HOME AND FOREIGN.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1330, 22 May 1872, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

ENGLISH. London, March 6.—The Queen has presented her groom, John Brov\ u, with a gold medal, and granted him an annuity of .£2,000 for his promptness in arresting O'Connor, when he assaulted her Majesty. The marriage of the Marquis of Bute will take place on the 16th April. March B.—The Medical Commission find O'Conner, the assailant of the Queen, sane, but an enthusiastic Fenian. 0 Conner says that he used an unloaded pistol,, because he only wanted to frighten the Queen into signing his document. Her death would bring the Prince of Wale l * to the throne —an event the prisoner does not desire. March 7.--All the journals this morning approve of the result of the Tichborne case. The trial of the claimant on a charge of perjury will take place in April. CONTINENTAL. Berlin, March 6.—Che donations granted by Emperor "William, on the anniversary of the entry into Paris, have given rise to much comment, on account of the largeness of the sums disposed of. It is said that Prince Frederick Charles, Generals Yon Moltke, Von Boon, and Manteuffel, and the Duke of Bavaria received each three hundred thousand thalers; General Goeben and Minister Delbruck two hundred thousand ; and twelve others one hundred and fifty thousand thalers each, and Generals Fabrice and Blumenthal, and others, were proportionally remembered, March B.—The Government has just discovered that the Pope has secretly appointed the Archbishop of Posen Primate of Poland. This Primacy has been extinct, since Poland was a kingdom. One function of the Primate to act as Pvegent in case ot the death or absence of the sovereign Paris, March B,—The payment of two milliards of the war indemnity, with interest to date on the remaining three milliards, was completed yester day, at Strasburg. This gives France the entire control of six Departments, in which she is allowed to maintain as as large a military force as she wishes. The Assembly rejected the proposition of Deputy Brunei for the erection on the hill of Tracadero of a temple to Jesus ChristTroops are concentrated in and around Paris as a precaution against trouble on the 18th instant, the anniversary of the Communist insurrec tion. . . Emigration from Alsace to Algeria is increasing. AMERICA. The House Committe on Commerce has been considering for several weeks measures looking to the revival of the carrying trade, and have concluded their report. Several propositions for the action of the House bill, emanating from the Secretary of the have been changed to allow the tonnage bounty per annum, for 5 years, sls per ton for iron, ami §l2 for wooden steamships, and sl2 for sailing vessels. It is doubtful whethet any subsidy measures will pass this session.