NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4899, 30 July 1877, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

[PER 'RLN'OIROOMA.' AT THE liLlTr.] [PRE=S AGENCY.] LONDON, JuneS. The Queen id at Balmoral, in good In the House of Commons, Mr. Hourke,is answer to a question, said no prop-.>al 5 L:i been made by Russia for the loealivife the v.mt : that when the queition of cam-"* to be discussed, it would be on.- tLs: w< :;M concern Europe, and the Kurop*» tries would consider that they b\ % r;:'/, to share in the deliberations the future. Mr. Howard Vincent, correspoud-ja: c: the Daily Teifjraph, after being corilirjlj received at the Russian head-quarters by ih» Grand Duke Nicholas, was peremptorily ordered away by instructions from Sr. Petersburg. Colonel Brackenbury represents the Times at the Russian head-quarters. Mr. Archibald Forbes and Mr. McGahau ara a!-:;-there. Three hundred English officers have offeree their services to Turkey. Dervish Pasha has been appointed Governor of Kars. Turkish papers in Constantinople commenting cn the peace rumour, are opposed to peace. The Grand Vizier, Edhim Pasha, an! V Safvet Pasha, are in favour of making tsnr.- y| with Russia after the first decisive action. ■* German and Austrian ambassador? a:; • uuited in endeavouring to iuflnenco Turi.'/ *s in favour of peace. Several thousand men are employed thrc-T. ing up defences at Constantinople. The Hon. Edward S. Pierrepoin:, American Minister at London, who beeam? popular, is about to leave. At an anti-Russian demonstration in Hy.U Park, 15,000 persona were present. A resolution was passed denouncing Russia and condemning the atrocity agitators.

The entrance of European volunteers into the Turkish army is meeting with great opposition. The people are distrustful 0: everything European, and the war is takhj more and more a religious character, in which all Islam wishes to take part. The gifts of money which are arriving from all quarters, and particularly from the Mussulmans of India, reach a very considerable amount. The want of cavalry prevents the Turks from taking advantage of their successes. The town of Tulcha has been abandoned by the Turkish army, after which it was pillaged and burnt by the Bashi-Bazouks, Xo bloodshed took place, but the *20,000 inhabitants of the town, both Mussulmans and Christians, lost all their property. The works for the defence of I'onstantinople are being constructed by the inhabitants. The Turks are said to have captured 200 Russian vessels since the war commenced. The Russian Government, to prevent any insurrection in Poland, is calling out all Poles canable of bearing arms. Morissa Bey. with 4000 Turkish cavalry, was utterly routed at Rull, on the Ist May, by the Russians' moveable columns of cavalry, infantry, and artillery. They w«ro attackcl at midright on three sides. Several mountain gnus, ammunition aud wagonn, standard, beside* prisoners, wero taken. Temple Bey, nephew of tho Bishop 01 Exeter, and physician to tho Sultan, has been summarily ordered to go to Batoum, or quit the Sultan's service, for informing hi 12 that many of the shells tired by his troops on the Danube contained 110 powder. The military correspondent of the Dciv.-j Ttfc'jviph state? that the Russian forces destuied for the Dauube consists of nine corps, with a total strength of 31 0 ? 000 men. j and 070 guns, besides some battalions c* engineers, 10 regiments of Cossacks, a brigade of rifles, and two or three companies of nar'nes. Then there is the Roumanian army of some 30,000 effectives. The Turkish army in Europe amounts to 412 battalions, 75 squadrons, and - r >oo Held gnus, a few batteries of mitrailleuses, in all. 200,000 infantry, acd 12,000 h«T-c «»f irregular*. There appear? re be no doubt of the numerical inferiority ot the Turks. At Ardahau the Russians were reputed live times, but on the tith occasion they began to attack 40,000 men ware there. The commandant of Ardahan, a young niaa, lost coiirago. and made his escape. The hereditary Prince of Bohira has arrived at Constantinople for th» purpose o: submitting a plan of attack on Russia, and culisting Mussulman. W. H. Hodgs >n, one of the Solicitors to the Treasury, was stuck up, on the 2nd or Jll tiie cricket-match, .North v. South, V\. G. Grace in the iirst innings of South scored 202 runs, not our. At the lirst yearling rales at Middle Tark, 45 lot* realised 12,285 guineas, or an average of 27guineas each. The highest price was for a bay colt by Roaicrueian, 1500 guineas. . 'I he heat in London was most intense early in June. Sir Henry Pellv, M.P. for Earliagton, received a sunstroke while riding iu Hvda Park, and died from the oflects. German papers state that x league is being formed iu Russia for the rejection or a* Lnglish products until Euglaud sk*H abandon its sympathy for Turkey. A serious robbery of securities, cipallv English bonds, was commit:--J au express traiu froai Paris, between Calais aud Boulogne, "crip to the value of XIOOX was stolen from the van, under seal. A resolution in favour of disestahhs has been carried by 4GO to 70 vot.j '' meeting i.i the General Assembly ei Fcc:: Church of Scotland. t A liitLje and meeting men, on the 2is: of Maj* unauimon solved to di-regard tho decision of t; - ; dicial Committee in the Redesdalo case.

May, on Blackheath, when returning in a close carriage from 'ireenwieii with his daughter and niece. The robbers, who were masked, presented pistols at the driver's head, and compelled i.*odgson to give up all the money he bad about him. A .'imilar outrage occurred iY« -rkshire the following clay. In neither c.*.-:- V.--.- any clue been gained of the offenders. William Dufion, the well-known billiard player, has committed suicide by poisoning. The bri.aiul chic: Leorc has been kihed in an encounter with gendarmes in Sicily. Sir Julius and Lady Yogel were amongst those present at Lord Carnarvon's on the anniversary of the Quern's Birthdaj\ Obituary.—Grand l)ukc of llesse, Miss Mary Carpenter, Justicc Mollish, Ernest Picard, French Senator, Rev. J. Rules, ExPresidcnt of the Conference.