ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 124, 26 May 1874, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, April 22. In the -House of Commons Mr SmolJet moved that the suddenness of the late dissolution of Parliament was deserving the censure ot the House. He characterised * the act as a coup d'etat, by which the last Government sought unconstitutionally to retain power. 'He declared Mr Gladstone had resorted to a stratagem, which was ungenerous to. his friends-— insoleot to his opponents— and barely honest to the nation. Mr Whalley seconded the motion, Mr Gladstone . stigmatised the assertion that a dissolution was secretly planned as untrue, absurd, and_ impossible. He challenged, the repetition of the word " trickster " as applied to him. Upon the refusal of Mr Smollett to repeat it, Mr Gladstone charged him with lack of manliness. - He then defended the act of dl_B_iution, which he declared would have been more inconvenient had it been postpone! Upon concluding his speech Mr Gladstone left ,the House. The motion was negatived without a division. There was much excitement manifested during and at the close of the debate. In the House ot Lords the Marquis of Salisbury, the Secretary of State for India, said that theharvest in India promised to be abundant, and that the present provisions against the facbine were undoubtedly ample, death of John Philips, the geologist, is announced to-day, at the age of 73. ___ 8 death was caused by aid accident;

A prospectus is issued in London containing proposals for the formation of a .ompany to take over Hall's Australian steamship live. Proposed capital, £600,000, in shares of £20 each. The seven promoter, take one share each, four of whom, including Mr Hall, stipulate for a salary of £ ICOO a year. , The turn-out of 15,000 miners iB expected in Cornwall. The amount of bullion withdrawn from the Bank of England on "balance day was £114,000, and the amount put into the Bank £20,000. Iv expectation of another rise in the Thames ri.er and an overflow, thousands of persons thiouged its banks und the bridges which cross it _he water rose to an unusual height, but no damage waa done. Placards arc posted up in the Agricultural distii.-.ts of England, cautioning intending immigrants to the United States, on the authority of Consul Archibald, of New York, that 40 000 parties are re.dy to return to England from America. The steamer Atrota, after repairing damages and passing inspection, left on Easter Sunday, with 400 immigrants, for Canterbury and Otago. Several ot the i__migr_n_B who left by her tbe first time, refused to procee-3 and returned to their homes, after enjoying the trip and several days r.tion. free. There has been a ten idle explosion in the mines nt DunkenfieU, which causod the death of fifty-threo persons and severe injuries to twenty other. . Mr Joseph Arch is to arrange for an extensive emigration of farm labo-ers from England to America. The steamer Faraday has begun to load with tbe new a tlaniio cable, which is to be laid direct to the United States. Two railway accidents have occurred in England, resulting in the death and iDJury of twenty persons. Mr Gladstone in reviewing the Budget said he regarded the removal of the penny income tax as au important step towards the abolition of taxes. The Bill abolishing the sugar duties has passed the House of Commons. At a special meeting of tho Committee relative to the Agricultural Laborers Union, £1000 was granted for the relief of the locked out laborers, 4000 of whom are now on the Union'd funds. A London letter says :— "ln thi, .Eastern Counties of England there is a bitter conflict between the farmers and laborers, and the latter have joined the Union. At Warwickshire they demanded an extra shilling a week, but thi. waa refused, and the laborers const quently stiuck on ono or two farms. The farmers generally retaliated by locking out nil the Union men, declaring henceforth that they will only employ nonUnionists ; the landlords supported the farmers, and threaten to eject tho.c who do not hold aloof from any relation with the Unioni't " The Parliamentary vote to defray the cost of ithe Ashautec expedition amounts to £900,000. There is a new movement in England for a Parliament of wonting men. An organisation has been formed snd a committee appointed. A Biil has been introduced into Parliament at the instigation of the Early Closing Association, for closing all shops at 8 p.m Dr Kenea'y has been excluded from the mess ot the Oxford Circuit for want of etiquette iv the Tichbome esse. This deprives him of his professional status, no person beiug allowed to engage him. In a letter to the Press, Dr Kenealy indignantly denies the charges made .gainst him, and says that he dissent- from tlie verdict of the jury. He belityes the Claimant still to be Tichbome, and that the real Arthur Orton will be in England before twelve months are over, and acknowledged as 6uch, and the defendant released. The report of tho Eastern extension of the Australian and China Telegraph Company Fhowß Ihe year's profits to ba __15fi,975. A dividend equal to 6| per cent has been declared, and .£39,950 carried to tho Refervc Fund,