LATEST ENGLISH TELEGRAMS. London, February 21.

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 149, 22 April 1873, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH TELEGRAMS. London, February 21.

Tasmania^ iron oro smelting in London yielded satisfactory results. ' Emigration to Brazil is suspended pending inquiries into tho treatment of settlers. The new bill of lnding for the Australian trade came into operation last week. Numerous persons wore frozen to death during tho rceent severe wenthor. A considerable portion of Mie Woolwich Royal Militnrv Academy lins Wn destroyed by lire. Tlie damage i* estimated at £3 000, Four hundred labourers cinbnrkml for New Zealand under the auspices cf the Agrii-uHmMI Union. Tlieoo emigrant prom-d to (lie I'h.i m •-„ „„ l,f t ,1, ( . experiment is succe«iul lart'cnuinljcrs will follow. T'io-hmivUj ot ,-,i| npiiiih-.!!^ the grrafc indiisinos of the rouiiirv (,„..,„,.„ „ l,, 111UNt ,„,„„),,,, ni I|lP iron cLslntls oi the XoitL lv Ljid uU tuc bejt Lou,fliold

lvu'.s fvtdi 52s per ton, and gicat Miiioung is entailed ou tho poor. A b.ilanee of £130,000 of the Cotton Famine Fund being in tlie hands of the committee, they have proposed to employ it in the establishment of a e>u\-alescent hospitil V frightful colliery explosion occurred at JLY>lke, in North Staffordshire ; about 20 victims perished. Indian telegrams report the deaths of Baron Ossington, late Speaker of the Kou-e of Common* ; Charles Knight, publisher and author; mid tho Hon. MrCorrv— .ill mthe inoiitiiol' March. The Durham colliers have just received a further advance of 15 per cent. Yicc-Cliiiiicellor Mnjin* ha* administered a stern warning to mm i'j;iiil; ilirci li>rsI i>rs of companies by m iking Lewis Hens'lau .iiul .Mr Miekciuio liable to the National Bank for lu-sl's a-nouiiting to £100,000, in conned ion with Lafitte and Co. Mr Tennyson, in the poetical address to the Queen, prefixed 4.0 hid "Id\lls," has soiiK 1 eloquent lines conveying his scorn oi tlie biseness that w>uld disintegrate tho Empire. Edmund Thouns Har\e_),cis!ucr to Messrs Baxter, Rose, and Norton, has been committed on a clurge of embezzling about £L5,0U0. A pioneer party of 100 male emigrants i« about to start for tho new English colony in the Red Ri\ cr Valley, Minnesota, under tho conduct of the Rev. G. Kjgcrs, of Yeovil. Charles Reade, novelist, his recovered £200 damages from the Morning Advrrliipr fir an alleged libel in reviewing " Shilly Shiilly," which wa* produced at the Gaiety Theatre. There was a partial reduction in the price of coal in London this week, but rates are rising in tlie prownce-s. Mrlmng.Coloninl Secret iryatOylon, lias been appointed Governor of tlie Leeward I-lr»ndi, in succession to Sir Benjamin Pine. Mr Birch -»iuvi;ed» Mr Irving as Colonial Secretary. Despite the terrible suffering* of the miners' families in South Wales, the strike has been maintained ; the industry is totally 6uspended, and destitution, tempered by scanty Union dole*, prevails throughout tho large district. Conferences have been numerous, and liberal proposals were made b\ employers; the signs of a compromise multiph, and the bulk of the workmen would willingly resume wort, but are deterred b_v t lie Union agents Four thousand colliers belonging to the pits managed by Mr Brogden, resumed work this week by a compromise ; tlie other employers remain unyielding. Many iron mines will be permanently closed. M. Chevalier's painting of the " Thanksgn ing Day for the Queen " is highly approved, and a commission has been given lii'ii for a companion picture of the interior of St. Paul's. The Court of Queen's Bench sentenced Skipworth, the Tichborne claimant's chairman at Brighton, to three months' imprisonment and ,C5OO fine, with further imprisonment till the fine be paid, for refusing to w ithdrau the violent remarks he passed upon the Judges. The claimant has been compelled to give £1000 security that he w ill not offend by holding public meetings during the next three months, Dr Hasscl, a German clergyman, en route to Brazil, who was arrested at Ramsgate on suspicion of being the murderer of Harriett Boswell, m Coram-etreet, has been honorably I acquitted ; he proved a complete alibi ; the Government and people, with mingled feelings of shame and &> nipatln , lu\ c made such atonement a 9 was possible. A fund amounting to £1200 was promptly raised to defray his expense*. The Government undertake to provide a passage to Brazil for himself and wife. Tho Queen has writteu a letter of B}mpjthj, enclosing £30, and the German Turnverein entertained Dr tlassel at a complimentary sapper before his departure. The father of Mr March, British Consul at Fiji, has sent to the journals extracts from his son's diary, containing revelations of revolting cruelties connected with the Polynesian labour traffic. These representations have made a deep impression on the public mind. C.mon O'UeilJy is appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, iii place of the late Dr (Joss. Dr Bede Vaugkau 13 elected as coadjutor, with the right of succession to the archbishopric of Sydney. The painful interest aroused by the Dungeness catastrophe (the sinking of the Northfleet) has been sustained throughout the month ; until the delinquent steamer was identified and captured public indignation was at fever heat. The pursuit of the inhuman and cowardly author of the disaster became a national passion, and no one doubts that the Spanish steamer Murillo was the cause. She was despatched from Antwerp for Lisbon, but on arriving in the T.igus, by instructions from her agent, ike kastily left for Cadi/. ; on reaching that porb the Spaniah authorities boarded the vessel, on the demand of the British Consul, and attested the captain, mate, and part of the crew on duty on that fatal night. The steamer presents only slight e\ idouces of collision, but the depositions of three Englishmen on board, and two engineers are conclusive as to collision ; lond cries for assistance were heard ; they promised to stand by and render asiietance, and were horrified when they found the vessel steaming away. The owners of tho Northfleet lioto commenced an action in the Admiralty Court agamst the owners of tho Murillo, damages £14,0001 lii consequence of tho stormy weather tho dv ing operations of the wreck have" been delayed. The sea gives up its dead slowly : only five or six bodies of tho 300 who perished have been washed ashore ; one was tho remains of Mr Brand, a passenger, who distinguished himself bravely standing by , Captain Knowles. The wreck lmd disappeared below the surface of the sea ami continues intact. An olllcial inquiry was instituted, and, after receiving e\ idence during five or six days, it has been ad)ourncd. The Northfleet was surrounded with ships at anchor, which knew nothing df the disaster till too late to afford succour. With a few noble oxceptions the conduct of the men on board was dastardly. Nearly all the married people and children perished, the saved being chiefly singlo men. About 85 persons have to bo providced for. Tbo Mansion House Relief Fnnd exceeds £7,000. Mrs Knowles wife of the captain, receive? £1,000, and the widow and family of first mate £800. Tho remainder was judiciously divided among other sufferers. Mrs Knowles has also received from the Queen £30, with a sympathising letlor and a pension of £50 a year from the Civil List.