ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 121, 21 May 1880, Page 2

ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

The following special London telegrams, ranging over the period between the 3rd and 11th insfc., appear in the Sydney papers : — There has been an anti- Jewish ennui c at Swieciany, a town in Russia, in the Government of Wilna, 50 miles north-east from the town of the latter name. Considerable rioting took place, and numbers of Jews have been prosecuted and driven from their homes. Another important change has been made in the army at Cabul. A despatch has been received annulling the last arrangement made during Lord Lytton's government on the 20th March, whereby General Robert and Major- General Ross were in command of each division of the Cabul Field Force. General Stewart has now assumed the supreme command. The cause of this change has not transpired. General Ross had just achieved a brilliant victory, and was following it up. General Roberts had also performed brilliant work, and though Le made a mistake in risking a second Isandula, yet he, by a series of brilliant movements in retreat, saved his troops with the loss of a few guna and a quantity of gunpowder, which fell into the hands of the Safis. General Stewart, it is understood, will adopt entirely different tactics. Sir Edward Eyre Williams, at one time a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, is dead. Owing to the state of the weather, and also the foreign political out-look and uncertain harvest prospects, the improvement in trade which existed in February has gradually waned, and trade is not likely to rally till the harvest. Iron and steel haye fallen nearly 30. per cent. The appeal to the Lord Justices of Appeal as to whether the Judge who sentenced the Claimant had power to make the two Bentences cumulative, has been heard and adjourned. The strike of ironworkers is subsiding. The British troops are advancing through the Logan Valley without meeting any opposition from the Afghans. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, Duke of Counaught, and third son of her Majesty Queen Victoria, has met with a rather painful accident. While out for a drive the carriage in which he was seated was upset, and his Royal Highness, with other occupants, were thrown out. The Duke was the most severely injured of the party, his fall having been most violent. He was considerably bruUed about the face, arms, and legs, but no bones were broken. Miss Marian Evans, the distinguished novelist, popularly known as George Eliot, has been married. She is now Mrs Cross. Sir Bartle Frere, in opening the Cape Parliament, announced that among other measures to be submitted to the Legislature during the session was a Bill providing for a conference of delegates from the various South African provinces, to consider the question of provincial confederation. The finishing work at the St. Gothard tunnel has been temporarily interrui tfd by a casualty. A considerable portion of the tunnel has collapsed, leaving many thousands

of tons of earth to be cleared away before the concluding operations can be carried on as heretofore. No loss of life is reported. The fall is attributed to insufficient timberng. The United Slates House of Eepresentatives has decided to reduce the ad valorem duties on imported wool to 45 per cent. The Hon Thomas M'llwraith, Premier and Colonial Treasurer of Queensland, has arranged with the British India Company for a mail service between London and Queensland, via Colombo. The service commences in October next. The Cape of Good Hope steamer American belonging to the Union Steamship Company, foundered on the Equator. The crew and passengers escaped in boats. There is an increasing excitement at Hamburg in reference to the propo>al to include that city in the German Zollverein, and the Daily News states that a coolness has arisen between Prussia and Bavaria oh the same subject. A powerful syndicate has offered to construct a railway connecting the Queensland lines with Port Parker [a newly discovered port near the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria] on condition that they receive a land grant of 8000 acres per rnilp. Three British men-of-war have bombarded and burned the town of Batanga, in Africa, as a punishment for outrages committed by the native inhabitants. It is conclusively proved that the Indian Government only informed the Cabinet of the deficit in the revenue when the elections in England were nearly concluded. The Standard states that it is intended to send a financial commission to enquire into the state of Indian finance.