EUROPEAN NEWS Up to 18th May.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 202, 2 August 1860, Page 3

EUROPEAN NEWS Up to 18th May.

GREAT BRITAIN.

In Parliament some progress lias been made with Public business; the Reform Bill has passed the second reading. The License Bill has been forced throughout, and Paper Duty repeal passed the second reading with only nine majority. The Lords threaten to throw it out as a waste, of revenue at a time when our resources are likely to be severely taxed ; the course is denounced as unconstitutional, and monster meetings are being held in London and other great towns to protest against it. The Bright section are in a state of great wrath. The conflict commences on A/onday next. Conservatives are busy organizing. Disraeli has patched up differences with his party. Phe report of the committee appointed to enquire into the military defences of the colonies has been published. The following respects New Zealand. Setting aside convict settlements, this is the only colony connected with the .-/0.-tralian group to which the principle has not been applied that an English quota being fixed, all 'additional troops are to he defrayed from local 'sources.. New Zealand has hitherto been less !wealthy than Rie others, and is in peculiar jcircumstances on account of its aboriginal inhabitants. The proportion of Europeans to Manries is. however, continually increasing, and the longer our rule is maintained in tranquility, the more must the natives be supposed to be confirmed in habits of peace and order. This would he a reason for reducing the Imperial garrison, and for entrusting the security, of the European inhabitants chiefly to their o\vn prudence ; ahd justice in dealing with the

jtiaUves in time of ' quiet, and to their spirit iii. case of disturbance.- On the other hand if a .premature or excessive diminution of troops should he followed by disaster to our countrymen in New Zealand, public opinion would probably condemn the measure;Between these conflicting considerations, it appears to us to be the task of statesmen to divine the course which may be.best suited to the.circumstances of the time at which they have to form their- decision. /Recruiting for the Pope has been going on extensively in Ireland. The Irish government has issued a proclamation against this proceeding

Lord Clyde at the request of the Governor General remains another year in India. Sir Charles Trevelyan recalled from the government of Madras is succeeded, by Sir Henry George /Lard, Governor of Ceylon, Capt- John Vine Hall has been: appointed Commander of the Great Eastern, which sailson 9th June for New York. The chief cashier of the Union Bank of London lias been sentenced to 20 years penal servitude for defrauding that establishment tothe amount of £‘203,070.

Government has determined to indict criminally all parties.concerned, should 1 leenan and Sayers again fight in Euglaud. £SOOO has been sußcribed for Sayers.

The Arehbi&hop of York is dead and Dr. Langley, Bishop of Durham, is to succeed him. Rev. Dr Cook lias been appointed Professor of JTeclesiastical History in the University of St. Andrews.

Mr. P: G. Tail, Professor of Mathematics in Belfast College has been appointed Professor of JVutural Philosophy in the University, of Edinburgh. A meeting in aid of the mission to Central; Africa was to be held in Manchester on 23rd May. Among the*-speakers-'are announced Lord Brougham and Mr. Glailstone. The fallowing ships were loading at London for Auckland Caduceus and Rob Roy, Canterbury—Chapman and Kohi-noor. Nelson—The Bride. Otago—Evening Star.-. Wellington—Hound and Thames City