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New Zealand Mail, Issue 50, 6 January 1872, Page 2

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London, Nov. 20. Before the sailing of the Australia, Captain Angel 1 was by special order of the Court examined in the Tichbourne case. .His evidence was in the interests of the defendant, and to the effect that he had known Arthur Orton when a young man, and believed the claimant to he that person. Mr Liardet and his son gave testimony favorable to the claimant’s identity as Sir Roger Tichbourne. j Sir Charles Dilke in a speech at Newcastle made an elaborate and scandalous ILttaok royalty) nnd advocated a Republic in England. Earl Bel-more will probably be appointed Governor of Bombay. Chief Justice Cockburn has protested against the promotion of Sir Robert Collier to the Committee of the Privy Council, as being a violation of the spirit of an act of Parliament. The South Australian Loan has been negotiated at from 102 to 106, and upwards. Both Childers and Bright will resume their Parliamentary duties next session. ITALY. The Pope and the French Government are at war about the right of appointing a French Bishop. The Pope claims the right independent of nomination, and M. Thiers resists the claim. There are now seventy vacant sees in Italy owing to the Pope’s refusal to recognise the sovereignty of Victor Emanuel. A Papal Nuncio was sent to Constantinople to conclude a concordat regarding the Armenien Church, but he returned unsuccessful. FRANCE. Bendetti’s attempt to whitewash the empire signally failed. He attempted to throw the odium of the proposed annexation of Belgium on Bismarck, but the latter retorted and published the secret despatches found in M. Routiers house. Emperialism suffers deeply by the exposure. The personal effect.*; of the Imperial family have been sold by auction. GERMANY. The iron cross and the war medal have been bestowed upon Surgeon Mailey of Crimean and New Zealand fame. The Bavarian Government stands out firmly in favor of religious liberty and is protecting the Catholic reformers by every possible constitutional means. The German expedition has discovered that the North Po'e sea is perfectly free from ice and swarming with whales.

AUSTRIA. The quarrel between the German and non-German portions of the population has reached a crisis. Bohemia demands an independent Government like Hungary, which demand is refused. Count Hohenworth, the leader of the Cozech party, has resigned. AMERICA. Chicago is already rising from its ashes. It is estimated that from 70,000 to 80,000 persons have to be provided for through the winter. England’s generous assistance is warmly acknowledged in all parts of America. CHINA AND JAPAN. The well-known tea clipper Taeping has been lost off Cape James. Some of the crew are missing. The barque Hotspur has foundered, and twenty-seven lives were lost. The schooner Rantipale, the ship Sinbad, the Japanese steamer Scotland, and the steamer Azoff have all been lost in the Chinese and Japan seas.