ARRIVAL OF THE 'HERO,' WITH THE SUEZ HAIL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue XII, 3 July 1875, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE 'HERO,' WITH THE SUEZ HAIL NEWS.

PARLIAMENT EXCITES NATIONAL DISSATISFACTION. MOODY AND SANKEY SERVICES. THE STATE OF EUROPE. THE TIMES GIVES A WARNING! AN ENTIRE VILLAGE DESTROYED BY FIRE. CARDINAL MANNING AND THE GERMAN CLERICAL STRUGGLE. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES IN THE EAST. A RUMOUR OF THE PRINCE'S VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. CONTINENTAL MATTERS. Ai elaide, June 24. The P. and O. Couipauy's mail steamer Cey* lon, after leaving Galle, experienced the break of a monsoon, and afterwards moderate trade winds. She made the passage from Galle to the Sound in thirteen days three hours; from the Sound to Glenelg, in S4 hours ; having thus made one of the quickest passages ou record. GENERAL SUMMARY. Loxdox, May 14. By the winding-up of the Australian Direct Navigation Company, great distress has been inflicted on emigrauts who have paid their passage-money aud broken up their homes. Mr. John Bennett, the agent of the company, has answered several more summonses at the Mansion-house. Solne donations have been received for the sufferers, and Mr. Bennett has paid £700 out of hia own pocket in satisfaction of emigrants' claims. Mr. Smart has been appointed official liquidator to the company. . The Sixth Company of Royal Engineers is ordered to be in readiness to embark for Fiji. Threo hundred agricultural labourers sailed on the sth instant for N.ew Zealand. Mr. Williamson has been commissioned by the Queen to execute life-size statues in ' marble of the two elder sous of the Prince of Wales.

The Queen, and other Royal personages were to "nave been present at the Aldershot review last Monday, but owing to a case of scarlet fever in the Royal Pavilion, the visit was postponed.

On the sth the l'rince of Wales was formally installed First Principal of the Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch Freemasons.

A marriage present, from the City Corporation, was presented to the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, on the 11th instant, at the Mansion-house.

Parliament is beginning to excite the national dissatisfaction. Half of the session is over, and the public business is disgracefully in arrears. Few of the Civil service estimates are passed. Tlio budget disenssion is postponed till after the Whitsunday holiday. Scarcely any of the Ministerial legislative promises have been fulfilled. The Press laments the degeneracy of the House of Commons, aud severely rebukes the Premier for his iudolunt indifference aud lax leadership. Throughout the past month the House has been the theatre of scandalous scenes, personal squabbles, questions of privilege, and the sudden exclusion of strangers at the dictate of certain impulsive Irishmen. These sensational episodes, with the Kenealy arrangement, and the fight that has raged for weeks over the Peace Preservation Bill, have obstructed all proper legislation. Disraeli's is a postponing policy. The Burial Bills has been lost by a majority of 14.

The subject of horse breeding has bocn discussed on the motion of Mr. Chaplin, who invoked Government interference to prevent the deterioration aud exportation of horses. Mr. Stuart opposed the motion, Mr. Disraeli declined the responsibility, aud the House vanished ill a count-out.

The Building Societies Act Amendment Bill passed by -S7 to 70 votes, several Irish members complimenting Government on the fairness displayed.

In the protracted discussion during the debate on the budget resolutions, on the 7th,' the financial policy of the Government was severely criticised and satirized by the Hon. W. Gladstone and Mr. Lowe.

The Land Titles and Transfer Bills have been read a second time.

Kenealy "s son and George Hollell are canvassing the borough uf Tipperary. An election petition will be held before Justice Keogh on 10t.Ii instant.

The Duke of Buckingham has accepted the Governorship of Madras, vacant by the death of Lord Hobart.

Sir William Rose, K.C.8., has been appointed Clerk of Parliament; he has been deputy for 115 years.

in addition to several select committees, such as those on foreign loans and the operations of our Hanking Acts, three Royal commissions have been sitting during the month —one on army promotion and retirement, one 011 factories and workshops, and tho other on railway accidents. A committee is also sitting to take evidence on election petitions. Tlie Judges have constructed the new Bribery Act so rigidly that nobody's seat is safe. Any unauthorized agent can compromise an. election. Some remedy for this grievance 33 sought. The late Mr. Mitchell, member for Bridport, has bequeathed i' 240,000 to the Metropolitan Board of Works. The half-yearly report of the Civil Service Association states that the gross profits were at the rate of £1)3.000 per annum.

