NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2198, 24 May 1870, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

A scheme for connecting England with all her colonies by telegraph is talked of. A private despatch is alleged to have been received on March 8, by an influential house, announcing the failure of four or five leading cotton speculators in Liverpool and Manchester, with liabilities estimated at a million pounds. Mr Childers laid before the House estimates for expenditure of the navy, which amount to nine and a quarter millions sterling. He proceeded to explain and Justify the estimates, laying stress on the outlay required for building ironclads. When all vessels now in process of construction were completed, the ironclad fleet would consist of two broadside ships of the largest size, six second class, nine third class, eight fourth class, four fifch class, and two sixth class. Of turret ships there would be two first class, five second class, and two third class, besides a number of smaller iron vessels. This fleet would place England on an equal footing with the highest naval power in tiie world. He proposed, in order to keep its strength up to the standard, to add yearly 20,000 tons to the navy. Loxdon, April 2.—Advices from Lome report a remarkable scene at the recent sitting of the Council. Cardinal >Schwartzonburg and Bishop Strossmoyer. endeavored to urge a policy of concilliation, and, while speaking on favorable terms to protestants and objecting to anathemas directed against them as arrogant and profane, were silence.! by the angry uproar of the Assembly. A committee is appointed to make arrangements for the visit of the English delegation to the World’s Conference of the Evangelical Alliance at New York next autumn. The delegates will jwobably be the llev. Dr Jobson, Professor Blackie, Canon Freemautle, Dean Westcott, Lev. Dale Hoare, and Cairns Alexander. An unusual number of promotions were recently made in the navy ; to effect this, many senior officers were transferred to the retired list. London, April 3. According to the Broad Arrow newspaper, the expedition to the Bed Liver district will be composed of three hundred regulars and a force of Canadian militia, and be under the command of Colonel Wolsely. The Spectator comments on the utter aridity of the debates in Parliament lately. The same paper thinks colonial independence would divert the tide of emigrat.on now flowing strongly from Croat Britain to the United States. Accounts from the principal ports of Ireland show that emigration to the United States has reopened this season with great vigor. The English papers comment with singular rinanimity on the subserviency of the Court to the Emperor’s supposed sympathy with Prince Bonaparte. A Dublin despatch states that an immense indignation meeting was held on April 2, at which speeches were made and resolutions adopted, repudiating the Peace Preservation Bill, now under consideration in Parliament, as threatening to destroy the remnant of liberty yet remaining to the Irish people, A committee was appointed to wa\t Gladstone alul represent to hqq thftt the policy of the Government ip this respect receives the cepsnye of till classes, and urge him to modify fclio Bill. Lesolutions were also adopted urging the repeal of the union existing between England and Ireland, as the interests of both countries were antagonistic. The Time, s reviews the pi oceedings of the High Court at Tours, and pronounces Prince Pierre Ponaparte a creature not tip,be Hinted with a deadly wenpop, but to be kept like a madman pnsay. constant watch. Tpe Boat urges the policy of extreme rigour towards Ireland.