ENGLISH ITEMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 63, 24 April 1869, Page 3

ENGLISH ITEMS.

The Prince and Princess of Wale* will xisifc.'Conatantinople and Athens. Colonel Henderson, foi'inerly of Western Australia, hay been appointed Chief Comnrisslcner of tiie Metropolitan Police, London. ' ' Two Adu'.iraity -oiHciala in England, have Ixen committed^ i'av- trial on the charge of compiling to extort money frum a trchtitnun Underin<» for supplies. " For a km' or accepted und,cr tiie' direction of the authorities, Maxwell paid them £80. Tiie Central Ai'ma qu< htion isexcit. ing serious 'attention. The rapid ad. vance of Russia towards the JN'orth, Webt frontier of Inciia has occasioned alarm. The "Times" su^ests that immediate negotiation with iiussia bq entered into rvcjpectin^ the neutrajiza-, tion of Afghanistan, * " - At Glasgow .tight persons have be^n. killed by the full* of a chimney. Obi-i uaby. — Joseph ' Hudson, tha Marquis of Anglesey, Robert; Keeley, Dr. Epps ; Sir J. K. James, Mrs. Bernard, Sir John Stone, Lady Murchi, son, Lord Russell, Professor Strang. ways, Lady Pirie, Sir John Jolmstone, (from an accident while hunting.) A special telegram from London, dated March 15th says that the Vie, loria Railway Loan has been a- partial failure. It was offered twice only, and £700,000 taken. The Victorian Government was censured for fixing the reserve at par. Wool sales are seriously depressed, Prices are 2d. lower since the November sales. . Admiralty tenders have been for two 200,0001bs of Australian pre, served beef The Queen has contributed £150 towards the Colonial Emigration Fund. A public meeting has been held, at which it was resolved to seek Government assistance and to form an Emigration Committee, composed of members of the Society throughout England, to help unemployed persons to emigrate. ; The Government has decided to release forty-nine Fenians from prison, In the debate mi the Irish Church Bill, Mr. Gladstone said that tho greatest promptitude was necessary in the settlement of the question, and that the process of disestablishment would be divided into two stages, of which the ftvab Avould bo transitory until 1871. The Bill proposed the appointment of a new Ecclesiastical Commission, and that the whole pro-, pe'rfcy of the Church should be vested; therein. The Bill would absolutely take effect in IS7I, when not only would the Separation of Church and State be complete, but the existing ecclesiastical jurisdiction would also cease, and the peerage of Bishops lapse. The value of the property of the Church is estimated at £13.000,000, and from £7.000,000 .to 8,000,000 would remain after all claims wore settled. Tiie Bill was read a"* first time. ' The English Government it appears by the Estimates, spent £3,6000,000 to rescue a few English captives in Abyssinia, and yet refuse aid to suffering New Zealand. Oxford beat Cambridge in the annual boat race.