LATER TELEGRAMS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1074, 13 August 1869, Page 3

LATER TELEGRAMS.

London, July 6. The second reading of the Disestablishment Bill has been carried in the House of Lords. . ; The majority of the Bishops advocated a system of concurrent endowment. Lord Granville declared that the Government would never consent that present Irish Bishops should remain as peers during life. Earl Carnarvon moved an amendment, which was adopted, giving the clergy fourteen times their annual income, notwithstanding Lord Granville's opposition. The House adopted clause ten with amendment proposed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, deferring the disestablishment till 1872. This was strenuously opposed by Earl Granville. The House also passed an amendment to the sixth clause '— leaving the surplus church revenue at the disposal of parliament, to be devoted by them to charitable purposes. A Bill introduced into the House of i commons for granting an annuity to Fenian prisoners was rejected. In the House of Commons Mr. Monsellannounced that stringent instructions had been sent to Queensland, relative to the importation oi South Sea Islanders. Out of 1035 persons arrested during the • recent tumults in Paris, all have been released except 200. The Liverpool Cup was won by Spy. There have been serious Orange riots at Belfast. The Belgium railway question has terminated in a settlement satisfactory to France. The Government emphatically refuse to undertake the prosecution of Messrs. Poslend and Gurney. Lord Napier of Magdala has resigned the command of the Bombay army. American cruisers have arrested a party of Cuban filibusters, consisting of 800 men, who had eluded the New York authorities, and sailed for Cuba. The Spanish Minister at Washington,, at an interview with the Minister for foreign affairs, threatened to demand his passport if an official interview were granted to any envoy from the Cuba insurrectionists. London, July 9. The Life Peerage Bill has been rejected by the House of Lords on its third reading. Capfc. Vivian, replying to Mr. W. Stackpole in the Commons, said that ifc was impossible to relieve more than five regiments in India, individually. On an appeal from Mr. Gladstone, Sir Henry Bulwer relinquished his motion relative to the Alabama claim. . Two thousand miles of the French Atlantic Cable have been laid by the Great .Eastern.