ENGLISH NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 415, 1 April 1870, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

Tiie s.s. Omeo arrived at the Bluff with the English mail on the morning of the' 27th inst. The following is taken from the “Daily Times” telegrams. London. Jan, 28. Large sums of money are being subscribed on various Emigration Funds. A Nation a Emigration League has been formed, with the Duke of Manchester as president. A dreadful accident happened in a Catholic Chapel in Liverpool on Sunday last. An alarm of fire arose, and an immediate panic ensued. Sixteen persons were crushed to death. The old Star and Garter Hotel at Richmond was burnt down on the 12th January, resulting in the death of the manager. Letters have been received from Dr. Livingstone. Traupman, ‘the Pantin murderer, was executed on the 16th. He made no further confession, hut lost all courage before his death. Mr. Peabody’s remains arrived at Portland, Maine, on the 25th January. Great preparations had been made to receive them hefittingiy. The disturbances still continue in Ire’and. At Lira crick two policemen have been shot, one of them boin g mortally wounded. At the beginning of the month considera hlo uneasiness prevailed in Paris, but towards the end a hotter feeling prevailed. The Great Eastern is daily expected, to lay the cable in connection with the Red Sea Telegraph. The number of passages of vessels by the Red Sea and Sue 3 Canal increases daily Fresh Europe au lines have been proposed ; and Mr. Green, the well-known shipowner, is now in India making arrangements to avail himself of this route for his line of vessels. Several steamers have passed through the Canal safely. The British Australian Telegraph Company, having for its object the Dying of the Submarine Cable from Singapore through Batavia to Port Darwin in Australia, and thence to Bourketown, Queensland, has been organised. The exports to Now Zealand for the month show an increase of £28,771. Mr. John Bright has bean seriously ill, hut is now better. Mr. Disraeli is also indisposed. A conspiracy against the Emperor’s life has been discovered in Paris. The British Government has taken over the telegraph lines. A disturbance in Paris is reported. Sir Charles Darling, date Governor of Victoria, is dead. The man Dyer, who surrendered himself to the police on self-accusation of murdering his mate (Wilson) at the Loddon diggings, Victoria, in 1837, is believed to be disordered in mind. He has been remanded, pending the result of inquiries in Victoria. A collision occurred on the 24th of January off Yokohama, between the Peninsular land Oriental steamer Bombay and the United States corvette Oneida, which was leaving Japan on her homeward voyage. The Oneida sank almost immediately, and only fifty-six lives were saved out of one

hundred and seventy-six. Captain Eyre, of the Bombay, has been blamed for not rendering assistance, but an investigation shows that he wasjnot aware, owing to the darkness of the night, of the oxtent.of the harm done.