THE NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 232, 29 April 1868, Page 2

THE NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

The following items of news by the Suez Mail, are from the Sydney Morning Herald of the 17th inst.:—

The Irish debate is still on; the Government propose establishing a Catholic University and a Land Tenancy Commission; tie Opposition advocate religious equality. The Times expects that Lord Stanley will remain at the Foreign Office. Colonel "Wilson Patten takes the India Office ; the rest remain as before. In the debate on the Alabama claims, Lord Stanley stated that Mr Seward suggested a general commission for all claims, and that he had asked Mr Seward to put his proposition into a formal shape. A decree has been issued against (? by ) the King of Prussia, sequestrating the private fortune of the King of Hanover ; and the Prussian Government is about to take active measures to stop the re-actionary agitation caused by the King of Hanover. George F. Train is a miserable failure; he cannot draw audiences even in Dublin.

Earl Russell has published a letter on Irish affairs; he advocates payment of Catholic priests ; the giving of security to tenants against landlords, and compensation for improvements. John Stewart Mill has written on the Irish question, wanting Government to buy Irish land compulsorily, and sell it to tenants; justifies separation, if Ireland wishes it, and acknowledges his doctrines are revolutionary. Gladstone has introduced a bill abolishing compulsory payment of Church Rates, which has passed the second reading without a division. Mr Disraeli stated that the expenses of the Abyssinian Expedition will not exceed the estimate.

Lord Lynden has given notice in the House of Lords for the further correspondence on Sir Charles Darling's recall, and the non-enactment of the Appropriation Bill in Victoria. The Atlantic Cables are in perfect order, and the returns reached £2200 per day. Calvert, late British Consul at the Dardanelles, has been sentenced to two years' penal servitude for fraud. Mr Speke, a clergyman, and brother of Speke the African explorer, suddenly disappeared in London, and

great excitement was caused till the absented was discovered disguised as a drover in Cornwall six weeks afterwards; he gave no sufficient reason for his absence.

Kobert Lowe is a candidate to represent the London University; he regards the Irish Church as an unjust institution.

Mr Bright, in a speech at Birmingham, on Ireland, said he would abolish the Established Church.and all religious supremacy, and create a farming proprietary instead of absentee landlords. Elworthy, manging director of the London and Colonial Company, established to supply Australia with hops, malt, beer, &c, and which has since collapsed, has been ordered to pay Mr Crossly, a shareholder, £35,000, because he issued a fictitious prospectus. General LaMarmora draws a gloomy picture of Italy as the victim of anarchy and intrigue, and recommend* postponing the Roman question. Napoleon's son has reached his thirteenth year. Schleswig and Holstein are to have one Government, to be seated at Schleswig. News from Vienna states that a mob assembled at Birlat, seventy miles north of Galatz, and attacked the

Jewish residents; 170,000 francs worth of property was destroyed ; the Jews were charged with poisoning a doctor —the Government promise strict inquiry. The Moscow Gazette states everything at Belgrade points to war; the Government has received thousands of needle guns in addition to those bought last year; and a first-class Landwehr | is nearly equipped of €O,OOO soldiers, placed on a war footing; the people are enthusiastic.