LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 835, 25 July 1868, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

London, June 9. The Ministry were defeated on Mr. Gladstone's Suspensory Bill, the second reading having been carried by 258 against 213. Mr. Gladstone's resolution that the established Church of Ireland should cease to exist, due regard being bad to personal interests and individual rights, was passed at two a.m. on the Ist May by 330 to 265. The result was received with tremendous cheers?

Tho Government havo abandoned tho Roman Catholic University scheme. The advicea from Paris Btato that the French contingent for 1869 is to be 100,000 men. The reserve for tho month in tho Bank of Eugland was £11,500,000. Tho grand jury has thrown out the bill in tho case of Governor Eyre. Mr. Mill has presented Parliament with a petition inquiring into the cause of tho Abyssinian war. The latoat advices state that tho Abyssinian captives had arrived at Suez. Chief Justico Cockburn has i).vpre<-eod the din. sentofhimsolfand the mnjoriiy of the judges from tho ruling of Mr. Justico Blackburn upon which Governor Eyre was acquitted. The Government intends to demand supplies for a whole year. Russia has proposed a convention abolishing explosive projectiles in war. France has assontod. Mr. Reardon's motion in the House of Commons, respecting the Queen's honlth nnd di'sirability of her abdication, was indignantly rejected. Barrett, tho Clerkenwell Fenian, has been executed. The Alfred Momorial Hospital Com nit'eo (Sydney) has met in London. Sir John Young was in the chair. T.io object of the meeting was to evoke tho sympathy of the Sydney colonists in London. £700 was subscribed. Tho prices of wool have advanced through foreign competition. Good wool is a penny better ; other qualities ono half-penny. Mauy sales have been made. Tho Dorby wns won by Blue Gum, King A'frort second, an! Speculation third. Formosa was tho winner of tho O.iks. The London Chartered Bank dividend was eight per cent.