ENGLISH NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3320, 13 August 1879, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

(Peb s.s. Gabonne.)

(Peb Pbess Associaton.)

[Special Wibb to " Stab."]

It is understood tbe Frinco of Wales will not visit the Sydney Exhibition, but it is not unlikely that Prince Leopold will.

Lord Derby, in addressing the Lan* cashire Farmers' Club, on the rela* tions between landlord and tenant, recommended them to keep down their numbers by immigrating to America and Australia, where there was room enough for them and their sons for centuries to come.

Sir Arthur Gordon was presented with a farewell address by the Aborigines Protection Societies expressing approval of his Fiji policy. > Reports baring been circulated in Victoria that Mr Gladstone and other leaders of the Liberal party viewed with

favor Mr Berry's recent mission, and sympathised with the objects he had in view, Mr Gladstone has publicly stated that Mr Berry had no conversation of that nature with him, but says, " I do not doubt that he will have gathered from me that I think the deliberate judgment of the greater number will ultimately prevail. I don't know how it may be ultimately arranged, but I think it is eminently desirable that the matter should be amicably settled 011 the spot, and without resort to us." , The new steamer Rotomahana has been launched from the building yards of Denny and Bros., Dumbarton. She is about 18,000 (?) tons measurement, and has compound direct acting engines of 5000 horse-power nominal. Mr W. H. Smith, at a Gonservative banquet, stated that when peace was established in South Africa the colonists would have to take upon themselves the duty of protecting themselves .against savage tribes. During the last two years the Colonial Government had sold arms, to the natives, and these arms were now being used against the British army in Natal.

Carlotta Patti has accepted a year's engagement in Australia, at the termination of which she finally retires from the