ENGLISH TELEGRAMS TO APRIL 17.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 268, 1 May 1875, Page 2

ENGLISH TELEGRAMS TO APRIL 17.

A conflict occurred, at Dublin between Bishop Moran’s and Father O’Keefe’s parties, at which much violence was used. Father O’Keefe’s church was completely wrecked. Disturbances have occurred among the Coolies at Morand Bay, Jamaica. Men-of-war and marines have left Port Royal to quell the disturbance. A meeting, attended by 100,000 persons, was held in Hyde Park under the auspices of the Tichborne Release Committee. Bands of music played, and flags and. banners, hearing mottoes demanding justice, were displayed. Messrs. Kenealy, Whalley, and Onslow addressed the meeting, The enthusiasm was tremendous. The people unhitched the horses of the carriage, and drew(the speakers to Hyde Park. A resolution was passed denouncing the partiality of the judges, and declaring that they would know no rest until the enormous judicial crime was rectified. A mass meeting of 30,000 Irishmen in Hyde Park demanded the release of the Fenian prisoners. At a destructive fire at Foo Choo four hundred houses were destroyed. Small-pox is still raging in Japan. Cook, the English champion billiard player, has accepted a challenge made by Dion for an international billiard match for 2000 dollars. Captain Boynton, with his life-saving apparatus, floated fifty miles across the Channel. Nightfall only prevented his reaching Boulogne. The political uneasiness consequent on the warlike reports is subsiding. In the House of Commons, Mr Disraeli stated that the Belgian difficulty had been settled, but if the independence or neutrality of Belgium was threatened, the Government would know their duty, and would not fear to meet Parliament. April 17. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Northcote, has brought up the Budget in the House of Commons. The estimated revenue for the coming year is £75,685,000, and the estimated expenditure at £75,268,000, leaving a surplus of £417.000. He proposes a readjustment of the brewers’ licenses and stamp taxes, which will reduce the surplus by about £357,000. There was an exciting debate in the House of Commons yesterday, on the motion of Mr. Disraeli to reject the petition from some residents at Prettiwell, accusing the judges who tried Arthur Orton of unfairness, and demanding their impeachment. A second note has been sent by Germany to Belgium, in which the former power disclaims any desire to interfere with the Press Laws of the latter kingdom.

The Prussian Parliament have voted a measure which abrogates the privileges of the Roman Catholic Bishops, and others of the faith, who decline to conform to the civil law.

Earl Derby, in replying to Earl Russell, said the German note to Belgium was very friendly, and had been communicated to the several powers, but Engfand was not formally consulted. There was no ground for uneasiness. The Board of Trade statistics show that the tide of emigration from the United Kingdom is setting in decidedly from the United States towards our own colonies, especially toward New Zealand. The divisions in Parliament show that the Conservative Ministry have grown in strength. The woman’s suffrage agitation is proceeding actively. Native troubles are threatened ut the Cape of Good Hope. Some men-of-war have been ordered there. Sir Garnet Wolseley has also gone out to initiate a new native policy towards the Kaffirs.