LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3364, 16 November 1872, Page 2

LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

(By .Tiir* Cable.) Lokdox, November fifclt. . General Grant was re-elected President of the United States by 300,000 voUis. The Northern vote was given to him in consequence of Greeley making advances to Southerners.

There has been a great Republican Demonstration in Hyde Park, which demanded Home Rulu for Ireland, mid the release of the Fuuian prisoners. Tho j Government ordered several arrest-is, and ' many persons were brought up and re-; manded on charges of sedition. Thirty thousand, ivnplc attended the meeting. Mr Da jja P«jcr has rc&igned his sent for Waterford. The Attorney-General for Ireland has been promoted to n sent on lh« Irish j IJench ; the representation of Londonderry !is therefore vnavnt. Admiral Gamhicr is I a candidate for the scut. Continuous rain has fallen nil over the country. Mr Gerald Massey has been elected M. P. for Tiverton. An influential meeting waa held at th«Mansion House yesterday, the Lord Mayor presiding, when resolutions woie pnssed declaring the suppression of tho East African, slave trade an imperative duty, which ought U> be uudci taken by Knglaiul, and urging menus to be adopted to attain that end.

»SiiiJHnon.°e.s have Ikhjh issued on application, of tho Hoard of Works agaimit the speakers at the Fenian and Itopublican meeting in Hyde Park on Sunday last, for contravening the Parks Regulations Act. The horse epidemic in America, is .subsiding. The copper market is exeitcd. Pricr.s fluctuate fr >m day to day. Consols arc at (>2?. The Commercial Treaty between Eng land and Framti haa boon signed for live year*, Fmtkh: to have po;vcr to atuftiisl th« tarif2'wiih Kngl.iud's eminent. Kew Zealand dcbontureH, 1891, arc at 114. Copper is at Vu, and in advancing. New Zealand Sax has realised Sl'tA per ton, and it is Ktill :ulvnndt>g. There have boon large arrivals of American wheat-. Sir James M'Culloch declines (in-Aj.'Ciit-CjftjHend.sJyip of Victoria. T l-e Atrato H?.ils from Plymouth on the 22nd November, Her passengers ruv all wulL

Mr WeVb lias sold Imk f»tcaiiie»>> to the California, New Zealand, and Australia Company. The present Horvice will be maintained, Astenmcr-.vill leave Auckland for San Francisco every iwenty-eijjht daya, comn:encing with the Nebraska on the 28th hist. The Colonial Secretary has telegraphed t^> t'.ie Sydney (jovenmiont the expression of a hope that the Colonies will come to :t speedy determination on the iSiu-z Mail question. The steamship Parana, lias been chartered at Hong Komr f<-»r a regular paswjuger service between China and Australia. ! The (irat steamer leaves on the 2.lth, consigned to Kong Meng. The passage is to occupy 25 days. France pay^ Prussia ibis week a further instalment of two hundred millions : (francs) of the indemnity. There ia a proposition to elect M. Thien; President for four j'cars. The Czar has sent a letter to Prince Frederick Oluirles, exjnxjssing friend I}' fientimenta towards PriiH«ia. Arrivals.—Yorkshins, Ritleman, Ascalon, Deer, Brunei, Storm King, and the Moonta.