ARRIVAL OF ENGLISH TELEGRAMS VIA SUEZ.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, 20 July 1868, Page 176

ARRIVAL OF ENGLISH TELEGRAMS VIA SUEZ.

The N.Z.S.N. Co.’s Rangatira, Capt. Bearnard, arrived in port at 3 p.m. on Saturday last, having left Wellington at 2*40 p.m. on Friday. She is the bearer of English telegrams of news to the 9th June; which will be found below. The-s.s.Otago, with the mail itself, arrived at on Wednesday last at I. p.m. r . (rrom the Argus, 7tli July.) •; The A.S.N. Company’s steamship Rangatira arrived at Glenelg at;s p.m. on the 6th from King George’s withthe AustralianMails.*V Tlie upward passage occupied 150 .hours,;'and the downward, 593 hours.; A hurricane of three,days’ duration was experienced ohthe upward passage. The ship, Northumberland,; laden with 1200 tons ‘'of '! coal, foundered on the: 20th ultjf off Bald Head; King; George’s Sound. Ml the crew were saved;;:- i /, Vv; Thesteamßhipßbmbay,CaptainHector, RrlN:R.'^arrived’at ! ‘the-Sbuhd at 3 p.m‘„ on the^lst'^^^dlyl v qf-thefßombay hahgoneihbmebnleaye^ [ffujne^andeipeirienCeHlightsouth-westerly The steamer Surat met with; an acoident .oi^Her^byagbltd^hei^e^'S^ai' broke of driven' through the 'sterh. '; The. saloon wasj -in

consequence,; filled with water. The accident occurred 400 miles from Poinhdb Galle, and'she put back to that port. All the passengers were kept at the pumps night and day.

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, May 22. The Queen is well amd in Scotland; . She held a drawing room at Buckingham Palace on the 13th May. The Prince and Princess of Wales occupy Windsor Castle.

Charles Dickens has returned from America. He is reported to have made £35,000 during the trip. Lord Brougham died at Cannes on the 6th May. His brother William succeeds to the title.

Mr l ( yre has been again prosecuted. .An order for the appointment of a re: ceiver to take charge of the Tichbourne es tates has been made.

The trial of the prisoners for the Clerkenwell explosion has terminated. Barrett was convicted and the others acquitted. Barrett was sentenced to death.

Bishop Selwyn, by the death of Bishop Hampden, becomes a spiritual peer. Emigration from Ireland goes on at an immense rate ; one thousand people embarked 8t Queenstown in one day.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland declined to release Sullivan and Piggotfc. Serious religious riots have occurred at Arklow; a woman was trodden to death by the crowd. Notice of motion has been given in the House of Commons by Mr Reardon, requesting the Government to advise Her Majesty to abdicate the . throne in order that the Prince of Wales, as Regent, may perform the duties of Sovereign. No reply has yet been received to. the memorial for a fortnightly mail service to Australia. The subject is to be brought before parliament. Mr Pardy writes to the Times that England has daily communication with America, weekly with India, and fortnightly with China ; and that it is unjust to continue only a monthly service with Australia.

Mr Adams, American minister, took leave of Her Majesty on the 13th May. At Oxford, Mr Gathorne Hardy, when laying the foundation stone of Kebble Col lege, announced the receipt of a telegram relative to the attack on Prince Alfred in Sydney, when something between a shriek and a groan burst from the assembly. The Bishop of Oxford, who was present, said

that the revenues of the Irish church were being confiscated to meet the wishes of as sassins.

Her Majesty, in reply to the address from Parliament upon receipt of the news of the attack upon the Duke, said, —“ I thank you. The attempt on the life of my son has, I am sure, only further aroused the loyalty of my Australian subjects, so heartily displayed in his reception. Addresses have been presented to the Queen by all the large towns in the Kingdom.

Sir Roundell Palmer’s motion about the Victorian crisis is postponed in consequence of recent information, and the probable receipt of further intelligence on the sub ject.

In the House of Lords on May 8, Lord Lyvedon drew attention to the conduct of Sir C.‘ Darling, in accepting the grant for his wife and infant, and asked what course the Duke of Buckingham intended to take, and the Duke replied that the large mass of the people in Victoria were favorable to the grant. He thought His predecessor had adopted the wisest course. Letters from Algeria give horrible accounts of the condition of the people from famine. The Arabs continue lb eat their compatriots and children of Europeans. Three Arab women drowned a boy 12 years of age and then eat the-body. A deputation has waited on Sir Stafford

Northcote, urging the construction of a telegraph line from India: to England by way of Gibralter. AMERICA. New York, May 21. The House of Representatives has passed a bill admitting North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisana to representation in Congress on certain conditions.

