LATE NEWS FROM ENGLISH PAPERS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1828, 15 June 1874, Page 3

LATE NEWS FROM ENGLISH PAPERS.

From late papers brought to Hokitika by the schooner Prosperity, we make the following extracts : — j

The Marquis of Downshire is dead. Professor Gold win Smith favors Home Rule for Ireland, and advocates giving the country legislative powers and the administration of local affairs as in the case of the American States. At the annual review of volunteers at Wimbledon 10,000 men were under arms. The International Exhibiton at Kensington has been opened. It is rumored that Mr Disraeli is to marry the Dowager Countes of Cheßterfield. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh will soon visit Ireland. Mr Macaulay, brother of the historian, ia dead. A steam boiler at afctory in Hamilton, near Glasgow, exploded, and crashed into a schoolhouse full of children. Three children were instanly killed, and thirty are reported as more or less injured. The Marquis of Clanricarde is dead. The hospital ship Victor Emmanuel, with invalids from the Gold Coast, has arrived at Portsmouth. Nineteen died on the passage. The Queen in a message to the House of Commons recommends a grant of L 25.000 to General Wolseley. The office of Solicitor-General was tendered to Mr Huddlestone, and refused. An appeal, signed by the Baroness Burdett Coutts, Messrs Kinnaird and Horrace Waller, Sir Bartle Frere, and others, asks for subscriptions for the support of the children and two aged sisters of Livingstone, who are in straightened circumstances. The House of Commons has passed the second reading of the Bill for suppressing betting houses in Scotland. The rowing match between Sadler and Bagnall, for the championship of the Thames, was won by Sadler by three lengths. The newspapers generally approve of the Budget. The Times points to the fact that the revenue of the coming year is estimated on an unprecedentedly liberal scale, and considers the proposed reduction of the national debt small in comparison. . It is the unanimous opinion of financiers that President Grant's veto of the Finance Bill will prove beneficial to American credit, and they applaud his action. In Paris the veto is similarly approved of, The London Pod says that President Grant has once more saved his country, and deserves the applause of the nation as much as he did for his success at Vicksbnrgh. The Marquis of Salisbury, Secretary of State for India, has stated in the House of Lords that the harvest in India promises to be abundant, and that the present provision against famine was undoubtedly ample.