ENGLISH NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 358, 5 March 1869, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

The following is a summary of tße news brought by the Panama Mall,' abridged from the “ Daily Times." London, Jan. 2. The Queen is at Osborne, in goe I health. Seventy petitions against members returned to the new House of Commons have been lodged The Judicial Committee decided against the Rev. Mr. Mackonochie on the question of Ritualism. This has been a heavy blow to the Ritualists.Prince Napoleon is in ill health. k The Emperor and Empress of the French!

are'-entertaining the ex-Queen of Spain. An application for winding up the New Zealand Banking Corporation has been lodged at the Rolls Chambers. Captain o,Brien, a well known Fenian, is in Cork Gaol, charged with the commii-" sion of outrages. George Francis Train has been discharged from prison, and has left for New York. The ship Gossamer, 735 tons, from Lon don to Adelaide, was wrecked off South Devon on December 10th. Thirteen lives were lost. T . : < ■ Sub-Lieutenant Charles Ogle Robertson of ll.M.S.'Brisk, has been killed at the Falkland Islaitis, where the ship put in on her way home. An explosion has taken place at Messrs. Jahn Hall and Son’s gunpowder mills,, by which many persons were killed and injured. Mr. George Colwood, of Banstra, Tippe-' vary, was shot dead on Dei;. 31. Professor Syme and Sir James Simpson have given it as their opinion that the sep- ■ aration of the Siamese : twins would be fatal to both. The Marquis offefite has entered the Church of Rome. Wool has penny. A large Fenian demonstration was held in Cork on the Ist. A Mr. O’Sullivan made Davis. Messrs. Sli’ell, Mason, and other leading members of the late Confederacy, are preparing to return to the United States. Mr. Ashburk, owner of the yacht Cami bria, has proposed to race any ■ American I'acht across the Atlantic. He will go to America, and give the Sappho, and the otqer yachts of the American squadron, a chance to accept his challenge. The following failures are reported Wyman and Arklay. merchants, Dundee and Boston, U.S. £BO,OOO ; Andrew Munro and Co, Greenock, £40,000 ; Brunncs and Co, Manchester, £BO,OOO.