EUROPEAN MAIL NEWS TO 12th APRIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5352, 23 May 1878, Page 2

EUROPEAN MAIL NEWS TO 12th APRIL.

(PER ALBION AT HOKITIKA ) ■ ■■'■ • Melbourne, May 16. : The Siam, with the Suez mail, arrived at King George’s Sound at 3 p.m. On the 11th. London, April 12. The Queen left Windsor for Osborne in good health. 1 i The following are the Government changes : —Lord Salisbury, Foreign Secretary; Mr. Hardy (Lord Oranbrook), Secretary for India; Colonel Stanley, . War Office ; Ibbetson, Secretary to the Treasury ; Stanhope, Under 1 Secretary for India; Lord Sandon, Board of Trade. , , The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Budget speech shows an excess of revenue of £860,000. ; The ordinary expenditure for the -year is £81,000,000, and the revenue £79,000,000. The deficit is to be met by 2d. in the £ in-come-tax, and Id. per lb. on tobacco, and the dog. tax raised to 7s, 6d. The revenue returns show an increase of £1,000,009 on the March quarter of 1877. , At a sale of pictures niuo of Turner’s paintings fetched 41,500 guineas, and,twelve water color drawings 16,000 guineas. The herring fishery on the-east coast of. Scotland is likely to prove a failure, owing to the unsettled relations between England and Russia. ‘ The results are likely to be deplorable in Wick and other towns. , Successful experiments have been made at Maha in rendering nugatory the effects of Whitehead's torpedoes. ■; The House of Lords was crowded in every part when Lord Beaconsfield moved a vote of thanks to the Queen for calling-out the reserves. Obituary.—The Earl of Ravensworth, Admiral George Evans, Sir Gilbert Scott, Sir John Cathcart, Sir James Watts, the Sultan of Morocco, and Prince Luoieu Murat. An Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Scotch business is to be appointed. : - i Mr. Alcourt (Conservative) has been returned for Manchester against- Sir .Francis Lycett (Liberal). The Cornua, the ffirst of six steel corvettes for the navy, was launched at Glasgow; on the ■ 3rd of April. ' 1 The' Cornua is a very powerful vessel. Mr. Allison has taken charge of the Intelligence Department of the Horse Guards. Mr. William Thomas Chaleu, M.P., has been chosen Common Sergeant for the city of London. There wee seventeen candidates, including,'amongst several other members of Parliament, Mr. Bourke, Under-Secretary for ■the‘Foreign Office. Questions have been asked in Parliament on several occasions relative to the execution of the Tanna native on board the Beagle. ■ The invariable reply .is that the Admiralty is waitJ ing for further information. The Canadian militia officers are offering their services in large, numbers to'the British Government,

,■ About £3OOO has been -.already subscribed ■ for relatives of those drowned in'the Eurydice. • A Government inquiry is to be held. The : masters of several vessels which were in the i Cliahnel during the same afternoon that the frigate was lost state that the squall came on sudderily, and that it could riot have been per- ■ oeived'from on board the vessel, being so close I to tbo high cliffs of . the Isle of Wight, coast of ! Vebtnor.' A grant of public money, will .be made to the families of deceased, as in the case of the Captain. A serious riot occurred at the Liverpool Sailors’ Home on the 2nd, owing to dulnesa of trade. Many black sailors are in port, and cannot get employment. As a number of whites were being shipped, the blacks (200 strong), attacked them, and the, riot was only ended by the.amval of a large body of police. Many of tbo seamen were severely injured. Out of fifteen olectjonein Franco on tho Ist

inst,, fourteen Republicans were elected. A fresh ballot is necessary in the other instance. r :: An . article-contributed iby Prince Jerome Napoleonic the "Revue desDeux Mondes” has created muclUsshsatjoiv;,? It attribat.es the isolation of Francefio IS7J3 and 1871 to clericalism, and asserts that, had- it not been for the ■rapid advance of the Prosing and the persistent refusal of the Em eror, prompted by the clerical party, to evaouate'ißome, both Austria and Italj- would have consented to aid France. The Nicaraguan Government have accepted the conditions imposed by Germany for the insnlt offered to the German Consul. The German squadron was sent to San Juan to enforce them. The Emperor of Germany has, replied, Pope’s announcement of his accession" in a very courteous note, expressing his ; willingness to entertain friendly relations with the Vatican. The Pope is: stated to hare.entrusted Oar* dinal Cullen with the negotiations with the English Government respecting the establishment of the hierarchy in Scotland, Cardinal Manning having exhibited too ultramontane tendencies. Cardinal Manning has returned to England. ■ • . A telegram from Romo, which appeared in the Standard of the 9th inst., says the Pops has stated that the action of England in .the present crisis will be the means of saving Europe from Russian barbarism. The Vatican will favor any alliance of Latin Europe with England as a barrier against Slavism. ’ A commission of Cardinals, appointed to invest!-, gate the Peter’s Pence Fund, reports that large sums have disappeared, leaving no trace! The administration is in the utmost confusion, and there is no means of knowing how much has been received or how much spent for many years past. His Holiness has provided 1 ‘ a remedy for all this in future.