ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4458, 3 July 1875, Page 2

ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

MAIL NEWS VIA SUEZ. ARRIVAL OF THE S.S. HERO. (from our own correspondent.) Auckland, Friday, The Hero has arrived. She left Sydney on the 26th. London, May 14. Twelve Liverpool gentlemen have been fined £5 for participating in a cockfight. Mitchell, member for Bridgeport, has bequeathed £240,000 to the Metropolitan Board of Works. The International Telegraph Conference will come off shortly at St. Petersburg. Disraeli promised a deputation of loading authors to remedy the copyright grievance. The Court of Queen’s Bench decided that opening the Brighton Aquarium on Sundays was illegal. This renders the company liable to a £2OO fine for every offence. The Civil Service Co-operative Association’s report shows the gross profits to be £3OOO per annum. A miners' strike has occurred in Belgium. The military had to be called out. Some children playing with matches in a barn set fire to Savoy and destroyed the whole village. There are increasing dissensions among the Bouapartists, which caused anxiety at Chislohurst. The Press and Clerical prosecutions continue in Germany. A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph has been fined fifty thalers. There have beeu_ riots in Western Prussia, owing to unpopular clerical appointments. They were repressed by the military. Don Carlos is carying on the war in Spain with renewed vigor. The Oddfellows of Sheffield having agitated for reform, 3000 of them were suspended by the Nottingham Executive. Other lodges in London and elsewhere espoused the Sheffield cases. French statistics show that the rumored large purchases of horses and forage, and mobilisation of the army on the Eastern frontier, have been wholly untrue. [The following was published as a Second Edition yesterday.] (per press agency.) London, June 24.

The Pope in replying to a deputation from Roman nobles on the anniversary of his coronation, said that the rumor of his reconciliation with the Italian Government was undeserving of mention. The mails via Torres Strait have been delivered. In the case Colonial Bank of Victoria v. Ettershauk, an appeal to the Privy Council, plaintiffs sued upon two promissory notes, given by the defendant in favor of Donald Ferguson and Blackpool, and discounted by the bank. The defence was that Burns, the manager, had waived plaintiff’s right to recover the amount of the bills. To this was answered that the manager had no authority to abandon a claim of the bank to any property belonging to it. The Court held that the manager had power to bind the bank, and the verdict returned for the defendant was sustained. The appeal was dismissed with costs. The French Assembly has passed the second reading of the Public Works Bill. A Gorman note cordially thanks Belgium for the Duchesne investigation, and also for its supplementary penal legislation. SUMMARY OF NEWS. The Suez mail arrived at Adelaide on the 24 th. By the winding up of the Australian Direct Navigation Company great distress has been inflicted on emigrants who paid their passage money and broke up their homes. John Bennett, agent of the company, answered several more summonses at the Mansion House. Donations are being received for the sufferers.

Bennett paid £7OO out of his own pocket in satisfaction of emigrants’ claims. < The Sixth Company of Royal Engineers has been ordered to embark for Eiji. Three hundred agricultural laborers sailed on the Ist inst. for New Zealand. During April, 13,248 passengers left Liverpool in 52 vessels. This shows a decrease of 2535, compared with the corresponding month last year. The first four months of 1875 show a decrease of 4995. The conduct of Parliament is beginning to excite national dissatisfaction. Half the session is over, and public business is disgracefully in arrear. A few Civil Service estimates have been passed. The Budget discussion has been postponed till after the Whitsunday holidays. Scarcely any Ministerial legislative promises have been fulfilled. The Press laments the degeneracy of the House of Commons, and severely rebukes the Premier for his indolence, indifference and bad leadership. Throughout the past month, the House has been the 'theatre of scandalous scenes, and personal squabbles, questions of privilege, and the sudden exclusion of strangers at the dictates of certain impulsive Irishmen. Parnell (Home Rule) has been elected for Meath by 1771, against 192 for Napier, Conservative. Whitworth, a Winchester manufacturer, has been returned for Kilkenny, by a large majority over Grey and Mirum, Home Rulers. Tibet has been unseated for Norwich, after a day’s trial, revealing cases of treating by unauthorised partisans of which he was previously unaware. He decided not to defend his seat. Lord Pembroke’s retirement from the Under-Secretaryship for War is consequent on his ill-health.

