LATHE ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4375, 20 November 1875, Page 5

LATHE ENGLISH NEWS.

RUSSIAN CONQUESTS IN ASIA. THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. THE NEW VICTORIAN LOAN UNFAVOURABLY RECEIVED. EXPEDITIONS FROM ENGLAND TO NEW GUINEA. THE WHITECHAPEL MYSTERY. SIR GEORGE GREY DENOUNCED- ' IMPORTANT COMMERCIAL. PASSENGERS FOR AUCKLAND BY THE CARNATIC AND BRODICK CASTLE. [from oub dunedin special correspondent.] Dunedin, Friday. The movements of Russia in Asia have attracted much attention. She has won a great battle in Khokand, where 30,000 native troops were scattered like chaff before a small body of soldiers. The revolt was quickly crushed by the occupation of the rebel capital. General Kauffmann found the army of the Khan in a Btrongly entrenched position, but badly armed and undisciplined. The camp was taken by storm; 39 guns were captured, and the routed host was chased for miles. The work of conquest goes steadily forward, and the work of exploration also. Russia is building a colossal empire, and will soon touch the confines of the older Powers. The Times says :—" Russia, on seizing the whole whole of Khokand, will soon find herself tempted to push her conquests further east. Beyond Khokand lies Kashgar, and south of Kashgar are the advanced posts of the British Power. If that state were once garrisoned by Russians, the Czar would be lord of the whole of Asia as far east as China, and as far south as India, Affghanistan, and Persia, but Rakool Khan, who rules Kashgar, is the most formidable enemy General Kuffmann has yet had to encounter."

A fierce competition has sprung up between the two rival telegraph companies between England and America. The charges have been lowered and lowered, until both companies are working at a uniform rate of Is per word, both by day and night. The announcement by telegraph of a new loan of three millions for the Victorian Government, has not been favourably received. The intention of borrowing more money with an acknowledged deficit in the public account, has caused a decline in the quotations for the Government debentures. Two expeditions from London to New Guinea are now being projected. One of them contemplated the establishment of settlements on the eastern coast of the island, and according to the City Press many persons have expressed a desire to take part in the enterprise. The morbid instincts of society have been kept on the strain, as each fresh detail of what is known as "The Whitechapel mystery" has been made public. (Wainwright, who is still cool and collected, denies that he is guilty. The remains found iu his possession, however, have been clearly identified as those of Harriet Lane, alias Mrs. King, and evidence has been given tending to shew that the prisoner had been on most intimate terms with this woman, and that she was the mother of two children, Wainwright being the father. Another and equally horrible suspicion has been aroused by the suggestion that the medical men are disagreed on the point as to whether Harriet Lane had ever been a mother.) The inquest on the remains has not yet been concluded. Meanwhile, the public mind is kept in a state of suspense, this suspense being fed and intensified by rumours the most horrible. Sir George Grey as Superintendent has come under the lash of the Morning Post on account of his ultra-democratic utterances. Replying to Sir George Grey's censure of the system under which Colonial Governors are appointed, and the consequent inference that they should be elected by the people, the Post says it was scarcely to be expected that such a suggestion would come from one who had been so often appointed a Governor himself, more particularly when even in our most advanced colonies such a proposal has scarcely ever been mooted by the most thorough democracy. After referring to Sir George's remarks upon the Orders of St. Michael and St. George, the Post concludes—" The above grievances are only a tithe of what Sir George Grey has to complain about, but the sample is sufficient to shew that in future, should we require the services of some one to frame a bill of indictment against the Colonial Office, to scatter mud broadcast and impartially around it, commend us to a retired Governor making his re-appearance on the political arena as candidate for the ultra-demo-cratic suffrages of a colonial constituency."