LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. London, March 22.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 142, 5 April 1873, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS. London, March 22.

Money is scarce. Discount is brisk. The stock market is slack generally, but telegraph, stocks are agitated. Debentures — Victorian six per cents, April, October, 1153. Now South Wales fives, 107. New Zealand sixes, 113. Bank of New South Wales shares, 41. Tallow is quiet— mutton, £40 to £45 ; beef, £30 to £42. Petroleum, 16id. Sperm oil is held for £95. New Zealand hemp is stagnant. Cotton is dull at a decline : Queensland cotton averages 9d. The copper market is excited, aad pncea are firmer. The present cash quotations for Wallaroo copper arc £04 to £96. Tin is steady ; Straits is quoted at £147. Wheat is quiet. The Baltic is open j and 262 cargoes of Cnlifomian wheat are on thoir way to the United Kingdom. Its value is 12s per cental. The Bir J. Lawrence and Ilawkesbury havo not yet arrived. Bombay, March 23. The P. and O. Company's steamer Mooltan, which left Sydney on the 25th February, with the English and Continental mails, arrived at Gallo on the 22nd instant. London, March 25. Unofficial correspondence from Khiva, in relation to the military expedition tent out by .Russia has been authoritatively lorbiddcu. Some difficulty was apprehended in dealing with the Kirghiz, whose territory lies between Russia and Turkestan, and in order to secure their neutrality Russia ceded to them Bngantchih. According to the latest Russian nccounts, tlio Khivans had nttempted, without success, to incite the Kirghiz to revolt, and assume a hostile attiLudo towards the Russian forces. The full equipment of the Khivun expedition has been completed.

The American papers announce the death, at the age of seventy-eight years, of Mr George Catlin, the artist and traveller. He was celebrated chiefly for his eight years' sojourn among the Indiaus in 1832-9, during which time ho visited 40 diucrnit tribes and pamlcd tbo portraits of 201) chiefs and famous warriors. This curious gallery was afterwards exhibited in the principal cities of America and Europe. His loiters, containing the result of his observations among the nlwrigmes, were, published in 1841, and he wrote also tho " North American Portfolio of Hunting Scenes," published in London m 1841; " Notes of Eight Years' Travel and Kosidcnce in Europe," published in tho same city four } ears later : and "Life among the Indians," and " Okcepah." London, 1567. His first work was entitled " Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of North American Indians, written during Eight Years of Travel among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes now Exisiting." It was illustrated with over three hundred stocl-plato engravings L'om his Indian urn, • *n gu '