Cardinal Manning is suffering from prostration from over exertion since his return from Rome, yet at the close of April he opened the Franciscan Church, at Chester. In the course of his sermon he deplored the spread of rationalism and scepticism. At a luncheon subsequently, in proposing the toast of “ The Queen,” he spoke in high praise of the purity of the Court. The reconstructed Alexandra Palace was opened on the Ist May, with great ecldt. The strike of cotton spinners at Blackburn has been amicably settled. The anticipated lock-out has been averted. The anniversary meetings of religious and benevolent societies show unflagging interest on the part of the Christian public. Their financial statements prove them growing in activity and popularity. AU Europe' is profoundly agitated by apprehensions of war. The German Empire, instead of being a guarantee for peace, is the cause of constant disquietude and restlessness from the twofold fear of Ultramontane intrigues and of resuscitation. France is bent upon vengeance, engenders suspicion of neighboring States, and provokes irritated demands which cannot be complied with by other Governments. The German Press is let loose, sows discord, and excites suspicions to influence the national hatred. The Times last week published a Paris letter exposing German designs, which produced profound sensation throughout Europe, and aroused the ire of Berlin journalists. In anticipation of the meeting of Emperors, The Times in a leading article, while acquitting the bulk of the German people of a design so detestable, solemnly warned the war party that any criminal attempt to crush France into a second rate power would alarm and alienate every nation, and probably array an international league against the general enemy. The meeting of the Emperors and conference between Bismarck and Gortschakoff was followed by calmer feeling, and from the tranquillising assurances of Bourke in the House of Commons, and the moderate tone of the German Press, the belief is that peace will not be disturbed at present.

FRANCE. Two Press editors (Union and Pays) fought a duel with, swords near the frontier of Lorraine. It arose out of a dispute respecting recent executions by Don Carlos. Biots have been excited by certain passages in a drama called “ Cromwell,” and further representations are forHdden. INDIA AND THE EAST. Ceylon, June 6. Colonel Hamilton, while pursuing Daooits, near Pegu, was shot through the heart; and Davidson, district superintendent, and an orderly, wounded. By a collision on the Ganges State Railway twelve lives were lost and ten severely injured. The Baroda affair has been peacefully settled by the selection of a young Chandeish prince. Affairs with Burmah are still in an unsettled state, but it is believed that the King is quite unprepared for war, and cannot persist in his annoying attitude towards the British Government. Russia is busy projecting railway extension in Central Asia, and it is said will soon be in a position to threaten Afghanistan through Meerut, if so inclined. Trade with Tartary and China is on the decline. A host of newspaper correspondents, including Dr. Russell and Archibald Forbes, are expected to accompany the Prince of Wales. A great influx of visitors is anticipated. The plague rages in Persia. Native ladies have been admitted medical students at Calcutta. It is rumored that the Australian colonies will unitedly request that they may be favored with a visit from the Prince of Wales and flying squadron while in the East. If the visit be made, via Singapore and Hongkong, the Heir Apparent would carry Home a proper idea of British Eastern and Australian possessions.

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Sydney, June 26. The Cyphrenes arrived yesterday, a day in advance of contract time. The A.S.N. Company’s steamer Rangatira, from Levnka to New Caledonia, was wrecked on the 31st May, off the Isle of Pines, N-C. All hands saved. The Government has completed arrangements with the A.S.N. Company for continuance of the temporary Pacific Mail Service. The stallion Blair Athol, value £3OOO, was stolon, and has been discovered shot and mutilated in order to prevent identification. It is supposed the thieves determined on this course to prevent discovery. Melbourne, June 23. The tender of James McEwen is accepted for rails and fastenings for the Deniliquin and Moama Railway, at £41,000. . Flour and wheat are firmer, the latter selling at ss. Childrey’s tobacco. Is. to Is. Gld. Maize, 4s. 7d. Frank Stephen is about to send his lifeboat on a trip to Sydney. Leggett, an old sailor, and his son, proceed in her, with a fortnight’s provisions. A preliminary trial will be made to-morrow. Letters from King's Island state that the efforts to raise the Blencathra are proceeding satisfactorily. There is an advance of 15s. on refined sugars. Large sales of flour at 2s. 6d. advance. Mauritius advices state rains had fallen, and cane on the seaboard estates promised much better. Wheat, ss. 2d. McEwau’s (the grocer) estate is sequestrated. At a meeting of creditors, the Colonial Bank made an offer to buy or sell the estate at 6s. in the pound. Thomas Luke and Co., tea merchants, have called a meeting of creditors. Barrett’s sentence of death is commuted to life imprisonment. A London telegram states that the long overdue ship Canada struck on a sunken rock, and put into the Mauritius leaky. Brisbane, June 23. It is understood that the Eastern Australian Mail Company has offered to run the mail service through Torres Strait at ten knots, making Brisbane the terminus, for £50,000. The offer will probably be declined.