LATE TELEGRAMS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXI, Issue 5602, 31 August 1875, Page 3

LATE TELEGRAMS.

Lonoox, July 12. —The steamer ' John Tenuant,' homeward bound from Calcutta, was lost off Cape FiuUtcrre ; the i>ass«ngers ami crew were saved. July 13.— 1" the House of Commons List night, Mr Disraeli, in replying to Sir Wilfred Lawaon, said that the communication of the correspondence which passed between Lord Salisbury and the Viceroy of Iudia relative to the Prince of Wales's visit to India waa inexpedient, at the correspondence was striutly confidential. . July 10.- A debate was held in tno House of Commons last night, on Mr. Fawcetfs motion that no part of the expense of the Prince's visit ahonld be charged ■gainst the Indian revenues. Mr. Fawcett urged the preaent w»s a favourable opportunity to make amends to India for the paltry manner whereby tho Indian exchequer wm made to bear the expense* of a visit of the Sultan of Turkey to England. The motion was rejected by 79 votes *gamst 07. The House wtnt into committee, and Messrs. McDonald and Kenealy opposed the vote of £U0 000 for the personal expenses of the Prince. Mr. Bright approved of this item. This vote was carried by 3.tO against lfi ; the vote for the Naval expenditure, £32,000, also was carried. July 22.— Russia has abandoned the continuation of the Conference upon the code of war at St. Petersburg. July 27.— {Several meetings have been held in London expressing sympathy with Mr. Plimsoll, and denouncing the recent withdrawal of the Merchant Shipping Bill. Bombay, July 23.— Colonel Widdicomb, Jud«e of Kurrachee, a Small Cause Court, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor on Monday rooming. ..... July 23.— It w reported here that the Secretory of State has decided to abolish the import duty on the lower kinds of yarn.— TheMabarajah of Scindia comes to Bombay, to be present at the Prim* of Wales landing and reception there. The route of the P iuce of Wales is rumoured to be as follows : —After lauding at Bombay early in November, aud seeing Poona and the neighbourhood, he will sail for Ccyl'.n thence to Madras, and round by Hyderabad to Calcutta, which he will reach in three or four days before Christmas; he will atay there three weeks, January 11 being fixed for his departure. While there, and immediately afterwards, he will shoot in Beueal; hewiU next visit .Sir Jung Bahadoor, Nepaul, with the same object, and thence proceed to Benares, and through the provinces. The Prince will return to Bombay not later than the «nd of March. There are 2o0feraale students in the faculty of medicine and surgery of the St. Petersmade hi. fir* appearance . as a public lecturer in London^ a few weetoi ago. when he rsad a paper on his discoveries at Troy, before the £<«•& of Antiquaries. Mr. Gladstone was one orhp auditors. (ForwRtinuatiooof »•*■ ** Supplement.)