LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 122, 23 May 1878, Page 2

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

[lledter's Telegrams van Press Agency.] London, May 20. The Auslraliau cricketers were enthusiastically received at Nottingham. It was raining. . When the stumps were drawn the first day the Australians were all out for sixtythree. The Englishmen scored sixty-one with four wickets to fall. The top score was made by Garrett with twenty. After a long and animated debate in the House of Commons the Marquis of Hartington's motion was adjourned till to-morrow. In the House of Lords Earl Beaconsfield declined under present circumstances to vindicate the policy of the Government. At Preston at a riot yesterday the military interfered and succeeded in dispersing the mob without usiug their arms. May 21. The Marquis of Hartington, speaking to his amendment said, the transfers of Indian troops to Europe was unconstitutional without the sanction of Parliament, that the expeditionary force, having started the cost thereof must be on the Imperial Exchequer, I whether Parliament approved or not. The i Colonial Secretary said it should not be taken for granted that the Government had aimed at an unconstitutional proceedure since the Act of 1858 authorised the employment of the Indian army, wherever ordered. The Government wished to show that they could wield the whole forces of this vast Empire. Messrs Laing and Morgan, and Sir W. 'Harcourt, opposed the amendment, believing no constitutional principles were violated. In the House of Lords, Lord Selbourne, referring to the Indian expedition force, called atteution to the unconstitutional character of the measure which violated the Mutiny Act. Lord Cairns denied the prerogative of the Crowu had been strained. Lord Granville criticised the withholding of information of the expeditionary force from Parliament. He said it was as unwise as insisting that every important question should be submitted to ballot. Consols, 96f; Bank rate, 3; market rate, 2\; New Zealand 4£ per cent loan, 103J; others risen a halt. Constantinople, May 20. The Russian Ambassador here and General Todleben both assure the Ottoman Government that the movement of the Ottoman troops have not any hostile intent.