GREAT BRITAIN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 383, 16 July 1877, Page 2

GREAT BRITAIN.

On the Stock Exchange, on June 19, prices declined in consequence of the circulation of rumours regarding the attitude of England. The new Russian loan will be issued by the Imperial Redemption Commissioners. Interest will accrue from July 1. Lady Stirling-Maxwell, better known as the Hon. Mrs. Norton, died on the 15th June. She had only been married a few months to her second husband. Engineers, after making geological explorations and soundings for the Dover submarine tunnel, report the tunnel perfectly practicable. There is a continuous bed of chalk between the two shores. Since prosecuting Bradlaugh and Besant, the alleged offensive pamphlet has increased in circulation from 700 to 100,000. In the House of Commons, George Osborne Morgan, Liberal member for Devonshire, gave notice that in case of the withdrawal of the Burials Bill, lie would move a resolution embodying the rejected clauses. In the House of Lords the same day. the Government was again defeated on the Bill. Earl Harrowby moved a resolution making the Churcli of England service optional. The motion passed by 127 to 11. At the request of the Duke of Richmond, further consideration of the Bill was adjourned for one week. The Government will probably withdraw the Bill. Widcombe suspension Bridge, near Bath, fell into the A you with nearly two

hundred people. It was a light \vo<*J structure without centre support. Twjij persons were killed, and iifty injury, some fatally. The New York World's special says t; Princess of Wales will proceed as suun possible to take up her permanent r w dence at her father's Court, at Cup,, hagen. The alleged cause of this seri o ' step is an unpleasant difficulty in whi c i lady of title is concerned. In the House of Commons, a jiioti for abolition of capital punishment », rejected by 155 to 50. A robbery has taken place from tmail car, in transit from London to Pa t| of bonds valued at L 70,000.