ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

Poverty Bay Standard, 14 October 1872, Page 1

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

GENERAL SUMMARY. London, August 9. The increasing dearness of meat has provoked a formidable agitation through-,' out England, especially in the counties. Indignation meetings have 1 been held. Several companies for the importation and distribution of Australian meats have been projected. During the months of April, May, and June twelve ships conveyed 2,598 emigrants to New Zealand. Mr. Childers has entered the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He has resigned his ollice as Agent-’ General for Victoria. Lord Hatherly’s resignation is reported imminent owing to failing eye-' sight.

The downfall of the Duffy Ministry has given general satisfaction in England. The Daily Telegraph alone condemns Lord Canterbury for refusing Mr. Duffy a dissolution. Sir John Bose, knight, has been gazetted a baronet. The ex-Emperor Napolen is at Bognor in Sussex. The Empress and Prince Imperial arc in Scotland. Mr. Gibbes has given £30,000 to; Keble College, Oxford, for the erection of a Chapel. Madmoiselle Neilson’s marriage took, place at Westminster Abbey with much eclat.

The Bennett judgment is viewed diversely by the —Evangelical party.! Some Ministers counsel concession but the majority recommend inaction. The Bev. George Bogers has sailed with a party to found a colony in the State of Minnesota. The Duke of Cambridge held a grand review at Aldershot, followed by a grand battle in the Long Valley. Eton defeated Harrow in the annual cricket match after two days playing. The Belgian Artisan Choir of 107 voices has excited the admiration of distinguished audiences in England. The forces for the autumn military manoeuvres rendezvous at Pewsey and Blandford, and from thence they will, proceed to Salisbury Plains. The Channel yacht race was won by i the schooner Gruinivere. The Wymbledon rifle meeting was' successful beyond all precedent. Ser-, geant Milton, of the London Scottish,' won the Queen’s prize ; Edward Boss,, the Albert prize ; and Sergeant Croft, the Army and Navy challenge cup. The Canadian Dominion, with twenty competitors, carried off three of the chief prizes. The Mint having been unable to coin, a sufficiency of silver a contract has beenj made with a Birmingham firm fori £50,000 worth weekly. The Archßishops of Canterbury and York have assented to the proposal of 1 Lord Shaftesbury that the reading of the damnatory clauses of the Athanasiancreed should be optional. With the exception of the masons all the building trades in London are still on strike. The bakers have appealed for a re-1 duction of hours of labor. A new political movement has been intimated by a Mr. Samuel Morley who) has invited the various representatives! of working men to consult on his own platform of action. The sale of the Middle park stud realized over £lOO,OOO. Mr. Jones of Dunedin purchased Ida for £lOO.

LATEST TELEGRAMS. (From August 10 to 28.) Parliament was prorogued on the 10th. The Queen's message replies that the American Controversy terminated by the spontaneous declaration of the Arbitrators being consistent with the views of Great Britain.

Steps are to be taken to deal with the slave trade. Mr Childers has been returned for Pontefract by a majority of eighty. The harvest prospects are improving. Favorable negotiations have been reopened between England and France, for a modification of the commercial; Treaty. At a meeting held in support of the,' Tichborne claimant it was asserted that; one of the crew of the Bella had been discovered. Mr. Stanley has narrated the particulars of his journey and of the discoveries of Br. Livingstone before the Geographical section of the British: (Association. He met with an enIthusiatic reception.