FURTHER TELEGRAMS TO JUNE 10.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3252, 15 July 1871, Page 3

FURTHER TELEGRAMS TO JUNE 10.

[From the Aiuua.]

The long deferred Tichborne Baronetcy case commenced on the 11th inst, and it is expected that it will extend over weeks, as the verdict involves an income of £30,000 per annum. Great difficulty was experienced in empanelling a special jury. The first clay only three jurymen attended, on the second morning eight, and only messengers, and the threat of a line of £500, obtained the attendance of 11. 'Die trial excites much interest, and the conflicting evidence distracts public opinion. The defendant's theory is that the claimant is an impostor, by name Arthur Orton, a pork butcher, working iv conspiracy with an old servant of Sir Roger Tichborne

The increasing demand for labour at home is provoking strong protests against deporting workmen to the colonies.

Lord Redsdale counsels resistance of the Alabama claims as preferred by the United States.

Sir Wta, Brown, late AccountantGeneral of the Army, and I\lr Whiffin, chief clerk of the War Office, have retired with pensions under the censure of a Parliamentary committee, for appropriating moneys in their capacity as income tax commissioners.

A bill disqualifying bankrupt peers from sitting in the House of Lords has been introduced.

The Chancellor's Trade Union Bill has passed the Lords.

Mr Lawson's Permissive Bill was negatived by 200 votes to 124. Mr Brace's Licensing Bill has roused a furious opposition from brewers and publicans. The £100,000,000 invested in the liquor trade would be depreciated 40 per cent by the bill.

Mr Lowe's budget lias collapsed utterly, leaving behind a feeling of disaffection aud distrust. The Government was nearly wrecked over the match tax. This impost excited indignation and contempt. Public indignation \va3 increased by the police severities to the women and children who were petitioners against it. Conservatives and Radicals afterwards attacked the Government on the increase of the income tax, and the cost of the Army Reorganisation Bill. The official majorities were very narrow. The probate and succession duties were abandoned, and the income tax was raised to Od. This creates a profound dissatisfaction, and Mr Lowe's popularity as a financier is gone.

The Evangelical Alliance has sent a deputation to St Petersburg, to represent to the Czar the deplorable condition of his Protestant subjects through the persecutions of the authorities. Murphy, the notorious anti-Popery lecturer, was brutally assaulted at Whiteliaven by a mob of 300 Roman Catholics. Several ringleaders were arrested. Michael Torpey, the diamond-robber, is sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. Mr Ryder's unrecovered property amounts to £13,000.

The petition in favor of the re-hearing of the Purebas case was dismissed with costs. The Judicial Committee decided that a re-hearing would cause mischief by throwing doubt on their proceedings.

The Countess of Derwentwatcr is committed to prison for contempt of court in refusing to attend a creditors' meeting.

Miss Burdett Coutts is elevated to the peerage, under the title of Baroness Burdett Cojj<gfej Much excucicjnt is occasioned by a tragedy at Eltham. A young woman was found three weeks ago barbarously murdered by a hatchet in a lane near Blackheath. A young Greenwich printer named Fook is in custody, but the case is involved in strange mystery. A young girl named Agnes Norman, aged To, is also under remand, suspected of the systematic murder of many children who had been confided to her care from different families, and who had been killed by suffocation.

The trial of Boulton, Watt, Hunt, and Fisk, the women personators, terminated, after a vast quantity of evidence for the prisoners, in a verdict of acquittal of all improprieties in their female impersonations.

In Italy Catholic resistance- to the Papal pretensions is rapidly spreading. Austria refuses to change her. policy of

subordinating! ne priesthood to the civil pjwev. The German Emperor has dispelled the hopes of material assistance from that quarter. The King of Bavaria is shielding Dr Dollinger, though threatened with excommunication. The Sultan refuses the publication of the Papal decrees in Turkey.

The French Government sent a new ambassador to Rome. All Germany is ready to resist the Papal infallibility claims with Dr Dollinger. Father Hyacinth is similarly laboring at Rome. The Sultan of Turkey and his ministers are all decorated by the Czar. In Egypt the Khedive has been erecting fortifications on the Suez Canal, which excited the suspicions of the Sultan. Matters have been arranged since.

Twelve thousand inhabitants of Buenos Ayres have died of yellow fever since January. The insurrection in Panama continues, and the Government is overthrown. Lima, in Peru, was captured on the 28th April. The foot and mouth disease is spreading amongst cattle in South Chili.

