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Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue XXII, 23 November 1867, Page 6

ENGLAND.

By Mail. Out* ad rices by mail from London are to October 2. In reviewing the state of the money market, the Home Netos, of the 2nd ulfc, says :-— The supplies of money are so large in this country that even prior to the dfopersion of the October dividends no employment could be found for them in first-class commercial bills at If per cent ; and temporary advances ever since our last, now a montb ago, have been in vain offered by bankers arad capitalists at 1 per cent on Government stocks. In less than a week the October dividends on Government stocks, Bank stock, and a number of other less important distributions will be available, fche aggregate of which cannot be less than* between seven and eight millions sterling- At the present moment there is not the slightest chance of this accession of resouTces finding remunerative employment any more than there i& of the reserves to which* it will be added. We are glad, therefore, to announce that the Bank of JST&w Zealand has taken, advantage of this favorable opportunity to- invite tenders for the second instalmenb of £200,000 of the Auckland Half Million Loan of 1863, of which £100,000) have previously been subscribed. As the propooal, on the part of the- Auckland Government, was only introduced on the Ist of October, just before the departure of the mail, siifScimt time had nos elapsed to ascertain its- actual reception by tho public. The list is t© be kept open until the ßth ; but long before tha>fc time we anticipate- the subscriptions Y?it\ be filled, in contemplation of the immediate' option to exchange She Auckland Debentures- for those of the General Government of fcho colony. The Fenians to the number of 30 or 40, who were apprehended for attacking the officers of justice- and rescuing by force the noted conspirators Kelly and Deasy, are to be tried by a special commission. The utmost rigor will be used by the Government in punishing those who have been concerned in the fresh attempts at insurrection. The Queen is in good health and remains at Balmoral surrounded by her family, including the Princes Arthur and Leopold, and the Prince and Princess Christian. A medical contemporary states that the Princess of Wales continues to make such progress towards recovery as may almost be said to exceed the anticipations of those who were most sanguine of a cure. She improves daily, and is constantly gaining more use of the limb. The princess will probably remain at Wiesbaden for two or three weeks more, under the care of Dr Haas, who has aided Mr Paget by directing the special treatment adopted with such good results. The Australian claimant to the title and estates of the Tichborne baronetage last week arrived at Alresford, and was receired with bell-ringing from the tower of the parish church. He has since been the guest of Mr W. W. Bulpett, a county magistrate and Winchester banker, at his residence at Alresford, and has joined in many shooting parties with the neighboring gentry. In the matter of " Tichborno v Mostyn" — the Tichborne baronetcy case — an application was made on Oct. 1 to Mr Buckley, chief clerk to Vice-Chancellor Malms, vacation judge, for further time to file affidavits of documents having reference to the plaintiff's claim. A long affidavit was handed in, which stated that many of the documents with reference to which an extension of time was now asked for a third time were very old ; that they had relation to matters of pedigree and otherwise ; that considerable research waa needed, and that some extension of the period previously granted was absolutely necessary. The chief clerk, after carefully reading the affidavit, granted a month's extension of time. The feeling in Manchester on October 1 was much quieter, but with an Irish population of 60,000 to 80,000 and with Fenians in almost every rank of society, thero is still some distrust. Thero was another Bcene in Court, some of the prisoners assuming an injured tone— that they had been deprived of counsel, through Mr Ernest Jones being driven to throw up his briefs. It is proposed to recognise the serviceß of Mr Bright, M P., to the cause of Reform, by inviting the hon. gentleman to a public banquet in Birmingham. It is rumored that the Queen will confer the honor of knighthood on some of the leading colonists in connection with the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Australia. Mr Hamilton Hume, Secretary to the Eyre Defence Fund, has published a long affidavit by Captain H. B. Edenborough, late a lieutenant in the Confederate States Nary, who baa hitherto been absent from England to the eftect that in Juue 1865, the late G. W. Gordon, of Jamaica, endeavored to buy from him an armed schooner then at Jamaica, with the avowed object of using the vessel and crew to create a West Indian liepublic. The latest accounts of the Abyssinian captives are to the 27th July, when they were at Magdala, a prison some sixty or seventy miles from Debra Tabor, where the camp of the Emperor Theodore was fixed. Mr Allen, the senior Alderman below the chair, has been elected Lord Mayor of London.