ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. [From Our London Correspondent.] London, Sept. 18.

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ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES. [From Our London Correspondent.] London, Sept. 18.

Personal and General. 6 Mb William Parkinson, the well-known q operatio tenor, leaves England next week u for Australia, where he means to settle, the I. doctors having ordered him to live out of 6 England. His final destination is not dej cided yet, but in all probability it will be either Sydney, or Auokland, New Zealand, 1 according as opportunities offer. Mr s Parkinson is a touch above the pretentious I German and Italian musicos who emigrate in such numbers to the colonies, and will , be a valuable addition to the artiste comr znunity of the city in which he resolves to 5 settle. He has done good service to art i both in English and in Italian operas, and . as an oratorio and concert singer, organist pianist, and teacher, and has won the es- : teem of a large circle of friends, who will ; greatly regret him. Captain Baldwin, of Dunedin, who sailed for the colony per Orient steamer Liguria on the 16th mat, desires me to inform the gentlemen who addressed letters to him in New Zealand making inquiries about the River Plate that they only reached him (forwarded from the colony) a few days before he was leaving England, and that consequently he had no time to answer them. On his arrival in New Zealand he will have much pleasure in affording all the information required. Mr Horace Flower, brother of Mr Cyril Flower, M.P , died suddenly the other day as he was on the point of joining one of Messrs Shaw, Savill s steamers on a health voyage to New Zealand. Mr Spurgeon is actively supporting the candidature of Sir William McArthur for the new borough of West Newington. Mr James Ashcroft, who recently emigrated to Napier, New Zealand, from Burscough, in Lancashire, has been writing Home glowing accounts of the success of his emigration scheme, and of his entire satisfaction with colonial life. The " Ormskirk Advertiser " of September 3rd contains some interesting extracts from a letter from Mr Ashcroft to his brother in England. The death is announced of the Hon. Mrs Petre, a very wealthy Catholic lady, and Sir Charles Clifford's mother-in-law. The President of the Trades Congress, held at tiouthport last week, expressed strong disapproval of emigration, averring that there are not now many colonies or other places emigration to which i? likely to benefit the workman and his family, taking into account all the expenses and risks of removal. Letters were read from friends and agents in various parts of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, warning labouring men not to be taken in by the specious representations of lecturers and casual tourists, very few of whom take pains to ascertain the truth. The Queen has approved of the following consular appointments : —Mr James Morgan to be American Consul-General for the British colonies in Australasia, and reside at Melbourne; Mr Ernest Octavia Smith to be Portuguese Consul at Sydney ; Mr Alexander Marks to be Japanese Consul for New South Wales, Victoria, and Van Diemen's Land. The ' ( Farmers' Gazette " of September sth has a scathing article on "Veterinary Science in New Zealand," in which aettlera, farmers, and squatters are represented as willing to dose their sick horses and cows with any nostrum rather than pay for a certificated vet.'s assistance. The emigration statistics just published by the Board of Trade exhibit a remarkable diminution in the number of emigrants to all parts of the globe, but more especially to Australia and New Zealand. It appears that in the eight months ending August 31st, the total number of people of British origin who left these shores for the Americas and Australasia was 145,841, as compared with 175,847 in the corresponding period of last year. Mr Traill, of the "Sydney Bulletin," returned to Sydney by the s.s. Liguria, which sailed on the 16th met. Mr R. Howett, the well-known bookmaker and owner of racehorses, whom I told you about in my last, is also a passenger by the same steamer.

Frozen Mutton Market. ( I note with some satisfaction a reaction : in the price 3 of frozen mutton. The ten- | dency in the Metropolitan Meat Market * towards the end of last week was to firmer ( prices, and a good clearance wrs effected on ] Saturday. On Wednesday there was a dull j appearance with full supplies. The best ( Canterbury carcases fetch 3s 2d, but where 1 the meat is fat, lower rates have to be i accepted. Very few of the Sydney sheep i recently arrived have as yet been offered at | Smithfield. Those brought forward on i Saturday scarcely made 2s lOd. Including | the Rimutaka's cargo of 14,000 sheep, there must be at least 90,000 carcases now waiting to be disposed ef; and as there are several cargoes due in the next fortnight, , there does not seem much probability of the stocks being reduced. The Rimutaka's , consignment will require careful handling, , tor if there is any eagerness shown on the part of the consignees to realise, quotations ' would at once give way, The market is very sensitive. Present rates : — N.Z. mutton, 3s to 3s 4d ; Melbourne mutton, 2s lOd to 3s ; Sydney mutton, 2s 8d to 2s , lOd ; English, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; tonning mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d. The Wexford and the Teviotdale are off the port of Liverpool with large cargoes of River Plate mutton.

