SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SUNSET : This evening, 5.1. HIGH WATER : This evening, 9.25.

ARRIVALS.

Tawera, schooner, Kenney, trom tne aast, i^oasu Comerang, p.s., Chrisp, for Bussell. Merlin, schooner, Ohlson, from Mercury Bay.

DEPARTURES.

Ivanhoe, schooner, Jlcliregor, for Mongonui. Phcebe, s.sr, Worsp, for Southern ports.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For Southern ports via Napier: Nebraska, mail steamer, on arrival. For Sydney and Melbourne: City of Melbourne, 20th instant; Hero, s.s., 24th May. For Honolulu : Nebraska, mail steamer,. May 16. For Tauranga: Tauranga, early; Dauntless, to-day. For Newcastle : Wild Duck, ship, to-day- For New York : Chattanooga early. For Hokianga : Herald, schooner, to-day..

STEAM FOR THE THAMES THIS EVENING.

Duke of Edinburgh, 6 o'clock,

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Bulwark, ship, from London Flirt, schooner, from Wellington Nebraska, mail steamer, from Honolulu Coronet, khooner, from Duiredm Wellington, ss., from the South Keera, s.s., frrma the South East Lothian, barque, from New York flelenslee, ship, from London (.sailed Jan.. 11). Cleopatra, schooner, from Lyttelton Hero, s. s., from Sydney Alpha, schooner, from Newcastle Amphitrite, schooner, from Sydney Union, brig-, from Newcastle. Sailed March C Martha Ellen, schooner, from Lyttelton A mherst, schooner, from Lyttleton. City of Melbourne, s. s., from Sydney j

rJs ■~ 4 ' - Tvanhoe cleared outwar-'.s, and took The schodhe. -<- O n£ronui with a general cargo, and her departure for i>^ "Airs. Whitehead, and 3 natives Mrs. Puckey, Mr. anA - as passengers. cleared for Tauranga The schooner Dauntless has " : <i evening, with a sundry cargo, and will sail thy. ' -'sher, cleared The barque Australind, Captain liw outwards for Newcastle in ballast. "• New- The ship Wild Duck has cleared outwards fo* "V castle in ballast and part of original cargo, t. wil) sail to-morrow morning: The schooner Merlin, from Mercury Bay, brings 82,000 feet timber, B. Gilmer : and 9 sacks grain, T. W. Brown. The s.s. Phcebe left Onehvmga this morning for Southern ports with the following passengers :—Saloon Mr. and Mrs. McLeod, Miss Langman, Mrs. Attrid, Mr. De Noroille and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, Messrs. Mansfield, Palmer, Burton, Egberts, E. Lusk. Steerage—Mrs. Jorne, Mr. and Mrs. J. King, Messrs. Gray, Owen, Warne, Henry, Ching, Arto, Hunter, and Da vies.— Combes and Daldy, agents.

COMMERCIAL.

' Evening Star Office, Saturday afternoon.

Mr E Arthur reports having sold at his mart, on Friday and Wednesday last, Canterbury flour, in 50 lb ba^s V3I per ton ; Canterbury cheese, Cd per lb ; Wairoa cheese, 4Jd to sJcl; Hobart Town onions in caiee, Id to l-\d per lb ; Auckland onions, Id to ljfl; Melbourne onions, id to Ad per lb ; apples, ljd to 3}d per lb ; bacon, job lots, 3d to 5d per lb ; hams, 5d to 9kl per lb ; pototoes, 53 to 7s per cwt. ; geese 3s 9d to 4s • fowls Is 2d to 2s 8d ; ducks, Is 7d to Is 8d ; Ay'le-bury ducks, 3s : Erahma fowls, 153 to 25s : young ditto, 10- each ; Guinea fowls, 2s 6d each. Household furniture, &c, at fair prices, MINING. The following are the cuirent calls and dividends payable in the companies named below : — DIVIDEND Californian .. ..020 Due All Nations .. ..050 May 11 Sons of Freedom ..100 May 14 •Working Miners ... 00 6 May 13 Arga .. ..003 May 14 Conquering Hero ..003 May 16 Eureka Hill .. ..020 May 17 Flower of the Hill ..003 May 17 Tiki ..006 May 18 Durham Ox '.. ..006 May 18 Beehive 0 0 9 May 21 ■ Number One .. ■■ 0 0 May 23 ■ VonTempsky .. ..006 May 23 Golden Calf .. .. 0 1 0 May 24 ! North Devon .. ..010 May 2o Bavenstock .. .. 00 3 May 30 Emily 010 JunelO MEETINGS TO COME. Canadian, Coromandel, May 13 Flying Cloud. Grahamstown, May 13 Durham Ox, Grahamstown, May 14 Foresters, Coromandel, May 14 Foster's, Coromandel, May 16 Bass Bock, Queensfcrry Hotel, Auckland, 2 p.m. May Wynyardton, Company's office, Shortland street, 10 a.m. May 20 Sapphire, Coromandel, May 20 Coromandel Beach, Coromandel, May 24. Golden Phoenix, Grahamstown, May %> Pauline, 7, Insurance Buildings, Auckland,-3 p.m.,

