ENGLAND.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5518, 22 October 1879, Page 2

ENGLAND.

Queen Victoria has written to the Emperor of Austria expressing her gratification at the appointment of 'Baron Hermerle as Minister for Foreign- Affairs, and at the consolidation of friendly relations between Austria and Germany.

A fire occurred in Belfast on September 24, resulting in a loss of £30,00.0.

An explosion occurred in the colliery of the Crewe Coal and Iron Company, when seven men were killed. .-.-..

It is stated in Dublin that the Lord Lieutenant has requested the police authorities of Limerick to make a special report of the circumstances under which; Charles Stewart Parnell, M.P., at ttiafrecent Home Rule banquet, suffered hissing to greet. the toast of " The Queen." M|l >» A number of tenant farmers, selected as delegates from Scotland, England, and Ireland, sailed on the steamer .Peruvian, for Quebec and Montreal. The delegation go to America under the auspices of the Canadian Government to investigate and report to their constituent's the; advantages which the Dominion presents as a field for settlement.

It is announced in Dublin that Mr Parnell, M.P. for Meath, and other persons interested in the land question, cjaflfc^ template issuing an appeal to the Irian people in all parts of the world to aid in the of a class of. peasant propritetors in Irland. A great "tenant's rights" meeting held in Mallow, Ireland, was addressed by Sir Joseph M'Kenna and other members of Parliament. -, Over 20,000 people were present. Resolutions were passed calling the attention of the Government to the distressed condition of Ireland, suggesting the establishment of a system of relief, and a general abatement of rents.

A correspondent at Blackburn says that one of the largest firms in -Lancashire have taken in the past fortnight more orders for American cloth for India: than they received during the same 'period for all English firms which they represent. At Middleboro, the centre of the iron manufacturing industry in England, an order .was received from the United States for 6000 tons of pig iron. The husband of the famous London beauty, Mrs Lnn^trey. sues for a divorck The Prince of Wales is set dovvh' as corespondent. •• '

Numerous trade failures and strikes are taking place in England. The Marquis of Hartingdon, speaking in Radnorshire, gave an explanation of his recent utterances on the: question of the land laws. He did not advocate 'the creation of a class of peasant proprietors but merely urged, that if ai^ existing laws tended to aggregate ya^b properties

in the hands ©f tho few persons, the operation of those laws should be carefully enquired into.- -.■ i" o •■/ Thomas W. Booth and Co.*'s sheet-iron 1 >nd tin-plate works near Cardiff, which" have been in constant operation since 1740, have been closed by order of tho" official liquidator of the West of England and South, AVales District ißnn'k:.,- 1500 j^orkmen trhave been, paid • afT.^- : - Three • pillages had grown up around the works, and the inhabitants, consisting solely, . of , working- people and their families, nunv bering 6000, are now destitute.

i;jA r considei T aJble; 'portion : of" ithe Irish harvest is irreparably lost. The potatoes ate partially blighted, and on many farms the whole crop is gone. .',i !"..'' ■'■ ! ■ [■/The new ironclad turret ram Agame-mnon,-carrying 38-ton guns, 6000 horsepower, was successfully launched. , ; ICurries's' distillery-' in : -\Londbn v/as! burned down. The loss is estimated at : :frortf4£-2'00,t)06-"to £4'00;000. ' : ; ' ' > ]

In conesquenc.e of the resolution of* the i Scotch ironmasters- 'not to' accede to the demand of the workmen for -.an. increase of wages until the price ! of ircm'exceedsi 508 per ton, 54 furnaces haye been blown : out in various p'di'ts" of" Scotland, rendering 300 men idle.;-..;