Greater Britons in the Old Country Is

In the course of an interesting article with the above heading, which appeared in the " Pall Mall Gazette " of the 17th inst., some details are given with regard to the colonial Btudents at Edinburgh University. "At the present time," says the writer, " there are no fewer than 351 men from India and the colonies studying at Edinburgh University alone. Of this number 164 are from India and the remaining 247 from the colonies, Australia and the Capo being most fully represented. The most remarkable characteristic about the colonial lads, taken as a whole, is their splendid physique. They are almost to a man magnificent athletes, and they count among their number some of the best walkers, foot-runners, swimmers, cricketers, and foot-balers in Scotland. The Australians and New Zealanders at Edinburgh, who number close upon a hundred, make a speciality, as might be expected, of cricket. They have a cricket club (as well as a social club open only to Australians) which can turn out an eleven that would almost be a match for a second' rate English county. Although several of their best men are at present touring, yet their eleven recently made a good fight against a Dumfriestiire team, which con tamed several English cricketing celebrities, including Mr C. B. Studd and Mr A, G. Steel." The crew of the Salvation Army yacht lole, which is now lying in Poole Harbour fitting out for a cruise round the world, discovered the other morning that during the night their vessel had been re christened the "Eliza Armstrong," that obnoxious name having been painted both on stem and

5 stern. The misoreants who committed th outrage have not been discovered. Another Farewell Banquet. From the recent speeches of Lord Rose bery, Mr Forster, the Puke of Buckingham and other political magnates, it is quiti evident that great things are expected iron m the residence of Lord Carrington in youi jk part of the world. " This new governor' (said Mr Samuel Moriey the other day) " if going out to the oldest of our Australian rf colonies at a critical time, and his period oi a- office is likely enough to be epooh- making. Ie It will make history, or mar it." The last of the numerous farewell fdfcea *» and banquets to which the new Viceroy of r New South Wales haß, so to speak, been 6 subjected, took place at Beaconsfield on f Thursday week, when the county of Buck11 ingham bade " God-speed "to his lordship. [ " j The company, very large and representative considering the time of year, included all the Agents-General for the Australian colonies, air F. D. Bell having luckily come up from the country thab day for the mail, as well as several colonial notables and all the country gentry of Bucks. The Duke of Buckingham occupied the chair, and Mr Levy Lawson of the "Telegraph " - who is a large landowner in Bucks - the vice-chair. The speech of the evening was, however, made by that smartest of Liberal peers, Lord Rosebory. Proposing the toast of "The Empire," he spoke in eulogistic terms of the high qualities of the various Agents- General, most of whom he had the privilege of knowing personally. Then lightly, but in a statesmanlike manner, he touched on what the papers subsequently agreed to call iC the greatest of nonparty questions." • • The word l Empire,' " said he, "is a tempting one to an advocate of Imperial Federation ; it is a word that appeals to an audience at once. No one in this audience knows how soon he may ride that hobby, or how long he may ride it, but I promise you that however tempting the opportunity may be, I will not avail myself of it. It would indeed be a ttinpting opportunity to touch on the questions so eloquently treated by my noble friend in his speech in response to the toast of the evening, and it ia in any case an interesting occasion for those who favour the federation of the Empire, because I do not think that those zepresentatives of the colonies who are at present will deny that the nexttwenty years, the next ten year?, oreventhenextfiveyears, the tenure of my noble friend of his position in New South Wales may be most material in the history of our colonies. ( Hear, hear). There is, in the first place, as regards Australia, a great experiment to be tried under the Act of the last session as to whether Australia shall be a federated country or nob to that I have no opinion to express, but my noble friend will find that in his government of New South Wales it will be a question which will require the nicest tact and the nicest discretion, and he will find differences of opinion in Australia on the subject, among the great est colonists and greatest statosmen, and the next five years will have much to do with the solution of that most important and most in terosting subject. (Hear, hear.) There is another reason why the next five, or ten or twenty years will be memorable in the history of our colonies ; because, at any rate in the history of the next twenty years— to put it at the farthest— depends the question of the relations that exist between the mother country and the colonies and dependencies. (Hear.) lam an advocate of Imperial federation, not in any party sense, because ie is no party question. (Cheera.) The committee or association peculiarly interested in this question is not of a party character. It is composed of men who are willing to forego much of party consideration. (Hear, hear.) The question appears to be more important than any party matter, because it involves the question whether the connection between Great Britain and her colonies is to become looser or closer, and on that depends the status and future of Great Britain among the nations of the world (Cheers. ) There are two reasons why this is important. We see at this moment a crisis, which might approach even the dread solution of war, between a country of a great historic pist and a country of enormous power and influence. I mean Spain and Germany. To what does this question refer ? It has reference to islands of which, I venture to say, nine out of ten gentlemen in this room could not for the life of them have told the geographical situation a fortnight, ago. (Laughter.) Nevertheless, within a week or fortnight thisquestion has bocomea European quasion, and why? Because of the anxiety of . the great races of the world to occupy the be&t places. We, I think, as the greatest race in the world, have the strongest places, and it is my impression that we should do our best to keep them. (Cheers.) We know that there are philosophers and men of science who say we should be better without our colonies, and who would like to see us relegated to what is technically known as Great- Britain and Ireland That is not the opinion of this assembly. (Cheers ) Butthe question which is now raised between Germany and Spain about the possession of the Caroline Islands shows what the hunger for land is among the dominant races ot the world. (Cheers.) That is a fact which it will not become our rulers, and those who represent our colonies, to forget. (Cheer?,) There is another reason why I view the future connection of our colonies and the mother country with interest, and it is a more general one. I believe the close connection between Great Britain and her dependencies and the United States to be a bond of peace for the whole world. (Cheers.) Lord Carrington 's speech was not a specially interesting one. He is a good after dinner speaker in a small way, but no oiator. Sir Saul Samuel, responding to the toast of the Empire, said his cobny was delighted to receiveas Governor an Englishman of such capacity and distinction as Lord Carrington. Tba question of Imperial Federation was surrounded with difficulties, but there was nothing which could disturb the unity of the Empire, and he was sure the present selection of a Governor would aid in deepening it. (Cheers). The "Daily Chronicle," in a leader on Lord Rosebery's ppeech, says: — "Itisun doubtedly quite true, as Lord Rosebery said, that all the best and wisest colonial statesmen are greatly divided in opinion on this question of Imperial Federation. They all agree that some change which will bind the colonies to the mother country is necessary, and must, indeed, be effected in the next few years, but how the links between the two are to be forgeJ nobody dare as yet say It is when public opinion is thus delicately poised that Lord Carrington proceeds to New South Wales, and the future of Federation therefore greatly depends on his prudence and his skilful handling." Under the title of "The City of One Generation," a writer in the "Saturday Review " — shrewdly suspected to be Mr Froude— gives a graphic description of Melbourne and its people. How will the Melbourne "chappies" like this, I wonder? "There is a certain eameneßs— a family likeness perhaps— in the faces of the people There is no distinct Victorian accent or brogue, but there is a very distinct physiognomy. The people of Melbourne

