NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 399, 10 December 1869, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

London, Oct, 8. The annual Social Science Congress met at Bristol, Sir Sir Stafford Northcote being Chairman. The subject of the mutual relationship of Eiiglau and her Colonies was discussed, an I it was stilted that their object was not to loosen but to strengthen the bond ictweeii England and the Colonies AVoolwich dockyard is now closed. The jury in the trial of Barrett for the muniir of Captain Lambert disagreed, aim the prisoner was accoroingly discharged. At the demonstration of republicans in Trafalgar Square, Mr lAioore, M.P., made an iiifiauiuiatai-y speech against the throne. The thiee Government officials charged with fraud at .AVoo ivich Arsenal have been acquitted. Nothing came of Lieutenant Saxhy’s prediction of high tides on the sixth of October. A succession of Equinoctial gales prevailed from the 7th to the 14th September. One hundred and twenty vessels were destroyed, and hundreds more damaged, the loss of life being very heavy. Mr. Jonathan Judge, shipbuilder, of Bromley, Middlesex, being out of emp oynient, killed himself, Lis wife, and two chilnn r, with the fumes of charcoal. The 'exports to New Real.uid show an increase, as compared with last month, of £3B, CGI. The Maori, ship had arrived from Auckland. Oct. 22. The Queen will open Biackfriars Bridge and the Holborn Valley \ T iaduct on sixth of November. Public opinion approves of the r ‘fusal of the Government to release the Fenian prisoner., in Ireland. An amnesty demonstration takes place in Hyde Park next Sunday. Dh Livingstone is safe, at Ujiji, having discovered the true sources of the Kile. The Empress Eugenie left for Alexandra on the 15th October. She nut with a ; splendid reception at Constantinople from the Sublime Porte

The Queen is at Balir.r ral. The Prince and Princess of Wales have returned from Wildbad. The accouche- j ment of the Princess is expected at the end of November. The agitation for the release of the Fe- ! nian prisoners is spreading in Ireland i Lord Napier of Magdala will obtain Hie chief command of the iu iaii Army next | year. A whole family of eight persons have | been inuivlcre i in Paris by a young man, named Taupman, only nineteen years of age. Captain Craig, Governor of Pentmiville : prison, has been sentenced to three years’ j imprisonment for embezzlement. ] The Messrs M ‘Coll, fhe Australian pro- 1 served meat merchants, are insolvent. Their liabilities are estimated at .150,000. Bishop Sehvyn’s illness was serious, but he is now slowly recovering. The Matoaka from New Zealand has not yet arrived. She lias -150,000 worth of specie on board. The underwriters ask eighty guineas prcinhim upon her. Mr. John Ewen semis by the Warrior Queen for Otago, a collection of birds, chiefly partridges and pheasants. The Earl of Dalhousie has promised to send some red deer. A despatch from Earl Granville to the New Zealand Government, published on the 7th October, declares that the Imperial Government adheres to the policy that the Queen’s troops arc not to be employed in the hostilities between the colonists and the natives. The removal of the ISth Regiment is insisted on, and the men are ordered to embark without delay A pamphlet on New Zealau I has hern published, written by Mr. SeWell, 1 ite Premier of the Colony. It is dedicated to Mr. Edward Wilson. The writer contends that the present crisis was precipitated by the Colonial Office, and that Imperial help is indispensable to the Colony.