SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 132, 18 August 1870, Page 6

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

The Education Bill is causing much discussion. Mr Watkin Williams's motion, for the disestablishment of the Church off Wales, was forced on without the concurrence of the Liberal party, and was defeated by a heavy majority. When the discussion on the Contagious Diseases Act arose, Mr Crawford insisted upon the exclusion of strangers and reporters. Fragmentary reports of the proceedings were afterwards published. The reporters were cheered by the House on returning. The fe" ale personators have been arraigned for felony aud misdemeanour. The evidence disclosed gross immorality throughout extensive circles. Blackwood has savagely reviewed " Lot-hair," and attacks Mr Disraeli for inteding to make a breach in the Conservative party. The Ascot Cup was won by Sabrinus. The Great Eastern has been moored at Sheerncss in excellent condition. The suddcuness of Charles Dickens's death caused a profound sensation and universal grief. His remains were interred in Westminster Abbey. The Rev. Blainwell Smith, Biringham, has committed suicide. The Exchequer Chamber has decided that the Colonial Legislatures have power to grant indemnity for acts committed in the colonies. The April mail, via California, was delivered on the 2Sth June. The degree of D.C.L. has been conferred on the Duke of Argyll. Sir C. Trevelyan has resigned his post as a Lord of the Admiralty in consequence of a difference with his colleagues on the Education question. The petition for winding up the European Assurance Company was dismissed. The revenue of tlie United Kingdom for the quarter ending in June was sixteen millions. A banquet was given by the Chairman of the British Indian Telegraph Company, at which messages were sent, and replies received between the Viceroy of Egypt, Viceroy of India, &c. President Grant also exchanged messages with the Lprd Mayor. Baron Lesseps, on his visit to London, was decorated with the Order of the Star of India. Obituary. — Sergeant Kinglake, Bishop of Kilmore. Earl Roden has declined to sell an estate of his to the Prince of Wales. Mr. Forster has declared himself a convert to the compulsory education system. , The second reading of the Clerical Disabilities Bill, enabling clergyineu to lav aside orders, was carried. White, who shot at Mr. Buxton, M.P., has been pronounced insane. The massacre of Jews in Roumania on May 29th is supposed to have been the act of Turkish zealots. Mr. Bright's health has improved. Mr. Disraeli has resigned his place in the House of Commons. The Roman papers affirm the.Pope's infallibility, and say all who deny it will be anathematised. Nine hundred dead bodies were found after the fire at Constantinople. The Greek brigand chiefs have escaped to Turkey. Mr. E. Fiske, American Consol at Leith, is implicated in the female impersonators' misdeeds. The explosion, of the Waltham Abbey powder mills caused several [deaths. The "Spectator" thinks that the New Zealand Loan Gru.aran.tee is to be regarded as indicating a change of colonial policy. The Ministry saw their line was opposed to the feeling of the nation, and receded in time. The latest New Zealand news, and the repulse of the Fenian raiders, lead the "Times" to extol the wisdom of the self-protection system. Galle, July 15th. The mail from England by the mail steamer Volga, passed through the Suez Canal, from Marseilles to Galle, in twenty days.

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