ARRIVAL OF ENGLISH NEWS

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 180, 19 June 1869, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF ENGLISH NEWS

The s.s. Rangitolo left Hobson’s Bay with the English mail on board on June Bth, at 2.15 pan,, arriving at Hokitika on June 15th, at G a.m. ; left Hokitika for Wellington at 3 pan. on the 15th, arriving at 5 - 30 p.m. on the 16th. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, April 23. The Australian March mails were delivered punctually. The Queen is now at Osborne. In the early part of the month her Majesty returned to London, when she held a draw ingroom at Buckingham Palace. She visited Bartholomew Hospital, accompanied by the Princess Louise. The celebration of the Royal birthday had been fixed for the 2nd of June.

During tlie autumn her Majesty intends spending two months in Ireland. Prince Leopold’s continued illness causes anxiety. The Prince of Wales was present at an English cricket match at Constantinople. An official dinner was given at the British Embassy, and their Royal Highnesses visited the Grand Vizier-, and lunched at his residence. They are expected to return to England in May. The Sultan presented the Princess with his portrait set in diamonds, of the value of £BO,OOO.

A Bill introduced into the Lords for increasing the episcopate has been rejected. The considerat on of the Irish Church Bill is proceeding in committee. The second reading of the Bill legalising marriage with a deceased wife’s sisterlias been carried by a majority of 99. Mr. Gladstone announced that friendly negotiations were going on with Russia with respect to Central Assia. Australian preserved meats arc rising in public favor. The stocks are exhausted, and enormous orders have been booked. The demand is spreading in the provincial towns.

Five thousand unallotted shares in the Melbourne Meat Preserving Company have been offered.

The immigration movement is proceeding vigorously; 327 artisans and families from East London left on the 13th April for Canada. After a public breakfast at the Midland Station, on the 20th of April, 450 discharged dockyard workmen sailed from Portsmouth, the Government granting free passages. Numerous large meetings have been held in the metropolis to agitate for Government aid towards emigration. The Government promised to give any necessary assistance. The subject has been discussed in the House of Lords. Canada continues to be the great centre of attraction, in consequence of the prominence given to its advantages as a field for emigration by a well organised active Canadian agency. Three thousand five hundred pounds have been placed on the Estimates for presents made by the Duke of Edinburgh while in Australia.

Mr Justice "Wylde has been raised to the peerage under the title of Earon Penzance. Mr Beverdy Johnson has visited New-castle-on-Tyne, and repeated his declaration that war between England and America was impossible. A flying squadron may be expected to visit Melbourne and Sydney towards the close of the year, and New Zealand in the middle of January. The working men of Lancashire have resolved to raise £SOOO for the widow and family of the late Earnest Jones. The frauds of Benjamin Higgs, bookkeeper to the Great Central Gas Company, have been discovered to be of a most gigantic nature. It is thought £150,000 will hardly cover the depredations. On £4OO a year Higgs lived in a style indicating the receipt of as many thousands, yet without attracting the attention of his employers. A large Are has occurred in the hop warehouses in Southwark, by which property valued at £50,000 has been destroyed.

Two Ballarat gold mining companies and a Now Zealand quartz-crushing company, have been introduced on the London market.

Colonial wool is quiet. The next public sales will commence on May 6. The receipts of of Australian wool for the first two mouths of this year were close on 1,900,0001b5, compared with 1,040,0001bs during the corresponding period of last year. Obituary.—Lord Cloncurry, Earl of Eingall, Countess of Mornington, Admiral Mansell, the Rev. Digby 'Walsh, Archdeacon Mant, Mr Druce, Q,. C. ; Mr Charles Hoare, the brewer; and members of the three most eminent publishing firms —Thomas Brown (of Longmans and Co) Bradbury (of Bradbury and Evans), and James Harper (of Harper and Brothers, New York.)