ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL FOR APRIL.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 17 June 1869, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL FOR APRIL.

Wellington, Wednesday Evening. The R.M. steamship Malta arrived at Adelaide at noon on the sth. London, April 23rd.

The Queen is at Osborne. In the early pairt of the month Her Majesty returned to London, and held a drawing room at Buckingham Palace. She also visited St. Bartholomew Hospital, accompanied by the Princess Louise. During the autumn Her Majesty intends spending two months in Ireland. Prince Leopold’s continued illness is causing some anxiety.

The Prince of Wales was present at a cricket match at Constantinople, and at an official dinner given at the British Embassy. H.R.H. also visited the Grand Vizier, and lunched at Ir's residence. The Sultan has presented the Princess of Wales with his portrait set in diamonds, valued at LBO,OOO. The consideration of the Irish Church Bill is going on in committee. The Bill legalising marriage with a deceased wife’s sister was passed on the second reading by a majority of 99.

Mr Gladstone has announced that friendly negotiations are going on with Russia with regard to the Central Asian cpxestion. Australian preserved meats are rising in public favor. Stocks are exhausted, aud enormous orders have been booked. The demand is spreading in the provincial towns also. The Australian banks are accused in the Times of a departure from the principles of banking in their wool transactions. Nineteen mercantile firms have signed a protest against the continuance of the practice.

At a meeting of the Colonial Society, Mr Westgarth read a paper on the relation of the colomes to the mother country. A warm discussion ensued, in which the Marquis of Normanby, Sh* W. Denison, and Lord Alfred Churchill, took pa-t. Mr Vevdon has been elected a member of the Institute of Civil Eugineers. The immigration movement is proceeding vigorously. 327 artisans and their families left on the 13th April for Canada, after a pubhc breakfast at the Midland Railway Station. On the 20tb April. 450 discharged dock laborers sailed from Portsmouth, the Government granting them free passages. Meetings have been held in the metropolis to agitate for Government aid towards emigration. ,f The Government have promised to afford any necessary assistance. L 3,500 has been placed on the Estimates for presents made by the Duke of Edinburgh whi'e m Australia.

Arc'.'b’sjiop Maiming has declined to allow pel’t ons, praying for the release of the F sir an convicts, to be placed at the doors of the Homan Catholic churches for signature.

Mr Lichens was entertained at a grand banquet at Liverpool, on the completion of b’s readings there. Seven hundred ladies and gentlemen were present. A boat race on the Tyne, between Taylor and Cooper, for LIOO, was won by the latter. Mr Just’ce Wylde has been raised to the peerage with the title of Bacon Penzance. The Earl o>" Sfca>r has been appointed Lord / High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. A scheme has been started to cut a canal from Dubbn to Galway, a distance of about 100 miles.

The West Riding election petition has been abandoned; the North AUeiton clect:on has been confirmed ; the Hastings #lec t’on petition has been dismissed; and the South Durham petition has been withdrawn. Mr Eeve-dy Johnson has visited New-castle-on-Tyne. He repeated bis declaration that war between England and America was impossible.

The Preston strike si’ll continues. Several towns in Lancashire have agreed to adopt street tramways. The manufacture of the French Atlantic Cable is rap’dly approaching completion. The viaduct over the Mersey, at Runcorn, has been opened lor traffic, and express trams now run between London and Liverpool in four hours.

A flymg squadron may be expected to visit Me l bourne and Sydney towards the close of the year, and New Zealand in January, The work’ng men of Lancashire have resolved to’ raise LSOOO for the widow and family of Ernest Jones.

Mr Lowe has expressed his disapproval of the Carey street site for the new Law Courts, and recommends the site on the south side of the Strand, facing the river. The discussion of the matter has been postponed for a month.

Immense frauds on the Great Central Gas Company, by Benjamin Higgs, the bookkeeper, have been discovered. It is thought that LIoOjOOO will hardly cover the amount of his defalcations. On a salary of LSOO a year, Higgs lived in. a style indicating the receipt of as many thousands. A colliery catastrophe, resulting in the death of 36 persons, has taken place in the Arley mine, South Lancashire.

Obituary : —Lord Cloncurry, Earl of Fingal, Countess of Mornington, Admiral Manse', Rev. Digby Walsh, Archdeacon Mant, QAL ; Mr Charles Hoare, the hr Sir Arthur Buller, .'MPIM flMHmg members of the

three of the most eminent publishing firms Mr Thomas Brown of Longmans and Co ; Mr Bradbury of Bradbury and Evans ; and Mr James Harper of Harper Bros., New Yor .

