THE SUEZ MAIL.

Clutha Leader, 20 September 1878, Page 1

THE SUEZ MAIL.

London, August 2. ; The Queen ? s assent to the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, passed in Natal, has; been refused. An insect a quarter of an inch long is doing great damage to the turnip fields in Ireland. The German Government are preparing 1 for the raising* of the Grosser Kurfurst. Mr Bennett, of the New York tlerald, is sending the yacht Dauntless to the Polar Regions, via Spitzbergen. Baker Pasha is to reorganise the Turkish Gendarmerie, and is to be charged with a special service in Eastern Roumelia. Mr Montague Corry, and Mr Philip Gurrie, joint secretaries to the late Embassy at Berlin, have been made i O.B's. The Da Turville case is before the Chancery Court, in reference to the question whether the murderer can benefit by his wife's will. The Pan Anglican Synod terminated on 27th July. One hundred and four prelates attended the special service at St. Paul's Cathedral. For the first time in the annals of Westminister Abbey, a coloured divine, the native Bishop of Hayti, preached in that edifice on the 4th July. The claimant has been visited by Mr Onslow, who states that he has gained two stones in weight since his removal from Dartmoor. The proposal of the Russian Government to introduce a class tax similar to the Prussian class tax is causing great dissatisfaction. A beer-house keeper at Greenwich took his three young children for a walk in a wood, and there cut their throats, and then killed himself. A robbery of bank-drafts, notes, and coin, to the value of L 17,000, was effected on the night of the 26th July, at the house of a money-lender near Bradford. Sir Richard Wallace has presented to Lord Beaconsfield the star worn by the late Marquis of Hertford, as a Knight of the Garter. The diamonds and rubies in it are valued at L 12,000. A Japanese corvette, the first war ship from that country that ever reached England, was visited by a distinguished party, including many members oi Parliament and Midhat Pasha, , on the 26th July. Forty-eight soldiers belonging to one of the Indian regiments at Malta have been poisoned through carbolic acid being served out instead of lime juice. No deaths resulted, though several are seriously ill. Strict investigation is to be made. J ames Pryor, late managing director, Colonel Mahon (formerly M.P. for Glare), and Captain Steeman, directors of the Lombard Deposit Bank, have been committed for trial, charged with forging and uttering a minute book connected with the affairs of the bank with intent to defraud. On the 25th July Mr Cowen, amidst much laughter, presented a petition from a number of persons in various parts of the country, asking ror the impeachment of Lord Beaconsfield for his doings in connection with the Eastern Question. Mr Cowen disclaimed all sympathy with the petition. There have been several railway accidents, on July 13, one at Edgehill, near Liverpool, resulting in the death of a lady and injury to a dozen other persons. On the 15 th, nearly 100 persons were burnt more or less, though none were killed, by a heavy ballast train dashing into an excursion train at Beccles, on the Great Eastern line. Lord Beaconsfield visited Osborne on the 20th July, and was invested with the Garter. Lord Salisbury was also invested with the Garter at Osborne on the 30th. On the same day General Lintorn Simmons was invested with the Grand Cross of the Bath, and Sir Arnold Kemball and Lord Tenterden were presented with the insignia of K.C.B. The reserves have all been dismissed to their homes, and a general order commends them for their conduct. The only disorderly conduct manifested was amongst a number of Irishmen at Portsmouth and Cardiff on their embarkation for Ireland, and that was caused by excessive drinking. All the extra hands are being dismissed from the dockyards and arsenals. An extraordinary scene occurred at Bandon on the burial of a woman who, it was alleged, had become a Roman Catholic before her death. Two Angli- I can clergymen were present at the request of the husband, who is a Protestant. There was also two priests, accompanied by a large crowd. The latter seized the coffin and carried it off; amidst great excitement the corpse was interred with Roman Catholic ceremonies. On the same day Sir Charles Dilke moved an amendment against the proposal to grant the Duke of Connaught an additional LIO,OOO per annum on his marriage, with L6OOO to his wife in case of her surviving him. x Mr Gladstone supported the motion, and the amendment was rejested by 320 to 33. During the debate on the Duke of joonnaug;ht's marriage allowance, high enconiunfs i were, passed upon His Royal Highness- from all sides, and ; testimony was borne to his great popularity in Ireland by several of the Home Rulers. • - ~ "

