ENGLISH MAIL NEWS. (By Electric Telegraph.) Melbourne, April 3.

North Otago Times, Volume 1550, Issue XXVI, 9 April 1877, Page 2

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS. (By Electric Telegraph.) Melbourne, April 3.

The following news wu brought by the B.M.S. Bangalore, which vowel hwbten quarantined till the 7th insi :—: — London, February IG. Tho Queen, in opening Parliament, proceeded in state, in a coach drawn by eight cream-colored horses, the first time used for a number of yean. The weather was magnificent, and there was an immense throng. Earl Beaconsfield was received with repeated cheers. He was introduced to the House of Lords by Earls Derby and Shrewsbury. The address in the Lords was moved by Lord Grey De Wilton, and seconded by the Earl of Htddington. In the Commons. Lord Galway and Mr Farr performed the same office. In reply to Earl Granville, Earl Derby explained the reason why the blue books did not contain Lord Salisbury's account of his interviews with President M'Mabon, the Duks De Cazes, and Bismarck, whilst that relative to his conversations with the Austrian and Italian Ministers were given, was that the former was of a far more confidential character, and its republication would produce unpleasant feelings abroad. The second reading of the Publichouse Closing Bill was carried by a large majority. At Newcastle, Mr Jalper Cowan addressed his constituents on the Eastern Question, condemning Earl Beaconsfield's speech at the outset of the agitation. He commendod Lord Derby's subsequent action. He hadfaith^in Midhat Pasha, and thought the Turkish constitution should have a fair trial. The Queen is at Osborne, in excellent health. The Chinese Envoys were presented to her by Sir Thomas Wade. The Duke of Connaught met with a slight accident while out hunting, but it is not serious. Mr May, Attorney-General for Ireland, has been appointed Lord Chief Justice. Mr Gibson, Q.C , M.0., Dublin TJniversity, succeeds him, and has been reelected without opposition. Lord Plunkett, M.P., has retired from the Irish Solicitor-Generalship, which has "been accepted by Mr Fitaribbon. Q.C. Tho Rev. R. Bickerstief ,is likely to be the new Bishop of Rochester, consequent upon Dr Clanghton's transfer to the See

of St. Albani. The renewed outbreak of smallpox at Blackburn continues. At St. Peter's in the Inlo of Thanet. The disease committed great ravages, the village is tabooed, and all communication with it stopped. In London now the deaths are not so

numerous. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with their household, are in town on another stay ; and the members of the Sahdringham household hare been revaccinated. Cleopatra's needle is to be brought to London and placed on the Thames .Embankment, at the sole expense of Dr Erasmus 1 Wilson. Fiseonde has accepted the candidature of the Rectorship of the Glasgow Uni- ! versity. General TechnerafF has taken np his quarters with his family at Ventnor, Isle of Wight. No public demonstration has been made. Leon, a Mexican^ rode 505 miles at the Agricultural Hall in 52 hours. Ho' was to have ridden' 6oo miles, but the horses could not keep it up. A poor woman in Liverpool, without expectation, came into L 70,000 through the death of a relative slie never knew. A man named Dance, who deserted his wife and three children,, and joined, the Shakers in the New Forest, has been sentenced to three months for desertion. Disclosures were made that the Shaker men and women wew in the habit of dancing together in perfect nudity., In consequence of the appearance of the cattle plague in the metropolis, an Order in Council has been issued prohibiting tho movement from London of cattle, sheep, or goats. ' Similar 6rders have been issued in Germany and Belgium. Fresh outbreaks of the rinderpest have also appeared. , The miners in tho Forest of Deal conBcnted to accept a ten percent, reduction, on the understanding that when coal advanced % shilling a ton the old rate should be paid. A number of convicts tit the naval works, Haulkaline, near Queenstown, attacked the warders with 'picks and shovel*. The military were called out, and charged the prisoners with fixed bayonets. Treadway has be>n found guilty of the murder of Mr Colons, at Pimlico, Ha pleaded insanity, but it failed. . ■ A frightful tragedy has taken place at St. Brien, in Brittany.' A journalist, ntuned Le Foil, sent for a. captain in the 71st Regiment, whom he suspected of being intimate with his wife, and stabbed him on arrival. He theri went and stabbed his wife to the heart, and finally, in company with a young woman, committed suicide. A woman named Elizabeth Kersbridge has been committed for trial at Pentritn, charged with murdering and concealing the bodies of six infant children she has had during several years. There was a great sensation during the hearing of the case. She accused a man she had been been, living with as the instigator of the crimes. He had left her and married. Considerable excitement was manifested some days ago* an the discovery of a number of . bodies on ,an undertaker's premises near Regents *?*)**, &? inrts*