May 27 Camatic, Coromandel, May 27 Venus, Queensferry Hotel, Auckland, 4 p.m. May 27 Robert Emmet, 5, Insurance Buildings, Auckland, 3 p.nr. May 29 Black Angel, Grahamstown, May 30

POST OFFICE, SHORTLAND-STREET.

Mails will Close as Under For Thames, this day, at 5.30 p.m. ; and on Monday. i- 13th instant, at 10.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Tauranga, this day,atSp.m. For Coromandel, per Eoyal Alfred, on Monday, 13th finstant, at 1 p.m. • _ For Russell, Mongonui, Wangaroa, etc., on Monday,

13th instant, at 11 a.m. . Per p.s. Nebraska, on Thursday, 16th instant, as

follows: ~ _ ~ . For Sandwich Islands, British Columbia. United States of America, Britith, Central, and South America, British and Foreign West Indies, and Continent of Europe, via England, at 10 a.m. For United Kingdom, via San Francisco, at 10.30 a.m. For money orders, registered letters, and newspapers, at 9 a.m, Late letters for the United States or America and United Kingdom,-bearing a late fee of 6d. in addition to the postage will be received at this office till 11 a.m., and by the mail agent on board the steamer up to the time of sailing. For Newcastle, per Wild Duck, this day, at sp.m. Letters must be specially addressed per Wild Duck. S. B. Bias, Postmaster.

THE SHARE MARKET.

MB. J. M. XENNOX'S EEPOET. There was a large amount of business done on the Exchange to-day. Cure shares were m gotfd demand at advanced prices. - Caledonians are firmer. Bismarck shares have ft slight downward tendency. My sales comprise— Caledonian, £19 ; Thames, £5 2s. 6d. ; Argo, Is. Bd.; Britannia, 2a. 6d. j Yon Temky,r 15.6 d.; Bismarck, £4155.; Union Sash and Doo, Company, £5 ss. Closing sellers—Caledonians £20; Thames, £5 5a.; Britannia, 45.; Bis - marck, £4 15s. Buyers—Caledonian, £19 j Thames, £5 2s. 6d.; Yon Tempsky 25.; Union Sash and Door Company,shares, 5s ss.

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and the Morning News.

SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1872.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do.

In order to give as fully as possible the important telegraphic intelligence from Europe received to-day, "sve are obliged to hold over a quantity of local and general news, &c.

In our contemporary the Cross of this morning, an account is given of a "Race to the Thames" between the cutter " Lee" and the pa. "Enterprise ~80. 2," both having powder on board. Somebody has been spinning a yarn to the Cross; for it says, " We are informed that the Lee had arrived an hour before the Enterprise." The facts of the case are so' far different from this information, that the . Cross should tell the name of its informant. In the first place before going alongside the Strathnaver to take the cargo on board, the Enterprise was obliged to extinguish her fires, so that after the two crafts had got loaded, while the Lee was at once under sail, the Enterprise was towed away to some distance, that she might light her fires and get up steam. Notwithstanding this she moored at Grahams town wharf, spent twenty-five minutes in discharging cargo, started on the return journey, and met the " Lee" on this side of Tararu wharf, still proceeding on her voyage.

Poor Willie Steele ! He said Auckland was the kindest place he ever was in, and his belief of this will be confirmed by the eontrasfc

-ded in the reception which he has met at afto.. > e8- Gold-digging is nob productive the Thaw ■ni.iments, and diggers a3 a class of the finer h* v • -y^e have been favoured are very practical. • Her from a ge utl ema n with the perusal of a it.... '~,n BOrne interest at the Thames who had tft*~ ~,i ch we ex _ in the " natural songster" from t*-^ qfc ee ]e tract the following item: —"Willie r». made an awful mess of it. Alter a few songs the diggers got on to the stage, put him into a red chair that was there, and carried him about making him sing all the time. The chairman got a knock on the head by a large and well-directed cabbage-."

