ENGLISH NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1273, 6 May 1880, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

(special to Melbourne, age. ) , • I London; April 26. New Zealand Five-, tier cent., 1880, LIOB. .....:> *;■ |... .. -J .■ The market rate of-discount is 3f per cent. Consols are advancing to 98J. The tone of the wheat markfet exhibits a tendency to decline. The tone of the leather market is firm. Australian leather* best sides, to Is per lb. (SPECIAL TO MELBOURNE ARGUS.) London, April 27. Earl Derby, Lord Rosebery, and Mr. G. J. Goschen declined office in the new Ministry. The Pall Mall Gazette strongly condemns the Service Ministry for righting the injustice perpetrated by the dismissals of Black Wednesday. Frederick Ulrich Morrison has charged himself, at the Liverpool Police Court, with haying embezzled L2OOQ from Dougharty and Co., Melbourne, The Great Powers require that Turkey shall re-occupy the territory ceded to Montenegro, and transfer it fo>. that principality.' April 28, The Daily Telegraph states that Mr. G. J. Goschen will probably be appointed British Ambassador to the Porte. A telegram from Lisbon says that tbe Chinese are blockading Mucas, and have captured seventeen vessels. The Portuguege are sending a man-of-war tp the Chinese seas. Russia is forbidding the despatch of Chinese forces to Kashzaria. REUTER's SPECIAL SUMMARY, PER ALBION, Lowpoif, April 26. Parliament was formally dissolved on the 24th. The Queen's message says : We cannot part from you without expressing our deep sense of the zeal and ability which during more than six years you have consistently displayed in the exercise of your important functions, nor without tendering our warmest acknowledgment of the useful measures submitted for my acceptance, especially for the manner in which you have upheld a policy, the object of which was to defend my empire, and secure general peace relations with Foreign Powers, friendly and favorable to the maintenance of the equality of Europe. We hope the measures adopted in Afghanistan will lead to the speedy settlement of that country.: We have had much satisfaction in assenting to tjie Acts passed for the relief of distress unhappily prevalent in parts of Ireland. Trusting that these measures will be accepted by our Irish subjects as a proof of the ready sympathy of the Imperial Parliament, we look forward with confidence tp the restoration of prosperity in their country. We rejoice to observe indications of general improvement .in trade, and that the commercial depression appears as being passed away. We have witnessed with great sympathy the heavy losses sustained by various classes connected with the cultivation of the soil, and have viewed with admiration, the patience and high spirit with which they have contended against algiogj; $n unpper oedented series of disastrous seasons. We trust, with the blessing of Providence, that a more favorable harvest may be looked for; and that from the commission which I issued to enquire into the causes of the agricultural depression, suggestions may come which will lead to the more profitable use of agricultural lat*d, and the higher development of this bran oh of national industry. The electors of the Enited Kingdom will be called upon to forthwith choose representatives to Parliament. I fervently pray that the blessing of Almighty God may guide them to promote the object of my constant solicitude, th.e happiness of my people. Mr. Parnell, since his return, used less aggressive language, and has been less violent than was anticipated. Mr. Biggar, speaking at a dinner in Mr. Barn el Ps honor, said they had seen what Hartmann had done in Russia, and if the constitutional course they were pursuing in Parliament failed iu its object, he thought Ireland might be able to produce another Hartmann, probably with better rpsiultg, The ransom paid to obtain the release of Colonel Synge from the brigands amounted to LJ.2,000. The birthday of the Emperor of Germany furnished an occasion for renewed assurances of friendship between the Jjmr perpr William and the Czar, the Emperor formally assuring the Czar that he will never make war on Russia during his lifetime. The German CSrown Prjnqe, in the event of his father's death, is urged to prevent war during the life of the Czar.

The Czar is understood to desire to revive a triple alliance, and is prepared, if necessary, to sacrifice Gortschakoff to propitiate Bismarck. The French Government have decided to enforce the decree of 1804, which provides for the dissolution of now authorised religious orders, and prohibits admission into orders bound by vows for life, as also the formation of any fresh community without permission. The Jesuits' con? gregatipn' wj]l be dissolved, and their schools and noviciates glpsed.

China has decidedly resolved to reject the Kuldja Treaty. The envoy Chang Now, who negotiated it, has been imprisoned and sentenced to death. The Chinese Government are making . great military preparations to repel any movement on the part of the Russians. The policy of Russia will be fo~"encoijrage the insurrection of Mahommedans in Gentral Asia against Chinese rule. Boiiiuf, April 9.

Intelligence has been received that Abdul Rahman, a claimant to the throne of Cabul, is making rapid headway in Turkistan, and that the Khotains are flocking to his standard.