LATER ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4277, 29 July 1875, Page 3

LATER ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[PER S.S. 'TARARUA,' AT THE ULUrF.] • ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL. THE ORTON ASSOCIATION TO BE PROSECUTED. MR. VOGEL'S ACTION HE-IMMIGRA-TION.

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S INDIAN TRIP. MOODY AND SANKEY. i [rKESS AOENCV.] Bluff, Wednesday. The s.s. Tararua left Melbourne at 2.15 p.m. on the 23rd, with the Suez English mail. She brings 20 saloon and 30 steerage passengers. She sails again for Dunedin tonight at 6 o'clock. SUEZ MAIL NEWS SUMMARY. At tho Colonial Institute Mr. Strangways read a paper on the growth of the colonies, from forty years since up to the present time. At the meeting of tho Royal Geographical Society and Literary Fund, Sir George Bowen spoke to the toasts relating to the colonies. The French Government have promised to take active measures to prevent the use of the French flag by vessels engaged in tho kidnapping trade in the South Seas. The law officers of the Crpwii have advised a prosecution involving the Orton Association. The Dover Castle sailed for Auckland, with 350 immigrants. The majority were sent free. The Blair Cowrie sails for Canterbury, with 447 passengers, in a few days, and will bo the last vessel under the free system which will sail for New Zealand. Mr. Vogel's actien in stopping immigration has excited great surprise and dissatisfaction. The Prince of Wales will proceed to India aboard the troopship Seraphis. Tho squadron wiU join the Prince at Aden, thus avoiding the expense of tho Suez Canal. Admiral Lambert commands the squadron. The Prince will land at Bombay first, and be accompanied by at least one of his brothers. The natives of the north-west provinces propose to raise £20,000 to get up a provincial testimonial to the Prince of Wales.

It is rumoured that the Duke of Buckingham succeeds Northbrooke as Viceroy, and Lord George Hamilton becomes Governor of Madras. The Premier declined the invitation of the Birmingham Conservative Association to Tisit that town in the autumn. A handsome service of plate, subscribed for by his admirers, has been presented to Sir Julius Benedict. The Millbank Penitentiary is confessed to be a failure, and will be pulled down as soon as the new prison at Worm vood Scrubs is ready. The recent judgment in regard to the liability of the Brighton Aquarium Company, has alarmed many people accustomed to minister to Sunday recreation. A deputation has been informed that the Act did not apply to horticultural, geological, or botanic gardens. The Archbishop of Canterbury has written a letter, cordially approving the work of the American revivalists in the main, but objecting to the after meetings for confession of sins and the guidance of conscience. Sir Garnet Wolsley succeeds Governor Barkley at the Cape. Serious disturbances are reported from Hayti, arising from suspicion on the part of the President of Dominique to establish a second empire. A cremation company is projected at Durive, and a furnace and mortuary chapel are to be built on the foreign cemetery. On Whit-Monday the Metropolitan Railway carried 250,000 persons. Signor Salvini is making a great impression in his Italian version of " Hamlet." The Board of Trade enquiry respecting the wreck of the Schiller, still proceeds. Roberts won the billiard championship and cup against Cook. M. Salvani rode from Pesth to Nancy, between the Sth and 21st May, on one horse. Cricketing is now in full swing. Southerton, Lillywhite, and the Brothers Grace, are carrying all before them. Several disastrous fires have occurred. The Theatre Soyal, Leeds, has been totally destroyed. The Collier's Coffee Roasting Mills, Whitechapel, were burned, and 500 hands thrown out of employment; also, Oastler and Palmer's timber and tan yards, Bermondsey, damage, £30,000. The appointment of a Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, with a seat in the Cabinet, has been discussed approvingly. The obituary list includes :—Gooro Langton, late M.P. ; M. Deremasat; Lord Mackenzie (Scotch judge); Welby (architect); and Frederick Walker, R.A. ; Lydia Franklin, widow of the late Sir John Franklin.

The exports to New Zealand for the month amount to £300,100. Sir I>. Forsyth's mission to Burmah was well received. Steps are being taken at Ceylon to obtain the dis-establishment of religious institutions. Shipping.—Sailed, on June S, Columbus, for Auckland ; 13th, Carisbrook Castle, for Auckland ; May 28, Dover Castle, from Belfast, for Auckland. Loading, for Auckland, City of Auckland and White Eagle. The New Zealand wool arrived forthe past season amounts to 43,319 bales. INTER-COLONIAL.

Melbourne, July 23. The budget still continues the object of attraction and interest to all classes. On Wednesday night Berry moved an amendment, that the financial arrangements of the Government are unsatisfactory, but this was negatived by 32 to 22. Many freetraders are unwilling to support either the ultra-protectionist Berry or the Government, and refrain from voting. Meanwhile the discontent with tho tariff is slowly and sunlv growing. Already defections from the Ministerial ranks in the Assembly have occurred, and some of the most rabid protectionists now face tho Ministry in opposition. Monster meetings of tho League are to be li.-ld this evening in the Princess Theatre ; and last but not least, a full meeting of the publicans yesterday gave their voice against tli<- proposed changes. Indications are all against tho Government proposals becoming law.

It is stated that it is improbable that Judj/i; Dunne will again occupy a seatjon tho ISeiich. On the mail being telegraphed from Adelaide, the Argus had special wires laid nn direct to their office, with a staff of operators, and had 20,000 words transmitted, containing the whole correspondent's letters, making over thirteen columns of the Ar<jwi, bi-i.les the ordinary summary of English in. ws, comprising over 6000 words more. < nrroll has been found guilty of uttering, riu-i remanded for his sentence. He will be ti it <l on four other charges. The Rev. Jas. Lynar, Episcopalian, tlied ag«-.188.

The Omeo is the next steamer from here, "iiping Saturday 31st, via the Bluff. _ Sydney, July 23. extraordinary correspondence between the Governor and Chief Justice, arising out of

the Gardiner affair, has been published. The Governor charges Chief Justice Martin with quoting a garbled extract respecting his despatches, and asserts the right of the Chief Justice to call on him as his superior officer for an opinion. Tho Chief Justice asserts the Governor is not his superior officer, and that ho is in no way responsible to him, and refuses to recognise any such authority. It is rumoured that other minutes are likely to be produced which will cause a greater sensation.

After the meeting of bank managers on Wednesday, Mr. Stafford, manager of the English aud died suddenly. A Communist prisoner has escaped from Noumea to Fiji. Another batch of Deputies have arrived at Noumea. The City of Melbourne arrived on the 22nd.