a military and commercial harbor. An influential committee has been formed at Bombay, to raise a fund for a memorial to Lord Mayo. LATE TELEGRAMS. April 10. Replying to Lord Derby, Mr Gladstone said that the Ministry would fully maintain their position in the Alabama case. Lowe made his financial statement. Last year's expenditure waa one million less than the money voted. The estimated expenditure for tbe coming year is seventy-one millions odd. The revenue was iaearly seventy-five mil-

lions. He proposes, amongst other things, to reduce the income tax to €60; to apply tho abatement to incomes of £300 ; to abolish the tax on warehouses, Slc, where the rental was under £25, aud retaining the remaining surplus of three hundred and sixty-two thousand as reserve.

The national debt is reduced since ISGO by twelve million seven hundred and forty thousand pounds. The Republicans in America have carried the elections, thereby incrensing the chances of Grant's re-election.

Lord Dufferiu succeed. Lisinore to the Governorship of Canada. Cambridge won the University boat race by one and a half lengths. I The Queen ia at Baden-Baden in strict privacy. The Prince aud Princess of Wales and family have arrived at Rome. The Prince had a lengthy audience with the Pope, who congratulated him upon hia recovery, and expressed his thanka to Queen Victoria for the constant evidences of her sympathy ; he also praised the religious feelings of tho British. The Tichbourne claimant remains at Newgate. He has published a letter appealing to tho public for subscriptions in aid of his defence, solemnly asserting that he is the real Sir Roger. was enthusiastically received at Manchester. Numerous addresses were presented to him by the Conservatives throughout Lancashire. At a monster meeting Disraeli defended the throne as the source of all the blessings which the British enjoy. He also demonstrated its cheapness, and spoke in defence of the House of Lords. On Easter Monday the review at Brighton was considered a success, notwithstanding the wet weather. A colliery explosion has occurred at Atherton ; twenty-eight persona were killed. The laborers in "Warwickshire have struck, and formed themselves into a Union. FOREIGN. Thiers, on the occasion of the closing of the Assembly, for the Easter recess, said that order existed in the interior, and peace from abroad was assured to France. The treaty commerce between France and Belgium was denounced by the Assembly. The proposed tax on raw materials was abandoned. An ambassador from Khiva has been dispatched to Petersburgb, courting the friendship of the Czar. Some municipalities in Spain are associating themselves to obtain the restoration of Gibraltar. LATEST. The House of Commons has rejected Vernon Harcourt's motion to reduce the national expenditure. The English press commented on the absence of any programme in Disraeli's speech at Manchester. News from Washington states that the Foreign Committee of Congress recommended the suspension of any action in the Fishery Bills, owing to the condition of the Washington treaty. The Republicans have carried Rhodes' Island elections. The University boat race was rowed during a snow storm. The ship Tatala, from Adelaide, stranded near Boulogne. The crew and passengers were saved, and the masts cut away to save the ship. The Nebraska's mails were delivered on the 25th. Destructive earthquakes bave taken place in California, many people having been killed and injured. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. London, April 12. The Tichbourne claimant was arraigned, and pleaded " Not Guilty." He was removed to the Queen's Bench. The trial commences in June. * The boy O'Connor, who insulted the Queen, was sentenced to one year's hard labor and twenty lashes.