ENGLISH NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 251, 4 May 1880, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

London, April 16, The Daily Telegraph states that Prince Leopold is created Duke of ■A-lbany. A Compromise has been effected in the Bagot will case, the mother and minor receiving L 33,000 and their law costs. Tn« very Reverend Charles Kyle, Dean of Salisbury, has been created Bishop of Liverpool. it is stated that Mr John Emile Lemuiue has been appointed AmbassaUoi lor Prance at Brussels, April 11. The sugar market is severely depressed . April ID. Twenty-seven addresses from Bulgarians have been presented to Mr Gladstone, The Grand Cross of the Bath has been conferred upon Tie (Stafford Northcote, the Chancellor o: the Exchequer; and upon Lord John Manners, the Postmaster General. Professor Lyon Playfair has been reelected in the Liberal interest for the Universities of Edinburgh and bt. Andrew’s. April 21, The recent attack by Mr Gladstone on Austria continues to excite auger at Vienna. Mr Gladstone’s explanaTurn, - pubiisliet' journals, states that lie speaks only ot in-ii viduals. Tim reported massacre of British troops by hostile Poultans, between Quettah and Candahar, is denied. April 22. Inquiries in well-informed quarter show there is no foundation for the ivpo.. that the Prince of Wales is about to visit Australia, The Right Hon, VV, P, Adams, late member tor Clackmannan and Kinross Shires, will probably be elected Speaker of the House of Commons. The Right Hon. H. B. W. Brand, the present Speake *, is to bo raised to the-Peerage. Major Geo. Canning Strachan, R. A.C., has been appointed Governor of Tasmania. The Hon. Jno. Pope Hemmsy, C.M.G., Governor of lioug Kong, has been created u Knight of the Or lor of Bt, Michael and Bt, George. The members of Lord Beacomdield administration, with the exception of the was absent, Prime Minister, who at we.e received by the Qu.-eu Windsor, to-day, when he official leaftaking took place nud the seals of office delivered up. Her Majesty thanked the retiring ministers for their services . The Exhibition at Berlin has been opened with considerable ceremony, by His Highness Frederick William, the Crown Prince ot Prussia. An appeal made to m ,- Superior G .art in Ban Francisco, against the sent -noo passed on Denies Kearney, for using seditious language, lu* been dismissed, Kf-arney, who was libe. ated ou bail | during the interim, has been re-arrest d .•md committed to prison for tiie per. -1 of his sentence, six mouths. Ho nas a.so required to pay the 5000 dollar.imposed by Judge Rex.