EXGLISH NEWS TO THE 30th of MARCH.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 757, 16 July 1853, Page 1 (Supplement)

EXGLISH NEWS TO THE 30th of MARCH.

[From the" Melbourne Argus," July 2.] By the Genghis Khian we have papers (o the 2ilh March ; and wc have also by private hand, received a Liverpool Advertising and Commercial sheet of the 30th ; but the latter contains no general news, The Times of the 24th March thus reports the Money and Share Market of the previous evening : " The recovery which took place yesterday in the English funds has been steadily maintained. Consols opened at to i for money and 99 i to I for the account, and the only variation was that at the close of business the price for the account was a shade less firm, the exact quotalion being 99*. In the Australian land, bank, and mining securilies, the operations were less active, and quotations in soma cases showed heaviness. Australian Agricultural left off 100 to 103; Peel River, Land, and Mineral, Gj to g pm. : Van Diemen'sLand, 22(02i ; South Australian Land, TJ2 to U'i ; North British American Land, Gi to GG ; NorfhßritishAustralian,! | to -; pm; Scottish Australian Snveslmsut, 2 lo £ p.m. ; Nova Scotia Mining, 1 g to 8 p.m.; Union Bank of Australia, 7G lo 77 ; Bank of Australasia, 02} to 95} ; London Chartered of Australia, 4; to 5 pm. ; English, Scottish, and Australian Bank, 2, lo .' pm.; Great Nugget Vein, 2, to ,- pm. ; Australian, par to i p.m. ; Australasian, | to 1V p.m." We copy in reference to (he Eastern question, the subjoined communication from the Paris correspondent of the Times, of dale 22nd March. The following paragraph appears in the Man--iteur of this day : •'Private information received from Constantinople leads to the hope that the complications which have arisen in the affairs oi the East will

be resolved without endangering fhe friendly accord between the European Powers." • , This paragraph does not contain much, but, *• *such as it is, it appears to have produced the "'effect of calming the effervescence which previously existed on the question of the East, and * the opinion prevails that it will be arranged by negotiations ai;d amicably. This may be the case, and it is quite clear that, at all events, the wish is father to the lhoughl. . The Toulon fleet sailed on the 22nd March fof the Eastern waters, but notwithstanding this it is stated that the above announcement in the Moniteur had tranquillised the speculators on both sides of the channel. The Dublin Exhibition. — The'Moniteur publishes a decree of the Minister of the Interior, intended to facilitate (he transport of articles of French produce to the Exhibition at Dublin. They will be carried free, both going and returning, between Havre and Dublin. Deputation to the Loud Mayor.—Yesterday, about fifty gentlemen including the partners in several of the most eminent houses in the city, waited upon the Lord Mayor, as a deputation from many of the city wards, to request that his Lordship would convene a special meeting of the Common Council to receive a petition in favour of Mr. Pearson's projected railway and street improvements. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Millard, Common Councilman of Bread-street ward, who stated that the petition had been signed in that ward by eighty-six firms, constituting 184 of the 20a parliamentary voters, and eighty-six out of the 106 on (he list of voters for the Common Council. The signatures included those of the most influential merchants, &c, in the ward. Extract from a Letter to the Times.— Captain Chisholm remitted from Melbourne, in December last, not less than 9044/., which had been received from this class of emigrants, and by them appropriated to the bringing to that settlement their relatives, excepting a very small part of it allotted to a few who remain at home. I subjoin their numbers and degrees : Parents 470 Brothers and sisters . . . 354 AVives 2o Nephews 102 Other kin 25 This must be allowed to be a noble contribution from men just beyond the gripe of poverty. It shows what thrift can do, and how unhardened are the hearts of those, who, by dint of severe toil, in a colony where 4 lbs. of bread edst Is. 6d., and sometimes 2s. 6d., yet remember the wants of their kindred. The same paper contains a long and interesting letter from (be Ovens diggings reporting them as a noble field for strong and industrious men. Strike among Railway Porters at Liverpool. As stated in the Times of Monday, the Porters employed by the East Lancashire and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Companies at the Tiihebarn-street station struck on Friday for an advance of wages, from 18s. and 19s. to 21s. and 225. a-week. The directors with the idea of crushing the movement, brought over a number of men from Manchester. They however proved so unequal to (he duties, that they were at work all day on Sunday. On Monday the foremen also slruck,asserling that the fresh hands were too few for the number of trains, and that unless a change were speedily made, it was probable that some fatal accidents might take place. The old hands were thereupon called in, a promise being given that their demands should be complied with. On Monday a more serious strike, and one which threatened to detain several sea-going steamers, occurred at the goods-station of the London and North Western Company. A short lime ago the laborers struck for, and obtained, a change in the hour of work. The ol J time was, for the up-goods porters, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. ; and, for the down-goods, from 0 a.m. to 8 p.m. They complained that these hours threw the bulk of the heavy work into the night. Their hours are now from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. for the up-goods, and, from G a.m., to 7 p.m., for the down goods. The cause of the strike on Monday was a demand for an advance of wages—the first-class porters, who receive 245. a week, requiring Gd. a-day increase, and the second class requesting an advance from 21s. to 245. per week. To these demands the company demurred, thinking the men already received a very fair remuneration for their labour. A strike was the result. The men turned out in a body, and, proceeding to a minor goods station near the Waterloo-dock, compelled the porters there to join them. The mercantile men of Liverpool were rather alarmed at the prospect which appeared to rise before them. Their goods could not be removed from the station until the men resumed work or were replaced by others, and the various vessels by which it was intended to ship the goods to foreign parts would bede(ained. This evil has fortunately been avoided by the men being recalled to their work yesterday morning at 10 o'clock at the advanced wages. The numerous successful strikes in the town during the past fortnight arc exercising an influence upon the journeymen and laborers of every description, and more "turn-outs" are anticipated. Sir George Russell Clerk, K.C.B, late Governor of Bombay, and a most distinguished civil officer iu the highest rank of Indian administrative duties, proceeds at once to the Cane.— Globe. *