ADDITION All ENGLISH NEWS.

Auckland Star, Issue 378, 27 March 1871, Page 2

ADDITION All ENGLISH NEWS.

The war for the present prevents the C'euis tunnel being utilised for the Eastern mails. The progress of the telegraph line aci'O3s Central Australia is watched with great interest. Messrs. Boss and Douglass have sent a communication to the limes on the subject. The latter deprecates South Australian jealousy preventing the junction of the Queensland Hue with cable al Port Darwin. A lecture on the colonial policy of the Government was delivered by Mr. Eddy, before the Westminster Working Men's Constitutional Association. The disintegrating policy was condemned by the meeting.

Mr. Eichard Jones Ims perfected a new process for preserving meat in tins, by which the juices and flavour are retained. Tallerman's meat soup is supplied daily to the outside poor at the Holborn Union. A large order for breech-loaders has been received' from the Government of New South Wales.

Owing to heavy stormy weather off Newfoundland, the American cable ia still unrepaired. The restoration of the Falmouth and Gibraltar line is hindered by the same cause. A memorial with reference to the Queensland slave trade wa3 presented to the Foreign Secretary.

Mr. Childers continues seriously indisposed. On the 19th January tie Times announced his resignation, naming Mr. Foster as his successor. The Daily Tebgraph authoritatively contradicts this arrangement: that it was for a temporary purpose.

Minor Ministerial appointments consequent on Mr. Bright's retirement, are unanimously condemned. Public confidence in the Administration is much weakened. Mr. Cardwell is disturbed in the present crisis. Mr. Shaw Lpfevre is Under-Secretary to the Board of Trade, and Mr. Hibbert, Poor Law Secretary. The Right Hon. J. E. Denison i 3 expected to retire from the Speakership soon. A new Flying Squadron, under Admiral Seymour, left Plymouth for West Indies. Several naval stewards have been arrested at Chatham for fraud, connected with victualling ships. Mr. Martin, a Repealer, has been returned for the electorate of Meatli by a large majority over Mr. Plunkett, a Liberal, who was supported by the Roman Catholic clergy. Mr. Tilletthas been unseated for Norwich, because an act of bribery was proved against an agent of Sir W. Russell in the election of 1868, when both contested. The discreditable mancouvres of the Tory clique to unseat Mr. Gladstone for Greenwich have signally failed. The 35-ton gun was tried at Woolwich ! with a charge of 130 lbs. of powder.

Immense activity prevailed at the Birmingham firearm factory, on acsount of home and foreign Governments.

Horses are eagerly bought up for France and Prussia.

Judge Pbillimore has given judgment en the seizure of an international ship with the French cable. The British Government are required to restore the vessel to the owners without costs.

In response to a request from the Bishop of Versailles, the Lord Mayor presided at a meeting for the relief of non-combatants urnund Paris, who are starving daily.

The Daily Tchglaph proprietors contributed £10,000.

Mr. Otway explained that his retirement arose from a disagreement with his chief on the foreign policy of the Government.

Several liberal members decline to support Ml. Miall's forthcoming motion for the disestablishment of the English Church.

Numerous crowded meetings have been held in London by sympathisers with France, and urging England to war ; counter meetings of the working classes oppose intervention.

The Committee preparing for the reception of Favre was disappointed by his nonappearance. Fourteen of the released Fenians sailed for America with a Government outfit and £5 of pocket money. Agrarian outrages continue in Ireland. A colliery strike of 30,000 men is threatened for a rise in wages. Public mortality has seriously increased by the severity of the weather ; many paupers have been frozen to death iv London. The Scotsman newspaper is dead. Efforts are still making for the reduction of the newspaper postage by the overland route. Earl De Gray and Itipou, Sir Edward Thornton, Sir J. McDonald, Sir John Eose, and Montague Bernard, represent England in the commission, while President Grant has nominated General Schenck, Mr. Fish, Mr. Hoare, Justice Nelson, and Senator Williams.

The first fifty waggons of food supplied from the city of London, entered Paris on the 4th February.

The British Government have contributed three cargoes of provisions via Dieppe, and four cargoes via Havre.

Mr. M'Fie has given notice that he will call the attention of the House to the relation existing between England and the colonies.

Mr. G-ladstone, in the House of Commons, said that G-ertnany and France would arrange the conditions of peace for themselves. He believed they did not require intervention. He hoped the conditions would be moderate, for he would regard with horror intolerable conditions which would result in another war. If arrangements were not arrived at, the good offices of England might be used.

Money is plentiful ; discount rates, 2 to 3.

In the stock market business is inactive from political uncertainty.

Subscriptions were received in London for a £3,000,000 German loan. A further French loan is postponed.