ENGLISH NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 531, 21 June 1872, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

VIA SUEZ. m Wo condense the following from the M Dally Times telegrams. London, April 24. The Prince of Wales is still travelling. Advices from Washington, dated the 20th of A[iril, state that the Administration and Senate adhere to the indirect claims. On •; the22nd the American contra-case was pie- u seated to the Senate, that both parties have ft invested the arbitrators with all the neces- rl sary functions to determine the issue. ; J The Cabinet has no power to change the i American case, but all the influential papers advocate the withdrawal of the claims. The Tichborne claimant has been bailed 3 out. The trial for- perjury commences in ; November,' and the Australian witnesses! ; will be required. The Times states that General Schcni k has been instructed that, should England || decide beforehand against admitting the indirect claims made by America, the latter , will agree that the principle shall not he discussed before the Geneva Board. The i case as at present stated by America will "q therefore he.superseded. It is understood "j that England will accept this oiler. Philadelphia telegrams state that Earl ' ;j Granville agrees to the principle laid down , as to the extent of the responsibility of neutrals, hut insists on the withdrawal of j the indirect claims from the American case. ‘M Secretary Fish considers-the proposition ■ unacceptable. The general opinion is that j the members of the Senate and House of k| Representatives are hacking up the Score-..' tary. . A telcgrjnn from Aden, states that Dr. "• Livingstone is safe. The Ballot Bill has passed through Com- '■£. mittoe. '1 he Washington Cabinet docs not wipe draw the indirect, claims, hut agreess not ]’i| demand pecuniary compensation, if Englaim r will undertake to relieve America from similar liabilities in the future. A settlement of the dispute on this bash II is probable. Mr. Horace Greeley has been nominated H for the presideroy of the United States. M A hitch has occurred in the Alabama ne- 8 gotiation. The-prospects of settlement are 11 cloudy. On Earl Granville’s urgent appeal, B Lord Russel has for thethirdtime postponed H his motion, tlie Government promising to 8 produce all the papers in connection with H the Alabama question before Whitsuntide, ft Prince Bismarck is unwell. Brigham Young has been released. The American journals announce that the Government are fully determined to ask no further, compromise regarding the indirect claims. The news from Paris is, that the Government have resolved to arraign Marshal Bazaine before a Court Martial, An analogous decision is imminent with reference to General Wimpflfen. • In the course of a discussion in the As sembly, M. Thiers delivered a menacing speech, in which he spoke of the reconstruction of the army, and of revenge. France, he said, had eight millions a year for a sinking fund to pay off the national debt, and she would soon resume her old ottitude. Her army numbered nearly a million men at the present time. These indications of a deterujinatinn on the part of Franco to renew the struggle, produced dissatisfaction in Berlin, and the Daily Telegraph published a letter and an article, avowedly an answer by the-German Government, intimating that an explanation had been demanded from the French Government. If this unsatisfactory war was to be recommenced, the negotiations for the earlier evacuation of French territory would certainly cease.. Tile English Press believes that M. Thiers meditates attempting the recovery of the ceded Provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. Grave complications are feared. The report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the circumstances attending the surrender of Metz, blames Marshal Bazaine. A reward of IOO.OOOdoIs. lias been given to the officers and crow of the Keersage for destroying the Alabama. A fearful cyclone occurred at Madras on the Ist of May. Nine European and eleven native vessels were wrecked, and thirteen Europeans and six natives drowned. Only four ships were left in Madras roadstead. The pier and a great deal of property has been damaged. A subscription has been set on foot for the relief of the sufferers. Five days afterwards a fearful inundation occurred at Jellore in the Madras Presidency. Forty tanks burst. One thousand lives were lost; three thousand people rendered destitute, and thirteen thousanel homeless. Belief was sent at once by the Government. The P. and 0. steamer Peshawnr was saved by good seamanship, in a cyclone between Madras, and Galle. The Mongolia [ had her boats carried away. Several of the French company’s steamers met with accidents lately'. The Hooghley disabled her screw while 'on,heV way from Singapore to Galle ; anti the Provence ina collission near Aden with the Neva, went ashore, but was got oft’, A Flying Squadron, consisting of six fine frigates, under Rear-Admiral Seymour, arrived at Bombay on the 22nd of April. The officers and men ' have been feted. One thousand five hundred tars were’received ashore. Tlie Squadron was ordered home, and left via Mauritius and the Gape on the Oth, The Cadmus alone stays to join the China Fleet. A great fire, extending over two square miles, occurred at Y'cddo. Forty-five streets and five thousand buildings were destroyed. Twenty-one thousand persoi s were burned out, and three hundred and fifty killed. A million and a half dollars worth of property was consumed. ; Two Japanese mcn-of-war arc about to visit Europ , via the Suez Canal. Fifty thousand emigrants recently started from Germany to the United States in one vessel- - they' were canaries.