"Scrutator" ha 3 not sent his name, in confidence, besides we do not see any advantage in laying before the public the expression of Scrutator's personal feelings respecting Mr. Vogel. Does Mr. Scrutator mean to insinuate that Mr. Vogel was iv a state of health such as to warrant him in addressing n public meeting ? If.so he knows nothing of what he is talking about. Mr. Vogel, as is very well known, was in a very precarious state of health when here ; and the political rancour that would sneer on such a subject is simply detestable.

M»v. Colclough's lecture at the Rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association last night was a very great success. The subject was treated in an interesting and able manner, and elicited much applause. We are obliged by pressure on our columns to withhold a fuller report.

The Pride of Wynyardton Company have two prospecting drives in, one 190 and another 180 feet respectively, with a view of cutting a leader which had been found cropping out on the crown of the hill. In the lower drive, which is in 180 feet, they expect to cut the leader they aro driving for in about 30 feet more.

A meeting of the shareholders of • the Driving Creek Q-old Mining Company was held last evening at the Waverly hotel, Queen street. Directors were elected, rules were passed, and Mr. R. B. Mason appointed legal manager.

The Secretary of the Insurance Agents' Committee (Mr. J. Buchanan) gives notice that Mr. Seering H. Matthews has been ap pointed superintendent of the Insurance Companies' Fire Brigade. Notice is also given by Mr. Matthews that persons em ployed to render assistance at fires will be paid next morning at the station-house, Queen street, at the rate of eighteenpenco for the first hour, and one shilling per hour afterwards. The Prince of Wales dramatic company will re-open on Monday evening, when the celebrated dramatic opera by Offenbach, of the " Grand Duchess," will be produced on a grand scale. Great care has been dovoted to the production of this piece and it will doubtless meet with tho success it deserves. Madame Simenson wiL of course appear as tho Grand Duchess of Geralstein. Tho Post says that "poor little Oolonel Gorton finds himself in a fix in Wanganui. He haß gone there flourishing his brand, and burning to distinguish himself; but it appears that the furniture in the Court-house has never been passed by the Government, conse quently, if the brand is put on, and the furniture afterwards rejected, tho contractor will doubtless refuse to take ife back. It ia feared that tho self-restraint he is compelled to practise for a little while will undermine his constitution." Tenders for the supply of scoria or freestone flagging will be received by the City Council on Monday next. There was a very good attendance at the City Hall yesterday evening. The performance was highly successful, and needs no recapitula tion. All who enjoy a good hearty laugh should go and see Mr. Bent administer the laughing gas to Mr. and Mra. Jones, of Papakura. The programme was an entire change, and will be repeated this evening. A meeting of business men' and ofcheis was held on Wednesday evening, at the, Young Men's Christian Association rooms, 'touching the action of the police in reference to a certain by-law of the City Council prohibiting the expdsure of any article in any shop window or doorway abutting on any public Btreet. Mr. Cosgrave, draper, waß voted to the chair. Motions to the following effect were carried: —*' That a petition be signed by the ratepayers of Auckland, requesting their representatives in the Council to amend the said by-law." 1. " This meeting, Tiewing with dismay the present des potic action of the police, resolve *to form an associatioti for their general defence, to be termed The Tradesmen's United Defence Association." " That Mi% Cosgrave be elected president; that Messrs. Atkins, Coombes, Dickey, Loverocfc, Offer, Montague, Cole, asd Smith form the committee." A motion put by Dr. Lee, "That it is the opinion of this meeting that any by-laws passed by the City Council infringing the privileges and oustoms of trade are arbitrary in inception and tyrannical in operation ; nevertheless as the great body of ratepayers have hitherto neglected their duty by not exercising their right of selection in the election of the Council, if any by-law be passed abridging their privilege*, ' serve them right,' " was declared lost on a show of hands. A further resolution, or rather an amendment by Mr. Case, " That the election of the committee be adjourned for six months, was met by a storm of hisses, and failed to find a seconder. The meeting was well attended, and a vote of thanks to the chair man concluded, the proceedings,

The anniversary services of the Wellesley street Sabbath School will be conducted to morrow. The Eev. P. H. Cornford will preach in the morning, and the Eev. Warlow Davies in the evening. There will be an afternoon service fcr scholars and friend?. Collections after each service in aid of the School funds. The annual public tea meeting will take place on Tuesday next. The football match (Colonists v. the World) was continued yesterday afternoon in the Albert Barracks. A large number of persons were present. The match was not decided, although the playing resulted in the World obtaining one goal after a severe contest. Play will be resumed on the first convenient day.

