ENGLISH NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1283, 18 May 1880, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

(SPECIAL TO SYDNEY MOBBING HERALD.) London, May Q.

Owing to the state of the weather, and also the foreign political outlook and uncertain harvest prospects, the improvement in trade which existed in February has gradually waned, and trade is not likely to rally till harvest. Iron and steel have fallen nearly 30 per cent. ■ May 7. A telegram to the I)aily News states that Bavaria supports. Hamburgh in her protest against including-the latter irj the German Zollverein. It is believed that the German Reichstag will reject the proposal. May 8.

There is increasing excitement in Hamburgh in reference to the proposal to include that city in the Zollverein. The Daily News states that hg,s arisen between Prussia" and Bavaria on the subr jech Sir Cunliffe Owen will represent a Royal Commission at the Melbourne Exhibition, che Commission will give L2OOO worth of fine art subjects if Melbourne will return home free the Sydney collection after the Melbourne Exhibition is over.

A powerful Syndicate has offered to construct a railway connecting the existing Queensland linps with Pprt Darwin, on condition that they receive a land grant of 8000 acres per mile. The Hon.. Thos. M'llraith has made a contract with the British India Company for the conveyance of mails and emigrants from London to. Queensland. It is to be athrough service, calling at Suez, Colombo, and Batsvia ? the first steamer starting in October,

May 10. It has been conclusively proved that the Indian Government only informed the British Cabinet of the deficit in, the revenue when the elections in England were nearly concluded. ' Ti?£ Albanians have declared themselves independent. May 11. Some Turkish troops have joined the Albanians.

The Daily Telegraph states that Russia proposes to Italy to intervene on behalf of Albania.

- The Standg.r4 states that it is intended to send a Financial Copamigsjofttoiriquire into the state of-Indian fipanqes,.

(SPECIAL TO SYDNEY EVENING NEWS.) London, May 6. The appeal to the Lord Justices of Appeal as to whether the judge who sentenced the, claimant had power to make two sentences consecutive, was heard and adjourned. The strike of the iron workers is subsiding. .

May 7The Duke of Connaught met with a rather painful accident while out driving. The carriage upset and the occupants were thrown out. The Duke of Connaught was considerably bruised about the face, arms, ami legs. No bones were broken.

A statement made by Mr. Gladstone in g.n electioneering speech that the Emperor of Austria had expressed anxiety that the English electors would vote for the Conservative party, created a Gon? si4ep&ble amount of discussion in the Austrian press g,nd official circles. The Emperor is understood to have attached no political importance whatever tp tljeir reported utterances, but through the re?' presentations of Sir Ifenry Eliott, the English Ambassador q,t Vienna, the British Government has been communicated with on the subject. At the request of the French Government, an explanation has be.en sept by the English Government to the .Court at yienna repudiating the complexion put on Mr. elect&fieerjnir utterances.

~' : ' /'-t'-r, / ! HW*Miss Marian Evans; ribvfeliat, known as George. Eliott, has been .married/'and id now Crbss.. „ , - 1 May 8. Sir Bartltf Frere, in opening the Cape Parliament, announced that amoiig other -measures to be .submitted during the session was a Bill providing.; for a conference "of delegates from various South African Provinces to consider the question of provincial confederation. The completion of the work at Gothard tunnel has been temporarily interrupted by a serious casualty. A, considerable fiortion of the tunnel has collapsed, eavingmanythbusandtons ofearth to be cleared away before the concluding operations can be carried on. No loss of life is reported. The fall is attributed to insufficient timbering. The United States House of Representatives has decided to reduce the ad valtir&m duties on imported wool to 45 per cent. "

Heli, the Turkish fanatic, who assassinated the Russian .AttacM, Colonel Commeroff, at Stamboul, has been executed, The Cape of Good Hope steamship America, belonging to the Union Steam' ship Company, has foundered, The <jrew and passengers all escaped iij the boats. •' \ . May 10.

Three British men-of-war bombarded and burned the town of Batanga, in Africa, as punishment for gross outrages committed by the native inhabitants on British traders.