GREAT BRITAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5760, 4 May 1880, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

the elections. Apeil 12.—The American Press, equally with the English, is bußy discussing the late elections and the unexpected results. According to the latest despatches from London (April 11), the number of votes palled thus far is 1525 Liberals, and 1,141,000 Conservatives, showing a gain of 431,000 Liberal and 11S.000 Conservative votes. Up to this time 400 constituencies have been heard from, which have returned 33S Liberals, 230 Conservatives, and 52 Home Rulers. The Liberal gain, without the Irish party, is estimated at 100 seats. The clear Liberal majority over the Tories and Home Rulers combined is about 40. Never since 1535 have the Tories been so weak numerically, and so discourager morally. The English journals devot themselves to inventing ingenious theorr to account for the defeat. Depression •> trade, bad harvests, democratic capr«> Liberal misrepresentations, and many o causes are assigned by Conservative sH"The defeated party circulate the w 1 stories, even alleging that conatituenci# been bought with Russian gold. Uit fusion reigns in the Tory camp, dread>™ e °, usually calm in manner and careful irPee«>, wildly declare the country ruined® P*®? tige gone, its influence in turopoa!' 0 "^ sacrificed, and that revolution at home. The Queen's continr on the Continent occasions shar® 0 . 153 ™ 611 *- i Berlin letter describes He/ a a s exasperated against BeaconsP' a !A e S ID £ tha he deceived her as to of the country, and alienated £ m ° at lo y al , portion of her dominwns. Economist says : " There is a gr<Win^ e " den °y r ®" gard the Liberal sucess ° favourable to business, and it apperw p'bable we are on the eve Of another ouW »l speculation Surmise is rife concern/ the new Cabinet. The Spectator cannot be left out, and that he onot occupy aoy place

in it but the first. \ The Liberals in Lulon we* preparing for a monster d-inoitratioa stone returns from thiNorth. & formally to club ,o=s : .p, tAWueen, at Beacou-ifield's suggestou, wll M" at ? a " Imperial Order of Meit for J a " ( } previous to leaving °a;e tbe will bestow a baronetcy on kothwic of the Post, and l.evy, of the Telejdi. The Marquis of Ripon is a fatfourii:*ndidate for the Vieeroyalty of Ireland ,1 if the O'Connor Don refuses the Chief cretaryship for Ireland, it will be g» v *<> shaw Lefevre. Gladstone, it is said, \become the head of the new Governmenrith the understanding that he will be suidcd by Granville in two years, and re from Parliament. , ~ Among the names mentioned fdvaricement to the peerage are Alexande_ W. I?. Bailie Cochrane, Cousjrvative ijber in the last House o£ Commons for.lsle of Wi-iht: Sir Laurence Polk, Civative member for Devon East; andontagu Corry, Lord Bs&consfield s secrctu jiarquis of Salisbury will be crcate duke, and Mr. Goschen is mentioned Lord i Lytton's successor in India. ' Watter, one of the principal prters of the turf frauds, has been sentenceweuty years penal servitude for forgeries larious ba Mr! - James Gordon Bennett's cadine won the Park Hurdle Handicap Pbn the 30th ult. ; Red Hazard, 2nd ; ftition, 3rd. Muscadine also won the Hubp at Nottingham, on the 24th, but wasiected to on the ground of insufficient dejtion. Bacchus won the Surrey Open Steehase. After this year the Derby will Hn at Graveaend, instead of at Epsom. | Nineteen thousand Volunteers parjated in the sham-tight at Brighton. Th> retarded operations. | Lord Kivers and Lord Hamton arad. The pointsman whose carelessnesaised the recent railroad accident at Hj by I which several lives were lost has coitted suicide. :

A passenger train left the track Loft House, near Wakefield, cn ihe U nit. Two persons were killed and tvenfcyjured. The London Standard thinki thelvocation of the Ciayton-Bulwer American) by the United Stße« vnld be neither wise nor just, and tha imoing it the President would commiti bach of international law. The feeling of uneasiness inhecity lest parties be too evenly balancedweither to form a stable government hagassd away, and the London Stock Marl Wis strong, almost buoyant. Several thousand men ''"le building trade at Liverpool have against a reduction of a half-penny ;nour in taeir wages. IRISH ITE- , The Duchess of sa y 8 > ' n a letter to the Lord Mayor that all fear of a famine is now oj e . D a ' there is much distress in the m' 1 ™" 3 parts of the country and on the Great need of clothing and seed, dpatto, a correspondent sent to Ireland kbe New icork Tribune, continues to art a Bad state of affairs, especially in County Mayo. " The entire population o s '^y s i in many localities have no food,. je Pto?S the allowance of Indian meal l Ze ) from the relief committees. No wor 3 had, and potatoes intended for bave everywhere been eaten. The fur already collected will enable the comr ees avert starvation until May, then' grayest results may be expected should tioatributions cease. Parnell arrived at jeeDS ' OWQ from New York on the 22nd ul and was enthusiastically received. On 3 , 2 Sth he attended a political meeting aP 11 " 8001 '^, _ where he was pelted with Jtten eggs, aid an attempt was made cbrow him off the platform, At the ban.t given Parnell, on his arrival from the Cork Farmers Clab, Biggar is i)rted to have said, in reply to a toast, Irish Parliamentary Party," that " th had ? een what Hartman had done in Russ a nd if the constitutional course they were present pursuing in Parliament failed /its object, he thought Ireland might />duce another Hartman, and probably w/ better results." William Shaw, late M.Pr Cork, suggested that if, "as a result the present elections, the Home Rule i<;y was denied the justice they asked f Ireland, the Irish members ought to leaviie House of Commons. students of Ql n ' s College presented Parnell with an adtfs on his arrival, for which they have besummoned to answer before the College (incil. At Coal I Ad, Tyrone, a party of Orangemen entered 6 town, and were attacked by a crowd of Cholics. Police interfered, and were obligf to fire, wounding two of the attacking plyBarry the tragedian, was put in nomination Parliament by the Nationalists of Befit, in opposition to McClure, Home Rulj