COMMERCIAL. The Bank rate of discount is from 3 to 4 per cent. Australian securities are dull. Two Ballarat Gold Mining Companies, and one New Zealand Quartz Crushing Company, have been introduced into the London market.

The scrip of the Victorian Loan has been marked in the Stock Exchange List. Deal* ings have taken place at 5s premium. TLe Colonial Wool market is quiet. The next public sales commence on May 6th. The total receipts of Australian wools for the first two months of the year amounted to 1,906,0001b, as compared with 1,040,0001b during the corresponding period of 1868. The total number of bales Expected to arrive for the opening sales is 240,000. The arrivals to date amount to 179,990 bales.

Most first-class commercial bills are now sent to Paris, where they are discounted at ) f per cent., owing to the greater abundance of money there. The reserve of the Bank of England is seriously reduced, owing to the dram of go'd to America. Exchanges have since improved, and money is again plentiful in open market. Speculation in freight and stocks has been checked, and the home trade is languid. Failures in the cotton and woollen manufacturing districts have been numerous. New Zealand Consolidated Loan is at 95| ; do do sixes, 1891, Ist December, 108i--107-109. The Vooruit left Rotterdam on the 11th April with 2850 red cases geneva for Melbourne, and 9525 cases for Sydney. The Helen and Henrietta, now of Australia, are both loading at Rotterdam, and will sail towards the end of May. The exports to Victsria amount to L 415,867, showing a decrease of L 83,664 ; and to Sydney to L 239,844, being a decrease of L 95,440. SPAIN. The Spanish Cortes proposes to establish a hereditary monarchy, with a Legislature con. sisting of a Senate and Congress, with minis, terial responsibility and religious freedom. Don Ferdinand of Portugal has refused the crown. It is reported that the Duke of Aosta will accept the crown of Spain, which has been offered him. The Carlist and Isabella bands are disquieting the south of the country. It is understood that France will respect whatever form of government may be established. In Cuba the insurgents are surrendering. The Cortes has voted the articles of the Constitution relative to religious liberty by a large majority. It has also intimated that Spain is not unmindful of the importance of the question of the cession of Gibraltar, but that before the negotiations commence, it will be necessary for the nation to be strongly constituted, so as to rank among the great powers. CONTINENTAL. The cekhratiou of the 59th anniversary of the Pope’s entry into the priesthood, was ce l ebrated on the 11th April. A Maz’d man conspiracy has been discovered at Milan, and six arrests have been made. The Italian Ministry have resigned, and Gencal Menabrea is engaged in forming a new Cab'uet. ° The Emperor of Austria’s speech, at the opening of the Hungarian Diet, promised the introduction of numerous Bills for internal reform, and expressed confidence in the maintenance of peace, The electoral law of Portugal has been modified. The new Chamber of Deputies is composed of 107 instead of 179 members, one only be : ng returned fom each district. A military rising has taken place in Lisbau, and another is threatened at Oporto. The SuHan, in his speech at the opening of the Grand Council of Turkey, announced that he wou’d support the extension of roads and rrllways iu Its don}ioioj&, and that he world int oduce various administrative and judicial reforms. ameimca; Extensive fires have taken place iu the shafts of throe of the slyer mines in Nevada, caus'r'g the death of 36 miners. Eight six,-.me s, carry -ng an armament of 77 g -cs hr.ve been ordered for the reinforcement of the West India Sqadron. The 8c 'a,te has rejected the Alabama Cl■'fms Treaty with (?reat Brltal ,i. The American National Debt increased to the a. count of s’x millions and a quarter dr I 'g the month of April. Ihe Boi’se of have passed Gene v.l Bn tier’s Bill, authorising the Presi. dent io submit to voters in Virginia, Mississ ni. and Texas, ihe constitutions framed by those Spates when duly ratified.

INDIA AND THE EAST. Lady Mayo intends giving a Queen’s Plata of 1000 rupees, to be rua for at the next Calcutta race meeting, Jnsi-uctioos have been issued for the ma '(’factece of ammrmfon for the Snider r'i'es at the factory of each Presidency. The b.-rque Atiaoua. wh’oh left Bombay for Besh're, on the Bervan O iilf. foundered ouis'de the former port. The Captain and 30 men and women were drowned, but 33 persons we’-e saved.

