ENGLAND.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 48, 2 December 1867, Page 298

ENGLAND.

Ottr advices by mail from London are to October 2. In reviewing the state of the money market, the Home News, the 2nd ult. says: —• The supplies of money are so. large in this country that even prior to the dispersion of the October dividends no employment could be found for them in first-class commercial bills at L* per cent. ; and temporary, advances ever, since, our last, now a month ago, have been : in - vai» offered by bankers and caoitalists at 1 per cent on Government stocks. In less than a week the October dividends on Government stocks, Bank stock, and a number of other less important distributions will be available, the aggregate of which cannot be less than seven or eight millions sterling. At the present moment' there is not the slightest..chance of this accession of resources finding.remunerative employment any'more than there is. pf the reserves to which it will be added.

J • 'We are glad, therefore, to announce that the" Bank of New Zealand has taken advantage of this favorable opportunity to invite, for the second instalment oi £200,000 of the Auckland . Half-Million Loan : of 1863, of which £IOO,OOO have previously been subscribed. As the’ proposal, on the part of the Auckland : Government, was c/nly intro(l deed on the Ist October, just, before the departure of the mail, sufficient time had not elapsed to ascertain its actual reception by the public. The list is to be kept open until the'Bth j but long before that time we anticipate the. subscriptions wih oe filled, in contemplation of the immediate option to exchange the Auckland Debentures for those of the General Government of the colony.

The Fenians to the number of 30 or 40, who were apprehended for attuekipg the officers of justice and rescuing by force the uoted conspirators Kelly aud JOeasy, are to be tried by a special commission. The utmost rigour will be used by the Government in punishing . those who; have been concerned in. the.fresh attempts at in. eurrection.

It is proposed to recognise the services of Mr Bright, M.P., to the cause of Reform, by inviting the hon. gentleman to a public banquet in Birmingham.

In the matter of “ Tichborne v. Mostyn the Tichborne 5 baronetcy case—an application was made on Oct. 1 to Mr Buckley, chief clerk -- to Yice-Ohancelib’r MaEns, vacation, judge, for further time to file affidavits of documents having reference to the plaintiff’s claim. A long affidavit was handed in, which stated that many of the documents with reference. to which an extension of , time was now asked for a third time were very old ; that they had relation to matters of pedigree and other wise; that considerable research was needed, and that some extension of the peripd previously granted was absolutely necessary, .- The chief clerk, .after, carefully reading the affidavit, granted a. month's extension Of tipae. r V ; The Australian claimant to the title and estates .of; the d? ichborae l' baronetage- -last week afcAlresfprd, and wasreceived jwith; beEjringing from v the dower v of the parish cliurcli.. ite/hasy’ since.been the guest' of; Mr W. a bounty mtagistrate and Winchester.banker’•atflus’ basil mahy^shpoiiug^partiesiwith^thenOigbbpifrr lug.gentry." y

A medical cotemporary states that the Princess of Wales continues to make such progress towards recovery. as may almost be said to exceed the anticipations of those who were most sanguine of a cure. She improves daily, and is constantly gaining more use of the limb. The Princess will probably remain at Wiesbaden for two or three weeks triore, under the care -of Dr Hans, who lias, aided Mr Paget by directing the special treatment adopted with such success." .

The feeling in Manchester on October 1 was much quieter, but with an Irish population of 60,000 to 80,000, and with Fenians in almost every rank of society, there is still some distrust. There was another scene in Court, some of the pri soners assuming an injured tone—that they had been deprived of counsel, through Mr Ernest Jones being driven to throw up his briefs. Tlie Queen is in good health and remains at Balmoral surrounded bv her family, including the Princes Arthur and Leopold, and the Princß and Princess Christian.

It is rumored that the Queen will confer the honor of knighthood on some of the leading colonists in connection with the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Aus traiia.

Mr Hamilton Hume, Secretary to the Eyre Defence Fund, has published a long affidavit by Captain H. B. Edenborough, late a lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy, who has hitherto been absent from England, to the effect that in June, 1865. the late W. G. Gordon, of Jamaica, endeavored to buy from him an armed schooner then at Jamaica, with the avowed object of using the vessel and crew to create a West Indian Republic. The latest accounts of the Abyssinian captives are to the 27th July, when they were at Magdala, a prison some sixty or seventy miles from Debra Tabor, where the camp of the Emperor Theodore was fixed. Mr Allen, tine senior Alderman below the chair, has been elected Lord Mayor of London. London, October 10. The Pan-Anglican Synod in Session at Lambeth, lias adopted and issued an address condemning Rationalism, Popery, and Mariolatry, and seeking to promote union in the church.

A dispatch from Aden announces that the pioneer steamers of the expedition for the release of the British captives held by King Tbeodorous of Abyssinia, have sailed from that port for the Abyssinian coast. The Standard, in a leading article, says that tha general arming of France is exciting apprehensions of a winter campaign The Times says that the Hon Edward Thornton, the present Envoy of Great Britain atßiode Janiero, will be appointed Ambassador to the United States, to fill the vacancy there caused by the death of the lamented Sir Frederick B*-nce.

Admiral Farragut, of the United States Navy, arrived in this city on the 2nd inst., and. was received with marked civilities. On the 3rd inst. the members of the Masonic Order gave a grand dinner to him and his officers, at Gravesend, which was a splendid affair... Advices from South America just received state that the Spanish fleet continued at Montevedo.

Advices from Italy state that. an insurrection will soon break out in the city of Rome itself.

It is generally believed that the Government will call the British Parliament together on the 19th of November next. The bullion in the Bank of England continues to increase very lareely. The Newmarket Race Meeting commenced on the ,7th- ult. The two events of the day—the races for the. Ceasearewitch and Royal Stakes—were won respectively by Julius and Palmer. Late advices from China report that a violent and destructive typhoon had visited the harbor of Hong Kong, causing great injury to the shipping in the port'. Several vessels were driven ashore and became total wrecks; others were badly damaged and disabled; and.the destruction among the Chinese craft was very extensive; the shores being strewn for miles with the fragments. The shipment of the new crop of tea continued with great activity. Up to the llth of September sixty-seven million pounds had been- exported to various foreign countries. . • • Extensive operations in grain recently m%de by the French Government and French mercantile houses have reduced the specie balance in the Bank of France one million pounds sterling., . . ,AH Fenian prisoners are now doubly guarded by armed policemen to prevent any attempts at rescue by members of the Brotherhood. * .On the sth instant advices were received by the authorities, that the Fenians intended, makihg ' an; attack on ■ one of the armories... . Government 1 troops were accordingly posted at the. different -armories to protect themj’.and precautionary steps; were taken to pnt doyra any attempted insurrectionary rising: On the > Bth instant, ■ owing to some threatened : indications • of r i a Fenian outbreak at Berwick, jtroops. were so placed asto l effectually 'prevent it,.,. J . Manifestations of ill-feeling on 1 the.part of. the.lrabnin.the npr.thuofEpglan&jcbh" ,tin uej and jthe inhabitants believe that the Fenians are concocting/ ansttackinthat. part; qfi.thel country. iciThe-Government Continues* its ," precautions i-, against ;! the threatened*^outbreak;; ;andj.’ troops . have .to, various pqiht9 ;t6 akßißt the civil authorities in case .£eߣ<Miohs&t<£^^