The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-05
FROM EUROPE.
ENGLAND.
Parliamentary Progress.

LONDON, July AIN the House of Lords to-
night the Marquis of Clanricarde moved for the
production by the Government of a letter from
the Rev. Mr.. Corbett, traveller in the Red
River district, giving a detailed account of the
causes of the rebellion.
Earl Granville stated that the expedition sent
20 that territory was not for conquest but to
effect the transfer of the country from the Hud-
sons Bay Company to the Crown. The motion
was withdrawn.
The Ecclesiastical Presentments bill was read
a second time and after the passage of various
local measures their lordships adjourned.
In the House of Commons Sir c. w. Dixie
gave norce of motion to abolish the sinecure
OF Lord Privy Seal.
Mr.. Gladstone moved the postponement of the
Parliamentary Elections bill until the 14th
instant, when the possibility of considering that
and other important measures this session
could be ascertained. He said several bills had
already been abandoned for want of times The
University Tests bill was taken up in COM
mittee.
Mr.. Bentwick moved an amendment that
nothing in the bill open Office TO any person not
a member of the Church of England when such
Office was intended for member of that COM
mission.
The amendment was opposed by the Solicitor
General and lost.
The Cabinet.
The London Times is eloquent in approval of
the appointment of Earl Granville to the Foreign
Office, and OF the Earl of Kimberly to the
Colonial Department. The place of Mr.. Treve-
lyan, the Junior Lord of the Admiralty, who re-
signed, is to be lett vacant for the present.
Grand Retrospect.
Thirty years ago to-day the steamship Britain
MIA sailed from Liverpool for America. The
shipping AZ Liverpool is gaily decorated to. day
in commemoration of the event.
Finance and the Currency.
Barring Brothers advertise the issue of Bati-
more and Ohio Railroad sterling bonds.
According to the city article of the London
Times, American railroad mortgage bonds at
Frankfort ceasing to attract buyers, city and
State bonds are being tried. Those of the city
Of Havana have been introduced, and those of
the city of New York and State of Illinois are
10 follow to the extent of a few millions, at
seven per cent interest. The writer adds that
the transactions of the Erie Railway Company
and the bribing of the courts of law account for
the fact that New York city bonds can lind no
home market.
There is a noteworthy communication in the
Economist, which anticipates the report of the
Paris High Council of Commerce on the inter-
national coinage. The correspondent states that
thirty out OF thirty-seven witnesses who ap-
peared before the Council urged strongly the
adoption of the twenty-five franc coin as the
unitary gold piece, and the discontinuance of
the five franc silver piece. The Council will
recommend that these views be carried into
practical effect.
The Messrs. Wells and Ansdell replace Maclise
and Creswick, deceased, in the Royal Academy.
Death.
Stephen Blaire, prominent Freemason and
formerly member of Parliament for Bolton, is
dead.
Another death has resulted from the falling of
the Liverpool foundry, making three in ALL
American Affairs.
correspondent OF the Manchester Guardian
predicts the early recall of Minister Motley, on
the ground that ''his inactivity defers the ad-
justment of the Alabama question"
The brothers Settle, tobacconists, of New
York, were arrested on board the steamer
Ottawa, on her arrival from Quebec. They are
charged with forgery. Arms, it is said, were
found on their person.