NEWS BY THK SUEZ MAIL.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 54, 13 August 1877, Page 2

NEWS BY THK SUEZ MAIL.

The Queen is at Balmoral in good health. In the House of Commons, Mr Bourke in answer to a qnestion said that no proposal had been made hy Russia for the localisation of tho war; that when the question of place can bo discussed, it was one that would concern Europe and the European colonies. Ho would consider that they had a right to share in the deliberations respecting the future. Howard Vincent, correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, after being cordially ret ceived at Russian headquarters by the Grand Duke Nicholas, was peremptorily ordered away by instructions from St. Petersburgh. ' Colonel TJrackenbury represents the Times at Russian headquarters ; Archibald Forbes and M'Gahan are also thero. Tliree hundred English officers hivi 1 offered their services to Turkey. Dervish Pasha is appointed Governor of Ears. Turkish papers in Constantinople, com- | menting on the peace rumours, are opposed to oeaee. The Grand Vizier, Edhem Pasha, and Safvet Pasha are in favour of making terms with Russia after the first decisive action. German and Austrian ambassadors arc united in endeavouring to influence Turkey in favour of peace. Moussa Bey, with 4000 Turkish cavalry, was utterly routed at Kulo on May 1 by a Russian moveable column of cavalry, infantry, and artillery. Tliey wero at. tacked at midnight on three sides. Several mountain gnn*, ammunition waggons, standards, besides prisoners, were taken. J Temple Bey, nephew of the Bishop of Exeter, and physician to the Sultan has been summarily ordered either to go to Batoum or quit tho Sultan's service, for , informing him that many of the shell* fired by his troops on the Danube contained no powder. The military correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that the Russian forces destined for the Danube consist of nine corps, witb a total strength of 310,000 men and 1970 guns, besides some battalions bf engineers, lOregiments of Cos» sacks, a brigade of rifles, and two or threo companies of marines. Then there is the Roumanian army of some 30,000 effectives. The Turkish army in Europe amounts to 412 battalions, 75 squadrons, and 490 field guns/ a few batteries of mitrailleuses, 200*,000 infantry and IS'.OOO horse of irregulars. There appears to be do doubt of the numerical inferiority of the lurks. At Ardahan, the Russians were repulsed five times, but on the fifth occasion they began to attack with 40,000 men. The Commandant of Ardahan, a young man, lost courage, and made his escape. The hereditary Prince of Bohira has arrived at Constantinople, for the purpose of submitting a plan of attack on Russia, and enlisting Mussulmans. Italian papers announce the arrival at Rome of five cases of presents from Queon Victoria to the Popo. Tn tho cricket match North r. South, W. G. Grac<\ in the first innings of tho South, scor'-d 252 run*, not out. At thp first yrurlinr f«''\ *"t Middle ' Pnrk, 45 lots realised 12,2 50 guineas, on an average. 273 gui nei a each. Tho highest price wnt» for n bay colt, hy Rosicru- , cinn. 2500 gninpns. i Tbe he-'fc of London was most inton«*e parly in June. Sir Honry Pelly, M.l\ for "l rsu'li ngton. received sunstroke whilo riding in Hydo- Park, and died from the effects. The German papers state a league is fornccd iu Kussia for tho refection of otl English products, until England shall ahnndon the attitude of sympathy for Turkey. A serious robbery of securities, prin cip.lly English bonds, was committed from the express train from Paris, between Calais and Boulogne. Scrip to the value of £100,000 was stolen from- the van under seal. Mr W. H. Hodgson, one of the solicitors to the Treasury, was stuck-up on May 28, on Blackheath, when returning in a closed carringe from Greenwich with his daughter and niece. The robbers, who were masked, presented pistols at the drivers, head, and compelled Mr Hodgson, to- give up all the money he had abont him. A similar outrage occurred in Yorkshire on tho following day. In neither case ia there any clue to the • offenders. ■ , , . William Dufton, the well known bitHard player, has committed suicide by poison. Several thousand men are- employed l throwing up defences at Constantinople. A resolution in favour of dis-establish-ment has been carried 460 to 78 votes at the meeting of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland. A largo and influential meeting of clergymen, on May 21, unanimously re» solved to- disregard tbo decision of the Judicial Committee in the Ridsdhle case. In celebration of his jubilee, the Pope received 5000 pilgrims on June 2. The brigand chief, Leone, has been killed in* an encounter with gendarmes in Sicily. Obituary— Grand Duke of Hesse ; Miss Mary Carpenter; Justice Mellish ; Ernest Picard, the French Senator ; Rev. G. Puks, Ex-President of the- Wesleyan Conference.