LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1944, 18 May 1880, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] The f allowing cablegram items appear in tha Australian papers. LONDON, May 6. Owin? to the state of the weather, and also to the foreign political outlook and the uncertain harvest, the prospects of improvement in trade which existed in February have gradually waived, and trade is not likely to rally till harvest. Iron and steel has fallen nearly 30 per cent. May 7. A telegram te the "Daily News" states that Bavaria supports Hamburg in its protest against the inclusion of the latter in the German Zollverein. It is believed that the German Reichstag will reject the proposal. May 8. There is increasing excitement in Hamburg in reference to the proposal to include the city in the Zollverein. The " Daily News " states that a coolness has arisen between Prussia and Bavaria on the snbject. Sir Cunliffe o»ven will represent the Royal Commission at tne Melbourne Exhibition. The Commission will give £-000 worth of fine arts if Melbourne will return home free of cost the Sydney collection after the Melbourne exhibition is over. A powerful Syndicate has offered to construct a railway connecting the Queensland lines with Port Darwin on condition that they receive a land grant of SOCO acres per mile. The Hon. Thos. Mcllraith has made a contract with the British India Company for the conveyance of mails and emigrants from London to Queensland. Jit is to be a through service, calling at Suez, Colombo, and Batavia. The first steamer wiil start in October. May 10. It is conclusively proved that the Indian Government only informed the Cabinet of the deficit in the Indian revenue when the elections in. England were nearly concluded. The Albanians have declared themselves independent. May 11. Turkish troops have joined the Albanians. The "Daily Telegraph" state 3 that Russia proposes to Italy to intervene on behalf of Albania. The "Standard" states that it is intended to send a financial Commission to enquire into tie state of Indian finance. May 6. The appeal to tha Lords Justices of Appeal whether the Judge who sentenced tine claimant had power to make two sentences consecutive has been beard and adjourned. The strike of tho iron workers is subsiding. May 7. The Dnke of Connaught met with rather a. painful accident while out for a drive. The carriage upset, and the occupants were thrown out. He was considerably bruised about the face, arms, and ltgs, but no bones were broken. The statement made by Mr Gladstone in an electioneering speech that the Empsror of Austria had expressed anxiety that the English electors wonid vote for the Conservative party has created a considerable amount of discussion in the Austrian press and official circles. The Emperor is understood to hiive attached no importance whatever to the reported utterance but, through the representations of Sir Henry Elliott, the Fnglish Ambassador at Vienna, the British Government has been communicated with on the subject. In reply a frank explanation has been sent by the English Government to the Court at Vienna repudiating the complexion put on Mr Gladstone's electioneering utterances. Miss Marian > vans, the novelist known as George lilliot, has been married, and is now Mrs Cross. May 8. Sir Bartle Frere. in opening the Cape Parliament, announced thut among the measures to be submitted during the session, was a Bill providing for the conference of delegates from the various South African provinces to consider the question cf provincial confederation. The finishing of the work of the St.' Gothard Tunnel has been temporarily interrupted by a casualty. A considerable portion of the tunnel has collapsed, leaving many thousands of tons of earth to be cleared away before concluding cporutions can bo carried on, but no loss of life is reported. The whole of it is attributed to insufficient timbering. The United States House of Representatives has decided to reduce ad valorem duties on impcrted wool to 45 per cent. deli, the Turkish fanatic who assassinated the Russian attache, Colonel Commeroff, at Stambonl, has been executed. Tho Cape of Good Hope steamehip the American, belonging to the Union Steamship Company, foundered. The crew and passengers escaped in boats. May 10. Three British men-of-war bombarded and burned tho town of B&tanga, in Africa, as a punishment for outrages committed by tho native inhabitants.