CABLE TELEGRAMS.

Southland Times, Issue 1952, 24 July 1874, Page 3

CABLE TELEGRAMS.

— ♦ London, July 4. Tbe Plimsoll Commission deprecates any extension of official surveys or legislative regulations, but argues for the preservation of the full responsibility of the shipowners, masters, and crews, by invigorating the Mariae department, and improving the system of investigation into casualties. The commissioners condemn the existing system of marine insurance, and recommend a complete revision of it. London, July 10. The House of Commons hascommenced the discussion of the Archbishop of Canterbury's bill for the suppression of ritualistic practices in the Church of England. Mr Gladstone opposed it as a dangerous measure, and thought that a judge should be appointed to institute an inquiry. Lord Barrington, Conservative, has been unseated for Eye, on petitioD, and Mr ~W. Stanton, the Liberal member for Stroud, who was petitioned against, has been declared duly elected. London, July 11. Tbe Australian (May) mails, via Brindisi, have been delivered. Forged marginal credits of the National Bank of Scotland are being circulated from San Francisco, and may reach the Australian colonies. Wool is selling privately at a slight ~ advance. The wheat market is drooping. Adelaide fetches from 62s to 64s per 4961 b ; flour, 41s to 45s per 2801 b.

The Californian wheat crop is nearly double that of 1873. The copper market is without noticeable alteration. Tin is depressed, with little business doing. Arrived— Hawley, City of Florence, and Posedon. Paris, July 10. The Government has informed the Committee of Thirty that Marshal Mac insists upon the right of dissolution of the Assembly and the appointment of a portion of the Upper Chamber. The constitutional debate will take i place next week. I The Bonapartist propaganda has ! recommended the prosecution of M. Rouher. Berlin, July 13. An attempt has been made to assassinate Prince Bismark, the Chancellor of the German Empire. While driving in . an open carriage in the neighborhood of j Kissengen, he was fired at and slightly injured in the wrist. The assassin was immediately arrested, and found to be a young man, who is unknown. Disturbances amongst the peasants have taken place in East Prussia, the cause arisiug from the operation of the new Districts Regulation Law. Pabis, July 13. Le Figaro has been suspended for a fortnight for attacking the Assembly. Madrid, July 13. The Carlist General Dorregarry has shot several of the Republican prisoners, and has announced his intention to carry on the war without mercy.