A Hindoo gentleman has proposed a tour of his countrymen to Europe, after the plan of Cook's excursionists. The famine in Persia is increasing in intensity.

The Russians are moving in Central Asia against Khan Khiva. The Russiau forces are reported to have been defeated by the Turcomans with heavy loss.

The son of the Csar of Russia, the Grand Duke Alexis, is expected in India in Septeinbei

The discussion in the Assembly on the reconstruction of the column of the Place Vendome was adjourned to the Oth.

The St Petersburg journal says the ceremony of presenting the Order of the Osmanli to the Czar confirms the good relations between Russia and Turkey.

The final struggle between the Communists and Versaillists was desperate at Belleville and Pore la Chaise No quarter was given. The insurgents killed and wounded exceed 30,0U0. A similar number of prisoners were taken. The insurgt-nts killed the Archbishop of Paris, the cure of the Madeline, President Bougeane, and 04 hostages. The soldiers were exasperated. The insurgents were summarily shot, including women who were caught firing buildings. The fourth part of Paris is devastated. The conflagrations have been arrested, but the rujus are still smouldering. The Emperor of Germany and the Duke of Coburg have been seriously ill.

The German Federal Council has resolved to conclude an extradition treaty with England.

Prince Bismarck made a fine speech during the debate on the bill incorporating Alsace and Lorraine, in which he stated that a few weeks after Sadowa the French Ambassador demanded the ces sion of Maycuce under the threat of war. Hostilities were prevented be Napoleon's illness.

The column in the Place Vendome fell on the 10th of May. The square is called now the Place International. M. Thiers' house and property in Paris have been demolished, The Assembly is pledged to pay an indemnity. The political clubs in Paris hold their sittings in the churches. Religious education is prohibited, and the symbols of religion are suppressed. Pyat advocates the desecration of the tomb of Napoleon, the exhumation of his ashes, and their interment in the grave of Traupmann, the murderer.

On May 12, the committee sent troops to the Bank of France to enforce a requisition. Resistance was offered by a battalion composed of the bank servants, and the Commune cancelled the orc^r. Bestey, the bank delegate to the Commune, resigned. In consequence of this affair the bank is armed and victualled

ready for a seige

Great excitement was caused by the discovery in a convent of white nuns in Paiis of three aged female idiots, confined in garden huts small and comfort' less. Instruments of torture were found, and some nuns are in custody. The definitive Treaty of Peace, signed at Frankfort on the 10th, was laid bofore the Assambly by Jules Favre on the loth. No relaxation of conditions has been made on behalf of France, and the insurrection has made matters worse than before. The total indemnity is two hundred million pounds, less thirteen millions for the Alsace and Lorraine railways. The first twenty millions is to be paid the month after Paris is re duced. Meanwhile, the German army of occupation is kept up' at the expense of France. Germany is to be treated commercially on a par with the most favored nations. The expelled Germans are to be restored to the possession of their property and rights of domicile. Twenty thousand French prisoners are to go to xVlgeria to suppress an insurrection, the rest are returning home.

The monarchists believe that the Count de Cbambord will be king. Bazaine and others are plotting for Napo leon, who is supposed to have left Chislehurst for the Continent.

Direct telegraph communication was opened between London and Hong Kong on the 10th May.

It is elated that 20,000 of the Paris Communist prisoners will be transported to New Caledonia. The House of Com mons has devoted another night to the consideration of the Army Bill, without making any further progress in it. The purchasers of the wreck of the Queen of the Thames have recovered a portion of the cargo. Hopes are entertained of getting her off with fine weather. The report of the Cape inquiry is against Capt Macdonald. The logbook has been lost. Mr Goyder has written to " The Times," implying official negligence during the voyage.

The Czar arrived at Berlin on the Bth. The Ascot Cup was won by Mortimer, Verdure second, Bothwe.ll third.

The Russian campaign is reported from St. Petersburg as terminated, ■ Fires have broken out at four points in Constantinople.

In the National Assembly at Versailles on the Bth, Thiers stated that the safety of the Republic was placed in

his hands as a sacred desposit, which will not be betrayed. The abrogation of the law of exile was adopted by 484 votes against 103. The elections of the Due d'Aumale and the Prince de Joinvillo aie validated by 448 votes against 113.