The return of the Russian Guards to St. Petersburg-is -expected this month. Farmers in fowa complain of scarcity of labourers and offer 10s per day. The census returns of Nebraska, just taken, show a population of 313,748. Marshal Bazaine is living in Madrid, and is in excellent health. Mrs H. B. Stowe has made L 60,000 out of " Uncle Tom's Cabin." It. is reported that a scheme has been elaborated for the introduction of the Gregorian Calander in Russia. Sulieman Pasha's trial has commenced at Constantinople. . It will last some time. The Russians are preparing to evacuate Jassy, and have already abandoned other places in Roumania. The Pope is about, dit-on, to revise and publish his Latin and Italian poems. Tennyson regards " Harold *' and " Queen Mary " as his best and highest works. Five persons were burned to death by using kerosene to light a fire in St. Louis. Official contradiction has been given to the report that the King of Spain intended abdicating. Phylloxera is spreading both in the northern and southern provinces of Spain. The cotton crop in Egypt is expected to be deficient both in quality and quantity. During June 187,874 barrels of salt were made in Michigan. Total product since Dec. 1, the commencement of the inspection year, 795,000 barrels. A yacht was stolen by three men from Brighton. A steamer was sent in cbase, and it was overtaken thirty miles away. They were off to America. Count Schouvaloff is expected soon to succeed Gorschakoff as Chancellor, and General Woaonzoff is spoken of as ambassador to England, The cashier of the St. Petersburg Credit Bank, Tuchaneoff, has absconded, after robbing the bank of about two million roubles. The strike of miners in different parts of France is terminating. It created considerable uneasiness for seme days, and the troops were called out. The Daily News understands that it is the intention of Dr , Hooker to retire at the close of the present year from the presidency of the Royal Society. The Postal Congress is sitting at Paris, and will doubtless do something towards the establishment of uniform rates of postage for all countries. A curious book is about to be published in London entitled " Ye life of Jemmy Catnach," a ballad-monger of the Seven Dials. Only a limited number of copies will be printed. The first number of a new weekly paper, to be called the Electrician and to be devoted to theoretical and applied electricity and chemical physics, has made its appearance. ' Robert Barrett Browning, the only son of the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, has made his first appearance in London as a painter. The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief will shortly proceed to Malta, to review and inspect the Indian contingent which have been ordered to rendezvous in chat island. The Spanish Congress last week rejected by 77 votes to 31 a proposal to institute a Parliamentary inquiry into the effects of the industrial crisis in Spain. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad bridge across the Kankakee river at Momence, 111, fell, carrying down a locomotive and two freight cars. No one was seriously hurt. A novel and disgraceful prize-fight between two women (married and with families) has taken place near Henley. A large crowd was present. Teeth as well as fists were freely used during the contest. Fifty-four convicts from Mount St. Bernard Roman Catholic Reformatory made their escape, and were followed by warders and police. A regular pitched battle ensued, and after a number were injured oh both sides, fortythree were recaptured. Captain Sir George Nares (the Standard says) is named for a second command of the discovery ship Alert. This cruise will not,, however, be to the North, the Antarctic rather than the Arctic being ibe intended scene of her future explorations. At the official banquet at Paris the health of the Prince of Wales was proposed by M. Teray, member of the Left Centre of the Senate, and was drunk with tremendous enthusiasm. It was stated that the Prince had interested himself in the French exhibition as if it had been held in England. At the first anniversary meeting of the Southwark Liberal Association Mr Gladstone strongly denounced the conduct of the Ministry. Outside the building several thousands met, and passed resolutians in favour of the Government, and the mention of Mr Gladstone's name was met with groans, and hisses. . The present Czar, who completed his sixtieth year on April; 29 Jastj is the only Russian sovereign, during over two centuries avad a half, who attained the age said to be to fatal to his race. Of* 16: Russian sovereigns, from 1613 to; 1878, only one, the present. Czar, may be said to' have reached the age of 60.'' Catherine ; of ßussia^ /? who livedsf seven:: years jonger, was, a German, without t a. f dropr of Russian ,blop^in|-H|lr^^itife^s/"r>