Mr. South gave a very clever and interesting entertainment last evening at the Theatre Koyal. Several of the tricks are extremely clever ; tke remaining portion of the programme was highly amusing. This evening he will give his last performance previous to starting for a tour in the Waikato.

A ball is intended to be given by the officers of "Volunteers in Auckland on Tuesday the 28th inst1, at the Drill-shed, in honour of Her Majesty's birthday. The B.s. Eangatira took away on Wednes day evening eight of our longest sentenced convicts, namely, Johnson, for murder ; El cock, for arson j Hemi te Hara, murder; Muirhead, for murder ; Haley, for shooting with intent to kill, &c. ; all under sen tence of penal servitude for life ; 'Plum mer, for burglary and escape; twelve years ; and Bryant and Goldsmith;, for gar roting, each ten years. They were convejed on board shortly after dusk ironed and handcuffed. They will be conveyed to Dunedin. for lodgement in the Dunedin gaol, a more secure prison than Mount Eden Stockade. Tiieir keep will cost the province neaily £250 psr annum.

The Auckland corraspondent of the Waikato Times, says :—" You have doubtless heard of the Norman romance case ere this. It has the appearance of meeting with some sort of settlement, although why the widow should be imposed upon by coming to terms with one who apparently has not a leg to stand upon lamat a loss to conoaive. There i 3 no doubt that the late Mr. Norman, in his day, was a gay Lothario, bub that is no reason why, in the hour of trouble, insult should be added to injury to paor Mrs, Norraan : but this is the •way of the world !

The want of a second cell at the Turakina lock-u n was recently made apparent to th c Wanganui Chronicle by the sight of a lunatic handcuffed with ivs hands behind Jbim, and secured to a ring in tbb manger of a horse-box in the stable of Gleeson's Pen Nevis JTotel. It was impossible to put the man in the cell belonging to the lock-up, as it was occupied by the body of the man Kogers, who had bui'g himself on Wednesday morniag. The Wanganui papers are eminent for personalities, either between themselrca or towards members of the local community. Here is a mild specimen culled from the Chronicle: —"Mr. Strachan, our celebrated toQsorial artiste and tragedian, leaves Wan ganui by the s.s. Wallaby to»night. A few friends met at the Phccnix hotel last night, and presented him with an address, descrip tive of his services as a discoverer of gold and coals, as a purveyor of suppers, with not too much to eat, and rather little champagne to drink, as representative of sock and buskin, Othello and the Cuban Slave, and last, not least, a3 a manipulator of beards and black hair. He departs at peace with all mankind ; not only the Bride Ball Committe and La do da but even old Bogo and he havo made it up. The latter, we are told, fell upon his neck and wept." Two officers, viz , Lieut. Fooks, New Zea land Militia, and Cornet Wilson, Wairoa Light Horse, have had their commisions can celled by the Governor for Bigning a threaten ing notice addressed to the natives, which appeared in the public press, and which the Defence Minister rightly regarded as a breach of discipline. Negotiations with the natives under the auspices of the Civil Commissioner for the purpose of prospecting the district are progressing favourable, and when com plete the committee intend to lose no time in despatching an expedition.

THE CALIFORNIAN MAIL.

ACCIDENT TO THE MOSES TAYLOE.

The following just received from San Francisco via Galle and Melbourne ex plains the detention of the mail steamer : — '' Steamer, twenty-seventh March, cracked steam-chest, first day out; sail again ninth April."

The boat referred to above would be theMose3 Taylor, which was appointed to leave San Francisco on 27th March, the proper date, Leaving again on 9th April, and allowing 32 days for passage she ought tc be here to-morrow. It is possible, hoir ever, that the Nebraska after waiting in Honolulu several days without any ap pearance of the San Francisco steamer would proceed through, in which case tho 3teamer from San Francisco would con tinue her course to Auckland, but being ■disabled would probably make a long passage.

