LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 117, 12 July 1873, Page 4

LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

[VIA JAVA CABLE.] [reuter's SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS.] Bluff, Saturday. The Alhambra, Captain Underwood sailed from Melbourne on the 28th of June at 3.30 p.m., with the English mail, and arrived at the Bluff to-day at 8 a.m. She experienced easterly gales throughout. She passed the barque Woodville at the Solanders bound to New Zealand. She brings eight saloon, twentyeight steerage passengers, and 260 tons of cargo for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 4 p.m. UNPUBLISHED CABLE MESSAGE. June 27. The Shah of Persia is visiting Liverpool. A telegram received at St Petersburg from Laskend states that the Khan of Khiva has capitulated, and that the Russians now occupy Khiva. In Spain the Carlists are proceeding with undiminished vigor, and claim to have routed two thousand Government troops. UNPUBLISHED VIA QUEENSCLIFFE. June 28. The Shah of Persia expressed the profoundest astonishment at the docks and shipping. After a State ball at Buckingham Palace, he proceeds to Paris on the 3rd July. It is rumored that the Dutch are willing to settle the Acheen difficulty peacefully.

ARGUS CABLEGRAMS. London, June 27. Australian exhibits at the "Vienna Exhibition are commented on by the Press; as showing the rapid advancement of the colonies. The wines are declared by experts to be of a very high character. Dr Livingstone has been awarded a pension of £3OO a year by the State. Frere has resumed his position as head of the Geographical Society. The Shah of Persia has made costly presents to the members of the Royal family. He has visited in state the principal places in the metropolis. He has instituted a new order, and conferred it on the Queen and Princess of Wales. The resignation of the Roman Ministry is announced. The German Parliament is prorogued. The action of Lord Kimberly in regard to the postal services is commented on by the press. The Russians have had further victories at Khiva.

Discount, 6 per cent. Wheat easier. Pig iron at Glasgow is 114 s.

The Dunedin Volunteer cups, won from the London Scottish, are consigned to the care of John Ewen, Sargood, Son and Co. The Art Union prizes were won by Hamilton (of Greymouth), £75; Moss (Greymouth), £25; H icholl (Greymouth), £ls. The smaller prizes fell to Hurst (Christchurch), Montague (Invercargill), Kerr (Greymouth), and Peacock (Christchurch). The text of Napoleon's will has been published. It commends his wife and son to the tender consideration of France. He leaves £120,000, only half of which will be realised by his wife and son. Tom Castro has arrived in England from America as a witness in the Tichborne case. The Duke of Edinburgh gets £23,000 a year with his wife. He declines to live in Russia. Various rumors respecting the Pope are in circulation ; one is that he is dead, and that the Cardinals are concealing it until the election of his successor. The high price of iron is commentedupon. A letter in the ' ' Times" from Mrs Colelough, of Auckland, on female emigration excited some attention.

At a meeting of the Bank of Otago, it was stated that the profits had fallen to £II,OOO a-year. It. is expected that £9 per share will be returned to shareholders on winding-up, which has been decided upon. Departures for New Zealand. —Dalam Tower for Otago ; Countess of Kintore, for Auckland ; Halcione and Schiehallion, for Wellington ; Mary Shepherd, for Canterbury. Thirty-two thousand bales of New Zealand wool arrived in London between February 3 and March 4. On May 16, New Zealand hemp was quoted, for ordinary and middling, £22 15s to £27 5s ; fair to good, £27 to , £3O ; tow, £ll to £l4. Markets are well stocked and trade depressed. Arrivals. —Bebington, Coronilla, Celestial Queen, Dakota (at San Francisco), E. P. Bouverie, Electra (Otago ship ?), Peter Denny, Queen, Robert Henderson, andSt. Leonards.

London, July 2. A great Australian gold-mining company is announced, with a capital of £200,000, to work the Tambaroora mine. Arrived—Ellen Denny, from Lyttelton; Christian M'Ausland, from Port Chalmers.

