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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 22, 10 December 1874, Page 6

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The latest Cable Telegrams to hand are dated London Nov. 24th : — The Australian mails were delivered today. The Rev. 11. Thornton, Birmingham, ha 3 been appointed Bishop of Ballarat. American rc-fiatd kerosene is quoted at Is lid to Is ll^d. Discount has advanced to six per cent. Obituary. — Tom Hood, son of the well known poet and author. The Admiralty have ordered a special survey of the Fiji Group. There is a moderate demand for money. Foreign exchanges are more favorable. The reserve in the Bank is weak. Corn has advanced to Is 6d. Home deliveries, moderate. Foreign arrivals, fair average. Good qualities wool firm. French buyers are operating in Cape sorts at l£d to Id lower. Little business doing. Market depressed. The ship Duchess of Edinburgh has returned dismantled. Mr Gladstone in a pamphlet entitled " Political Expostulation," and addressed to the Eugiish Roman Catholics, challenges them, in justice to themselves and the country, to demonstrate how Papal obedience can be reconciled with civil allegiance. 750 bales of New Zealand hemp have sold at good prices.

It is reported that there will be no war between China and Japan, China agreeing to pay the Japanese five hundred thousand taels to leave Formosa.

Archbishop Manning has written a letter in answer to Mr Gladstone's pamphlet, affirming that the decrees of the Vatican are unaffected by civil allegiance of Catholics, which is as pure true and loyal as that of any subjects of the Empire. Civi allegiance of every Christian, he adds, is limited by conscience.

Mr Disraeli, at the Lord Mayor's banquet, dwelt upon the contentment and solid prosperity in the country. He said that considerable revival had taken place in

trade, aud the revenue was fully realising, anticipations. The policy of the Government was to consolidate the colonial possessions, and establish an identity of interest with the mother country. Abroad, there was a general desire to maintain peace.