NEWS PER SUEZ MAIL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2767, 6 August 1883, Page 3

NEWS PER SUEZ MAIL.

fßs Telegraph.] (Per ».s. Manapouri from Melbourne.) Albany, Aug. 1. The Peninsular and Oriental 1.1. Australia, which left London on 29th Jane, arrived yesterday night with the inward mails. Lohdox, June 29. On Sunday last intelligence was received that an epidemic had broken out at DamietU, which was Tariously described as enteric fever and cholera. Subsequent accounts prove that the malady is cholera. The daily death rate, whioh on Sunday last was six, reaohed 113 on the following Wednesday, the 27th inst., and 107 more up to the next Friday. Several cases occurred at Tantab, Mansurah ftnd Port Said. Bhips passing the Canal were forbidden to communicate with stations or with one another. A general exodus of Europeans in Egypt has set in and business is paralysed. Severe quarantine is established at Turkish, Italian, Austrian and French port*. A sanitary cordon has been created to isolate the infected places from the rest of Egypt. The trial of Said Bey Khandul, Prefect of Alexandria, for complicity in the xnasiacre has commenced. The proceedings in the House of Commons are generally uninteresting, and it has been difficult to keep a quorum. The Corrupt Practices Bill was disoniied at great length in Committee. Many members considered the penalties for bribery too severs in the Bill. The Tenants Compensation, Bankruptcy, and Patents Bill will probably became law. The Criminal Code Bill met with great obstruction on the Standing Committee, Mr Warton going as far as to try to dissuade members from entering the room so as to prevent a quorum. The Attorney-General anally abandoned the attempt to proceed with the measure. On June 18th, Sir Stafford Northcote called attention to Mr Bright* s speech at Birmingham, describing members of I he)

Opposition being found in alliance with Ihe Iriah rebel party, whose agitating funds came from avowed enemies of ingland. Mr Bright, in reply, admitted that the. wnrd " alliance " was susceptible of an interpretation which he had not intended. As regards calling the Irish membera a rebel party, he would withdraw the words if they would publicly declare their loyalty to the Throne. After an animated debate, Bir Stafford Northcote's motion of breach of privilege was rejected bj 151 to 117. Mr Gladstone, replying to Sir Miohael Hiokn-Beach, announced the receipt of a telegram containing a proposal of the Transvaal Government to send representatives here, including the President or Vice-President, to diacusa the revision of the Convention. The Government had replied that they would be mtisflad to receive a deputation from the Transvaal instead of aeDding a Commissioner thither. Baron De Les»eps, in a recent speech, declared that a perfect understanding existed between tbe British Government and the Suez Canal Coinpany, which was actively preparing for the construction of a second j canal. Mr Gladstone, in reply to a question, ' oonflrmed this. | Proceedings in the House of Lords hare ! been rendered interesting by a debate in Committee on the third reading of the Marriage with Deoeased Wife's Sister Bill. An amendment has been adopted making the measure thoroughly retrospective, legitimising children born before the parsing of the Bill.