HOME AND FOREIGN.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1351, 17 June 1872, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN.

London, April 19. English public opinion is dead against the grasping trickiness of the Sydney Premier, and Lord Belmore's complicity is regarded with grave disapprobation-. The Daily Telegraph treats Sir JamesMartin's discomfiture as a punishment for his disparaging remarks about Gladstone as arch-destroyer of the empire. The Spectator thinks the dispute wilL hasten colonial federation, and perhapscost New South Wales a valuable province. But for ln's protectionist aberration the Hon. Charles Gavan Duffy would stand high in English estimalion. The tone of the Press is respectful to him. The announcement of a project for a grand trunk railway across Australia is thought premature and injudicious. The opinion is that it would be better first to complete telegraphic land lines to Point Darwin.

A very effective paper on the cost of the colonics and controverting Profesr sor .Roger's views, was rend last month before the Statistical Society by Mr Hamilton,

Notwithstanding the briskness of" trade the volume of immigration swells. 200 Cornish miners have left for Australia; other.* are preparing to iollovv. Upwards of 14,000 sailed from the Mersey in March. Canada is offering special advantages in order to attract immigration. The ship from Adelaide, was wrecked near Boulogne. The crew and passengers and part of the cargo were saved.

Mr Lang is preparing designs for a memorial of chose who fell in the New Zealand war.

The Leeds flax hand* have resumed work.

Lord Westbury has been appointed arbitrator in the case of the European Assurance Company, True bills have been found against Thomas Castro for pcrjuiy and foigery. He pleaded not guilty. Subscriptions towards his defence to nearly .£I,OOO have been made. A petition has been sent from the claimant's Hampshire ftiehdft, asking the Government to furnish money for his defence. The ba.ukruptcy proceedings: arc postponed for three mouths.

\A private meeting of members of Parliament took pjaee to agree to amendments strengthening the Pacific Islanders Bill. Captain Coote, of the Staff Engineers, and the Contractors for the Tasmanian Railway are passengers by the mail. At a public dinner Captain Coote was presented with a watch. An interest ing letter, dated 18th, bv S. F. Kelsey, on steam communication via Torres Straits has appeared. it is expected that a French mail company will take up the route for New- Caledonia. Liardet proposes Port Darwin a* the head quarters of the Australian mail service, with branch steamer. The Marquis of Bute was married on the 16th to the eldest daughter of Lord Howard (Elvisop), at Brompton Oratory, by Archbishop Manning. There was an immense concourse at the festivities at Cardiff, whither the pair went after the wedding breakfast. 500 compositors struck work; but masters succumbed to the majority. 1,500 men in the Birmingham nut and bolt trade have accepted amended terms. At Manchester, lamplighters have extorted higher wages by deeds of darkness. Dock laborers threaten to strike. There has been a terrible murder of a French Jady, Madam Riel, by a Belgian cook. The Health Lane murderers were captured in Paris, and confessed to the crime. A colliery explosion has occurred at Bolton; twenty-six lives were lost. At the Fuze Manufactory explosion at Camborae, nine girls were killed, and more were wounded. There have been destructive fires at Glasgow, Lancashire, and Howick. A tunnel has been projected under the Mersey, between Liverpool and Birkenhead. Christ's Hospital is to be removed to the country. The site fetched £600,000. Several railways follow the Midland in attaching third class carriages. The real strength of revolving turrets is shortly to be tested b> a combat between the Hotspur and the Glatton. A shipment of destitute Communists to England was stopped by a remon strance on the part of the British Government. The introduction of the Internationale in Ireland occasions excitement. Sixty members foiuied in Dublin an influential deputation to invite the Premier to visit Belfast, and iheir invitation was accepted. Wombwell's menagerie has been sold, and the 3,000 animals dispersed. A shoemaker, named Missengrove, ' under fear of starvation, murdered his ! four children. Measures are being taken to realize Fooler's Steam Ferry across the Channel. The hours of voting in the Ballot Bill are from 8 till sunset, with provisions for scrutiny and to make Ballot permissive. j