THE SUEZ MAIL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2587, 23 May 1870, Page 2

THE SUEZ MAIL.

London, March 25feh. The Prince Imperial of France is reported to be ill with small-pox. M. JJouher is preparing a work on the wool trade.

"Lv Featherston and Mr ¥. D. Bell are staying at the Charing Cress Hotel. They are working hard for the objects desiderated, and have been courteously received by the members of the Government. The Commissioners have devoted practical attention to the subject of mail communication with New Zealand via; San Francisco. The English Government decline to subsidise the scheme. Th& Commissioners were presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace on February 25th.

_ The advertisements inviting applica«tions for the professorships in the Gtago University, still appear in the newspapers.

Mr John Marshman, Manager of th© Canterbury Railways, has been elected, an Associate of the Institute of Civil Engineers.

At a monster emigration meeting held at Liverpool on March 14th, Sir George Grey characterised the Imperial policy towards New Zealand as a disastrous one.

Archdeacon Durnford has been appointed to the see of Chichester, and the Rev. Joshua Hughes, Vicar of Llandovey, to that of St. Asaph. Mr Torcens's proposal that the State should assist emigration, has been rejected by a majority of 105. He asked for one million from the Consolidated fund, and a like sum to be raised by means of local rates. Mr Gladstone contended that the scheme would paralyse the natural operation of the labour market, and stop voluntary aid to emigration. The: Government have not decided whether they will offer the us© of transport ships for emigration purposes. The National Emigration League have resolved to continue the agitation, and a metropolitan lemon?stration is threatened. ""•..• . The steamer. Ariadne has arrived from, the River Plate with a cargo of cattle ia excellent condition.

Mr Forster's Education Bill has passed its second reading. Great opposition arose to the provision enabling the School Boards to permit the teaching of particular religious views in the schools. An amendment protesting against the solution of the difficulty being left to the local bodies was supported by the Nonconformists. The Conservatives rallied round the Government. Mr Gladstone promised that the defect should be remedied in Committee.

The Irish members were divided on the Irish Land Bill. The motion that the Bill be now read a second time was mefc by an amendment proposed by Mr Briea (Kilkenny), and seconded by Mr White (Tipperary), that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Of the elevea members against the Bill, three were Conservatives. The farmers' clubs in Ireland express dissatisfaction with the Bill, and the Fenian journals repudiate it.

Mr Chichester Fortescue introduced, aa. Irish Peace Preservation Bill. An amendment by Mr Moore rejecting ii.waa negatived by 425 to 13. The brisk "National" press are furious at the resold

Mr M'Laren's Bill abolishing, the Scottish church rates has been rejected by a majority of 117.

During the discussion on Mr Cave's Bill prov;ding for safe life assurance companies,' Mr Lowe suggested that the Stats should become the life insurer of the nation.

The Ballot Bill has been postponed forconsideration, and pending; the report _o£ the Elections Committee.

A Bill authorising the* committal of habitual drunkards to reformatories, as well as one establishing, a High Court of Justice and an Appellate Court, havebeei*. read a second time in the House of LordsL

Excitement having been produced by the publication in the Marseillaise of & le'ter from O'Donavan Rossa, describing alleged cruelties inflicted upon him, the Home Secretary has issued a counter state* ment exposing Rossa's exaggerations an<t falsehoods.

Earl De Grey and Ripon has been installed Grand Master of the Freemasons.

The racing atud of the late Earl of Derby has been sold by auction for 4725 guineas.

Since the Government took the telegraphs into its own hands, the number of messages has greatly increased. The funeral of Casey, the Fenian poet* in Dublin, was attended by 10,000 people*

A strike of 10,000 cotton operators is expected at Bolton. 1000 joiners in Glasgow have struck for the reduction of the hours of labour to nine, A similar

movement xs going on in London, where bakers are agitating for the abolition of might work.

The mail steamer Normandy, while on liei* way to Jersey, was run down, 30 miles from the Needles, by a heavy steamer from the Danube, and many lives were lost.

Obitvury.—Earl of Roden, Marquis of Ailsa, Sir George Goold, Lord Graves, the Bishop of B?rbadoes, Mr J. W. Harper, the American publisher, Mr Albert Smith, and Mr William Brough, the dramatist.