LATE ENGLISHNEWS.
The English May mail, due in Melbourne per steamship "Victoria" on the 6th ult., had not arrived on the 27th, the day upon which, after waiting three weeks, the "Marchioness" sailed for "Wellington. But by the ship "Lincolnshire," which arrived at Melbourne from London in 71 days, we have seven days later news than by last mail, viz. to the 23rd of April.
The chief items of news are Mr. D'lsraeli's Budget ; the reception in "France of the news of Bernard's acquittal, the action of Sardinia in favour of a law for the suppression of conspiracy, similar to the one the British Parliament rejected, with a view to consolidate the Erench alliance ; and a banquet in London to the Duke of Malakoff.
The members of the United Service Club gave a magnificent banquet on Thursday evening to his Excellency Marshall Pellissier, the Duke of Malakoff, at their club-house, in Pail-Mall. — The Duke of Cambridge K. Gr., presided on the occasion, supported by the Duke of Malakoff. Covers were laid for 150 persons. The health of the Emperor Napoleon was drunk amid loud applause, as also was that of the Duke of Malakoff.
The acquittal of Dr. Bernard, with the effect that the verdict of the jury was likely to produce on British relations with Prance, was the all-ab-sorbing topic of the day. The result of the trial does not seem to have affected the cordial understanding, so far as the Erench emperor is concern--ed,but the general opinion in England appears to be that the friendly sympathies which, were once supposed to be mutually entertained for each other by the two nations, no longer had any existence. The French press had manifested decided anti-Britannic tendencies.
Mr. ©'Israeli's budget does not seem to have excited much comment. A duty of one penny upon bankers' cheques had been carried by the Committees of Ways and Means. The political news does not, in other respects than those to which we have referred, appear to be important. Her Majesty opened the military season at Aldershot on the 23rd April, with a parade inspection of all the troops in camp. About 15,000 men of all arms were on the ground.
splendid clipper ship "James Baines," belonging to the Black Ball Line, was utterly destroyfli by fire in Liverpool Dock. The fire is conjectured to have arisen from spontaneous comustion. .
A Committtee of the House of Commons tad been granted, on divisionally a majority of 147 to 111, to inquire into the distress at Donegal. Sir James Brooke, Rajah, of Sarawak, was in England, and had been entertained at a public dinner at Manchester. ,
■ The newiy-appointed-Marshals of France were i«^pecting^tHe military;: ! districts : placed Tinder thieir commands. , . .7 < , '.'-•
Serious preparations were being made at \Na-. piles ifor defending, the temiwryr^: 1 * P^ Jicistilit es on the part of Sardinia, on account of the faffajr^of-Oagliari..', y^ }: -\/'- v.,'.;:;^ ,:■■:. > -;-_Q. "m-,:.- rrfliite teds&^;in|JOT^
LATE ENGLISHNEWS.
Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 1, Issue 48, 21 August 1858, Page 3
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