present some strange characteristics. They are very religious and very fond 6i sport. They are exceedingly sober, a drunken man seldom being Been in thjs street, and yet their criminal olass is larger in proportion than that of any other colony ( . They work hard and earn large wages, yet their oity is cheaper for a visitor than almost any of its size in Europe." j The Deceased Wife's Sister Society are very busy urging on the various new constituencies the necessity of insisting on al Liberal candidates pledging themselves to support the bill in Parliament.

The Great Colonial Soramble. I

/There is to be a new competition in the Nptnble for colonies. The Swiss are no longer content to stay behind their moun- ' tains, or if thejr emigrate to leave the federal flag behind. An influential committee has been formed, including men of all parties and cantons, to bring the advantages of colonisation before the public, and set on foot inquiries as to available territories. A large sum of money (very large for the Swiss) has been subscribed, but it will probably bo some years before anything can be done, and by then Germany may have got all the if available territories " worth anything.

Wreck of the Hernes. The Hernes, s.e., one of the Houston line chartered by Mecsrs Nelson and Sons to bring River Plate mutton to Liverpool, has been wiecked within a few miles of Monte Video on her voyage out. All her valuable cargo and four lives were lost. This is a very untoward and inauspicious incident in the career of an undertaking which is trying hard to moke the people of the North believe that Kiver Plate sheep are the same as JMow Zealand.

London, September 26. A LARdE section of the Liberal electors of West Newington requested Sir Wm, Me Arthur to withdraw,and make room for W. Keay, who, they allege, is the only really acceptable candidate to a great mass of the voters, The City and Colonial Club has gone to the wall, and its proprietor, D. L. AUsrnen, is in the Bankruptcy Court.

