TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 574, 4 May 1868, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

London, 26th Feb. The Queen is at Osborne, and quite well.

The Prince and Princess of Wales and their children have arrived at Marlbour<gh House. The Princess derived great benefit from her visit to Sandringham. The Princess Royal bus had another son.

Prince Leopold has been dangerously ill.

Feniar.ism is dying out. There hare been a few more riots at Cork. M'Kay, a noted Fenian, resisted the police and shot a constable, who lias since died. The police charged with fixed bayonets and injured several of the rioters. M'Kay.wsß secured and is to be tried for murder. *Ho has been identified as the leader of the attack on the Martello tower. The Clerkenwell Fenian prisoners have'been committed. Mullany gave damning evidence as approver. Two editors, Pigott of tho Irishman and Sullivan of the .'Weekly News, convicted of publishing seditious libels, have been’sentcnced to twelve and six months’ imprisonment. Both to find security in £IOOO.

Money is a shade firmer. Discount is1| to Is. Trade is brisker

Australian securities are remarkably firm ; in some instances an advance has been obtained.

The Australian United Gold Mining Conmany will float successfully.

Colonial wool has been sold privately at high prices. Obituary—Dr John Davey. Sir David Brewster, Lord Wonsleydale, Hon. James Gordon, W. Herapath, Mr Justice Shee, Archdeacon Eushton, and Resched Pasha. The Treasury Commissioners have given a certificate to bring the bank of South Australia into immediate oneration.

The creditors of Overend, Gurney, Sc Co. hare been offered payment of the balanc" of their claims, by three and sic months instalment. The majority have assented to the proposal. W. IT. Smith, Barry & Co., East 'lndia and Colonial Merchants, have suspended payments.

The English and Australian Copper Company have declared a dividend of one shilling.

The Australian Agricultural Company have issued a report, to the cilect that the cash in Bank amounts to £4354. A dividend of seven shillings and sixpence is recommended.

Arrivals of Wool—From- Victoria, 39,(10.) bales; Sydney, 12,241; Adelaide, 19,019 ; total with other supplies, 113,364 hales. Business has shown increased activity. Cape and Australian wools are inquired for, and sold privately at higher prices. Generally the purchasers are disinclined to pay more than the November rates.

Tallow, 12s 9d ; beef, same ; leather, firm at late rates ; salted hides have advanced -j.-d to 4 i. March 2. The homeward mail per the Atrato arrived at Plymouth on the 29th February, and hSonthampton on th Ist March. The Earl of Derby, owing to ill health, has resigned the office of First Minister, and Mr Disraeli has succeeded to the Premiership. Dir M ard limit succeeds as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr Walpole retires from the somewhat anomalous position of a seat in the cabinet without portfolio, but will none the less give his cordial support to Dir Disraeli’s administration. Nothing is definitely known as to the successor of Mr Ward Hunt as Secretary to the Treasury, but there is every reason to believe that it will be Sclatsr Booth.

Her Majesty held a Privy Council afc Osborne, when Lord Chelmsford had an audience, and delivered up the G-reat Seal Lord Chaims subsequently received the Great Seal as the Lord High Chancellor of England. The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hr Hunt, was sworn in as Privy Councillor, and took his seat at the Board. Mr Brett, the new Solicitor-Ge-neral, on the same occasion received the aouor of Knighthood. The Lord-Lieutenant was enthusiastically received at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet at Dublin.