THE VOLUNTEER CHRONICLE

Arrangements have been made whereby the Thames, Waiuku, and Mauku Volunteers will be enabled to be present at the forthcoming review on the Queen's Birthday. i .-"■ The usual weekly parade of the Eifle Brigade and its cadets took place last evening at the Drill shed. Under the dim light of candles the men were put thro ugh company drill by their officers. The muster was not so iarge as on the previous week.

POLICE COURT.

THIS DAY

Before Thomas Bbckhaui, Esq., R.M. DRUNKENNESS. One man was fined ten shillings and costs for inebriety. ASSAULT. Charles Moore was charged with having committed an assault upon one Martha Cashin. - The prisoner pleaded drunkenness. The prosecutrix deposed to the offence, which was of an unprovoked chtraoter. Constable Gordon proved witnessing the assault. His Worship severely reprimanded the prisoner on the cowardly nature of the assault, and ordered him to pay a fine of £5, or to suffer one month's imprisonment with hard labour. BBEACH OS1," THE STEAM NAVIGATION ACT. John McCleary wa« charged with refusing to pay his fare from the Bay of Islands by the steamer Comerang. The prisoner stated he had not the money at starting, but that the captain was informed he would pay on arrival. He now had the money to pay. No one appeared to prosecute, and he vra3 I discharged,

[The following appeared' in tie first and second editions issued this-- morning.']

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL.

SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE EVENING STAR.

News to A.pril 14.

JE art.hquake in. O alilornia.

Tire Tiolxlbome

Olaiixxaxxt.

Oolliex-v Explo sion in Warwick-

shire.

of* aix .^L-xistx-alian Snip.

Ijoss of* Life.

Tlxe Wool Sales.

Markets Brisk.

Ai*rival of* Betlx Slian *Sc Countess

of Kiiitore.

Seizure ofAustra-

lian Meat.

Groat Ktx'ike of Operatives.

IHviss - Travers

Hcandal.

Sebastopol to T>e I£e - opened.

Alabama Olainxs

IT"ixxaneial St;ate-

nient.

BLUFF,

Saturday morning. The steamer Qmeo has arrived at 8 o'clock with the Sue/; mails.

ADELAIDE.

May 4,

The mail steamer Ran gatira arrived off Glenelg at 4 o'clock this morning. The Baroda left for King George's Sound for Melbourne on 29th April at 8 a.m. The latest dates from London are to the 28th March, and telegrams to the 13th April.

GALLE.

April 13. Passengers for Australia: Sir Valentine Fleming, Sir G-eo. Verdon, G-. Gordon Water, Engineer for Vic toria. The wool sales terminated on the Ist March. They were characterised by almost unexampled animation, prices reaching higher than in this generation. The prospects of the next sales are excellent. One -thousand bales New Zealand hemp auctioned at full prices. Tallow sells freely. Mutton, 42s to 42s 6d, Beef— 41s. 6d. to 425. 3d.; mixed 425. to 425. 6d. Hides sold freely at an advance of a farthing per pound. Leather—Less active; 13,000 sides sold. Sydney oil—34s. to 385.;- sperm at £98. Australian wheat, forty - eight to sixty-one shillings. Preserved meats are considerably lower. New Zealand Consolidated. 5 per cent., January, April, July, and October, are 103 i. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1891. March- September, 112, ditto, January-July, \ll. Consols, 92f. : Money abundant. Discount moderate at bank rates. There is a general rise in stock at the Stock Exchange. Joint stock undertakings are very numerous. SHIPPING. Arrived from New Zealand: —Beth Shan, Countess of Kintore, from Auck land; Halcyon, Merope, and Otago.

