The Rangitoto, having the English mail on board, bringing news up to 3rd Saptem bsr, arrived at Hokitika on Monday morning last. The following is the telegraphic sum mary : — London, August 13th. The Queen was at Osborne House, aud was to leave for Balmoral on the 19th August. Prince Arthur has been appointed to the Rifle Brigade, and was to leave Liverpool by the Cunard steamer next day to join the corps in Canada. Tiie Prince and Princess o£ Wales are stopping at Wildbad, in Black Forest. The Princess is drinking the mineral waters. Parliament was prorogued on the 11th August. The Irish Church Bill received the Royal assent on the 26th July, together with the Bill for the purchase of the Telegraph Lines ; the Dividends in Public Stock Bill ; the Galle Harbor Loan Bill ; and the East Indix Loan Bill. Mr Justice Selwyn and the Bishop of Salisbury died on the 11th. Dr Moberly, head master of Winchester School, will aucceed the Bishop of Salisbury. The statue erected in honor of Mr George Peabody, by the City of London, was un veiled on the 23rd of July by the Prince of Wales A debate took place in the House of Lords ou the affairs of New Zealand, when Lord Granville declared that the Government ad hered to their refusal to grant military aid. The Earl of Carnarvon advocated the de spatch of a special envoy armed with powers similar to those conferred upon Sir Henry Storks in Jamacia. Bishop Selwyn proposed a temporary withdrawal of the settlers from the disturbed districts, and giving „hem com pensation by means of a small loan. He ad vocated the presence of Imperial forces. None of the suggestions received any en couragement from Sari Granville who said the same policy was rigidly applied to Canada. Viscount Burry. in the House of Commons, pleaded for a small guaranteed loan, and for the retention of one regiment in the colony. The ' Spectator ' says that the disposition of English officials to treat the complaints of the colonists with scorn and insolence was fully displayed in a debate in the correspon dence contained in the Blue Book, which is from end to end a repertory of carefully worded and apparently intentional contempt. In the Divorce Court, in the case of Capt. Vi-/an v. 