LATEST TELEGRAMS.

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

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

London, July 10. A committee in the House of Lords have fixed the date of disestablishment of the Irish Church for May 1871. The House offers the sum of half a million sterling, in lieu of private endowments, notwithstanding the declaration of Earl Granville that it was not necessary to offer that sum, since, in the Province of Ulster, glebes were to be retained. The. steamship Somersetshire sailed from Plyriiouth for Melbourne on the list July, with 200 passengers on board. The arrivals have been the Wave of Life, Handsome, Great Britain, Agamemnon, Dunbar Castle, White Eagle, Anglesea. A levee was held at Sfc. James' by the Prince of Wales, on behalf of Her Majesty. The Queen, in* consideration of the additional official duties thus thrown upon the Prince, makes him a large allowance from her private purse. Emigration to America and Canada is .active. 8000 persons left the river Mersey in one week. The Government have promised to consider the question of giving the movement some assistance. Mr; Verdon has been in' communication with the Imperial Emigration Commissioners as regards Victoria. Seventy tons preserved meat ex Landsdown, were sold at once. The Duke of Newcastle has fled to the continent to escape bailiffs, who are now in possession of Clumber Castle. Pidwick obtained judgement against him for £95,000, and various Hebrew money lenders to the extent of £123,000. The furniture of the Duke's town residence is to be sold to cover some losses by racing. Lord Charles Hamilton, from the same cause, assigned his estate to escape bankruptcy. Mr. Seeley has been elected for Nottingham, beating Mr. Digby Seymour. A handsome testimonial has been pre-' sented by the women of Bradford to Mr. Edward Mill. Mr. Goldwin- Smith has answered Mr.. Sumner's speech effectually. The principal shops in Paris are now closed on Sundays. Richards, inspector of detectives on the London and Brighton railway, has been taken into custody, charged with complicity in numerous robberies. The time is extended in the Tichborrte case to the end of easter term 1870. A Dublin printer, named Johnson, has been arrested in Cork for circulating treasonable documents among the military arid police. Dr. Norman M'Leod : has been elected moderator ofthe General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland. Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville have been elected honorary members ofthe Reform Club. A grand banquet is contemplated in recognition of their services to the Liberal cause, The Agricultural Hall, Islington, has been fitted up for velocipede racing. The Palmerston memorial statue has been erected at Southampton. The sons of Count Bismarck are on a visit to Scotland. Fenianism is on the increase in Ireland and Orangemen are becoming troublesome. An attack was made on the house of a country gentleman named Gray, aY Black Rock, two miles from Cork. . Although an; invalid, he defended his house and shot one. tif thb assiiilants. ; Tlte- ri?st*fled, ; One

