ENGLAND.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5677, 1 May 1880, Page 2

ENGLAND.

Loxuox, April 21. The rocont :i.lt:ick by Mr Gladstone ou Austria continues to cxeit'i anger at Vienna. Mr Gladstone's explanation published in the Vienna journals states that he speaks only of individuals. The reported massacro of British troops

:by hostile Pathans, between Qiiettab. and L-andahar, fs denied. Ther existing between Bussia ; and prance, iii consequence of the, re- : refusal off the latter to extradito Hartmanfl; has cppleddown. ,' „ ■ The uiMbers \<bf „fl& BkconMld Admin^tSratidn 1 , wifcli the exception of the Priiilo Minister, who was absent, were I received by Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor to-day, when the official leave:'taking took place*' and tW seals of olfice . wore dejiyored ttp^ Her Maj esty thanked tho retiring Ministers for their services. A Fishery Exhibition .has been opened at Berlin, withibonsideraWeeerfembny, by His Highness Frederick William, Crown Prince of Prussia. The appeal made to the Superior Court in San Francisco against the sentence passed on Penis Kearney for using seditious language, . has . been .dismissed. Kearney, who was liberated dn bail during the interim, has Been. , re-arrested and yoinbittcd to prison for the period of his sentence— six nibnths. He is also required to pay a fine 'of 1000 dollars. , . . April 22. Inquiries in well-informed quarter's show that there is no ( foundation for the report that the Prince of Wales is about to visit Australia 1 . The Eight Hon. W. S. Adam, late member for Clackmannan and Kinross Shires, will probably be elected Speaker of the House of Commons. The Right Hon. H. B. W. Brand, the late Speaker, is to be raised to the peerage Major George CJnmihg Strahan, R.A., CM. Ok, Governor of the Windward Islands, has been appointed Governor of Tasmania. The Hon. John Pope Hennessy, CM., Governor of Hong Kong, has been created Knight of the Order of .St. Michael and Sti Georgei

[REUTEII'S TELEGRAMS:] „ .. tsojfDOSi April 59. : fcord darlingford, formerly Mr Chichestcr Fortescue, has been, appointed British Ambassador at Constantinople. The total reserVo in. notes and bullion in' the Bank Sf Illngland is £16,000,000. .At the wool sale to-day 11,700 bales wore offered, niaking a total of 93,200 bales catalogued since the opening. The tone of the'salo was quieten but cfceady. . The homeward mails via Brindisi were delivered to-day. Parliament rc-.a'sseniblod to-day. The members of the House of Commons were sworn, and the Eight Hon. H. B. W. Brand was again elected Speaker. •'.■ . .. April 30. Lord . Cariiugfor'd . has declined the Ambassadorship at Constantinople. Mr "Farcer Herschell, tho SolicitorGeneral, has l'esigned.