English and foreign Items.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 787, 16 May 1870, Page 3

English and foreign Items.

Mr Bright is convalescent. The death of Barbara Übryk the incarcerated nun is announced. A claim of £IO,OOC on the estate of the Marquis of Hastings—racing debts—has been allowed by the Master of the Eolls. The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce has memorialised the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the abolition of duties on marine insurance, and on tea and on sugar. Some unfavorable reports have been received respecting the Flying Squadron. A rumor was in circulation that the City of Boston had arrived off Ireland with both cylinders broken. Premiums have reached 60 guineas. The news of the running down of the American corvette Oneida by the P. and O. Company's s s. Bombay, and the want of humanity shown by the Captain of the Bombay, in not attempting to save any of the crew, has caused a great sensation. The Prince of Wales has twice lately been hissed in the theatre. Bull fights have been inaugurated at the Agricultural Hall. The horses were of wicker work, and the darts of pasteboard, smeared with glue. The Waterloo cup was won by Mr Spinka' Sea Cove. The steam trade between Liverpool and Bombay, via the Suez Canal, is daily increasing. The Magdala, a new monitor for the defence of Bombay, (a sister ship to the Cerberus), was launched lately from the Thames Iron Works. She will be rigged and fitted with temporary bulwarks, It is intended to take her out to her station by way of the Suez CanalThree large steamers are loading at Liverpool for India by the same route, and freight from Bombay is down by it to £3 5s per ton. A sum of nearly £SOO, which remained unexpended from the Highland Emigration Fund, has been transferred to the British and Colonial Society, "to be applied in aid of the emigration of entire families from the Western Highlands and Scotland to a British Colony ; and any further repayments which may be received from the Colonies, will be appropriated in like manner.