wounded man was taken ; he proved to be the keeper of a Lunatic Asylum in the neighborhood. He would give no information. Eleven policemen have been charged with manslaughter for conduct while suppressing disturbances during Prince Arthur's visit to Ireland. . The Rev. W. G. Cowie, Rector of Stafford, has been appointed Bishop of Auckland:; and the Rev. Walter Chambers has been appointed to the bishopric of Labuan. Finney, manager of the English Joint Stock Bank, committed for trial on a charge of perjury, preferred by the directors, . has been' acquitted. Russia is sending prisoners from Siberia to serve the Japanese in Saghalim. The gold hitherto found in Sunderlandshire has been valued at £7000. Two hundred diggers are afc work. . The flying squadron has sailed from Plymouth. The Government pays nearly three millions for telegraph lines. Reuter is to be awarded three quarters of a million for his alone. Don Ferdinand of Portugal has contracted a morganatic marriage with an Americiirt actress. '•• - The Duchess De Luynes went to the Paris races On a tricycle, followed by a grboih oh ; a bicycle. '-. Orangemen at Tyrone refer to Mr., Gladstone as'driving the country to civil war, and speak of the time as perhaps coming when he and. his co-conspirators would be. .hanging as high as Hainan. : The Viceroy of Egypt has visited Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and Florence. ./.The Countess of' Flanders has given birth to a son, who is heir to the throne of Belgium. . The postmen of Cheltenham go their rounds on velocipedes. A steamer — the United Kingdom — from New York to Glasgow, is supposed to be lost. She carried 30 passengers. Iv America, the Indian war is raging with ferocity. „ General Sherman has been ordered to treat all Indians outside reserves as hostile. President Grant has appointed Commis- : sioners in Indian affairs. The President had a narrow escape from death . by railway collision, he having been in a ;train in which one passenger was killed and 20 wounded. There have been great peace festivals afc . Boston, opened by the President. Several foreign ministers, including the British ambassador and other distinguished guests, were present. . . _ • Six steamers have been, destroyed by fire at Cincinnati. . . . .'j Chief Justice Chase has ruled* that Go-, vernment cannot collect any t_x -'from fo-' . reign bondholders. /" Tbis v 'ihv6ly.3S large: reimbursements; r „.( . i The President has refused to 'jfeitiifye the: postmaster at Macon, who is a negro, ,i The . Irish Republican Association of Philadelphia has issued an address, strongly approving of Mr. Sumner's speech, and ex-, hortingall true Irishmen to join the republicans in enforcing his views. In Spain the regency has been voted by 193- vo.tes to 65. . Serrano would take the oaths as regent on the- 18th June. Cartelar (?) spoke strongly against the French Empire, declaring ifc would soon fall. .• On the 16th, General Prim reviewed 20,000 troops, who then took the constitutional oaths. Prim stated in Cortes that the establishment of a regency would facilitate the creation of a king. The choice seems to be divided between the Due de Montpensier and Don Ferdinando. The former is in Andalusia. The new constitution was proclaimed on the 6th June. The American difficulty is over. Mr. Motley has been instructed not to press the matter, as the American Government hopes that, when present excitement subsides, the British Government will invite a renewal of negociations. He is instructed that the proclamation of neutrality on the .parfc ofGreat Britain does not in itself constitute ground of complaint, upon which to rest a claim for compensation, bufc, taken in conj unction with subsequent unfriendly acts, it occasioned losses requiring reparation. Mr. Motley has been further instructed to assure the British Government that the American Government desires to effect such a settlement only as shall be honorable to both nations. France is still in a disturbed state. A workman's strike developed into a revolutionary riot. Two serious encounters took place between the troops and the people. In the first,. 12 rioters were killed ancl 33 • taken prisoners, while 7 soldiers were wounded. In'the second, 11 rioters were killed, • A. general officer was sent from Paris with reinforcements. On the evening of the 11th June, the Emperor; and. Empress drove in an open carriage through the streets without escort. A That -.fright,- Marshall Neil and other ministers remained with the grenadiers at the -Tuileries. ■• \ -During the night a riot took place, in which- the 'Cavalry, were surprised. On the 12th the shops in the Boulevards were closed, and many arrests made. Next day all was quiet. At Chalons the Emperor delivered a speech to the troops, which the official journals praise for its pacific character. The work of government, h<» said, was to reconcile strong power with liberal institutions. The elections generally have gone in favor of the Government. Theirs and Favre' have both been defeated. Olliver, who was beaten iii Paris; has been elected .by the department of Wear. . • • .. . One thousand arid twenty persons were detained to wait further proceedings. " At the opening of the' Corps ;Legislatiff, M. .Routier said that the Government would : Bring forward measures to satisfy the coun- ; try. ''• ""• .; .... - .;., .. *„.;••.* .-. i The opposition-gave notice of a- series 'of! interpellations, involving ministeriiil ', yeipp"a..f I sibility. '" ' . .'. ' .'A. fA .'?-.'■' A''\ '■ ' Ministers refused them,' but the Emperor ! accepted all but three involving ministerial responsibility. Ministers thereupon resigned. The Emperor is forming a new cabinet, and, ifc is rumoured, will consult the people by a plebiscifcum. The regency of Spain has been conferred on. Serrano. Letters from Mr. Richmond, Major Atkinson, and Mr. William Hull appear in .the Times and Spectator, .pleading for aid'; against the Maori rebellion. ' " * '

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