ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 219, 20 November 1875, Page 11

ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

Bluff, November IS. The Ringarooma, with the mail, left at 5.20 p.m. on the 13th instant, and arrived at the Bluff at 8 p.m. on the 17th. Experienced N. and N.E. winds. Passed a whaler near the Solanders, also a barque hove-to; blowing very hard at the time. She brings 44 saloon, 50 steerage, 450 tons cargo for all ports. Sails at 5 p.m. for Dunedin. REUTER’S CABLEGRAMS. London, Novembea 10. Disraeli, at the Lord Mayor’s banquet at Guildhall, said the war with China, lately imminent, had been averted; but the Government regretted that affairs in Turkey were less satisfactory. Circumstances were critical, but he was convinced that a result would be attained which would lead to a consistent peace which would be satisfactory to public opinion. He was deeply conscious of the magnitude of England’s interests, which the Government was resolved to guard. He alluded to the enthusiastic reception of the Prince of Wales in India, and thought the visit would be rife with consequences. Batavia, November 11. Mr. Birch, the British Commissioner at Perak, in the Malay Peninsula, has been brutally murdered by Malays. Sir W. Jervis proceeded to Perak with troops, and after much fighting one officer was killed, and two officers and eight men wounded. GENERAL SUMMARY. The good service pension of £l5O a year for naval captains, vacant by Commodore Goodenough’s death, has been conferred on Captain Lethbridge. Sir H. Barkley, is administering in person on the Cape Diamond fields. The Queen is still at Balmoral. The Duke of Edinburgh was banquetted at St. Petersburg on the occasion of the successful launch of an ironclad named after him. He has since returned home from Copenhagen. The Premier was in the train during the collision at Leicester, but was uninjured. Mr. Cladstoue lias been speaking at Mold, in Cheshire, and at Hawarden, chiefly on educational topics. Two hours previously he was cutting down trees The first brick of the National Opera House, on the Thames Embaulcment, was laid by Madame Titiens.

The total subscription on Hospital Sunday amounted to £2678, being nearly £3OOO under last year, when the Hospital Sunday collection reached £SOOO. Sir Moses Montefiore has returned from Palestine. Helms succeeded in his benevolent mission to the Jews. Tho Bessemer Steamboat Company is in liquidation. The steamer is for sale. An 81-ton gun recently has been completed at Woolwich, and successfully tested. Messrs. Ivennealy and Son have been proceeded against for a defamatory libel on Mr. George Potter in the EnyUshmau. They escaped on technical grounds. The wheat harvest is fully 15 per cent, below the average. Grosvenor House is opened on Sundays for working-men's inspection of tho art galleries. Captain Webb lias been much feted, and presented with several testimonials. Since his feat there lias been quite a rage for swimming, and several cases have occurred of jumping from London Bridge for the sake of notoriety. Emily Parker, aged fifteen, swam from London Bridge to Blackwall, seven miles, in 1 hour 35 minutes.

W. G. Grace at the close of the cricket season made large scores—at Gravesend, 152 ; and at Hastings, 210.

At tho court-martial held on the officers of the Vanguard, a verdict was returned that tho collision with the Iron Duke was owing to improper rate of speed during fog, and the Vanguard altering her speed without orders. It adjudged that Captain Dawkins lie severely reprimanded and dismissed his ship. The other officers were also reprimanded. The decision is unfavorably commented on.

Ten marines were drowned off Plymouth, by a shamefully overladen paddle-boat. Schwartz, a Conservative, is elected for Blackburn.

McCullogh, member for Tipperary, is bank rupt.

There is a general advance in the price of meat, owing principal to the prevalence of cattle disease.

By a fire at Poderhon, Germany, seventeen buildings were destroyed, and 900 persons made homeless.

Through the falling of a chimney from the ruins of some burnt houses near 1 fiverpool on to a throe-storey factory, where principally women were employed, nine persons were buried, three killed, and others much mutilated.

An obstruction was placed on the Richmond and Drummond railway in Canada. The train was thrown off the line. Ten passengers were killed and thirteen injured. The obituary includes Sir R. Buckley, Bart., Sir G. Honeyman (Judge of the Court of Common Pleas), Colonel Somerset (a Crimean hero), Signor Ronconi (Italian vocalist), General Trossard (formerly guardian to the Prince Imperial), the Rev. Thomas Keble (brother to the author of the “ Christian Year.”) Chevalier lias had the honor of submitting to the Prince and Princess of Wales bis New Zealand sketches.

Mr. William Eox attended the seventh anniversary of the introduction of Good Teinplarism into England. He said the Permissive Bill introduced in New Zealand did not work in consequence of its opponents having struck out certain clauses which contained machinery for collecting the votes of the people.

Sir G. Bowen sailed from Liverpool for America on September 25. He leaves San Francisco on December 8, with Sir J. Vogel, for the colonies.

Great complaint is made of delay in the Californian mail service.

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY. Melbourne, November 13. There is no change in the political situation. The carnival week continues.

On Thursday the weather was splendid for the races, and racing generally good. Maid of All Work won the Oaks easily, and Troy the Spring Handicap ; Duke, the Four-year-old Handicap. Our riflemen are making good practice scores. At 500 yards, one made eleven successive bull’s-eyes, and another at the same range, six successive bull’s-eyes and one centre.

Blondin, who was a passenger by the Phoona, while on the run from Aden to Galle, walked over a rope stretched from the main to the mizzenmasts. The feat was one of great difficulty, owing to the motion of the vessel. There is no business doing. Sydney, November 10. Ereeve, committed for trial at Sydney on several charges of forgery, is remanded for sentence. At Port Darwin, Captain Johnson, of the schooner Florida, was committed for trial for attempting to murder a female passenger by poisoning.