LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2273, 19 August 1870, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH NEWS.

Sir Chas. Mordaunt lias determined to appeal to the House of Lords to re-open the question of divorce refused to be considered in consequence of his wife’s insanity. Wilkie Collins completes Dickens 3 unfinished story of Edwin Drood. No newspapers nor packets have been forwarded by the San Francisco route at the request of the Victorian Government. The Spanish troops in Cuba have been defeated and dispersed. The new filibusters captured large quantities of ammunition. Grant refuses to recognise belligerent rights to the rebels. Fenian plots against Canada are quite exploded. The defeat at Trout Liver is attribute 1 to the accurate firing of the Canadian forces The 12th, 14th, 18th, 40th, 43x1, 57th, 38th, doth. (»Sth, 70th, 80th, and 90th regiments are hcnccfoiward to bear the name of New Zcolnnd on their colors. The dogma of the infallibility of the Pope was voted after much opposition. The Conn oil is to be prorogued, .and is to meet again in October and sit through the next year. The clergy of the Eastern branches are already alienated, and extensive German secession is deemed probable. The leading European Governments have addressed warnings to tire Pope in vain. The Exchequer Chambers have decided that colonial legislatures have the power to grant indemnity for acts committed in the colony. In the House of Lords Lord Northbrooke denied that Government desired any severance of existing tics between England ami her Colonies, and said that successive Governments and Parliam nt had laid down a principle that colonists enjoying constitutional privileges were bound to undertake their own defence. The necessity for concentrating troops at home to ensure the safety of the Empire, and properly to relieve regiments on service abroad, compelled them to pursue the course taken.