.s--uuitu. Referring to rfenianism. he said it was rampant only in Cork and adjoining localities : that the active conspi--1 rators were few in number, and that the jleaders would be ultimately brought to Justice. There never was a time when

incrs was a greater desire in England to do justice to Ireland, and he looked forward hopefully to the time when she would be a prosperous and contented member of the United Kin- bon. His Excellency stated that lie believed the result of the Railway Commission would be satisl'sc-tory to the country. Three marquises, thirteen ear’s, six viscounts, eighteen barons, and the owners of lesser names (nearly all Irish) rallied round the Irish church, and called upon Protestants to defend their principles against Fenianism. Rumors of war are again rife in Paris, to which the sudden departure of Prince j Napoleon for Germany has given a degree | of importance that otherwise they would not have obtained. The King of Prussia on Saturday closed the session of the Chambers. In his speech his Majesty expressed his satisfaction at the support the | afforded the Government in passing many important measures, aud for providing the additional supplies for maintaining the dignity of the Crown. As for the foreign relations of the country, his Majesty said! tha* - the government had labored incessantly for the preservation of the peace of Europe, and ho had the satisfaction of stating that these endeavors were met in the most friendly way by the governments of foreign powers and bore within themselves the guarantee of success. March 3. The trial of General Nagle on a charge of complicity in the recent Fenian operations, was resumed at Sligo yesterday. The day was consumed in an unsuccessful! effoitto impannel a jury. The great ob-j ject being to get a mixed jury, eighteen aliens were subpoened. Of these only six replied to the supcena, and three of these, being militiamen, were rejected. After further efforts to secure a jury late in the afternoon the trial was finally adjourned. Previously, however, the motion of Mr Heron, the counsel for the defence, to remove the trial to the Court of Queen’s Bench was was again made, and argued. The Court under the circumstances granted the motion. The result of this decision will be to transfer the trial to another place, where a mixed jury will probably be obtained with less difficulty. At the Sligo Assizes to-day the trial of Nugent for treason was discontinued, in consequence of tha illness of one of the jurors, and postponed until the next term of the Court. It is said that Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild is to be raised to a higher rank in the Peerage. George Francis Train has again been arrested. He had advertised that he would lecture this evening at the Rotunda in Dublin, and was about proceeding to the hall for the purpose of delivering his lecture when he was taken into custody. An audience of some 500 people had assembled at the hall, and when informed of Mr Train’s detention were very indignant, and demanded the return of their money at the door. At one time a serious disturbance was threatened, but the crowd finally dispersed, and all is now quiet in the vicinity of the building. It is given out that Mr Train was arrested this time on an action for debt. March 4. The present condition of Ireland and tho question of Irish Reform are to be considered in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the 10th inst. The consideration of the subjects was postponed from the 25th ult. in consequence of the resignation of Lord Derby and the suspension of parliamentary business pending tho formation of the new Ministry.

.'n attempt was made last night, it is allot i by the Fenians, to set fire to a largo j machine shop in Limerick, but it was'de-i feated by the vigilance Jand activity of the ! Police. The incendaries made use of' Greek fire in their attempt. j March 5, midnight. | In the House of Commons this evening! Mr Disraeli appeared for the first time' since the resignation of Lord Derby.! Upon entering the house he was received | with loud cheers from both the government and the opposition benches. Mr Disraeli soon afterwards rose, and! after giving the notices of the introduction I of certain measures relating to Scotland and Ireland refered to the retirement of the Earl of Derby, saying his colleagues were loath to sever their connection with such s leader, no language could express! their estimate of the character and career! of such a chief, and they all most earnestlvj hoped for hi* restoration to health and! power. Mr Disraeli then proceeded to! say—Her Majesty had been pleased to entrust to him the task of forming a govern-1 ment and he could not decline the gracious ! offer, accompanied as it was by the gener- S ons support of his colleagues. In domes-1 tic affairs the policy of Lord Derby during 1 the last two years of his administration | would be followed by the new Ministry, j and in foreign affairs the policy of Lord} Stanley would be adhered to. This would! be a policy of peace ; not one of isolation, j but one of generous sympathy aud regard! for our own interests and those of other) nations. Such a policy would never lessen j the influence or dignity of England, based j ss it was upon esteem and respect. The I domestic policy of the new government! would be a liberal one recognising national I traits as best securing national institutions. He regretted the necessity of continuing! the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in Ireland, but, as Lord Derby had said on a public occasiou, such action was the only safeguard against the unscrupulous foreign confederation. Such a suspension of the privileges of the writ was not incompatible with the gentle exercise of the law, and ha was of the opinion (bat the