Cardinal Manning is suffering prostration from over-exertion since his return from Rome ; yet, at the close of April, he opened a Franciscan Church at Chester, and in the course of his sermon deplored the spread of rationalism and scepticism in this country. At luncheon, subsequently, in proposing the toast of "The IJueen, 7 ' he spoke in high praise of the purity of her Court. The testimonial ami address of congratulation from Roman these islands were presented by the Duke of Norfolk. An agitation for reform having been started by the ijheflicM Chapter of Oddfellows, 3,000 members have been suspended by the dotting ham executive. Other lodges in London and elsewhere have esi>oused the Sheffield cause. The building of new and costly schools proceeds so fast that the ratepayers are protesting loudly against the burden. M. Chevalier, formerly associated with Mr. Cobden in nogotiatiug free trade measures, is visiting our great manufacturing towns, and receiving complimentary addresses from their Chambers of Commerce. The reconstructed Alexandra Palace wa3 opened on May 1, with great eclat, although the weather was unfavourable. The International Telegraph Conference opens shortly at St. Petersburg. Joseph Buttbant, secretary of the Norwich Building Society, has been sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude for embezzlement and forgery. The American schooner Jefferson Bowden hss arrived, at Uravesend with three foreign mutineers in irons, who had murdered the two mates ami attempted the death of the captain. Their intention u as to plunder and ! scuttle tlie shi('. Ninety seven pictures belonging to the Manly liall gallery were sold at Christie's for £65,5153. In compliance with a request from a large number of members of the theatrical profession Signer Salvani is to give a perfonnaue of Othello, at the Dury Lane Theatre, on the afternoon of the 19th April. Mr. Leader, being lessee of seventeen stalls and three boxes in Her Majesty's Opera House, sought to restrain Messrs. Moody and Sankey from holding their services in (tor oontmwtim ot njv if&kmatt,)

the theatre. The Master of the Rolls rcfnjei? to grant an injunction, but gave one shilling damages. There is no diminution In the crowds that flock to_ tho revival The IViiicosß of ales And the Duchess of Sutherland have attended the Open House, and Lord Cairns and the Hon. W Glvlstone have appeared on the platform at the Agricultural Hall. The churches and chapelii are better tilled than crer. At an adjourned examination at Guildhall in a lil>el case brought by the sub-editor of the ilortiiifj A Jr-rluicr gainst Dr. the summonses were dismissed, tlio li!«ller having retracted and apologised. A formidable rr.iuers' strike in Belgium necessitated an apj'.-al to 'Jic military. Similar disturbances are repotted from mining districts iu France. In an amateur running match, i"'er four miles, K tween Sladc and Gibb, at _ Lille Bridge, the former won, tli? rsco in 20 minutes 22 seconds. Mark Grayson, who has undertaken to walk round the w0r1d—19,220 mi'.es —started from Vork on April 3rd, and returns November 23rd, IS7C. STATE OF EUROPE. All Europe is profoundly agitatel by apprehensions of war. The German 1-iipire, instead of being a guarantee of peac< is a cause of constant disquietude and restle&iiicsa ; the twofold fiuir of Ultramontane intrig;es, and of a resuscitated France Injnt upon viugeance, engenders suspicions of neighboring States, and provokes irritated demands wiich cannot be complied with by other Governments. The misunderstanding between Germany and Belgium is not healed, and may hav? grave rerful'_~. Bismark has appealed to the Belgian Government to remodel their laws w as to prevent or punish offences against the iomestic peace of friendly nations. Germaiy was about to adopt that course, and i*. was' hoped that Belgium would follow tie example, although the despatch disavow? any desire to invade the liberty of the.Press, yet some .estriction upon tho discussion of foreign affairs, and of the publication of Bishops' charges id siting tc re- j bollion, is doubtless aimed at. The Belgian reply was cautious and politic, in subaance it intimated that Belgium would willingly act with other powers on the questions raised by Germany, and is resolved to fulfil faithhlly all her international duties. The Ministerial reply was warmly debated last week by the Belgian Chamber, and the policy of she Government was endorsed. Th 6 Liberal loader, Frere Orban, approved of the terns' of the note, and considered all grounds for apprehension had disappeared. He condemned the attackß of the Catholic press and Episcopal pastorals on Liberal institutions. The Berlin semi-official papers pronounced the reply to be evasive and unsatisfactory. Germany, it is said, cannot let the matter drop ; but far more serious alarm has lteen excited by the dangerous relations subsisting between Germany and France. For weeks there has been something ominous in the air —an indefinable dread of something about to happen—which a week ago culminated in a regular scare in Pans, and produced a panic in most European houses. The interview between the German Emperor and the Czar was looked upon as an event fraught with momentous results, deciding the question of peace or war. The balanoe of opinion is in favour of the Czar counselling peace; but there is in Germany a large and influential party which is amazed and alarmed at the recuperative power displayed by France, and which says that France must be more effectually crippled—that more territory must be taken from her, and heavier fines imposed upon her —and that, if necessary, Paris must be retaken ; and all this must be done at once before she becomes too strong. France studiously abstains from provocation, disavows hostile designs, and quietly proceeds with her work of internal re-organization. The German Press is let loose to sow discords, excite suspicions, and inflame national hatred. The Times last week published a Paris letter exposing the German designs, which produced aprofound sensation throughout Europe, and roused the ire of Berlin journalists. On Monday last, iu anticipation of a meeting of the Emperors, the Timet' leading article, while acquitting the bulk of tie German people of a design 60 detestable, solemnly waru<Al the war party that the criminal attempt to crush France into a lecond-rate Power would alarm and alienate every nation, and probably array an international league against the general enemy. A meeting of the Emperors, and a conference between Bismarck and Gortschatoff, was followed by a calmer feeling; and the tranqoillising assurances of Mr. Bourse in the House of Conimor.s, and the moJerrte tone of the German Press, induced the b.'lief that ; peace will not be disturbed at preseit. ! FRANCE. The Pari3 h'cho declares that thi increasing dissensions among Bonapartits cause i great anxiety at Chiselhurst. M. Rouher, < who is not popular with the younpr mem- I bers of the party, was sent for bj the ex- i Empress, who desired to know tie actual ' State of affairs before proceeding o Spain I ■with the Prince. $ _ 1 Riots having been excited by cerain passages in a drama called " Cromwel," per- f formed the Cbatelet, further represotations hav« been forbidden. I