UNPUBLISHED CABLE MESSAGE. (PER N. Z. LOAN" MERCANTILE AGENCY.) London, June 28. Melbourne, July 3. The next wool sales commence on the 10th prox. 177,000 bales have arrived to date. The market remains unchanged, the Continental demand being good. Tallow is dull of sale. Mutton, 42s per cwt.; beef, 40s. During the month ] 20,000 sides (?) of Australian have been sold. The best sides (?) show a decline of one farthing a pound on previous rates. Other sorts are unchanged. Adelaide wheat is worth 63s per 4901b5. New Zealand hemp has fallen during the month 50s per ton. London, July 1. Cholera is reported at Venice and Vienna. There is a great engineer's strike at Newcastle. The decrease.- on the qiiarter's revenue is three-quarters of a million. The House of Lords rejected a motion for founding an Order of Merit for literary men. Khiva is completely in the hands of the "R n rsi Aim The Cabinet ~of St. Petersburg has o-iven assurance to England that it has no intention of occupying Khiva. The Shah of Persia has visited Liverpool ; he proceeds to Paris. There is a great lock-out of cottonspinners at Staley Bridge. The Atlantic cable has been successfully laid. An earthquake at Venice threw down a church and several buildings, killing and wounding fifty persons. The neighboring villages were injured by the shock. The Tichborne case is still proceeding. The balance of testimony seems to be in favor of the defence. The House of Lords rejected Russell's Irish Bill. Sir Samuel Baker telegraphs that the African country as far as the equator is •annexed to Egypt, that the country is quiet, and that the anti-slavery movement is successful. Monasteries and convents have been •suppressed at Rome. A new Italian Ministry has been

formed. The Carlists have routed two thousand •Government troops. The French bank-note circulation has been increased by eighty million francs. The Emperor William has recovered.

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Melbourne, June 28. The Electoral Bill has passed the Assembly. The Government defeated the no-con-fidence motion on the postal contract by a large majority. During the debate, a telegram from the Hon. J. Vogel was read, agreeing to join in the postal service on the terms proposed at the InterColonial Conference.

A rule nisi for a new trial has been granted in the case of Degravesv. M'Mullen.

It is probable that there will be a new trial in the case of Villeneuve Smith v. M'Mullen, a divorce case. Lady Bowen goes to England for a year. A proposal is mooted for the Government to take over the "Argus" arrangements with Reuter.

Nimblefoot and King of the Ring are scratched for the Cup. New Guinea was only conditionally taken possession of by her Majesty's ship Basilisk.

A girl, married by the Registrar at Geelong, has been committed for trial on a charge of making a false declaration. Puerperal fever has broken out in the hospital, and four women have died. Advices by the mail state that the damages to the French vineyards are so great that it is probable there will be no wine or brandy for two years. Melbourne, July 3. The lights have arrived for the lighthouse at Arthur's Seat. A rtde nisi has been granted for new trials in the cases of Degraves v M'Millan, and Smith's divorce case.

Two trustees under the will of one named Jacobs have misappropriated £4OOO. Jacobs' children have been committed to the Industrial School, as neglected children, and the Government is prosecuting the trustees criminally. Sir George Bowen is being feted at Geelong. The cape route is being discussed. A University exhibition has been established for engineering. Gibson, the accountant of the National Bank, has been committed for trial. A movement is on foot in Adelaide, encouraged by Riverine, to tap the wool traffic by a railway from Adelaide to Mahmui. |

Puerperal fever continues to make severe ravages. The iron moulders strike continues. A branch of the Anglo-Jewish Association has been formed in Melbourne.

Country flour realised £l3 17s 6d at auction.

Feeding grains are easier. Sydney, June 28. The Blanche and the Clio have gone to Fiji ; the latter will proceed thence to "Wellington, where the Pearl, Captain Goodenough, will relieve her. Eight persons have been drowned by the floods at the Darling. New South Wales will carry on the Californian Service at her own expense rather than land the mails at Moreton Bay. Sales of Tookey's have been made at £ls.

