LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 155, 1 July 1881, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

London, June 29. In the House of Commons last night the consideration of the Irlah Lind Bill ia Com mittee waa resumed, the fifth and sixth Clauses were passed and progress wbb reported. ;: Arrived— Ships Casma, f rotn , Lyttelton, sailed March 17 ; Mari, from Lyttelton sailed April 9 ; Loch Urr, from Auckland, sailed M*rch 16 j Oanibru, from Port Chalmers, sailed April 14. The University cricket match between tbd i Elevens of Oxford and Cambridge was ! played to-day, aud resulted in an e*sy victory for the former in one innings with 135 runs to spare. H.M S. Nelson, aa ironclad carrying 12 gnna, is being commissioned for the Australian squadron and will be the flagship of Captain Ersktna who succeeds Commodore Wilson in command of the station. : Consols are unchanged at looj. Adelaide and New Zealand breadstuff* and Australian tallow are without quotablt change in price. At the wool sales to-day 4200 bales wer« catalogued and a firm demand was again experienced. TT -_ r Berlin, Jane 26. Her Majesty the Empress of Germany ia indisposed, but her illness is not of a nature to cause alarm. Constantinople, June 29 Midhit Pasha, Mahomed Hamad Pasha, and seven others who wer* yesterday found guilty of the murder of the Sultan Abdul Az:z on Jane i.h 1876 have been sentenced to death. Two of their accomplice* have received leniences of penal servitude for lifa. _ , Pakis June 30. It has transpired that the French Government has communicated with Ahmet Izzet Pa9ha, Governor General of Tripoli, com plaining of intrigues that are being carried on in that prorince to the detriment of French interests in North Africa and protesting against the hottile military preparations which it id alleged are being made at the prestnl tima.