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ENGLISH MAIL SUMMARY. [BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIA TI ON.] Aucklan d, Friday.

Loud Sali^uliu left for France on September 21. Sir Saville Crossley, Mr Win. Geo. Cavendish Bentuick und thuty other membeisof th>» Hone of Co'iimon* left" by the steamers depirtiii^, toi N'i w Yolk dining the week ending S 'ptembei 25th, fur a torn of the United States, including California. Xubai Pasha, specully summoned to L mdon on Septt mbei 2«i, had a coiiicience with Loid Salisbury on the Egyptian question. Tim b ims of settlement will piobably be .1 continuation of the de fa< to British protectorate ovei Egypt by the maintenance of th<) noiinal Butisb anuy of occupation 01 even ,v draft upon Biitish troop-, in Egypt, oidu to h" provisionally in. untamed by specially rai-ed Egyptian tioops with Hnti-.li ofhcis, Biitish pur - i Hon.il obligations towaid Turkey to bj upheld in accordance with the Cyprus treaty of alliauc c The Sultan gave an audience to the Duke of Edmbuigh .it Const iittinople on S>ptember 23rd, ami Pi nice Goorrfc of Wales, lie received the vnitois most c >rdially, and eonfened upon b >th dec-nations of the Impel ial ()id"r of Osinanh. It is leportfd that the C/.aiewitch i-> about to visit the Sultan. Lou 1 (John Campbells divoice si,it will be heard bwfure Sir Jamt s Hannon mi<hi after the opening of the Law "Courts in I November. The co lespondonts are four in number, a duke who has aheady appeared in the same character, but in different company, a general almost as widely known in literature and art as in mihtiry circles, a captain who is a most valuable public servant, and a fashionable surgeon. Ninety thousand cotton spinneus at Burnley resolved on September 21st, to strike against a reduction of wage.-. It 1-. now settled that Lord Lyons is to resign the Fans Einbany before Christmas, and will be succeeded by LordLytton. It was stated in Constantinople, on September 20, that England, Austria and (Jennauy have invited Tin key to occupy Roumelia if Russia invades Bulgaria, Mr Gladstone published a letter on 21st September denying the persistently re peatid reports that he is about to join tl,e Catholic Church. He says the statement is a revival of a miserable falsehood, reproduced from time to time, without a shadow of evidenc3 for a basis, and thac "it is un woithy of notice until it assumes a character very different from merely calumnious invention.' Sir James Fergusaon denied explicitly in the House on September 17th that England had any annexation designs in the Meditterr.ane.m. The lacernakers ot Nottingham have combined in a proposition to reduce the wages ot employes. The reduction will be resisted, and >\ lock-out is imminent. Mrs Girling, the leadei of the Shakeis in England, died on September 18th. Her sect is represented to be in a state of im-poveii-h.nent. Mr Gladstone returned to London on September 18th, and proceeded to Hawarden to see hi-» daughter, Mrs Drew, who is Beiii>usly ill. Monty A. Fisher, of 35 Cater-street, London, was found in a compartment of a railway car on Svjptember 22nd, at Queensford Station, with his skull crushed and the brains protruding. The affair is a mystery, as there was no robbeiy. A bill ratifying the International Convention's action for the protection of the submarine cables of the world parsed the House of Commons on September 14. Sir Charles Dilke returned to London on September loth, and announced hi* mtento re-enter public life in the P>iiti-h metropolis as proprietor and editor of a daily newspaper. Some indignation is expre^ed by the Pi ess at what they call Sir C. Dilke's "hardihood." A collision occurred in the Clyde on September loth, bet.seenthe Biiti^h steamers Strathnar and Clan Graham. The former vessel sank. The authorities of London contemplate presenting tli3 freedom of the city to Pnnce Alexander of Bulgaria. A Royal Commission of Inquiry into the necessity of Cml Service lefonn m the British Government has been appointed. The yacht Volta propelled by electntity made a trial trip between Dover and Calais on September 13th, reached the latter place in 3h. 51n*. % from the time of her Waiting from Dover. The icturii tup wis made m 4h. 15m. Her .iccumulatois wete cliatged only once for the whole 10 mih"». Thj was calm and the p is>a^e was made «o noiselessly that a seagull . n .slejp on the water was not disturbed by the approach of the yacht, and was caught by the hand. Orders were received at Chatham, on September 22nd, to expedite the completion of men-o -war no.v un ier way. Relays ot workmen are bjing employed day and night. The land war in Wales is exciting much attention. Mr Arnold presided at a meeting held on S°ptembei Dtli at the Nation il Liberal Court, L mdon, to advocate the diffusion of land, but not the legalised iobbery like Henry George*.