A rumour is prevalent in China to the eftect that some Chinese officials of high rank in PeVu had insured the French amhaasrdo-, in consequence of wh’ch the latter had hauled down Ids flag. In consequence, ising Krosrn is said to have recently advised Prince Rung to light the English, and have no more t 'eaties.

The rep ab I 'can party in Rhode Island has elected Mr Peddeford for Governor, and succeeded in returning a majority to the Legislafcure.

LATLST TELEGRAMS. London, May 12th. Galle, May 18tb. The Irish Church Bill has been passed in Committee without any material alteratiou. Several hostile amendments were proposed, but the Government majority increased on every division.

An animated debate took place in the House of Lords on the Irish Church Land Bin, introduced by the Marquis of Clanricarde. Earl Granville defended the neutral position taken up by the Government, and the further consideration ef the Bill was postponed to the 25th June.

The Government have been questioned relative to the recent agrarian outrages in Ireland. They were also condemned by Lord Stanley for releasing the Fenians.

Earl Russel’s Life Peerage Bill has been read a, second tune without a division. The appointment of Mr Otway as Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs has been confirmed. An American vessel has been seized by the Spaniards in British waters. A Bill, disqualifying the Mayor of Cork, has been read a first time. Mr Disraeli made a vigorous attack on the Government on the occasion, but Mr Gathorne Hardy and other Conservatives supported the measure. In the House of Lords, Lord Cairns attacked Mr Bright’s speech on the Irish Church Land Question. Earl Granville, in explanation, stated that Mr Bright had merely expressed his own individual views. The Prince and Princess of Wales have visited Athens, after being most magnificently by the Sultan. They have since arrived at Turin. Sir Roderick Murchison has contradicted the report of Dr. Livingstone’s arrival at Zanzibar. Maharajah Dhuleep Singh presided at a meeting of the Christian Mission to Egypt. A collision has occurred between the Protestants and Roman Catholics in Londonderry, by which two men were killed. At' Athlone serious outrages have taken place. In Tipperary, Mr Bradshaw, a magistrate, has been shot, and Captain Tarleslon also has been shot dead. In Cork, frequent robberies under arms have occurred. Admiral Milne succeeds to the command of the Mediterranean Fleet. An uneasy feeling prevails in England in consequence of the speeches made in the American Senate on the Alabama claims. The emigration from Woolwich dockyard to Canada, chiefly of laborers, is still going OD The Two Thousand Guineas was won by Pretender, and the One Thousand by Scottish Queen. The Chester Cup was won by Knight of the Garter. FRANCE. The French Chambers have been dissolved, and an election for a new Legislature is fixed to take place on the 23rd and 24th M a’protocol relative to the Luxembourg question has been signed by France and Belgium ; and a Commission has been .appointed for the purpose of preparing a basis for the amicable solution of the difficulty. In Belgium, the State Foreign Minister said that the programme drawn up by France and Belgium had been found too elastic, and had been changed because the Convention partook too much of the character of a compromise, whereas the new programme was equally satisfactory to both countries. The Marquis de Lavalette has intimated that the French corps d’occupation would only leave Rome on the security of the Pope being guaranteed. Serious disturbances occurred in Pans at an electoral meeting, where M. Emile Olivier delivered an. inflammatory speech* Sanguinary conflicts took place in the streets, 336 persons being killed or wounded. Five hundred arrests were made.

AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, June Bth. Mr Yale ex M.L.A., was entertained at a banquet at Ballarat last night, and received • presentation, as well as one for Mrs Yale. Mr Grant has refused to accept a testimonial while in office. .t i 68 entries have been made for the Melbourne Cup. ■ , Mr George Cavanagh, formerly the proprietor of the Herald, is dead. Bums, the Commercial Bank forger, has been remanded. His defalcations amount to LI,BOO. Sydney. _ A turnkey named Spinks was murdered in Windsor Gaol on the 31st May, by a prisoner named.Power, with'air axe. Spinks never moved after the first blow. Power has been f36Ctir66L The slaving schooner Daphne has arrived here, and the prosecution of her captain and officers has been commenced. A man named Mason has been arrested on the charge of having committed the late murder in Brougham Place. Adelaide. A corn merchant named Kruger has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzlement ; and Mr Howell, the Superintendent of the Stockade, on the charge of stabbing a prisoner.