LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.
London, May 2. Mr Berry sails to-morrow, but Professor Pearson remains. Mr 'Berry is the bearer of despatches from the Secretary of State for the Colonies regretting the want of a greater spirit of accommodation on both aides. He rejects Mr Berry's proposals to amend the Coustitution by Imperial legislation, since only one extreme emergency has arisen to justify such measures. The readiest means to harmonise the two Chambers, he considers, would be to make both the Council and the Assembly dissoluble. The Chambers should act like the British Parliament, and the Council should yield to public opinion in order to avoid a conflict. Bills of supply should be limited to provisions analogous to English Bills. The Council should claim no other right in dealing with them than the House of Lords possesses. The Daily News publishes a paragraph stating that the Prince of Wales will visit the Melbourne Exhibition. _, May 5. The Board of Trade returns for the last month continue very unfavorable. May 6. The Chancellor of the Exchequer in reply to a question S3id that with a view to an early settlement of the difficulties in Zululand instructions bad been sent to the Governor and High Commissioner to abstain from a policy of annexation, and to confine his. efforts to protecting the colonies from danger. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, ! in reply to a question, said ; that he believed that all the Powers would agree in the proposal for mediation of the French Minister
for Foreign Affairs between Greece and Turkey. Isaac Butt, M.P. for Limerick, is dead. . • The Brindisi mails were delivered in London on the sth. Sai'ed ; Garonue> from Plymouth.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 103, 7 May 1879, Page 2
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