HOME NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 235, 7 October 1867, Page 2

HOME NEWS.

"We give the following English and European news up to the 10th of August, extracted from the Panama Star and Herald : — The House of Lords has rejected the English Church Bates Abolition Bill passed by the Commons. The ex-Queen of Naples, sister of the Empress of* Austria, is dead. A long and exciting debate took place in the House of Commons on the night of the Bth August, on the Reform Bill, which had been returned from the House of Lords. Amendments had been made in the Upper House, modifying the lodger, copyhold, and leasehold franchises, ailowiDg the use of voting papers, and conferring the franchise upon undergraduates of the Universities, all of which were neglected by the House of Commons. But another amendment providing for the representation of minorities was agreed to. The British Government is about to despatch a large body of troops to Canada immediately to repel threatened Fenian invasions from the United States. The Reform Biil was returned from the House of Commons to the House of Lords, when a motion was made to reconsider the action upon the disagreeing amendments. Some debate ensued, when the subject was postponed to the 12th August. A railroad express train got off the track at Bray Head] Ireland, on the Bth August, ■when in transit from Dublia to Wicklow, and eight passenger-carriages ran downtb o side of a high bluff into the sea, causing the immediate death of thirty persons.

In the House of Lords, on the Bfch, the Government submitted the new Postal Treaty "with the United States, for reducing the rates of postage between the two countries. Despatches from Paris announce the occupation of three provinces in Cochin China by the French forces. A supplementary navy estimate has been issued for £50,000. The succession to the Breadalbane peerage and Restates has been settled in the House of Lords by the unauinious judgments of the Lord Chancellor and Lords Cranworth, Westbury, and Colousay, in favor of William John Lamb Campbell, of Gleufalloch, for whom the Scotch Court had lately pronounced. An earldom and estate of the value of the value of £40,000 a year follow this judgment. The shooting this year of the National Artillery Association at Shoeburyness. shows a marked improvement over that of last year. There is every appearance of the gathering beiug attended with all the success its supporters can desire. The House of Lords have given judgment in the Yelverton appeal case. The point to be decided was, whether Major Yelverton, who it was alleged by the appellant had stated in the presence of a person, since dead, that he had been married to Miss Longwortb, should be put upon his oath as to that declaration. The Court of Session held the contrary, and their Lordships now decided unanimously that the judgment of the Court of Session must be affirmed, and dismissed the appeal. Admiral Tegethoff and his %uite have left Liverpool in the Novara, en route for Mexico, via Washington. He is sent by the Austrian Government to obtain the body of the late Emperor Maximilian. The Ist August, was the third day of the Goodwood races. Vauban, the defeated favorite for the great Derby race, won the ' cup,' for which he had also been made a hot favorite. The leading horses came in the following order: —Vauban, first; Tynedale, second; and Regalia, third. Advices have been received from Abyssinia which report that the British captives have been liberated by the Emperor Theodorus, the indignant suitor for the hand of Queen Victoria.