The Senate Court refused.to convict President Johnson on the eleventh article of Impeachment. Exchange on London, 110. . • CANADA. Twenty thousand people joined in procession at Mr M'Gee’s fuoeraßMr Ryan succeeds Mr M‘Gee in the House of Commons. , One million has beenvoted for fortifications. : One million sterling has been voted for supplies, ABYSSINIA - • The re-embarkation of the army would be completed by the 15tli June. The 'depredations of the; :Galla’s;tribe: were giving great tfqiible.J : Their habit..was, ; .to hurl down rocks on the passing columns, and plunder wheri'evehingsetin. i TheqdorusVf queen;; died-of consumption in. the cami);^His real. queen vrill thr.fiie sovereignty. -;.} - £ . The- Eurqpeau; ; are. in good; healthy, but the .Indians Buffer from the climate.-*

The 1 -'kriiilw.aysj^greater part of the istqres, whir be left; be-, hind.; .nX,':,.-’ ... J.; ; ; v , : r ; coaslitAnd'; A was followed^by sportsil^i^.^ ;; is ado, of. the political aspect of r the war. V .

lie education of the. youngest son of the Tate king is to be-entrusted to the Rev. Mr .Wilson, of the Free Church mission in India. . .'l. '

OBITUARY. Commander Polland, Rev. Ur. Slater* Lord Calthorpe, Lord. F.orbes, J.E., Chitty, M. Decoman. and Sir B. L. Guinness* m;p. . . ; ; shipping. . Arrivals—John Bunyan (from Hawke’s Bty), Great Britain (s l ), Norfolk, : Lottie, Maria, Christina Thomson, Dover Castle, Cospatrick, and William Duthie. Sailed—La vat er. -

Vessels loading—For Melbourne, 19 ; Sydney, 16; South Australia, 9; Tasmania, 4; . Queensland, 7; New Zealand, 7.

COMMERCIAL.; -v London, May. 22. COLONIAL SECURITIES. The demand for money is still moderate. Australian securities are quoted as follows Victorian six per cents, January to July, 112 fto 113£; April to October, 110 to ILI. New South Wales five per cents, 1871 to 1873, January to July, 97a to 98a- New Zealand five per cents, .1891, 98£ to 99 1 ; six per cents," 1881, March to September, 109 to 110. COLONIAL WOOL SALES. Messrs. Schwartz report the second series of wool sales to have commenced on

the 18th May. There .was a large attendance of home and foreign buyers. The biddings were animated, and prices, especially with faultless wools, ruled above March rates. Superior Australian washed wool was a penny higher; superior greasy advanced a half-penny.; inferior and faulty brought the same price as at the March sales, or lower. Total arrivals—96,Bs7 bales from Port Phillip ; 87,566 from Sydney., The sales are expected to last till the 4th of July. LATEST TELEGRAMS. London, June 9. The ministry were defeated on Mr Gladstone’s Suspensory Bill, the second reading of which having been, carried by 258 against 213. Mr Gladstone’s resolution, that the established Church of Ireland should cease - to exist, due regard being had to personal interests and individual rights, was passed at 2 a.m. on the Ist by 330 votes to 265. i The result was received with tremendous “ cheers.

The Government have abandoned the Roman Catholic University scheme.. Advices from Paris state that the French contingent for 1869 is to be 100,000 men. ...- The.reserve for the month in the Bank of Eh'gland was ‘£11,506,000.' :- • ■ ‘ - r The grand jury has thrown out the bill in the case of Governor Eyre. .. Mr Mill has presented a petition to Parliament-, praying for inquiry into the cause of the Abyssinian war. Latest advices state that the Abyssinian captives had arrived at Suez. Chief Justice Cockburn has expressed the dissent of himself and the majority of the Judges from the ruling of Mr Justice Blackburne upon which Governor Eyre was acquitted. Government intends to demand supplies for a whole year.

Russia- has proposed a convention to consider the question of abolishing explosive projectiles in war. France has assented

Mr Reardon’s motion in the; House of Commons respecting the state of her Majesty’s health and the-consequent desirability of -her- abdication, was indignantly rejected. - Barrett, the Clerkenwell Fenian, has been executed.

The Alfred Memorial hospital committee of Sydney has met in London,- Sir . John Young, in the chair. The object* of the meeting was to evoke the sympathy of Sydney colonists in London, and a sum of £7OO, was subscribed. ;.•

. Prices of wool; have advanced through foreign competition. Good wool is a "penny better in ' price ;;; other qualities, a halfpenny.. Many; sales have been-.made. 'ihe Derby was won by Blue Gown — King Alfred Becond, and Speculation third. Formosa was winner of the Oaks; . The London Chartered. Bank dividend was eight jper cent. Consols, 94.