ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 1030, 22 May 1869, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

The March mail has arrived. On the 25th March Mr Newdegate’s motion to reject the Irish Church Bill was brought forward and rejected, after a noisy debate, by 355 against 229. Mr Disraeli did not support the motion. The House went into committee the next day, when Mr Disraeli moved to omit clause 2 in the bill, which was rejected by 344 against 221. He gave notice of another amendment. The debate on the second reading terminated on the 23rd March. Mr Gawthorne Hardy and Mr Walpole strongly opposed the disestablishment of the Irish Church, Mr Hardy observing that the policy of the Government was for disuniting, instead of as l simulating, England and Ireland. Gladstone ably defended the measure, the details of which, however, would be subject to modification when the bill went into committee. The second reading was passed by a majority of 118 votes, 368 having voted for and 250 against. Mr Chichester Fortescue has announced that no more Fenian convicts were to be released than those who had received the royal clemency. Lowe’s financial statement has been favourably received —the revenue, £7.2,855 000 ; and the expenditure, including the Abyssinian War, £68,223,000, He proposes to deduct one penny from the present income tax, repeal the duty on fire insurance, and reduce several other taxes. The negotiations between France and Belgium have made but little progress. France will not accept the proposals made by Belgium. The Italian Government have presented a bill for the purpose of re-organising the army—maximum strength 620,000. A plot to assassinate the Viceroy. of Egypt, by placing an exploding machine under his box in the theatre, discovered. The Oriental Bank declared a half yearly dividend of six per cent. Government have introduced a Bankruptcy Bill based on the Scotch system A bill to increase Lord Napier’s salary has passed the Commons. The House of Commons has appointed a select committee on elections, to asscertain whether a system of secret voting cannot be devised, equivalent to the adoption of the ballot. Several members have been unseated on petition. A bailiff of Lord Antrim has been assassinated at Donegal. Several Irish Fenian convicts have been released. Mackay is detained until the expiration of his sentence. Sir John Lawrence’s title is Baron Lawrence, of Punjaub. There is a strike amongst the Preston operatives. The opening of the Suez Canal took place on the 17th March, when the waters of the Mediterranean were admitted. The Admiralty officials, charged with receiving money from tenderers, have been committed for trial. Mr Stanfield replaces Edwards, dismissed from office of official assignee. Captain Tyler is inspecting the railway between Susa and Brindisi, with a view of accelerating the despatch of the Indian mails. ... i Failures announced m the cotton trade in Lancashire. The steamer Cambria has been wrecked on the coast of Sicily, with a loss of twenty An inquest was held on the body of Sir Emerson Tennent, and the jury returned a verdict of death from apoplexy. A battle, which took place in Cuba, between the troops and four tnousand insurgents, lesulted in the defeat of the latter, who had been aided from New York. The emigration movement has acquired importance 3 from the prevailing and growing distress. The Queen has contributed £l5O to the funds. Steamers by the Cape route approved of. Arrangements made for sale of Australian preserved meat at 80 shops of the Aerated Bread Compauy, of London. Murphy riots have occurred at North Shields. • Two hundred Irish Catholics assembled with bludgeons. The military were called out. Serious injuries were inflicted. A testimonial of £3OOO has been presented to Mr Roebuck. Madame Rachel sent to Newgate. Finding her selling her furniture, one of her sureties became alarmed lest she should leave the country, and applied to the J udge. Atrocious murders have been committed in Ireland.

Sir Roger Tichburne, Australian claimant to the title, has returned to England. In the obituary are the names of Earls Wicklow, Glasgow, and Lord Radnor. Don Ferdinand of Portugal has refused to accept the Crown of Spain. The late Lord Brougham, strange as it may seem, died without assets. Long before his death he had, by deed of gift, made over everything —ex-Chancellor’s pension, house and land, books, plate, furniture—to his brother William, the present peer, who in return provided for ail household’ and personal expenses. The great statesman’s aversion to trouble about money matters is said to have suggested this arrangement. The Inland Revenue authorities, at first incredulous, satisfied themselves by private inquiry as to the bona fides and validity of the deed of gift. But it is a curious fact that Lord Brougham, as ex-Lord Chancellor, who for upwards of thirty years received a pension of £5,000 a year, died without paying a shilling of probate or legacy duty. WOOL REPORT. Sales closed on the 24th, but there was no improvement. Decline settled into a general reduction, from lA to 2d per lb, verging upon the price obtained during the most depressed portion of last August sales. Towards the conclusion the bidding was somewhat less irregular. Reduced quotations arise from enormous increase in supp*y-