ENGLISH NEWS

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 105, 10 April 1863, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS

TO I'EBiIUAEY 3.

London, 2G(h January. The November Australian mails were delivered in Loudon on the 15th and 19th of January. Her Majesty remains at Osborne in strict seclusion, to the regret of all classes of her subjects. The marriage of the Friuce of Wales is announced to take place on the 12th March. The Prince and Princess Alexandria are to make a trinnpbal entry into London previous to the ceremo-

ny. The marriage contract was signed at Copen. hagen on the 15th January. The distress in the manufacturing districts is decreasing, the numbers receiving parochial relief lessened in two weeks by 26,880 persons. The total amount subscribed to the Lancashire Belief Fund exceeds one million.

The destitution of the London poor is lamentably on the increase. Mr. Gladstone, in a speech delivered by him at Chester, estimates the loss to the revenue through the suspension of wages in the distressed districts at the rate of one million and a half per year. The Metropolitan Underground Railway hasbeen opened, and is a most complete success. A fearful hurricane passed over London, causing great damage to property. Lamentable accounts of shipwrecks, and the loss of life on the Coast have been received.

The Bank forgers have been found guilty, and sentenced to long terms of penal servitude. Garotting is decreasing in London, but it is in full vigor at Manchester. Prison discipline in England is now being carried out with rigor. Transportation to Australia is scarcely alluded to bv the Press this month.

Another English cricketing eleven intend visiting Australia—namely, George Parr (captain), Mess, Dixon, Daft, Grundy, of Nottingham ; Carpenter, Hayward, Tarrant, of Cambridge ; Anderson, of Yorkshire ; Willshir, of Kent; and Catfyn and Stephenson, of Surrey. The contest for the championship of the Thames, between Everson and Chambers, excites great interest, and takes place on the Mth April, The P. and 0. Company have offered to run fortnightly Australian Mails for an additional subsidy of £60,000 'R annum. It is stated that the British Government favor the measure, and it now only rests with the Colonies to decide it, as it has been suggested to place all responsibility in the hands of Victoria, leaving her to make the requisite arrangements with the other colonies.

The public feeling in Englaud is against the prosecution of the war in New Zealand ; temporising expedients being recommended. The Times, in commenting upon the address to the Queen from the New Zealand representatives, says: “Wo have never seen a public document less coinciding in its statements, or more entirely divested of the graces of modesty and self-respect.” Sir Daniel Cooper, of New South Wales, has been created a baronet. OBITUARY. The Governor of Mauritius, Sir W. Stevenson, Mr. Richard Green, of Blackwall, shipowner, Exjustice Crompton, Sir Duncan Cameron, Mr. Charles Dance, Admiral Temple, Marquis of Lansdowne, and Archdeacon of Wales.