A blue-book containing the protocols of the Congress has been/issued. The

expenses of the British special embassy to Berlin aro stated to have been L7OOO. Treasure trove amounting to L 72,000 has been found in the Andria Palace, near Naples. It had been hidden during the French invasion of Italy. A notary's clerk and a medical student have beeu sentenced. to death at Paris for the murder of- an old woman, whom they robbed. The student then cut up the body, and the crime; was discovered in attempting to get rid of the remains. Satisfactory experiments , were made in the presence of the Secretary for War and a large staff, with the 80 and 38 ton guns at Shoeburynpss on the 24th July. A shot from the former, fired at an elevation of ten degrees, grazed the ground first at four and a half miles and ricechetted two miles further. A large number of Turkish and Egyptian ladies of rank have, with Lady Layard, visited the British fleet at Prince's Island. The Sultan has presented I wad Pasha with a large pivce of land on the Bosphorus, in recognition of hie services during the war. A regular Scott Museum is beingformed in the Scott Monument, Edinburgh. The collection already there has been laid' out to better advantage, the room being entirely renovated for the purpose, and the Public Monuments Committee now invite loans or donations of relics of the great writer, the safety of the objects being assured. The fine old mansion of Cambo House; eight miles from St. Andrews, the seat of Sir Thomas Erskine, J^art., was totally destroyed by fire early on the morning of July Bth, Scarcely anything was saved, even the family portraits being burned. Two fine portraits, however, the one of James, 11., and the other of Cardinal Erskine, weie rescued. A report that has not been officially contradicted has been circulated of a defensive alliance between Greece and Italy, the latter pledging herself to use her fleet to prevent the landing of Turkish troops in Greece. Count Paul Hatzfeldt, German Minister at Madrid, is to succeed Prince Reuss as ambassador at Constantinople, in consequence of tha latter's removal to Vienna. The Edinburgh memorial status of Dr. Chalmers was unveiled on the 27th July, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. Sir John M'Neill, G.C.8., on behalf of the committee of subscribers, handed over the ' statue to the. Lord Provost for the city, and the ceremony of unveiling was performed by a married niece of the late Dean Ramsay, by whom the movement was originated. The statue, which is of bronze, and stands at the intersection of George and Castle streets, upon a pedestal of Aberdeen granite 15ft. in height, is by Sir John Steel, R.S.A., and was pronounced by, competent judges at the opening ceremony to be an excellent likeness. It is 12ft. high, and represents Dr. Chalmers in his robe as Moderator of the General Assembly, holding .an open Bible, on which he is apparently founding a characteristically impassioned ' argument. A grand banquet, attended by 600 peers, M.P.'s, and ex-members, was given to -Lord BeaconsfieM and Lord Salisbury in the Duke of Wellington's Riding School, Knightabridge,' on the ~ 27th of July. The Duke of Buccleuch presided. The two plenipotentiaries vindicated their policy at the Congress, and particularly disclaimed having in any way sold Greece. They gave her advice, and she followed it. At Berlin' Lord Beaconsfield said he ascertained as an absolute fact what he had always suspected — namely, that neither the ~ Crimean war nor the war just.terminated would have occurred if England : had spoken with the necessary firmness. , Some remarks made by the Premier have led to correspondence between him and Mr Gladstone, and the latter has also been involved in a correspondence with Captain Burnaby. The House of Lords was crowded in every part on the' 18th July, when Lord Beaconsfield narrated the 'doings at the Congress. Amongst: those pre r sent were the Princess of Wales, the Dukes of Connaught and Cambridge^' and Prince Louis of Hesse. A warm. .-. passage of arms took place between Lords Salisbury and Derby " in consequence, of the latter staling .that one of his reasons for withdrawing from the Cabinet was because it had resolved'to ' seize Cyprus and some point of the mainland, with or without the consent,, of the Sultan.- Lord Salisbury -"ca'te-" ; gorically denied the truth of ,tbis,nand ,yj charged "the Earl with revealing the deliberations of the Cabinet, notwith- j ' standing; the oath, :o which Lor dr Derby rejoined that ihe sqereev which. attached , to Cabinets was governed in J case' of the J resignation of a Minister; by J -t-Ke v ?.jbi^-i^ cumstances. On the 26th i-Lo^rd^aJis-,,, ■ bury explained, 'in "reply to Lord'Rol'lif; ' bery, why he had described the dbcu-'' a ments, published! in.jthe, jSlo^^onther 3 1st of May,>s-unaut^ rented that, the; TOrki£h^iTOQ^|nr^^pt be withdrawii-lfTom to return;; whereas the Gavernmentfha^ been; prepared fto^make ok tne Balkan passes r 'a* casus oeUirWiiWh