tigati^ ihowed jtjjfcyjW were of stui born flpdVss^ Jb^j|jy ourial of which the mln^vsaid hi Kf the fees, but had never removed tueuf^jbthe cemetery. . CVMlMiiSiir Ho^HniiJg|,been appointed aide oVfiSSWto the Qtt£& There hay« been fearful gale* on sea and land during January. Between 30 and 40 North Sea. fishing smacks were missing with about 2Wmen**boardr~Tfce steamer Geo. Washington f» wrecked off Cage Race ; all on board, 24 in nurar ber f perished." ' " "*"* ML Tbiers has had several attacks of illness. The Count de Chambord is said to be staying at Versailles. Many hundred papers in France hare been fined in various sums for slanderous articles against the mother of the Empress Eugene. / Exports for New Zealand, L 184,400. It is generally understood that Bishop Abraham, formerly Bishop of Wellington, will be first Bishop of Derby. A special service has been held for the sick fund of the Cathedral, in connection with the consecration of the Her. J. R. Selwyn in New Zealand as Bishop of Melanesia. The " Argus" correspondent telegraphs that a small local loan for New Zealand has been successfully negotiated during thepast month. The City of Christcurch has instructed the Bank of New Zealand to invite tenders for the half of 200,000, the money to be employed in carrying out an efficient scheme of drainage for that city and district. In the announcement, the " TimeV* - warned the Colony of the danger involved in making these frequent appeals to the British purse. The " Rapidity," says the- city editor, " with which ■ the Government and Municipalities of New Zealand bring out new loans it not a good sign, and it is to be regretted that works so indirectly beneficial as drains could have been made with money raised in the town itself, secured though it be on the rateable property of the town, said to be of an annual value of L301,3D1, this loan can hardly form an enticing subject of investment here." The public for once, however, did not heed these solemn dissuasion*. The terms (six per cent, debentures at a minimum of 96) were too attractive to be resisted, while there is such a surplusage of money in the market earning next to nothing. Application has been made to the Stock Exchange Committee for a special settling day in respect of this loan, and an official quotation in the daily list* The position of New Zealand securities in our market has undoubtedly been strengthened by the public announcement recently mad© by the Agent-General that the Government will not bring forward any further loan in London during the present year. Btfimtfo.— Sailed — Ben Voide, for Wellington, Jan. 20; Hooghley, for Otago, Jan. 13; Lombardian, for Auckland, Janl 26; Otago, for Port Chalmers, Feb. 1 ; Piako, for Canterbury, Aliaston, for Auckland, and Hermione, for Otago, Feb. 12, , Loading at London — For Auckland : Spirit of the Dawn, Dilpussund CosmH, Hudson. For Canterbury : Premier, Merope, Wanganui, William Davie, Waikato. For Otago : Rokerood, Isle of Anglesea, Zeaiandia, Waitangi, Forfarshire. For Wellington : Wennington, Queen of 'the West, ' Warloci™. Broughton, Halrione. At Glasgow — Wcr Lyttleton : Lurline. For Port Chalmers, Dumloge.