ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4378, 1 April 1875, Page 2

ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

ARRIVAL - OP THE RA.SBY. The s.s. Easby, Captain Kennedy, arrived in harbor at an early hour yesterday morning. She brings the following news ; ENGLISH. London, March 17. In the Mount and Morris case, the colonial judgment has been reversed. An appeal has been allowed in the Bank of South Australia v, Ealister. At the Sacred Consistory, held yesterday, six Cardinals were created, including X)r. Manning, the' Homan Catholic Archbishop of Westminster. ■ Ten new bishops were also appointed. > March 20. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales contemplates i visit to India in the cool season. The strike it Dewsbury, among the woollen operatives, has been settled. The University boat race for 1875 was won by Oxford br four lengths. Pathfinder won the Great National Stakes. The Bishop of Munster lias been imprisoned. The Prussian Chamber has disendowed the Roman Catholic Bishops not subscribing to the Civil Code. The strile in the woollen trade has terminated. i RimmelT) perfumery establishment in the Strand has teen destroyed by fire, Obituar?. —John Mitchell, lately elected for Tipperary ; Field-Marshal Giomm, G.C.B. March 20. The New Zealand Loan has been admitted on the Stock Exchange. Two mere failures have occurred in houses connected with the South American trade, the aggregate liabilities amounting to £600,000. . In the vool market general prices are firm. Sydney superior fleece is weaker. The next series commence in May, the probable arrivals for which will amount to 400,000 bales. The 'wheat market is firmer; Adelaide is nominal at 48a. to 50s. Hemp sold at 16s. to 19s. Shipping—Arrivals ; Renown, from Melbourne, 24th November ; Lord Warden, from Melbourne, 4th December ; City of Adelaide, from Adelaide, 15th November. FOREIGN. Paris, March 20. The National Assembly, adjourns on Monday, with a probable dissolution, which is however as yet unsettled. M. Undreffret has been elected President of the Assembly. fßx way op Torres Strait.] There is no reliable information obtainable concerning new teas. News from Spain states that Don Carlos is experiencing severe reverses. The ship Calabar, which was supposed to have been lost, is safe at Travancore. Prince Bismarck is guarded by police, at his private residence. German war vessels have arrived at Santander. There were great festivities at Brussels on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Louisa, eldest daughter of King Leopold 11. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was present. An English frigate has been sent to the support of the British Consul at Aspinwall, who was assaulted. Governor Clarke’s mission to China, to stop the quarrel between the King and Ilia brother, lias been successful. He was received with honors and cordiality. Both kings are reconciled. He returned to Singapore on the 13th February. Commercial confidence has been restored. The survivors of the Euxine are still awaiting their trial for murder, at Singapore. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. VICTORIA. Melbourne, March 22. The Tasmanians won the return. match at Ballarat in one innings, with eighty-four runs to spare. George Bailey scored seventy-five runs. The Volunteer Commission has been appointed, and it includes Sir John O’Shannassy, Sir George Verdon, and Colonel Ward, as members. . Wheat and flour are in better demand. A ballast train collided with a trolly on the north-eastern line on Saturday evening, and a man and a boy were lulled, and one man was injured. The ship Isabella, from London, reports passing the ship Manilla, of Glasgow, in a sinking condition, and abandoned. She had evidently been in collision. J. B. Were, Consul for Sweden, has been made a Knight of the Order of Vasa. The Challenge Cup match was continued to-day. East Melbourne made 177 with eight wickets. Horan, 34 ; Boyle (not out), 45. For the Grand National Steeplechase, at Ballarat, ten started. Hans Breitinan won easily ; Sheet Anchor, 2; AH Fours, 3. Selling Race—-Won by Aaron, easily. Grandstand Stakes—Break-o*-Hpy, 1 ; Dane, 2. At the inquest on Flinn, who committed suicide in the Fitzroy Gardens, a verdict of felo-de-se was returned! At the Regatta to-day, Carter, of the Civil Service, won the Challenge Sculls. A fire broke out this morning at the Royal Saxon Hotel, Ballarat. The loss is estimated at £3GO. At the Regatta, the Civil Service won the Eight-oared Race. A buggy accident occurred; the horse bolted with the vehicle, and two ladies jumped out, Miss Perry was killed on the spot, but Mrs. Walter was uninjured ; a third lady, who remained seated, was also uninjured. NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, March 23. It is expected that there will be a contest for the Speakership, and the choice of the House will probably lie between Mr. George Wigram Allen, the member for the Glebe, and Mr. Robert Wisdom, who represents the electorate of Morpeth. Experiments which have been made at the Albury telegraph office, with the Wheatstone automatic instruments, recently imported from England, are reported to have been satisfactory ; and Mr. Cracknel!, under whose superintendence the experiments have been conducted, is of opinion that the new instruments will be highly successful.

The receipts at the Sydney Customs during the first two months of both years, were, as follows : 1874. 1875.; , January ; £68,704 11 3 ... £65,246 10 8 February \ 58,347 6 6 ... 67,162 18 7 £127,051 16 9 £132,409 8 10 Mr. Charles -Moore, the Director of the Botanic Gardens, has received, through his Excellency the Governor, a silver medal, which has been struck to commemorate the Botanical Congress held at Florence last year, and at which Mr. Moore attended. The medal was forwarded by ~ the Italian Government to the Foreign Office, for transmission to Sydney, and is the only distinction of the kind conferrred upon a British subject. QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, March 20. Fears are entertained for the safety of the barque St. Magnus, which arrived from Adelaide with a cargo of Hart’s flour, at Cape Moreton on Tuesday night, and was compelled through boisterous weather to go to sea again on Wednesday afternoon, with a pilot on board. Yesterday afternoon the Boomerang passed a vessel bottom up, apparently a barque, about 130 ft. long, 1 newly coppered, with a yellow streak, blue covering board, and iron bunldts, thirty miles S.S.E. of Cape Moreton; and later in the day the steamer Lady Young passed portions of wreck and bags of flour marked “ John Hart,” March 21. Further inquiries conclusively prove the capsized vessel to be the St. Magnus; the Government steamer left in search of any sur- . vivors. The vessel must have turtled in the gale on Wednesday night. ' March 22. The Government steamer has returned, having failed to find any trace of the wreck or boats of the St. Magnus. The pilot leaves a widow and a large family. News from Cooktown to the 20th has been received. The s.s. Singapore, and the s.s. Adria landed 800 Chinese to-day from Hong Kong. The French ship Coetlogon, from New Caledonia, stays a week. It is understood that she has brought important home despatches. It is reported that several Communists have lately escaped from the island. * SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Adelaide, March 23. A relief party has started for Port Essington, to clear up all doubts respecting the Permain and Borrodale murder. The Gothenburg fund has reached £4OOO. Half a million bushels of wheat are lying at Port Pirie for shipment. There have been sales of wheat at 4s. MAURITIUS. Melbourne, March 23. Telegrams, under date sth of March, state that the market has been entirely cleared of all good sugars, and that the plantations promise poorly. One vessel is loading for Sydney, one for Adelaide, and one for Melbourne..