Sailed for New Zealand: Agemon, Bulwer, Ironsides, and Wave Queen. Loadingfor New Zealand ten vessels. The exports for February and March show a moderate increase to New Zealand. The increase over theprevious month is £22.300. A supplement to Stable's circular reports three more departures for New Zealand.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Tiehborne claimant remains in New gate. He lias published a letter appealing to the public for subscription to aid him in his defence, solemnly declaring he is the real Sir Roger. Cambridge won the University boat race by one and a-half lengths. The publicity given to the attempts of the Commissioner of Sewers to seize 2,000 cases Australian preserved meats has seriously prejudiced sales of this article. Sir ~W. McArthur will move an address to be presented to the Queen for the establishment of a protectorate over Fiji. A great meeting has been held at Oxford in honor of the memory of Bishop Patteson. ;i< Eleven thousand hands engaged -jn the flax mills at Leeds are out on strike. Pour thousand silk weavers are locked out. Chaffers, an attorney, has by statu tory declaration published infamous details of the early life of Sir Travers and Lady Twiss. " Chaffers is being prosecuted for libel. During the examination at the Police Court he tortured Lady Twiss _by putt^ug filthy questions and making libellous statements. Their truth wa? disproved, but Lady Twiss suddenly left London, and the- case coll^ged. Sir Travers has si: ace resigned his position as Queen' s A.dvocate. The total contributions from the United Kingdom for the Chicago Relief; Fund has amounted to £160,000. It Is expected that the House of LoT.-ds will pass the Ballot Bill. 'The French military expenditure bas been reduced by 28,000,000 francs t A projected visit of Prince Frederick "William and Count Moltke to Italy alarms and irritates France. Mazzini, the patriot, died suddenly at Pisa, and was buried at Geneva, The funeral was atended by 80,000 persons. The Russian Government have expressed their determination to re open Sebastapol as a military and commercial harbour. An influential committee has been formed at Bombay to raise a fund for a memorial to Lord Mayo. The last telegram, dated 10th April, states that Gladstone in replying to Lord Derby's speech in the House, said that the Ministry would fully maintain their position in the Alabama claim case. Mr. Low made his financial statement. Last years expenditure was one million less than the money voted. The estimated expenditure for the coming year is seventy-one million odd. The revenue is nearly 75 millions. He proposes amongst other things to reduce the income tax to £60 and applies to have the abatement to incomes of three hundred pounds abolished; also, tax on warehouse, &c, where rental is under £20. He proposes to retain the remaining surplus of" £362,000 as a reserve. The National debt has been reduced since 1869 by 1.2,047,000. The Republicans at Washington, on 2nd April, carried the elections, thereby increasing the chances of President Grant's re-election. Lord Duftern succeeds Lord Lis more in the Governorship of Canada. The Queen is at Baden Baden in strict privacy. The Prince of "Wales with the Princess and family have arrived at Rome. Prince Frederick "William had a lengthy audience with him, and con gratulated him upon his recovery. His Royal Highness expressed his thanks towards Queen Victoria foi» the constancy and sympathy evinced .by her. He also praised th© ;r<sigious' feeling shewn by the British nation. Hon. B. Disraeli has been enthusias tically received at Manchester, and numerous addresses were presented to him by the Conservatives throughout Lancashire. At a monster meeting held at Manchester, Disraeli defended the thrdne as the source of all the blessings which the British nation enjoys. He also demonstrated the cheapness of Royalty and spoke in defence of the House of Lords. On Easter Monday there was a grand review of Volunteers tit Brigh ton, which was considered a great success, notwithstanding the unfavor state of the weather. A Colliery explosion took place at Atherstone in Warwick, 28 men were killed. The labourers in "Warwickshire have struck work, and formed a union.

FOREIGN.

Thiers, on the occasion of closing the Assembly for the. Easter recess, said that order reigned in the interior, and peace abroad assured to Trance that Europe was well disposed towards her, and their aim should be to reconstitute France with regard to any alliance Europe was holding itself in- reserve now, and would aid "their wish to bind themselves together. ■ A treaty pf commerce between

Prance and Belguim has been con cluded by the Assembly. A proposed tax on raw material has been aban doned. • Seventy-two ambassadors from the Khiver have been despatched to St. Petersburgh to court the friendship of the Czar. Some of the Municipalities in Spain are associating themselves together to endeavour to obtain the restoration of Gibraltar.

LATEST.

The House of Commons has re jected Vernon Harcourt's motion to reduce the national expenditure.

The English press comment upon the absence of any programme in. Disraeli's speech at Manchester.

WASHINGTON.

April 4,

The Foreign committee of Congress recommends the 1 suspension of action in the Fishery Bills, owing to the con dition of the Washington Treaty. The Republicans have carried the Rhodes Island election.

LONDON.

The University boat race was rowed in a snow storm. ~..,, The ship Talata fro,n Adelaide stranded in the English Channel near Boulonge. The cr;, w an d passengers were saved in tjne Boulong life-boat, manned by English seaman. The masts we^-e cut away to save the ship. Tb^, Nebraska's mails were delivered o». the 28th March. A destructive earthquake has taken place in California. Many people were killed and injured. The boy O'Connor, who insulted the Queen, has been sentenced to one year's hard labour, and to receive twenty lashes. April 12. Arthur Orton,theTichborneclaimant, was arraigned at the Central Criminal Court for perjury. He pleaded " Not Guilty." The case has been removed by a writ of Certiorari to the Court of Queen's Bench, and the trial will com mence in June.

