NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 379, 23 July 1869, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

London, May 21. The Australian mail was delivered in London on the 16th May. The Queen gave a concert at Buckingham Palace. Seven hundred were invited. The Prince of Wales arrived in' London on the 12th May. Prince Arthur’s Irish tour is finished. “ Our Life in the Highlands” produced £2500, which has been invested in a University Scholarship for natives of Balmoral. Mr. Bright in a speech in the House of Commons, said there would be no peace in Ireland until the land was in the hands of the people. The Marquis of Salisbury, in the House of Lords, asked whether Mr. Bright’s words had been used ministerially. Earl Granville repliol that Mr. Bright had committed an indiscretion, and had spoke only for himself. The Government would introduce no j rish Land Bill this session. At a subsequent stage of the debate, Lord

Derby asserted that Mr. Bright's words would have an evil effect, and compared him to the Mayor of Cork, saying that their official character invested their remarks with importance. Mr. Whalley alluded in the House of Commons to a speech delivered by Sir Geo. Grey, ox Governor of New Zealand, in which he stated that the) Homan Catholic priests had incited the Maoris to rebellion.

Ireland is in an excited state. Sir. O’ Sullivan, the Mayor of Cork, While presiding at a supper given to the released Fenians, War en and Costello, said that ho hoped the day was not far distant when no foreign nation would dominate over Ireland. Larkin, Allen and O’ Biieu would be as much thought of hereafter as any others who had sacrificed their lives for Ireland. In. Parliament, Mr. Gladstone intimated that a Bill would he introduced for Mr. O’Sullivan’s removal from his office of Mayor After the first reading of the Bill, Mr. O’Sullivan came to London, and wrote a letter to the O’Donoghue, 'stating that his words had been misunderstood, and that he had resigned. The further progress of the Bill has been suspended for the present, but will be resumed should O’ Sullivan be re-elcetod, which is not improbable, Cork being wildly agitated in bis favour.

A riot occurred at Londonderry on the occasion of Prince Arthur’s visit, two persons being shot and several wounded. Martial law has been proclaimed there. The news received by the last Mail from Now Zealand has produed a gloomy impression in England. The Times has an article on the Defence of New Zealand, saying that the colonists do not pretend to bo too weak or too few to contend with the savages, hut they are too rich and too busy. From this it draws the conclusion that the colonists are wrong, not for dispensing with the Imperial garrison, but in failing to substitute another.

Aigg’s frauds amount to £72,000. Thu Government are negotiating for the purchase of Covent Garden theatre, as a central Tcle r raph Station. The tariff of telegraph charges has been reduced. A Sanatory commission has _ hoen ap--1 oin tod.

The goldfields in Sutherlandshire are doing moderately well. Ko great finds, however, are reported, though a number of Californian and Australian diggers are on the spot.

The challenge from Harvard College, U. S.A,to the Cambridge tl'niversity Boat Club, to row from Putney to Mortlake in August next, lias been accepted. The Derby was won by Pretender. The Oaks, by Brigantine. The French Derby, by Consul. Garibaldi is serious'y ill. Twenty Australian horses have boon landed in America, and good prices arc expected.

The wool sales for May commenced on the oth. Prices showed no matorid reduction. The competition was weak, and the tendency decidedly downwards, considerable quantities being brought in. A decline nevertheless continued in both Aus tralian and Cape of Good 11 ope wools. Present rates are from 10 to 15, and in some cases 20 per cent under the prices obtained in the March series.

The sales arc very T irregular, but the chief fall is iu middle class fleeces. Extra flue Sydney still commands attention. Foreign buyers operated very cautiously. The captain, chief officer, and seven of the crew of the Blue Jacket, with all the passengers and 4000 sovs, have landed at Queenstown The second and third officers and thirty two men, with two boats and 8000 sovereigns, arc still missing. The ship, cargo and specie were fully insured. The Omar Pasha, Captain Gray, from Brisbane, with 2800 bales of wool, when within ton days sale of England, took fire and was abandoned. The crew and passengers were brought on to Cork by the Zoalandia, from Callao. An influential deputation has waited on the Government urging it to devise some comprehensive scheme of emigration. The Admiralty refuses to afford further facilities for this purpose.

Another discussion on ihe affairs of Aew Zealand followed the publication of Earl Granville’s despatch declining to guarantee a New Zealand Loan, and stating that it was the duty of the colonists to protect themselves.

A terrible explosion, by which seventy lives were lost, took place at Frandalo in South Wales, on June 10th.

Wool receiver! from Now Zealand for second series of May Sales—22,ooo bafes.