THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 133, 31 July 1863, Page 3

THE ENGLISH MAIL.

NEWS TO 2nd JUNE. London, May 26th. The Australian March mails were delivered in London on the 16th and 21st of May. The Queen left for Scotland on the 13th instant, and intends returning on the 7th of June. The Prince and Princess of Wales are going a round of gaiety. Parliamentary news is dull, Better relations are established between England and the Northern States on the vexed'question of international law. The proposals of New South Wales and New Zealand to establish a mail service via Panama are positively declined by the British Government. The distress in Lancashire and the manufacturing districts is slowly decreasing. Government proposes to employ 70,000 of the unemployed on municipal works, and the reclamation of waste lands, under the superintendence of the Boards nf Health. One thousand emigrants left Manchester on the 28th of April en route for New Zealand. Recruiting for the Federal army is extensively carried on in Ireland. The emigration to America is estimated at upwards of 5,000 persons per week. The garotting panic is over. The House of Commons has passed the bill for flogging garotters. Transportation to Queensland and the Northern Coasts is no more talked of. The Times says —“ Government fully recognises the difficulties of the New Zealand question to colonists, but requires from the latter a policy towards the Natives most prudent and liberal, in return for the protection afforded them by the Queen’s troops at the cost of Great Britain.” The long sought-for source of the White Nile has been discovered by Captains Speke and Grant to be a Lake 4000 feet above the lev°l of the sea, four degrees south of the Equator. Livingstone’s expedition is to be recalled. The cutting of Suez Canal is likely to be stopped by the Sublime Porte should great concessions and alterations required by him not be made. If these are not granted, the Porte will return to the company all the money they have expended. The Secretary of War has overruled the decision of the Horse Guards, and General Cameron will continue in command of the New Zealand troops. The postage rates via Marseilles are advanced one penny per quarter of an ounce. The Derby Day was very wet. The Prince of Wales present. The Derby stakes value <£7,000, were won by Maccaroui; Lord Clifden, the favorite, 2nd; Rapid Rhone, 3rd ; Blue Mantle, 4th. The Oaks were won by an outsider, Queen Bertha; Mangold, 2nd ; Vivid, 3rd; value of the stakes, <£5,050. The boat race, for the championship of the world, between Chambers and Green, causes much attention and speculation. Green is in hard training. The American champion, Hamill, declares he can whip either of them. OBITUARY. Lord Masaereene, Lady Seaton, Sir Augustus Warren, Lord Heatherton, David Boswell Reid, Weston Wood, and Wm. Younghusband, late Chief Secretary of South Australia.