THE CHURCH PARADE.

We have been requested to publish the following correspondence with reference to the order issued for a Church Parade on Thanksgiving Day :

To the Editor of the Evektug Stab. Dea.b Sib, —May I ask from you the favour of a placa in your issue of to-day for the following correspondence. These letters might have been given to the public sooner, but it is a rule with me never to publiaK correspoxidencc on. aujr oobjocfc save with the assent of parties. In my action regarding the order for parade referred to, my sole purpose was to vindi cate a public principle which, in several directions besides the one here noticed, there is at present a strong tendency to violate. It will be seen from the letter of the Honorable the Defence Minister that he coincides with the view of the matter taken by myself; and that the govern ment of the country will lend no coun tenance to even an evasion of the law of religious equality as now existing. The end sought having thus been gained my duty to the public for the present closes, lam, &c, ~D. Bbtjce, Incumbent of St. Andrew's Church. Auckland, St. Andrew's Vestry, May 11th, 1872.

THE REV. D. BRUCE TO THE DEFENCE MINISTER.

Auckland, 6th May, 1872. Sir, —I beg leave to call your attention to a notice in the Volunteer Gazette of the 3rd inst., ordering a parade of the whole of the Volunteer corps in Auckland for Divine Service in St. Paul's Cathedral on the day of public thanksgiving for the recovery of the Prince of Wales. As I consider thoprder, even with its skilful wording, an invasion of the principles of the legal equality of the Churches in the colony, and tending directly to commit the Government to a recognition of one particular Church rather than another, I deem it my duty to request in the name of the church which I belong to, that you will take measures to prevent the wrong complained of.—l have the honor to be your obedient servant, D. Bjruce, Jncum-J bent of St. Andrew's. The Honorable the Defence Minister.

THE DEFENCE MINISTER, TO REV. D. BRUCE.

General Government Offices, Auckland, May 7th 1872. Sir,-—ln answer to your letter of the 6th inst., I have the honor to inform you that steps have been taken to alter the arrangements made for the attendance of the Volunteers at Divine Service at St. P.aul's, and that instructions will be issued to prevent any future re-occurrence of a similar order. The Volunteers will parade at 9 a.m., and will be at liberty each to attend Divine Service at the church to which he belongs. I beg that you will not consider that the promulgation of the order you allude to, at all indicates a wish on the part of the Government to recognize any one particular Church above another. —I have the -honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant, Donald McLean. The Bey. D. Bruce, Auckland.

WHALING BARQUE ALBION.

(Per Greville's Telegram Company.)

By the arrival of the Comerang from Kussell this morning we have news of the whaling barque Albion. She is reported to have taken 180 barrels sperm oil.

Several of the telegraph poles near Maketu are said to have been split by lightning during the recent storm.

An Indianan asked the Clerk of a Cour'i whether he couldn't reduce the rates if '' ha 1 f a dozen fellows clubbed together to take out marriage licsnsca '

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i-RAHAMSTOWff, 3 p.m.

The Moanata-i lodged last night 95 pounds of rented gold with more to come. The ptal returns for the fortnight are 132 ozs. The Nonparei has "banked 160 ozs. as the first instament. The G-olden Spur tribute has ob tained 22 ouncei The fortnights return for the Kurarmi is 172 evinces. Belfast tribute has crushed 15 tons, yielding 17 ounces. G-olden Crown tribute crushing of 60 tons, gave a good return; namely, 122 ounces. The G-olden Crown crushing of 100 tons yielded 70 ounces. The Caledonian have obtained 238 ounces from a batch of specimens. ■■■, The Star of the South has arrived', from Napier. ■} ■;

[Peb G-bevime's Tblegbam Compakt.] ! TAUEANGA. Saturday, The s.s. Eangatira arrived from Auckland yesterday afternoon, after a stormy passage.

WELLINGTON.

Friday.

A Public Hall Company has been successfully formed, and a first call made. The Court of Appeal sits on Mon day. Mills, an ironmonger, sued the captain and owners of the ship Eng land for £50, value of goods damaged on the voyage. In the course of the enquiry it was elicited that much water had descended the after hatch way in the Bay of Biscay. A verdict was given for plaintiff. The Government have arranged to send the outward mail to Honolulu per City of Melbourne. The Wellington will take the mail to Auckland in the ordinary way.