Colonial Doctors at Homo. Several Colonial doctors are at the presont time walking the London hospitals and studying recent developments, notably Dr. Batchclor, of Dv tied in, Dr. Haines, of Auckland, and Dr. James, of Melbourne. Dr. Haines has been devoting npecial attention to the diseases of womon. He attends the Saho Hospitals regularly, and paid a special visit to Dublin to walk the Rotunda. Dr. Batchelor and Dr. Hainus were the only antipodean medicos who attended the Medial Congress at Cardiff Dr. II lines sails from Marseilles in the midd'e ot November, for Auckland. Auckland v Canterbury Mutton. Businoss has been very slack in the Neapolitan meet market during the week. Frozen mutton remained fairly steady until yesterday, when prices were quoted lowor. Every effort is being made to oxtond the liiver Plate mutton trade, not only by improving the quality of the meat, but also in the shape of subsidies. All establishments in Buenos Ayres, for exportation of meat, whether frozen or otherwise, are to be exempt from taxation for 10 years from the date of starting business in Europe. Baring Bros, are bringing all the weight of their influence and prestige to bear on popularising the meat. Whatthis meanefNew Zealand exporters will learn only too soon. Canterbury meat, as a rule, fetches 4d per stone of Slbs. more than Auckland. The current rates of Canterbury mutton are 2& lOd to 3a 2d ; Auckland mutton, 2s lOd ; River Plate mutton, 2s lOd to 3d ; English mutton, 3s 4d to is 3d. Within the last six months River Plate mutton has risen I nearly one shilling a stone; fiat shows what good management will do. The carcases are of much the same quality as they always were. The spaces originally granted to the Australasian colonies at next year's Indian and Colonial Exhibition have been largely increased. Instead of the 12,375 square feet in the first instance a' lotted respectively to Victoria and NewSoi ( '\ Wales, they now have 19,625 square ft- vpiece. The New Zealand Court has beon enlarged from 7,100 feet to 15,000 feet, and even Tasmania will have nearly 6,000 feet to display her wares in. The great fear of the Executive is, I hear, that there will bo a horrible sameness in the character of the Australasian exhibits. The number of people who wish to advertise their special brands of preserved meat, wine, and wool will of course be prodigious, and they are neither particulary interesting nor showy exhibits. If the colonies would have listened to reason, and agreed to display all their wool in one annexe, a beautiful effect would have been obtained by masses of the snowy fleeces, in combination, picked out at night by the electric light. New South Wales, however, thought she could produce an equally good effect by herself. It is an immense pily, too, that the idea of a great Anstrala3ian Dining Hall, appropriately decorated, has been abandoned. Food invariably plays an important part at these exhibitions, and with New Zealand meat and cheese, Australian wines and fruits, and Austra lasian beeis, flour, sugar, &c , much might have been done to popularise colonial provisions in this country.

A Fool and his Money. This money-lending case being adjourned last week came on again yesterday, at the Marlborough-street Police Court. It tried to assume a phase of cornpromi-e, to which the magistrate objected. Ihe counsel for young Palmer paid thattheyoungman.being very young ar,d inexperienced (he is only 27), had hugely over-estimated the value of the Sydney property. He had been convinced since last week that the slip-wharf was not worth anything like £17,000, and being informed that hia three benevolent friends were prepared to restore it, why, was there any need to go on ? The magis trate said if he did not go on, the public prosecutor would. The prosecution had come and represented that a gross fraud had been perpetrated, and the case must be sifted to the bottom. It is therefore again adjourned, for the public prosecutor to be communicated with. Dr and Mrs Haines and Miss Isaacs, of Auckland, have returned to town after a most enjoyable trip to the Lakes of Killai ney Should the cholera permit, the will make a tour through Southern Italy in October, and sail from Marseilles by the Messageries Maritimes steamer of November 18th, arriving at Auckland about the middle of January. Mrs Campbell Praed's long-promised work on "Australian Life: Black and White," is published this week in one volume, illustrated. A rumour to the effect that Mr and. Mrs Bancroft were about to make a professional tour of the world has been contradicted. They admit, however, that they received very tempting offers both from the United States and from Australia. Captain Selwyn, of the Royal Horee Guards, the favourite nephew of the late Bishop Selwyn, baa been selected as Con-

servative candidate for the Wisbeoh division of Cambridgeshire. The marriage is announced of Mr E. J. M. Lascelles, eldeßt son of the rector of New ton, St. Leo, to Miss Frances Elizabeth Grifh 1 h, eldest daughter of the late Captain Thomas Griffith, of Puntgwyn, Cardigan shire. Mr and Mrs Lascelles will proceed to New Zealand in November. Great satisfaction is expressed at the news that the Australian cricket team coming over next summer will not number any of Murdoch's eleven amongst its membeis. B. L. Farjeon has just commenced a novel in the "Weekly Times" entitled "Aunt Parker." Lady Dudley will, it is now said, accompany the young earl and Mr Moncreiffe on their yachting tour to New Zealand and Australia. Messrs Mayer and Meltzer, the famous instrument makers of Great Portlandstreet, are shipping, to the order of Dr. Haines, of Auckland, more than a hundred pounds worth of all the newest and subtlest surgical instruments now in use in London. Messrs Maw have also received extensive orders for electrical apparatus, &c, from the same source.