Official returns shew that during ;hc past three years France has importej fewer horses than Germany has purchaed in France. The report from Vienna that the ?rench Government had entered into a contact for the purchase of 10,000 horses in Bolvmia is contradicted. The alleged purchase of large supjlies of torage is also denied. The promotions of eight general) and twenty colonels is explained by the fa t that 1 an equal number has been transferred to the reserve. Jndge Cambert has been sent ty the Minister of Instruction on a special nission to America to study their educatiouil system. In Savoy an entire village was destroyed by children playing with lucifer matches in & bam. The Academy of Science is in possession of a secret of effectual means for destroying the vine pest phyloxera, and will shortly publish a communication on the subject. GERMANY. Cardinal Manning has assured the pet-man Bishops of the sympathy and coniurrence oC the English Catholic priesthood with them in their conflict with the State. Several more Bishops have been exiled, imprisoned or fined for ecclesiastical affences. Riots have occurred in Western Prussia, occasioned by unpopular clerical appointments, which were repressed by the military. Press prosecutions are increasingly numerous. The Daily TtXetjraph correspondent has paid a second fine of 50 thalers. SPAIN. There jg no progress to speak of beyond Jhe reported bombardment of Pampalonaand gome minor successes claimed by the Carlists. Military operations are suspended. The Papal Nuncio has had a splendid reception at Santander and Madrid, and at a public audience King AlphonßO waa assured of the Pope's affectionate sentiments. The King, in reply, said he regarded the Nuncio's mission as proof of the reconciliation of the Church to the Spanish nation. Don Alphonso, the pretendetN brother, who, with his wife, had retreated to Gratre, in Austria, has been the object of riotous manifestations, with difficulty suppressed by the military. This hostility is a protest against the atrocities of which he was guilty when in Spain. ITALY. Mrs. Garrett Anderson and Mrs. Fawcett have had an interview wth thtf 1 Pope. Garibaldi has recovered from a severe attack of rheumatism. INDIA AND THE EAST. Ceylon, June C. It is proposed that the Indian revenue bear the expense of the Prince of Wales'

[visit, as a testimony of Eastern hospitality snd the loyalty of India. No official intelligence has yet been received of the intended visit of the Prince of Wales to Ceylon, but Dr. Fayrer, his medical adviser, has been making enquiries as to the most favourable season for coming here. It is expected that the Princo will arrive in the Malabar, accompanied by the Hying Squadron; and Admiral McDonald, in the Undaunted, will come to Colombo from Aden early in November, and proceed thence to Madras, and then to Calcutta. It is possiblo that the Viceroy (Lord Northbrook) will meet the Prince either at Colombo or Madras. No official announcement is yet received of the Duke of Buckingham's appointment as Governor of Madras, but there is no doubt of his coming. The Madras public are well pleased. Delhi is to be the head-quarters of the Princo of Wales in Northern India. Tho Baroda affair has been peacefully settled by tho selection of a young Khandeish prince to sit on tho Endee or throne. Affairs with Burmah are still in an unsettled state, but it is believed that the King is quite unprepared for war, and cannot therefore persist in his annoying attitude towards the British Government. Tho Russians are busy projecting railway extension in Central Asia, and it is said they will soon bo in a position to threaten Afghanistan through Herat, if so inclined. Their trade with Tartary and China is on the decline. A host of newspaper correspondents, including Dr. Russell and Mr. Archibald Forbes, are expected to accompany the Prince of Wales, and a great influx of visitors is also anticipated. Gustavo Dore, it is said, will como to India this year; also, Mr. W. Simpson, of the Illustrated London News.

The plague continues to rage in Persia. The south-west monsoon is now in full force ; the part thrown out of the Colombo breakwater has stood the heavy sea well, and great hopes are entertained of a speedy completion of the work. An extensive pearl oyster fishery is expected off Ceylon early in 1877. Mr. Grant Dnff's notes of his journey through ladia, in the Contemporary Review, are attracting much attention, being approved of so far. It is nmourod here that the Australian colonies ire to unitedly request that they may be favoured with a visit from the Prince of Wales »ad the Flying Squadron while in the East. If a visit were paid, via Singapore and Hongkong, the heir apparent would carry home a proper idea of British Eastern and Australian possessions. EXPORTS. The month's exports to Melbourne amount to £502,800; to Sydney, £407,600; to Queensland £116,S00; to Adelaide, £162,800; to New-ZeJand, £297,700.