LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1084, 27 June 1873, Page 2

LATER ENGLISH NEWS.

V I A CABI£. LONDON DATES TO THE 17th JUNE. LONDON. June 10. Rule nisi against Pliinsoll by shipowners discharged. Rassell has introduced a Bill for the bettor government of Ireland. Alexandra Palace; near London, burnt down. It original ly cost £OOO,OOOO. Insured for £120,000. A motion in the House of Commons for the annexation of Fiji was rejected. One hundred and ten witnesses have been examined iu the Tichbomc prosecution. Forty positively swear that the claimant is not Sir Roger, while as many more declare the claimant is positively Arthur Orton. Thiers has retired from public life. Spanish affairs are critical. The Pope is rapidly recovering. The German Emperor is ill. In a conflict between the Russians and the Khivans the latter were defeated, hut the Russian loss was severe. The Sultan of Zanzibar has abolished the African slave trade. The new Erench Ministry have a majority of seventy. Prince Napoleon has arrived in Paris. June 17. The commercial panic in Vienna has abated. The Shah of Persia is in London. The Czarowitch and Czarina are in London regarding the approaching marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh with the daughter of the Czar. The Carlist insurrections is increasing. Don Carlos's chance are improving.