LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Waikato Times, 7 January 1873, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

London, December 18, The ship Leslie, for Melbourne, with a cargo of timber, was stranded on Dungeness. The crew wero saved In the Tichborno trial, tb« prowcution will attempt to orove the claimant to be Arthur Orton, witnesses having been obtained to do bo.

December 20. Money easier. Reserve in B»nk of England large. Stocks depressed. New Zealand Consolidated, fires, 103V ; bites, 112. Wool, firm. Tallow, sperm oil, hides and bark, unchanged. Large sales of Australian at high prices.

December 21. Tenders are invited for laying a cable between the Cape, Mauritius, ftnd Aden. The ship Calcutta bin repaired damages, and again iailed for Melbourne.

Dwemtwr 21. The Germania, Atlantic (.tooi»*r, of AIWi line, has been wrecked, and thirty lives lost. The Pope, in addressing twenty-two Cardinals, alluded to tho continual pcrbocution of the Church, especially in Italy ; and assailed Germany, wher« pitfalls -wore laid, and violence and calumny employed to destroy tho Church. A bill for tho restoration of Orleans property h»» pissed the French Assembly. The King of KhiVa has summoned the auxiliary tribes against Russia. The Czarowitch of Rutsia ii suffering fromtjT>hus fcTer. Tho Atrato, steamship, has sftilod for Melbourne. The November mails are delivered. Wheat inactive. 200,000 quarters have been lost during a •torni. A bill is before tho Spanitk Cortes for emancipating the •laTes of Porto Rico. The Great Britain has armed, iixty-threo day* from Melbourne. Captain Gray committed suicide, by jumping OTerboard, when thirty days out. The Auckland ma'l? are delivered. The steamship Somersetshire ha» sailed. Captain Hunter's certificate has been suspended for twelve months, for acgligoncc, in causing the losi of the Royal Adelaide.

December 28, 2.16 p.m. A lino of si* itean'.ert from Liverpool to Melbourne ia proposed. They uro to call at Milford Haven. Captain Goodonough rolieTOi Commodore Stirling on tho Auetraliau station. Oih unchanged. Tallow drooping. Leather active. Tho year's import* of Australian meat,aro 1718 tons. Tho introduction of tieroe beef was unsuccessful. Arrived : Wild Duck. It is reported that diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Pope are broken off. The Pope is greatly discussing the letter of the Due de Giammont, asserting that Austria was pledged to support France during tlx lets war. The etateaest ii contested at Vienna.

During a late Coaferonoa tt Worcester the following oonTersatiou was overiiMnl between two nowsboya: — " I nay, Jim, wliat's the irewiing of W m»ny ministers being here nltogotlier ? " "Why," »tt»»«red Jim. •..•ornfully, "they always inert ono* a, y«sr to iw«p Mnuont." Ihe Jcmuls' GbU«g» »titw*burg ht» fsllen into the hands of a Jev, and i* bow dovotod to • publio-houw?, a skit titallcr, u Mjbonic lodge, ajilaaaof -^utherwi worship.