ENGLISH TELEGRAMS

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 676, 26 April 1869, Page 3

ENGLISH TELEGRAMS

VIA SUEZ. The s.s.. Tararua, with English news, arrived at the Bluff at 9 a.m. on Monday last, 19th April. We append a summary of the news, as published in the papers to hand by the s.s. Wellington on Friday last. GENERAL SUMMARY, London, February 26. A levee at Buckingham Palace is announced for the 5 th March ; draw-ing-room on the 10th. Prince Arthur holds levees on the 12th and 19th of March. The Queen's return to Windsor is postponed in consequence of the illness of Prince Leopold. The Prince and Princess of Wales will visit Constantinople aud Athens. The Judges' report oa the election trials, with the details of evidence, has been laid before jParliament. Col. Henderson, formerly of Western Australia, is appointed Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Two Admiralty officials have been committed for trial on a charge of conspiracy to extort money from gentlemen tendering for supplies. On a tender being accepted under the direction of the authorities, Maxwell, a contractor, paid them £3O. Robert Hartwell, the working man's candidate, has passed through the Bankruptcy Court. The Central Asian question is exciting serious attention, as the rapid advances of Russia towards the Northwest frontier of India occasions alarm. The Times suggests that immediate negotiations with Russia be entered into respecting the neutralization of Affgha r:istau. At Glasgow eight persons were killed by the failing of a chimney. Four hundred wrecks have been reported since the opening of the year. Great destruction has been caused by floods. At the Easter Volunteer Review the Dover testimonial of £'2so was presented to Corporal Peake, Wimbledon victor. Another gold-field has been discovered in Satherlandshire. The American Minister has been lionised at Glasgow and Edinburgh. In his speeches he adopted his usual confident, affectionate, and gushing style. The outbreak of Maoris and their violence, as reported by last mail, have drawn from her Majesty, through her Ministers, an expression of sympathy with New Zealand. Her Majesty, however, reasserts the principle which associates the obligation of self-defence with the right of self-government. Bills have been introduced into Parliament for preventing crime, for a uniform assessment on rateable property in London and country, for the abolition of religious tests in the Universities, as to the ballot, as to school and other educational endowments, and for the prevention of the cattle plague. The Theatre Royal, Hull, has been burnt down. The Mayors of several Municipalities in Ireland are to present petitions at the first levee for the release of Fenian prisoners. The Ritualists are conforming to the late decision under strong protests. The Fishmongers' Company have granted £IOOO to the Middle class schools of the Corporation. Continual discussions are taking place in the House of Commons relative to the position of the Commander in Chief. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has made a Liberal speech at a dinner given by the Dublin Corporation. Ihe naval command of Portsmouth is given to Admiral Grant. Admiral Milne will have the command in the Mediteranean. The Times notices with surprise that some of the Australian banks have become shippers and importers of wool. In a trial in the Queen's Bench singular disclosures were made as to convent discipline—occupied a jury three weeks —a case of assault, conspiracy, and libel by a sister against the superioress. Verdict for plaintiff, £SOO damages. Gordon (of Overend, Gurney and Co.) has resigned the offices of Director of the Union Bank and Chairman of

the Oriental Bank Corporation, and his seat in the directory of the Geylon Company. The Chancellor called on Mr Edwards, the officer of the Court of Bankruptcy, to explain his proceedings in Overend's business. Ten days granted to him for reply. Opinion is expressed in the Manchester Chamber of Commerce adverse to free trade, principally on account of the operation of the French treaty. A Silk Supply Association has been established. Sir Charles Slingsby and six others, with their horses, have been drowned while hunting a fox iii attempting to cross a river. General Codrington has written a letter strongly opposing the ceding of Gibraltar. Obituary.—Joseph Hodgson, the Marquis of Anglesea, Robert Keeley, Dr. Epps. Sir J. K. James, Mrs Bernard, Sir John Stone, Lady Murchison, Lord Russell, Professor Strangways, Lady Petrie, Sir John Johnstone —from accident whilst hunting. The first series of the colonial wool sales commenced on the 25th Feb. It comprised 5580 bales. There was a good attendance. The home and foreign trade bidding was not animated. Port Philip and Adelaide wool prices ruled in favor of the buyers from Jd to Id per pound. The Cape showed little alteration. Sydney and New Zealand offered in too limited quantities to present a fair criterion of value.

FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. The native tribes in Algeria were at once put clown. Some maintain that there will be war in the spring, and quote as symptoms the order of Marshal Neil prohibiting marriages iu the army before July and applications for general commands, which according to barrack talk, are about to be created. BELGIUM. A feeling of temporary irritation exists towards France, which has arisen out of the Eastern Railway question. SPAIN. The Cortes were opened after a speech. Serauo's programme is freedom of worship, liberty of the press, public education, right of meeting, abolition of slavery in the colonies. The Government are unsettled as to what form authority should take, some talk of a director and some of a triumvirate. Five persons are about to be executed for assassination at Burgos. PRUSSIA. Parliament has affirmed the confiscation of the private property of the King of Hanover, and the Elector of Hesse Cassel. AUSTRIA, Iu the Lower Hguse the German Austrian telegraph convention has been adopted. HUNGARY. The courts are engaged in proceedings against the abbettors of the murder of the late Prince Michael. The case is not over. RUSSIA. An Imperial Ukase has been issued ordering the recruits obtained by this year's hyy to join the ranks. The surplus soldiers of the army are to be sent on furlough. ITALY. A number of the deputies have rejected the proposal of Signor Mellana to effect economy of 500,000 livres in the Budget of the Ministry, reducing expenses of prefectoriai establishments. TURKEY. The Government are about to construct a new direct line exclusively in collection with European and ludian telegraphs. GREECE. A change of Ministry has occurred, and the new Ministry has accepted the protectorate of the Paris Conference. The, Czar telegraphed his congratulations to the powers on the adhesion of Greece to the protocol. JAPAN. The Foreign Ministers have formally withdrawn their neutrality proclamation, it having been announced that war has terminated and punishment beeh inflicted on the rebellious Damios. The ram Stonewall has been given up to the Japanese. Loss by the Tokugana expedition to Yeddo of two more of their ships was reported.