Sydney, July 3. A Basilisk seaman is showing gold in quartz, brought from New Guinea. Krauss, steward of the Rifleman, has heen handed. He fainted on the scaffold. Adelaide, June 28. Parliament meets on the 25th July. Miss Rose Evans has left for England. Wheat easy at 6s 3d. Governor Fergusson's brother has gone home.

Adelaide, July 3. The Loch Amer's wheat charter has been cancelled.

Trial surveys have been ordered for a railway to the Mvrray. A prospectus has been issued of a company to work the Seymour coal mine, Tasmania. Wheat inactive at 6s 2d to 6s 3d. Flour, £l4 to £l4 10s. Brisbane, June 28. There will probably be an immediate dissolution.

The Roman Catholics opiDose the Education Bill.

Hobakt Towjst, June 28. An Intercolonial Tariff Bill has been introduced.

Hobabt Town, July 3. The Treasurer announces a surplus of £6OOO for the current year.

Queensland, July 3. The Newcastle, for Dunedin, put into Jervis Bay, leaky. The mail advices are unsatisfactory to holders. The Newcastle miners have withdrawn their notice to strike. Port Darwin, July 3. Cartage to the mines is £IOO per ton. UNPUBLISHED AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, June 28. The New Zealand Loan is slowly passing off at £9l, at which rate it is now quoted in the' Melbourne and Sydney markets.

Oats are inactive at ss. The consignment per Claud Hamilton will have a further effect of easing the market. Wheat is offering at 6s 7d. All the issues of Tookey's are in demand at £l2.

Brandies, owing to the mail advices, are held for an advance.

The Sydney Parliament is further prorogued till the 19th August. The mail difficulty with Queensland is exciting discussion.

shipping. Passengers per Alhambra for Wellington—Messrs C. M. Crombie and Wiliamson ; seven in the steerage. There are eight tons of cargo. Melbourne. —June 25, arrived—Corrido, from Auckland ; Albion, from Hokitika. June 27, arrived—Claud Hamilton, from Bluff; W. C. Wentworth, from New Zealand. Departures, 25th—Dauntless, schooner, for Apia, via Auckland; Sea Bird, for Hokitika. Newcastle. —Arrived, 25th—Jane Spiers and Sylphide, and Tois, from Lyttelton ; Heron and Euterpe, from Dunedin. Sailed, 24th—TShomas and Henry, for Dunedin; Hercules, for Auckland ; Esk, for Wellington, on the 27th. Sydney.—Sailed, Griffiths, for Auckland ; Rita, Thames. 28th, Hadcla, for Dunedin ; Brysedale, for Hokitika.

Melbourne, July 3. The New Zealand loan continues to move off slowly at 91. The coal, iron, and Plumbago mines at Buller and Collingwood are beginning to attract attention here, but reliable details are wanting. Three grand marriages, in which each sister was dowered to the extent of £30,000, have been indefinitely postponed. The Ministerial position is assured. A collision is probable between the judicature and the Government regarding the Stawell jumping cases. Oats were sold on Monday at 4s 8d to 5s at auction.

Adelaide, July 3. A Wesleyan mission is to proceed to Port Dalrymple. The City of Adelaide has arrived from London with 82 assisted immigrants. Wheat is quiet, the price remaining unaltered.

The Adelaide Government will continue the branch service to King George's Sound, calling at Glenelg, if the Victorian Government asks too much.

Sydney, July 3. It is rumored that an expedition will be equipped to prospect New Guinea. Coals are advancing. Discount, 6 per cent. Money easy. Colonial stocks without change. Adelaide wheat, 63s to 64. Flax depressed. Tookey's are in request at £l6 10s. Sellers at £l7 10s.

SHIPPING. Melbourne, July 3. Arrived—Aborigine from Hokitika. Newcastle, July 3. The Glenore arrived on the 2nd July from Lyttelton. Sydney, July 3. H.M.S. Basilisk has arrived.