EUROPEAN NEWS TO MAY 2.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 52, 26 June 1862, Page 1 (Supplement)

EUROPEAN NEWS TO MAY 2.

ARRIVAL OP THE STEAMERS “ STORM BIRD” AND “ WHITE SWAN.”

By the White Stvan, which arrived at an early hour this morning, we are in possession of the news by the April English mail, a summary of which is subjoined. The Swan made the passage with her wonted celerity, having left Auckland on the morning of Thursday last,, at half-past ten. The news from Auckland is of an important nature, his Excellency having settled, for the present at least, the native feud raging in the North, and at last leased from the natives the much coveted gold region at Coromandel. For the first time we have to chronicle the presence of two steamers in our port at the same time, the Storm Bird, from Wellington, having arrived on Thursday last, at one p.m. She was the first to bring us the European intelligence. Thomas Hitchings, Esq., is gazetted coroner for the district Of Napier. [By Electric Telegraph]. (From the Sydney Morning Herald, June 10). April 26 —The Australian February mails were delivered in London on 15th and ISth April. The Court had returned to Osborne ; her Majesty’s health continues good. The wedding of the Princess Alice is to take place in June. The Queen, by the advice of the committee has abandoned the intention of erecting a monolith for the late Prince Consort. The subscription list progresses slowly. The opening of the International Exhibition is the absorbing domestic topic of the hour. The journals groan with letters full of criticism and suggestions. Good and evil auguries abound, and curiosity is piqued from all points of the compass by the descriptions and and anticipations of the gorgeous ceremonial. Parliament will re-asscmble on the 28th April. The dullness of the Parliamentary session has been unexpectedly relieved by a caustic speech from Mr. Disraeli on the finances of country. This speech was delivered upon the House going into committee of ways and means, and consisted principally of an attack on Mr. Gladstone. One of the chief points set up was that during the last three years the country had been plundered of seven millions' and a half, owing to the financial errors of Mr. Gladstone. The reply was complete. The Chancellor of the Exchequer made Ids financial statement, and estimated a surplus of .£150,000. The hop duty has been abolished. Mr. Gladstone, in speaking publicly on the American question, said, that, however much the Federals might dislike the idea of dismemberment, yet it must eventually take place, and prophesied that the two parties would never come together again under the same government. Sir William Armstrong has constructed a gun, a 300-pounder, fourteen feet in length and weighing twelve tons, which a trial has proved can blow round shot with ease through a target much thicker than the sides of the This hus cciiisscl n

sation in England and throughout Europe. The English Government has suspended the building of wooden ships in all the dockyards, and also the stone forts lately designed for the defence of the coast lino, until the defensive power of the iron-roofed gun boats has been tested. Lord Palmerston, speaking on the Roman question in the House of Commons, said he sympathised strongly with the Italians, and thought that the French occupation of Rome, although not strictly a violation of international law, was a gross' violation of the principle of non-interference proclaimed by France as well as England, at the commencement of the war. This open speaking of the English Minister has caused much speculation in France, and - it is rumored that negociations are on foot for the withdrawal of the French troops. All’. Russell, the Times correspondent, has been prohibited by the Federal war secretary, from accompanying M’Clelian’s army, and has returned to England. The distress caused by the dearth of cotton in the njanufacturing districts in the North of Engiand'is already fearful, and increases every day. The Confederate Congress has resolved to open their ports free to every nation, except the Northern'States. The Emily St. Pierre, an English ship, from Calcutta, was captured by a Federal Avar steamer off CharlestOAvn ; hut was recaptured by her captain, Avith the assistance of his cook and steward, from Lieutenant Stone and his croAV, consisting of sixteen men. She had arrived in LiA r erpool. The Great Eastern sails for Ngav York in May. Judgment has been delivered in Wyndham lunacy case. Each side to pay its oavu costs. The Volunteer Review at Brighton Avas a great success. Twenty thousand Vohmtners were present, under Lord Clyde. The sale of the season tickets for the Great Exhibition has been enormous, and there are more than double the number of exhibitors at the present than at the Exhibition of 18G1. A terrible conflagration took place in Falmouth. Thirty houses were burnt doAvn. The Oxford and Cambridge boat race was Avon by six lengths by the Oxford crew. The Parliamentary papers recently issued confirm the accounts of the richness of the gold regions of British Columbia. Obituary.—Sir James Clark Ross, Sir Robert Houston, K.G.8., Colonel MorseCooper, Rear-Admiral Sir William Fairbrother Carroll, Mr. Brandt, Sir John West, the Earl of Pembroke, Sir Thomas Wyse, Vice-Admiral Duff, Sir John Kincaid.