SHIPPING.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 971, 22 August 1868, Page 3

SHIPPING.

Corrected to July 1. For Auckland — Siam, Ida Ziegler. For Canterbury— Hydaspes, Blue Jacket, Lady Jocelyn, Glenmark. For Otago — Beautiful Star, Mystery, Ada. For Invercargill — Racer. For Wellington — Electra. The following items are from the Home .Neios of 2nd July:- — Our first duty is to announce the safe return to these shores of the Duke of ' Edinburgh. His royal highness arrived in the Galatea on June 26, after a prosperous voyage; and from anything that is in his personal appearance no one would tell that he has suffered from so dangerous a wound as that inflicted by the bullet of tho would-bo assassin. The royal duke has been everywhere received with enthusiasm, and he has resumed his command of tbe Galatea. We are preparing for the elections, and every day a list appears in which the chances of the struggle in a score of places are set out up to the last advices. Most of the politicians of present note will try their fortunes, and great numbers of new men will be brought out. All other matters go on much as before. Queen Victoria still sits upon the throne, though Mr Reardon, the member for Athlone, an auctioneer at the west end, had the decency to try to ask Ministers whether, as the Queen had gone to Scotland, tliey had not better ask her to abdicate. The anger of theCommonsdescended in storm upon the impudent Irishman, and he was forbidden to put such a question. Since that time he has never risen without receiving a contemptuous yell. The Conservatives, as they are still called, remain in office, and there is no reason to doubt their continuing to do so until after the general election. They have obtained the year's supplies,, on tbe avowed ground that the first act of the new Parliament may probably be the ejection of the Ministry, and tbat any finance difficulty at that crisis would inconvenience the epuntry. But they have been com-pelled-to shorten the time for collecting the suffrages of tbe people and it is understood that a new Parliament will meet before Christmas. . General Sir Robert Napier left Paris for London on tbo Ist July. We have received intimation that the United States proposes to send us as their representative tbe Hon. Reverdy Johnson. Tbis i|' a very good appointment, though it is to be regretted that Mr. Johnson's age is too advanced to permit him to mingle so much in society as he will be invited to do. He is an educated gentleman, a lawyer, and a man of the world, and as a senator his politics were moderate, tbat is -to s,ay, what is called democratic in* 'the State's, to distinguish its holder from the Republicans, who are for extreme measures with the South and its favourers. General Grant and Mr. Colfax have written letters accepting the candidatures respectively proposed, and the soldier ends his short letter with the words, " Let us have peace." There is another American item, and a pleasant one to add. Mr. Longfellow, the poet, is among us. Ho has been made welcome, of course, wherever he has gone, and the latest honour that has been conferred on him is a degree at Cambridge. It is certain that Mr. Longfellow is more popular in England than any of our own poets — Tennyson addresses more delicate instincts than those of the many, and Browning writes for strong thinkers, while Longfellow appeals to the emotions which , are common to all, and is liked because he is understood. We are glad to be able to add that he is not without pecuniary recompense for the pleasure he affords in England. He is accompanied by the three daughters whom he has endeared to thousands who will never see them — his wife, it may be remembered, perished by fire accidently caught by her dress when she was making seals to please these children. The clear aud well-written Abyssinian despatches have at last come to hand, but tbey do not require much remark, as we had already been furnished with even more graphic accounts of all wbich they describe. Theodore's crown, and robes, and other spoil have been taken to the Queen at Windsor, and will be exhibited at South Kensington — a very mild version of a Roman triumph, which our penny-a-liners insist on calling an ovation. The vote of thanks to Sir Robert Napier and his army is to be proposed this day, July 2, and in the House of Lords at least we may expect to hear some speaking which shall be worthy of the theme. Mr. Disraeli has been entertained at the Merchant Tailors' Hall with great splendour. This company is always Conservative, while the Fishmongers are always Liberal. The Queen held a Volunteer Review at Windsor, on the anniversary of her accession. It was not a great success, and for a wonder it is permitted to say so. The fact is that the volunteers, who, as we have often said, might be made the best soldiers in the world, havo no fair play, and tbey will not become so until they are properly officeredbyprofessionally educated men. The proof of tbeir present incapacity, and yet of their honourable zeal, was abundantly given in the park at Windsor, aud afterwards a considerable number of them gave evidences of an insubordination which cannot be too severely blamed, though their fatigues and the absence of influential officers account for it. At last Mr. Eyre's enemies have received a complete and, we suppose, a final overthrow. We stated tbat he had been committed, aud a bill was duly preferred. Mr. Justice Blackburn charged tho jury. He is a cool, practical Scot, who was E laced on the bench by Mk countryman, iord Campbell, and was not thought much of at the time, except by such of the profession as had worked with or against him, but who had long since vindicated tbo wisdom of the choice. He had no idea of being rhetorical, or of win- . ning fulsome eulogy from tho organs of party, but he came down with -a charge which he introduced as the general opinion of his brethren on the bench, and in which he preached common sense, and therefore could not fail to bo the advocate of acquittal. He was very unceremonious about the "martyr," Gordon, whom he described as a " pestilent firebrand," but he left ifc to the jury to say whether a dan-

. gerous man had not been;irregularly dealt with. After deliberation, or at least absence, of some hours, the jury returned, and the bill was thrown out. Earl Brownlow was married to Lady Adelaide Talbot, the daughter of the late Earl of Shrewsbury, on Thursday, June 4, at Newbattle-abbey. The ceremony took place at Lord Shrewsbury's bedside, and his lordship died almost immediately after. The death of the Earl J of Shrewsbury and Talbot, and the consequent elevation of Viscount Ingestre to the peerage, again creates a vacancy in the representation of the borough of Stamford. An American paper states that boys in the West are in the habit of lying between the rails of a railroad track and letting the trains pass over them ; they consider it brave. __