PORT CHALMERS.

Arrived —Wild Deer, from G-lasgow with 32 passengers, all well. Sailed—Wellington, for Dtmedin.

CORRESPONDENCE.

/tST"We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

THE CHURCH PARADE, &c.

To the Edifcer of the Evening Stab. Sib, —With a single eye to usefulness, and ranging over the immediate future, I would submit to you in brief a fresh free thoughton the latest current local event. I imtantly noticed the thing anent Divine service for the Volunteers on Thanksgiving day for recovery of the Heir Apparent to the British throne ; —the officer's published arrangement, appointed march to the Episcopalian church-house, letter there upon by Rev. D. Bruce, &c. I had thought about that officer's particular proclamation, but had privately deemed the matter unsuit able for me publicly to notice and annotate upon it. Was pleased that Mr. Bruce protested. He was specially competent to it; for, being an avowed nationalist in churchianty his protestingism was peculiarly appropriate in the case. My notion as an independent churchman, in regard to the affair is this: Unanimity in the holiday and cele bration, which it was so vary de»ira b!e to realise and display, would have surely obtained if Rev. Dr. Cowio had engaged Rev. D. Bruce to preach on the oc casion at St. Paul's (so called) on the morning of the proclaimed holiday,—which by the bye, should have been, the Queen's Birthday— and then, with some few days' notice for preacher and people, an elaborate discourse would most likely have teen delivered before a crowded audience composed of the elect of Auckland. Merely as an ostensible demon* stration of Catholicity this would have been, admirable ! But there exists a small obstacle, This should be imperatively removed. - VXiet the liberal devise liberal things. Verbum sap: I, am, &c., W. E. Sadlee.

" I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, than such a Roman."

To the Editor of the Evening-Star.

Sic, —I am really surprised at the letter of" A G-loomy Fanatic," appearing in your last even* ing's issue. He altogether forgets that our priesthood is descended direct from the Apoitles, and inspired ; and that to think one of thai? number could be guilty of a want of charity and discretion is rank heresy, and will pro bably result in anathemas, if not excommunica tion. Moreover, he loses sight of the hard fact that charity is not now practised as an essential of the Christian religion (it belongs to a," worn out theology"), and that discretion can scarcely be looked for in a " boy-minister." Further, he should be aware that a minister from an exparte rostrum —where contradiction or dissent is not to be feared —can very bravely play braggadocio, in other words can afford to be bold and indiscreet. Let your correspondent remember v these truisms and he will no longer wonder or remark on the extraordinary announcements we are from time to time favoured with from I St. Paul's Church pulpit, but he will learn to pity, smile, and forgive.—Jpnixts. - P.S. —I sincerelj hope your correspoudent will be present afc the Young Men's Christian Association Booms on the opening night of the session to hoar the address on " Precocity and its evils." It will, I fed sure, give him the key to much, and prevent him in veiy compassion from writing more on the same subject. ■ < . •■ [This must close the controversy. We have received five other lelters on the same subject, but couched m terms needlessly severe. No good purpose can w» served by their publication. Even if Mr. Nelson nas spoken rather inadvisedly it does not weigh againsi the much gQod which ho has done at St. Pains,— Ed. £„s.]

THE EVENING BTA.B, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1872.

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/)LSON'S TOMATO SAUCE The mmense success attending the J- Production of this new local industry will alone Ijjtify to the high estimation-in which it is held. P -ring the last year the proprietor was scarcely aVie to supply the We demand, and has in consequence made extensive alterations and additions to his Factory, so as to be enabled to keep the market well supplied. No one who values health and appetite should be without a supply of this really health-restoring and agreeable ondiment. ~ , ~ Sold everywhere In Bottles with the name of H. OLSON on wrapper and stamped on bottle and per. Auckland, 10th February, 1872. WANTED KNOWN.—Just opened, ex Naomi, a Choice Selection of G-entle man's Undershirts in Merino, Silk, &o. ; also, New Hats,—S. CbOMBES'.City Clothing Mart, 80, Queen street; TBI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER. PBICE TWOPENCE. THE COROMANDEL MAIL The MAIL will be found/an excellent medium for advertising. BA.dvertisements will be received in Auckland^y essrs. Keedand Brett, Evening Star Office, andat by-Mr. WUkingoD, Advertiser Oftce. ttm