LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 301, 18 July 1868, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

London, June 9. The Ministry were defeated on Mr Gladstone's Suspensory Bill, the second reading having been carried by 258 against 213. Mr Gladstone's resolution that the Established Church of Ireland should cease to exist, due regard being had to personal interests and individual rights was passed at 2 a.m., on Ist May, by 330 to 265. The Government have abandoned the Roman Catholic University scheme. Advices from Paris state that the Erench Contingent for ISG9, is to be 100,000. men. The revenue for the month in the Bank of England was £11,500,000. The Grand Jury has thrown out the bill in the case of Governor Eyre. Mr Mill has presented to Parliament a petition for inquiry into the cause of the Abyssinian war. The latest advices state that the Abyssinian captives had arrived at Suez. Chief Justice Cockburn has expressed the dissent of himself and the majority of the judges from the ruling of Mr Justice Blackburn, upon which Governor Eyre was acquitted. The Government intends to demand supplies for the whole year. Russia has proposed a convention for abolishing the use of explosive projectiles in war. France has assented. Mr Reardon's motion in the House of Commons respecting the Queen's health, and the desirability of her abdication, was indignantly rejected. Barrett, the Clerkenwcll Fenian, has been executed.

A committee of the Alfred Meinoorial Hospital (Sydney) has met in London, Sir John Young in the chair. The object was to evoke the sympathy of colonists resident in London. Seven hundred pounds were subscribed. The prices of wool have advanced through foreign competition. G-ood wool is a penny better, other qualities one halfpenny. Many sales have been made.

| The Derby was won by Blue Gown, King Alfred second, and speculum third. Formosa was the winner of the Oaks. The London Chartered Bank dividen was eight per cent. Consols, 94. SHIPPING. AniuvAiiS.— Great Britain, s, s.a Norfolk. Lottie. Maria, Christin, Thompson, Dover Castle, Cospatrick and William Duthie. Sailed.—Lavater. Loading.—For Melbourne 19 ; Sydney, 16 ; South Australia, 9 ; Tasmania, 4 Queensland, 7 ; New Zealand, 7. OBITUAEY. Commander Pollard, Eev Dr Slater, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Forbes, J. E. Chitty, Mr D. Coruan, and Sirß. L. Guinness, M. P. ♦ (From the Colonist.) Mr Gladstone's second and third resolutions in reference to the Irish Church were passed without a division. On the 7th of June, Mr Gathorne Hardy protested on the part of the Government, and some of the Tory members protested on their own part. Mr S. Aytoun then brought forward a resolution declaring that when the Anglican Church in Ireland is disestablished and dis-eudowed, the giant to Maynooth ought to be discontinued. A noisy debate ensued, in the coitrse of which Mr Bright objected to the motion.

Mr "Whitbread moved an amendment, the effect of which would be to confine the resolution to a declaration that the grant to Maynooth and the regium donum should be withdrawn. On a division, Mr Aytoun's resolution was negatived by 198 votes to 85. The amendment of ivlr. Whitbread having thus become a motion, the words " With due regard to all existing personal interests,,' were added .at the instance of Mr Gladstone. This brought up Mr Bright, who commented with great severity, upon the parting shot of the Prime Minister. He had long deplored the condition of Ireland which he had looked upon as a scandal. He did not charge the right hon. gentleman with deceiving the Sovereign. If he had not changed the ©pinion he held twenty.five years ago, and which he said, a few weeks since, he still held then, he feared he had not stated that which it was his duty to state at the first interview—as any man would who placed his Sovereign in front. of a great struggle like that which they were about to enter into and said, as the Queen held the flag against religious equality, he was guilty of high crime and misdemeanour against his Sovereign and country. Lord J. Manners said Mr Bright had spoken against the endowment of the Roman Catholic Church. Mr Gladstone expressed his sorrow that Mr Disraeli had provoked this discussion. He had never heard such languagefrom a Prime Minister before. The right honorable gentleman taunted Lord John Manners with being ignorant of the intention of his colleagues to endow the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Mr Disraeli appealed to the House to say whether the manner of describing audiences with the Queen had been either pompous or servile, as charged by Mr Bright. Happily there were gentlemen on the bench where the honorable member for Birmingham was seated, and to them he would refer. He defied Mr Bright, notwithstanding his stale invective, to substantiate charges which he had only presumed to insinuate. The resolutions were eventually brought up by the Chairman, and reported to the House. The Reform Bill for Ireland w r as read a second time, and ordered to be committed.

A statement lias appeared in the Olobc of May 20, in reference to the memorial recently presented by the Duke of Montrose, on the subject of the Australian mails—that uu reply has been made to thd memorial, the matter being still under consideration. Theru is reason, however, to believe that if no favorable decision as to the proposed fortnightly service is early arrived at, the subject will be brought under the consideration of the House of Commons. It is understood that the directors of the Royal Mail Company have

determined that tbo next vessel leaving Southampton with Australian mails, viz., on the 2nd June, shall proceed through to Ceylon [Colon PJ only stopping at one intermediate port to disperse mails for the West India Islands.

The establishment of aline of large first-class mail steamers between the Isthmus of Panama and England has been long required, and the anouncement of its being speedily commenced will bo received with great satisfaction not only by those interested in the New Zealand and Australian Colonies, but by those connected with co untries on the other side of the Isthmus of Panama.

(A suit has been instituted by the Hon. Lady Theresa Mary Josephine Doughty Tichbourne, widow mother and next friend of Sir Henry Alfred Joseph Doughty Tichbourne, Part., infant, against Thomas Decastor, calling himself Sir EogerE D. Tichborne, Bart., for the purpose of obtaining an order for the appointment of receiver to take charge of the effects of Lady Henriette Felicite Tichborne, who died in March last, intestate. It was on the 30th of April last decided, in Vice-Chancellor Stuart's Court, in favor of the plaintiff. It appeared, from what was stated in Court, that every member oftheTichbornefamily deny the identity of the claimant of the estates, which, on the other hand, was admitted by the deceased, Lady Henriette Felicite Tichborne, and is supported by nearly a hundred affidavits from various individuals, many of whom, either served with him in the army, or knew him as a youth in Hampshire. The Vice-Chan-cellor denounced the attempt to make public these affidavits as improper, and observed that if the claimant was really the person he represented himself to be, he had only to thank his extraordinary conduct for the difficulties he experienced in acquiring possession of his estates, and at once granted the application by the mother of the infant baronet. His Honor animadverted strongely upon the Fact that the late Lady Henriette Felicite Tichborne's property had been taken possession of being family estates, with reference to which the very same question of identity is in dispute between them.

The Liverpool wool sales competition has been very keen, and prices were five per cent higher than previous sales, the limited quantity offering, and the improved state of trade combined, have sent up prices 20 per cent, from the low rates current in the last sales.