Persecution of Christians is taking place at Gotto, where 300 men were arrested and placed in confinement on the news of the murder of the Japanese Governor being received. SINGAPORE. Freights to London —Bank bills at six months. $4 to ss| and H to SSJ ; on Australian private bills, sixty days, $4 to s7\ ; Australian sovereigns $i to S7O each. Coals are very dull of sale. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. London, March 15. The Victorian Railway Loan is a partial failure, it was offered twice and only £700,000 taken. The Victorian Government are censured for fixing the reserve at par. The wool sales are seriously depressed, prices are 2d lower since November sales. Admiralty tenders are issued for 200,000ibs of Australiao preserved beef. The inaugural dinner of the Colonial Society was well attended. Mr Gladstone, Granville, Reverdy Johnson, Childers, Pakington, Stafford, and Northcote. The Queen hss contributed £l5O to the British Colonial Emigration Fund. Public meetings have been held at which it was resolved to seek Government assistance, and form an emigration committee composed of members throughout England to help the unemployed to emigrate. Retrenchment in colonial military expenses will be over half a million.

LATEST TELEGRAMS. London, March 9. Addresses from the Houses of Parliament have been presented to the Queen. In the House of Commons, Mr Cardwell in reply to a question from Mr Ellice relative to the position of the Cooomander-in-Chief and Secretary for War, said the Secretary's authority was supreme, and might be brought to bear on the minor promotions iu the army, while it ought moreover to bear on the general discipline of the army. Mr Cardwell has anounced that in future all military appointments will be submitted to the Secretary of State for War before presentation to her Majesty. The patronage remains as before. The Government has decided to release forty-nine Fenians. On the debate on the Irish Church Bill, Gladstone said that the greatest promptitude was necessary in the settlement of the question. The process of disestablishment would be divided into two stages, the first would be transitory until 1871. The bill proposes the appointment of a new ecclesiastical commission, and that the whole property of the church shall be vested theiin. The bill would absolutely take effect in 1871, when not only would the separation of Church and Statejbe complete, but the existing ecclesiastical jurisdiction would also cease, and the peerage of Bishops lapse. Princess Christian has given birth to a prince. The army estimates published show a reduction of £1,089,000. The army js to be reduced by 11,200 men, chiefly in infantry. The navy estimates published show the proposed expenditure for the present year to be £9,600,000, or a reduction of £1,000,000. The value of the property of the Church is estimated at £16,000,000, and from £7,000,000 to £8,000,000 would remain after all claims were satisfied ; the bill was read a first time. The Government had been instructed that Stanton would take the necessary steps for the relief of the American mission which has visited Abyssinia for the purpose of effecting the liberation of captives. The newspapers (the Conservative journals excepted) praise Gladstone's scheme for the disestablishment of the • Irish Church. Supplementary estimates show the cost of the Abyssinian expedition to have been £3,600,000. The House of Commons passed the neoessary grant. Colonel Tyler is visiting the Ital ian Railways with the view of establishing ommunication direct via Bombay.

Mr Edwards of the Court of Bankruptcy is dismissed on account of his connection with the firm of Overend and Gurney. Lord (rough died on the 3rd March, and Sir Emerson Tennent on the 6th. It is the intention of the Govern ment to establish flying squadrons and build three turret ships, to be the most powerful vessels in the world. Mr Childers has stated that the reduction to take place iu squadrons on Foreign stations will be from 80 to 64 ships. The China squadrons will be reduced from 34 to 25. The lodian from 7to 6. Australian will remain unchanged. India is to pay £70,000 per annum towards the expenses of vessels maintained in the Indian seas. The rate of discount at the Bank of England remains unaltered. It is stated that Sir J. Lawrence will be raised to the peerage. Oxford beat Cambridge in the boat race by four boat's lengths. Lord Strathmair is gazetted colonel of the Royal Hjrse Guards vice Lord Gough. Mr Gladstone moved the second reading of the Irish Church Bill. Mr Disraeli proposed the rejection of the Bill in a long speech. He said the measure was unjust, impolitic, and sacrilegious. The health of Prince Leopold is improving. England is mediating in the French and Belgian question. The monster declaration got up in Ireland, denying the moral competence of Parliament to disestablish the Irish Church, has been sigued by upwards of 50 peers and 1000 deputy-lieutenants, magistrates, and land owners. An Irish deputation presented a petition to the Queen, praying for the disestablishment and diseudowment of the Irish Church. Her Majesty, in reply, reiterated the expression of the deep interest she felt in the condition of Ireland.