grievances of Leland should bo treated with a tender regard for that country. After a few more explanations not of general importance, Mr Disraeli resumed his seat amid applause. Mr Bouverse, member for Kilmarnock, said the policy of Lord Derby, referred to by the Premier, was uncertain. If it meant retention of office only the new government would meet with serious opposition, Esrl Ruasr-11 declared that no confidence could be placed in a policy’ which was always saying one thing and meaning another. He said the liberal members tho franchise; but none had in reality been made. Such a mode of educating a party was unprecedented. The official returns of the Bank of England show that the specie in its vaults I has decreased £223,000 sterling since the: last report made, Feb. 27. I March 6. | The prisoners who were to have been \ tried at Warwick for Fenianism, Messrs! IBurke, Casey, and Shaw, were brought toj Newgate to-day. To guard against possible | rescue the prisoners were escorted by a body of twenty policemen. March 7. In the House of Commons last eveniug Charles Gilpin, member from the borough of Northampton, gave notice of a bill to abolish the death penalty. | A double guard has been placed around Newgate, where Messrs Burke, Casey, and Shaw (Fenians) are confined. Their .trials have been set down for next {month. Mr G. H. Hunt, M.P., who resigned his seat when he went into the Cabinet, has been re-elected from Northamptonshire. He will soon bring a bill before Parliament for the purchase by the government of all the telegraphs iu the kingdom. March 9. Tho Fenians who were recently on trial at Sligo, and who were subsequently taken to Dublin, were Fought to the city and imprisoned to day. Their trial will take place at an early clay, Baron Gilford has been appointed ViceChancellor. The Morning Post, in an editorial on tho subject of Irish Reform, says the plan whsch will be pursued by the New Government under Dir Disraeli in regard to Ireland is as follows, Ist, The consideration of the Church question will be put off until the Commission on the Irish Church establishment already appointed shall have made their report. 2nd. Another Commission will ba appointed to inquire in to the relations of landlord and tenant in Ireland. 3rd. A charter will he granted for a new Roman Catholic University. 4th. Tho Irish Railways aro to be subsidised by the Government, March Id.

Tho Prince ofWales will visit Ireland at faster, for (ho investiture of the of the order of St Patrick. ; Ihe American House of Representenfatires hare adopted articles for the impeachment of the the President. In Abyssiniaa preparations were being made for a rapid advaneo. Sir Robert Napier reached Antilo on March 2. Theodorus.it was believed, had relinquished his intention of going to Magdala ; he is now occupied in fortifying Talunta. The captives had been treated with greater consideration but their guards were strength-, ened. A communication from one of the] captives which had reached the King’s: camp would, it was thought, injure the! prisoners. Napier has sent on an envoy | to "Wagshum Gobazie, a chief of impo;--! tance. 02nd of Highlanders had armed, at Bombay. Twenty additional vessels: had been chartered for Abyssinia. The! Government lias discontinued faking up tonnage. The monthly expenditure of the expedition was £400,000. The latest news from the expedition stascs that six companies (regiments ?) were about to advance, A firm footing had been gained on high! lands. The general condition of affairs| had improved— passes had been found; available for wheeled carriages. Thena-, tires, finding themselves well paid, have’ become eager to serve the army | i Dr Norman M‘Lood has been obliged! t° Dave India in consequence of ill health. | The nrst weekly mail from England to 1 Bombay left on 7th March. I The Fine Arts Exhibition has been! opened at Bombay, and # vi.-ited by 10,OOP persons. j An official notification has been made that the Bombay postage would bo increased after Ist March to six annas the half ounce via Southampton, and eight annas eight pics via Ma; seilles. The Indian Chambers of Commercr are preparing [protests against the increased rates. | At the wool sales an advance of a penny jper pound has been obtained, j Prince Napoleon is at Berlin. 1 Dank of Australasia’s di» iuend 10 per : cent. I Consols, 23 j per cent. 1 -