LATEST NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 181, 4 August 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)

LATEST NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

THE QUEEN'S MONOGRAMS. Her Majesty the Queen has added to her monogram the initial letter I, signifying the Latin word "Tmperatrix." Mr. Mac michael, the veil-known heraldic artist and designer of Chelsea, has been com missioned to prepare perfectly original designs of monograms, from which are to be cut dies for the private use of Her Majesty. These are to consist of the letters "V.R.I ," with the royal crown. A CLEVER DODGE OF TURKEY. There are now on the Thames two gunboats which have been built for the Turkish Government. As they cannot leave our shores, they will, we are informed, probably pass into the hands of the British Government for, as the phrase goes, " a mere song." The ironclad built on the Thames for the Porte can, we believe, be removed, inasmuch as the Turks were sharp enough to commission her before the war broke out, and international rules will allow sufficient coal to be taken on board to carry her to her first port. SHARP PUNISHMENT. A correspondent of the Globe in Russia states that a commissariat officer at Odessa was detected adulterating flour about to be sent to the army with lime and other substances. He was immediately tried, and shot within twenty-four hours after the discovery took place. The Government trust that this summary execution will put a stop to these practices, which caused so much suffering to the Russian soldiers during the Crimean war. RUSSIAN LADIES AND THE WAR. A great number of Russian ladies in St. Petersburgh have pledged themselves mutually not to wear silk or satin or costly ornaments, nor to give balls, nor to indulge in other luxuries during the present war, but to devote the money which they would otherwise have spent upon such objects to the nursing of the sick and wounded of their country. ALLEGED RUSSIAN ATROCITIES. The Ottoman authorities of Podgoritza complain that in the fight at Maljat five Turkish soldiers had their ears and noses cut off. Two of them had died since their arrival at the Spush hospital. A LENGTHY YACHTING EXCURSION. Mr. T. Brassey, M P., with Mrs. Brassey and family, has arrived home in his yacht Sunbeam, having accomplished atrip round the world, after travelling 36,000 miles under steam and canvas, during a period of forty-six weeks. AN ITALIAN VENDETTA. A terrible act of vendetta, fortunately without fatal results, has been perpetrated at Lercara, the place near which, as will be lemembered, Mr. Ross was captured. Some persons, thus far unknown, desiring to revenge themselves upon Signor Fiovanni Rizzi, the chief inspector of police resident there, who has shown much firmness in the fulfilment of his duties, succeeded in secretly undermining his house, and placing powder beneath it blew it up while Signor ! Rizzi, his wife, and two sons were asleep in their beds. The explosion aroused the whole village, and by the energetic efforts of the police, aided by the populace, the victims were all got out alive from the ruins, and though severely hurt, without having received any mortal injury. AN ITALIAN BRIGAND. An Italian ex-chief of brigands, by name Pieto Boni, has come to an untimely end in Algeria. Information having been received that he was lodging at a cafe at Bona, a party of gendarmes proceeded to arrest him. Pietro Bona, however, having news of their intention, did not return to his lodging, but wandered about for two days, concealing himself in some shrubwood by the ancient bed of the Boudjimah. Here the gendarmes tracked him and gave him chase. Finding himself driven to bay, he jumped into a pool of water, and drawing a sword from a sword-stick he carried with him, defied his pursuers. After attempting in vain to parley with him, one of thegendarmeslevelledarevolver at his head and tired. The bullet struck him in the temple, and falling on his face, he died immediately. The Courier de Bone states that a considerable sum of money in notes of the Bank of Italy was found on his body, and the Palermo journals speak j of the death of this brigand chief as a matter of great importance, a large reward having been offered for his capture. POISONING OF THREE CHILDREN. At Lowestoft, lat June, three children were discovered dead. Samuel Brown and his wife occupy a cottage in Bevanstreet, Brown being a smack maker, and away from home several weeks at a time. In consequence of the wife pawning household goods during the absence of her husband, much unhappiness existed between them, which led to Brown inquiring of a magistrate what he should do in relation to his wife's misconduct. The family consisted of three children — William, aged three years ; Alice, aged two years ; and George, aged seven months. On Thursday, William and Alice went to bed as usual with the servant girl, and the youngest with his mother. In the morning the servant was awoke by Mrs. Brown being in the room, and she then missed the child Alice from her bed. She also noticed that the face of William looked very white, and on tonching it found it was cold. She remarked the fact to the mother, who replied that Alice was just the same. The girl went into her mistress's bedroom, and found Alice and George dead. Brown went to a doctor's and stated that he believed that his children were dead. Information was given to the police, and they found the bodies in the bed as previously mentioned; the deaths appeared to have been perfectly calm. There were no signs of vomiting or convulsions. The house has been searched, but no clue has been found to the ingredient the children were poisoned with. Brown and his wife are in custody. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY FROM A TRAIN. The Boulogne correspondent of the Times writes under date 3rd June :—: — " A bold robbery was effected between 2 and 3 a.m. on Saturday, conveying Friday night's London mails for Paris and India. The train timed to leave Calais at 1.50 a.m. started 35 minutes later, arriving at Amiens at half-past 4, when the van No. 2,327, at the end of the train, loaded with registered luggage, and sealed by the Donane, was noticed to have been forced. An examination showed that the padlocks affixed to the van by the Customs, as also the leaden ticket called plomb, bearing the official seal, had both been wrenched off. In addition to the luggage, the van contained a hamper used for carrying valuable parcels; this basket, which had been padlocked by the railway company and plombe by the Douane, had been opened and was empty. Telegrams

were at once despatched to the stations between Amiens and Calais. The ticket collector at Bonlogne received from a passenger, who arrived by thi mail from Calais, a ticket from Calais to Paris, anil remarked to the passenger that he had. not completed his journey, but he made no reply and walked out of the station ; he was a, bearded man, about 43 years of age, wearing a black felt hat, and carried a parcel under his arm done up in black waterproof-packing paper, sr> generally used in France. From its dimension this parcel corresponds with one of nine parcels placed in the hamper at Calais. It was registered at a value of 2,">,000t. The aggregate knowu value of the nine parcels is 03.000F (£3,720) ; but, as parcels are ofteu declared at less than their real value, the loss is probably larger. The robbery was doubtless effected very soon after the train started, as a padlock marked 'Calais, Douanes, No. 42,' was found near the 309-kilometre post, between St. Pierre-lez-Calais and Frethun, on the near side of the up line. The probability is that the robber went along the footboard of the van, and the reason of the robbery not being discovered earlier than at Ameins is that on entering Boulogne station the near side of the train became the off side, aud the plundered van, which was at the head of the train from Calais to Boulogne, became the tail of the train from Boulogne to Paris. At Amiens there are three platforms, the lights from which illuminate both sides of the train. Some few months since the guard of the same train, after leaving Calais, noticed two men sitting on the buffers between the enginetender and the brake-van. Doubting their intentions, he signalled the driver to stop at St. Pierre-lez-Calais, and the men were quietly arrested. They represented themselves as poor Americans, without money, going to seek employment in Paris, and, being without money, sought a cheap journey. They were kept in custody for a few days, but, nothing transpiring against them, they were liberated. It is stated that the property stolen consisted chiefly of Egyptian bonds. " Later intelligence is to the effect that four persons were concerned in the robbery, as four tickets fewer were given up in Paris than were issued at Calais for that train. One ticket was given up at Boulogne. The owners of the three missing tickets probably jumped from the train while slackening speed previous to entering the Boulogne station. A railway employee named Ruel has been arrested on suspicion.