ENGLISH NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 346, 11 December 1868, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

The following is a summary of the news broucht by the Suez Mail, abridge J from tho "Daily Times :" London. Oct. 9. The Queen is still at Ba'mornl. Her health is mnch improved. Ska iaten bto epend the winter at 'Windsor. The Prince an ■ Princess of Wales have visite Glasgow. Tho Prince laid the foundation atone of a new college. They contemplate visi'ing Denmnrk.

The I’tiace of Wa ea has refused to be-

come a Freemason. The Duke of Edinburgh had resumed the command of the Galatea, and was to sail in November. He is expected to return to England in August, 1870. Further Murphyite disturbances have taken place in Manchester. Murphy persists in his canditure for that city. Four more accidents have taken place on the Holyhead Railway. Six months' pay has been awarded to the soldiers nnd sailors engaged in the Abyssinian Expe ition. Jefferson Davis is residing in London. The Rev. James Francis Turner has been appointed Bishop of Grafton. Mr. Gladstone has been a sufferer from English cholera, but has recovered. Rumors of a great reduction in the army are prevalent. The Guildhall has narrowly escaped destruction by fire. At Hull, an eight-story building fell, burying forty persons, of whom nine were killed. The Chinese Embassy has arrived here from New York. A terrible colliery explosion has taken place at Ruaben, North \Vale3. Ten persons were killed and eleven wounded. An accident has occurred on the North Western Railway, at Rugby. Two persons were killed and five wounded.

Homceopathy has been prohibited in Russia, owing to many deaths having occurred un er that system.

A boat, containing five men, capsized at Westminster Bridge, when four were drowned.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company’s steamer Syria ran down the Cowes pilot boat, when all on board perished: Dr. Livingstone, it is announce!, is within nine weeks’ march of Zanzibar. A suit hasbeen comm need in the United fatales by the owners of the Sonora against Mr. Laird, builder of the Alabama, for damages amounting to §119,000. Par lament has boon prorogued to the 28th of November.

Mr. Disraeli has issued an ad Tess to his constituents, i efending his administration from the charge of extravagance hrouglt against it by Mr. Gladstone, on the ground that considerable expenditure ha I been forced upon it by previous Governments. He was op osed to the disestablishment of the Irish Church. Confiscation was contagious, and, if once a community was seduce ■ into plunder, pro 'atory acts were sel om single. The present course could only end in Popish supremacy,

A Quakeress has been fined 10s. in Manchester for pressing her claim to vote. The British ship Tom Nolker has been been blown up by the explosion of naptha. Seven of the crew perished. The English Cricketers have been successful iu America.

Al ermau Lawrence has been elected Lorn Mayor of London.

It id reported that the Bishopric of New Zealand has been conferro I on the Rev. J. Randal, Rector of Newbury.

Tho Aboriginal Cricketers leave England on the 23r ■ of October.

Disturbances took place when Father Ignatius preached in Lombard-street. Vessels sailed for New Zealand ;—liar vest Home, Queen Eoc, Wild Duck, Mermaid, and Lady Egidia. CONTINENTAL NEWS. Thr French Emperor has visited tho Camp at Chalons, and has ma e a pacific speech. Eighty thousan 1 sol iers are to be furloughed.

Public anxiety in France respecting -war is much quieted. The Emperor has left Paris for Biarritz. The Italian array is to be reduced. The King of Prussia has visited the Duchies. At Hamburgh he said "What you want vrc all want—peace." He entertained confident hopes that peace would not be disturbo I. Co nt Bismarfc has recovered his health, and will soon resume his uties. In Greece great excitement has been occasioned at Athens by an attempt of the Cretan refuges to return to Candia. AMERICA. Postal conventions have been concluded between Great Britain and the United States for the joint carriage of mails to California and India. The Georgian Legislature has declare 1 Negro members ineligible. Armed mobs of Negroes are patrulling the roa 's around Savannah. The Demoeratic Platform requires a general amnesty, immediate restoration of the South, and the payment of public debts in currency. Snratt, who was charged with complicity in the mur er of President Lincoln, has been discharge!. Nesrocs have been admitted into the Louisiana Legislature. The British Registry has been adopted in the American ports, as a basis of port charges, The Indian war still continues. Fifty American sol 'icrs were scalped at an outpost on the Republican River. Large democratic processions have taken place in Now Orleans, the Negroes joining in them Fires arc rarine in California!! forest*; an' over two-hundred square miles of territory, covered with timber, have been destroyed. Agitations have commenced for the annexation of Canada. Whelan, charged vrth 'ho mur'or of D'A r cy M'Gee, was convicted, and 13 to bo hanged en the 10th of December. CHINA. Several firei have occur e! at Shangha', and much native property has been des'royed. Tu rebels are again reported as being in

the neighborhood of that city, and as having taken Chefoo.

The gold diggings give a moderate yield; but no great finds have been reported. The steamer Ajax sunk at her mooring iu Shanghai while repairing her screw. Great excitement has been caused at Hong Kong by a Chinese gun-boat threatening to lire into a British river steamer, for not showing her flag Strong representations have been made on the subject. Japan. Yeddo was open to foreigners on the Ist of October. The Mikado leaves his residence at Jeddo, and the name of that city is to be changed to Higashi. A large southern army is being accumulate I for an at'ack on Negata. The British Mi lis'er has warned the British subjects that Negata has not yet been opened. 03aca has been visited by robbers, who committed all sorts of depredations. It is n it safe for Europeans to be in the city after dark.

LATEST TELEGRAMS. London, October 28. For fine wool an improved i emand is shown. Severe earthquakes have taken place at San Francisco. The City Hall ami several other fine bail ings were estroyed. The Richard, for Wellington, was run down. All hands saved. London, October 30. The throne of Spain, it was expected, would be offered to the King of Portugal. Queen Isabella is likaly to go to Brighton. General Grant's election is considered certain. A banquet has been given to Lord Stanley and Mr. lleverdy Johnson, at Liverpool. Both stated that two of the three impending questions had been satisfactorily adjusted, and expres3e the hope that the Alabama claims would be settled. Lord Stanley said that foreign armaments were a disgrace to civ Lzation. A painful feeling is evinced at the Maori outbreak, but hopes are entertains I of prompt and vigorous retaliation.