OUR ENGLISH LETTER.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 362, 29 March 1866, Page 3

OUR ENGLISH LE TTER.

(fbom oub own coebesposdent.) : Yorkshire, I9th January, 1866. ; Th e cattle plague still Spreads, and in many all generul traffic in neat cattle and swine % prohibited / the exceptions being in favor of fat stock for immediate slaughter, which may be yemfiTesLunder.iicease from one or more Justices tof.the Peace. ~•' ’ i 'A- great fire has destroyed property valued at a •quarter of a million at; the St. Katherine Docks, •London. lt is supposed to have been the act of one or more incendidries. * ■ 1 *■*' Hxcesslvq stdrihs hare marked the close of 1865 and the commencement of 1866. The 4amage?done both ashore apd afloat In many places the telegraph wires ,und posts word blown down or injured.—-The Atlantic, the shores .of the United. .Kuigdom, Fra uce, and other partai of the European Continent, felt the visitation. ■, • , vA?fripw during •> the second week in January; witii that exception, the.wiuter .heenTrepiarkably “ don’t ‘holloa’ before you are .clear, of Wood there! ’is vtltijh" enough | fbr 1 a power 1 6£ wintry weather* (Sismad April, ‘ , ! i -Lhe Eeifiap conspiracy is causing fli’e snthqrUies: OOxndtthubie./.jThe cify.jjhd county of Dublin,; And. other Vplficesj have' Keen “ proclaimed,” - ile ,: r 4Bhlge<kyi td-an enactment to “disarm” disturbed! districts.- > Writers for .the press differ Widely in, .Qpmion .as .to v the; policy of ' thejGovernnient. .Some, fiold that they did not.tako.aciioa .csflj’ ;*P4 dhij.not appreciate thb;magnitude of iho conspiracy; others arguotiiat the action© f 4he Government has in reality raised the organi- ! *Bat)on to a higher status than it could otherwise' ‘flare;attained. ThuX. “doctors differ.”,. Mean-' * ; Whifo' the “ Irish republic” fit NewYork'is in a of fiivil wari” 'President *o*Mahdny riersus .President Eoberts ar,d the Senate; a foretaste of republic were a reajjty-at';College Green instead mfa.fiction at.New.York ... . .„

•t- Parhamentis to. meet the Ist February, and • actual, business is expectedto-begin on the 6th, Tiiei ■ ‘Colonial Office will post to’ 4#®d- L What;, with the unsettled ’state of "Hew, -Zealand affairs, the unconstitiitibnal .government ■f( Victoria, and. the rerolt , in andUthe. measures adopted to suppress at, Mr Cardwdl wiff hare his imnds full.;: In Spain a militaryjising onder Genorai Prim lias, fbqenOifew days’ excitement, hot wonder, for Spain has latterly never been long free from some .affair of the sort. .. .

in Prance- the ruler has, still occasionally-tp ' l tfes screw,-'-Just to let his unquiet eom.try - fhat'he has no intention of letting • itliein -gotoo far in their aspirations after liberty] ''the press is so systematically gagged that independent jonrnalism is quite impossible. appears 'qivte settled under Tti: hew s TKihg. In’Frossia the struggle hefheeri Kingind 1 "Corntnons has slept awlule,' hiit is now’once more “ •to be tried in conSiot;' Apropos of pur, English press, we are so accns- , tpmed toeee itlaudedthat we are apt. to take it forgetting that it is “ blowing" its * -owu-trumpet-but a piece of snobbery occurred lately that is too glaring to pass unobserved;. -It vis this./ The Princess ■ileleha-is said to bo be* r throthed to a Prince Christian-of Augustenbutgl t Since this got to be well known, Oar English journals hare, in- announcing hjs movements, £ -caltedhiin Prince of Sleswig-Holstein; forgetting - *h»t neither de-jure Uor de facto vs that title his j -ffor the-Ring-of Prussia j i de faofo Dukeof .JSleevrig-Holstein.and the! Ring of Denmark 1 is,'or wtia.'tbe same dejure; and unless either of these i the title oh him, how oan it be his? •