ENGLISH NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 353, 6 May 1874, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

Lokdon, March 20th. The Directors of the Bank of Australia have declared a half yearly dividend on the capital of the Bank (£1.200,000) at tEe rate of 11 per cent, per annum. The Rev. R. Evans, chairman of the Australian Congregational Union, is dead. ' A petition for winding up the Colonial and Foreigh Meat Supply Company, i 3 to be heard before the Vice-Chancellor on March 13th. Dr Featherston proceeded tc Plymouth to enquire into the return of the A.trato, which left London on Feburary 10th, with New Zealand immigrants. She resumed to Plymouth on March 6th. It appears that the low pressure piston broke, am the cylinder cracked She will have to b« docked. Tallennan's Australian meit agency shows a profit af £1889 for the half year, equal to 19 per cent. One-fifth is pajable to Tallerman as manager. A dividend of ten per | cent has been declared. The Company is | extended. Its 1672 unallotted shares are taken at par. : Earl Pembroke has been appointed Undersecretary for War. The appointment causes great surprise, owing to Pembroke's youth and inexperienc. The Duke of Edinburgh, and hia bride's ! journey from "■ t. Petersburg! to London was one of triumph. There were demonstrations and rejoicings in Germany aid Belgium. At Gravesend, a band of ladies droped flowers i in their path. Despatches relative to 'the Ashantee war show that Sir Garnet Wolseley was unable to get an interview with the King to nego- : tiate a treaty of peace. He was compelled, therefore to burn Commassie and make his return march as speedly as possible, as the rainy season was advanceing. When returning, the King sent a messenger for the expedition to halt, that he might send his submission. A strong prtynnder Capt- Glover was left, but no intelligence has as yet been received from him. Wolseley states the Ashantee policy as being so wholly treacherous that it is impossible to rely upon any negotiations ; but their defeat and the burning of Coomasaie, it is thought, will give them the desired lesson. Since his imprisonment in Newgate, the Tichbome Cliamant refuses to answer to any name but that of Tichbourae. His hair has ; been cropped, and he has been dressed in 1 prison clothes, fie seems to take kindly to I picking oakam. I A gigantic exhibition is to be held in Paris i in 1875, supported by private means, with | the patronage of the Government. I Mr. Plimsoll has been presented with an ; illuminated address by seamen. : Captain Blake, of H.M. Druid, who took I part and was wounded in the Maori war, | died in the service of the Ashantee Expedition. After his death his wound was probed, and a Maori bullet was found near his hearts Mrs. Robert Heir is playing with great success in America. In the House of Commons, a motion by an Irish member, that Parliament should take some measure to move the distrust in Ireland in the present system of Government, was rejected. A remarkably high tide has caused the flooding of London, Hull, and Falmouth. The Thames overflowed its banks and flooded Putney. Warehouses were filled with water, sewers burst, and a larg» number of children and horses were drowned ? houses were filled with water, and families had to abandon them. Lord Derby favours a Universal Patent Law. The return of the Ashantee troops was attended by many affecting scenes. In the streets they were enthusiastically received. A banquet was given at Portsmouth to the returned Highlanders from the Ashantee war. Tea thousand persons witnessed their landing. The Temperance- crusade continues vigourously.. Pabis, March 24th. A Rojalisi deputation is to visit the Cotnte de Cbambord to make a last effort to effect the restoration of the Monarchy. General Wolseley is to be rewarded with the rank of Major-Ofeneral and a pension of £75OOper annum for two lives. Mareu Slst. Great excitement was occasioned by an unfounded rumour of the death of ex-Presi-dent Tbiers. Prince Frederick Charlea » to. make a tour of the world. London, March 316t The "Telegraphs* Australian correspondent, referring to. the Communists' recent escape, says s — Rochefort telegraphed to Paris for funds. He intends to visit the States, and lecture in New York and other American cities. He will probably retire to Brussels. The Times and Telegraph record the loss of the Kile steamship, with all passengers, including the Japanese Vienna Exhibitions Commissions, between Hong Kong and Yokohama. A meeting of tacting Irishmen unanimously resolved t« utg» th* prospect of Home Rule during the session, notwithstanding tit© failure of the Marquis of Bute's, amendment. A 831 ha* been poßsed appropriating £1,000,000 towards the expenses of th# Ashantee war. A Catholics mob, on the night of March tTtb, attacked » Protestant chapel In Puebla, and destroyed preperty, and stoned *he jpastop. (