THE CALIFORNIAN AND SUEZ MAILS.

Evening Star, Issue 3831, 4 June 1875, Page 3

THE CALIFORNIAN AND SUEZ MAILS.

The ‘ Argus’s’ summary of news by the ''uez mail contains very little later intelligence, the principal being the te’egrams up to 'vt ay 25, extracted from the Colombo papers. For these and a few other items we are indebted to the * Guardian—

The Under-Secretary for the Colonies bn. - announced that the Government will not countenance any dismemberment of the Empire. Two Canadian and two New Zealand agents are holding meetings nightly, and competing for immigrants in Lincolnshire. One hundred have left for New Zealand.

The Cospatrick’s boat has been presented to the Crystal Palace. A valuable chronometer has been presented to the captain of the British Sceptre by the owners of the Cospatrick. Captain Richard Mayne, owing to wounds received in New Zealand, retires from active service and from the command of the ironclad Invincible.

A paper by Forrest, the West Australian explorer, was read at the Geographical Society, Gfeoigo Bowen was amongst the speakers. The huge ironclad Alexandria was launched at Chatham, and christened by the Prince s of wales.

Cardinal has returned to England. A testimonial is being raised for him, the Duke r i heading with a subscription of Ll,ooo*

Iwo hundred pounds have been voted as a gratuity to Smith, for services in biblical knowledge rendered in Ninevah. . A Royal Commission has been appointed to inquire into the spontaneous combustion of coal in ships. . Messrs Johnston obtained as damages L 1,200, ia an action against the ‘Athenaeum,’ for libel in a review of their atlas.

A long debate took place in the House of Commons, on the motion of Lord Elcho on the organisation of the army. It was, he said, unsatisfactory, and calculated to cause apprehension. Mr Gathorne Hardy replied that the Government would give Cardwell’s scheme the fullest trial. The motion was ultimately withdrawn.

At a banquet at the Mansion-house, giv. n to the Board of Works, the Prince of Wales said he looked with interest to his visit to India. It had been the dream of his life.

Lord Cardwell has notified that he will move the rejection of the Regimenial Exchanges Bill. 3

There was a break in the House of Commons on the 26th April. All strangers, including the Prince of Wales, were excluded for twenty minutes, on the motion of Mr Biggar, on the question of Home Rule. Mr Disraeli and others indignantly censured Biggar, who said he wished to place the relations of the Parliament and the Press on a definite and satisfactory footing. On the 6th of May the Marquis of Hartington brought forward a motion about the relations of the Press and the Parliament. Mr Disraeli deprecated any change. Strangers were excluded during the debate.

The Colonial Office, in reply to a question by Mr Whalley, declared it premature to state whether the Government contemplated the settlement {? annexation) of New Guinea. The high water at the recent flood, says the ‘ California Alta,’ washed about four feet of earth from ten to fifteen acres of land lying along the Tennessee River, near Louisville, Blount County, Tennessee. When the water subsided a strange spectacle was presented. The whole of the denuded area was covered with skeletons. 1:1 ome were straight, some reclining, some doubled up, and some in a sitting posture. _ There were the osseous forms of infants, of children, and of full-grown persons, over 1,000 forms having been counted. Persons who have lived in the vicinity of this mysterious cemetery for more than half a century never heard of any human bones being discovered there before, and the skeletons are not found in a mound, nor in what appears to be unartifical formations of earth.

A rather amusing scene occurred in the Supreme Courtroom, at Washington, the other day, which broke in, for the time being, upon the quiet and decorum which is such a marked characteristic of that tribunal. A certain woman lawyer, who rejoices in the name and title of Mrs Belva A. Lockwood, was admitted to practise before the Courts of this district some few months since. Belva has never had a client, but takes great delight in walking in when the Court is in session, removing her bonnet and taking her place inside the bar with the attorneys. She liked the feeling of this so well that she concluded that she would try it on in the Supreme Court. She selected as a fitting occasion a day when the Supreme Court was hearing an argument on a case from Missouri, in which some woman claimed 20,000d01. damages because the election registrars refused to register her as a voter. Taking off her bonnet at the door, Belva walked boldly in and attempted to pass inside the bar, where the Utorney-General, Reverdy Johnson and other leading lights were sitting. One of the messengers stopped her and informed her that spectators must take seats outside the bar. She declined to retire, said she was a lawyer, and had as much right inside as anyone else! The altercation, waxing quite warm, distracted the attention of the Court. Finally the Marshal had to inform Belva that if she did not retire she would be put out bodily. This had the effect, and the irate female marched off, vowing vengeance, and muttering what the women would do when they got their rights. The festivities attending the meeting of the Emperor of Austria and King *f Italy were continued at Vienna on April 5. There was a review of 12,000 troops this morning, which was witnessed by 30,000 persons. There majesties were most enthusiastically cheered by the populace, A grand dinner was given in the evening, which was attended by eighty persons of the highest rank. King Victor Emmanuel toasted the Emperor of Austria as “ brother and friend,” The Emperor Francis Jo seph responded, expressing the deepest gratitude for his cordial reception, and adding ; “ I drink* to the health of my brother and dear friend., the King of Italy, and to the well being and pi oaperity of Italy. ” An arrangement has been made between the leaders, ol" the Liberal party in Belgium and Bismarck. The latter, by the ivp"licati no' diplomatic pressure, undertakes t > bring abo it the d.own'faß of the Clerical Ministry. The Liberals, t.hen returning to power, are to ma'- c laws to suppress the publication of views unfavorable to the German ecclesiastical policy, introduce compulsory military service, ami establish new fortifications. Consequently the Liberal. Belgian papers support the latest demand of the German Cabinet, insi-ting on the overthrow of the Clerical Government This means the Prussianising of BeLium.

Mr Parnell, the Itome Eulo Candidate, wan returned to Parliament for the couniv of Meath., Dr I tenealy appeared in the Guildhall Justice R( >om on April 20, in response to a summons issued at the instance of Mr Wright, editor of the ‘Advertiser,’ charging lijm w.th libel. The room was filled with the friends of the Eioctor, and a dense crowd was in the street. After a hearing the summons was dis missed. The result was greeted with tremendous i diee-ring by the people in the room, which was, cauglit up by those outside. Dr Kenealy was esc-orUed from the building by thousands of people. The ‘ Prosse ’ says that the Emperor William of. Gep many has written a letter to King Victor I Immanuel expressing his gratification at the re cent interview between the latter a; d theEmp erorof Austria at Vienna. TheGciman Emperor also, says the ‘Presse,’ speaks in affection ate terms of the Emperor Francis Joseph, and expresses the hope “that the intervie’ tv will serve to strengthen the friendship bet jween Austria and Italy.”