The Suez Mail.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 127, 8 October 1868, Page 3

The Suez Mail.

* NEWS TO SEPT. 3. [BY INTEE-PEOVINCIA.L TELEGBAPH.] [For the following additional telegrams we are indebted to the Press of thia morning, the correspondent with whom we made arrangements having failed to transmit more than we placed before our readers yesterday. ] DunediNj Oct. 7, 10.38 a.m. The Omeo has arrived at the Bluff with the English August mails. GENERAL SUMMAET. The Duke of Edinburgh sails in October from Plymouth, and will visit Madeira, Fayal, .Ascengion, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Bombay, Trincomalee, Madras, Calcutta, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila, Yokohama, Sydney, New Zealand, Honolulu, South Sea Islands, Valparaiso, Lima, St. Blaa, Mazatlan, San Francisco, and Vancouver's Island. The voyage is expected to last twentytwo months. Prince Arthur travels a year ou the Continent, and then joins the Royal Artillery. Princess Teck has given birth to a son. Albert Park, Hudclersfield, has been opened by Prince Arthur. A baronetcy has been conferred on M. Cartier, a Canadian statesman. Lord Napier took the opportunity in Wales to make a vigorous speech denying that Theodore had been deceived as to demands made on him. MrDuCane, the new Governor of Tasmania, is highly spoken of. The Colchester Conservatives invited him to a public dinner. The Empress of the French entertained the Duke of Edinburgh, Lord Stanley, and Lord Lyons, at a grand dinner at Fontainebleau. Afterwards Lord Stanley and M. DeMoustier had a long interview with the Emperor. The latter made a few pacific remarks about Troyes, which have nevertheless occasioned disquietude. | The old Atlantic cable has broken eighty miles from Heart's Content. The Great Eastern is engaged in laying a new cable between France and America. S. Stanley succeeds Mr DuCane as Junior Lord of the Admiralty. The Colonial Society has commenced operations. Sir Stafford Northcote is Vic-President. Dr Russell, of the Times, is the Conservative candidate for Chelsea. The Irish Church question is almost the sole topic of the election addresses. Mr Robinson, a London merchant, has been committed for trial on a charge of concealing valuable securities.

The Times, Daily News, and other journals are discussing the Victorian deadlock. The former sympathises with the Governor. A great fire has occurred at Southwark; hops to the value of thirty thousand pounds have been destroyed. X^he Duke of Buckingham permits the consecration of a new Bishop of Natal in opposition to ColensQ. The Biahop of Cape Town has, selected the Rev Mr Macrorie. He is guaranteed £600 per annum. The Government intend to compensate the Abyssinian prisoners. Mr Eeardon made a motion in the House of Commons on 28th July, asking the release of Mr G. F. Train. Sergeant Gaselee called the Speaker's attention to the fact that Mr Eeardon was reading his speech. The Speaker stopped him. The motion was lost for want of a seconder. General Peel has been elevated to the peerage. & The Duke of Portland in a singular letter to the newspapers attributes Mr Gladstone's attack on the Irish Church and his unholy alliance with the demagogues and Papists to party motives. The overseers of SalforJ have placed 1200 women on the electoral roll. Others are following their example. Five thousand women claim votes iv Manchester. Mr Lockwood, the lucky Australian digger, is defendant in a breach of promise case, damages laid at £500. Mr Murphy, the anti-papal lecturer, has been ari'ested at Bolton. He has given sureties to keep the peace. Dr Sullivan, of the National Board of Education, leaves a large sum to promote education. Thomas Carlyle has been elected President of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution in room of Lord Brougham. Vj Seven boys were found stowed away on board the ship Arrow, of Greenock. Six were put on afield of ice on the coast of Newfoundland, barefooted, thinly clad, and with only one biscuit each. They were told to walk to land. Two died, and four were saved by a passing boat. The master and mate are in* custody. -*CA Cork jury gave a schoolmaster £70 damages, for being called a Fenian y. Two young women, servants at Hunthill, having been accused of immoral conduct, drowned themselves the same night in a farm pond, where the bodies were found, locked in each other's arms. Offers of mediation between Brazil and Paraguay have been refused. The Standard congratulates South Australia on the appointment of Sir J. Ferguson. The Queen's prize at Wimbledon was awarded to Lieutenant Carslake, of the Bridgewater Bines. Mr Peake, the actual winner, being disqualified for tampering with his ammunition. The health of the Empress of Mexico is worse. Lord Trevor has been created Viscount Dungannon. Admiral Farragut was entertained by the Duke of Edinburgh on board the Galatea, and afterwards visited Osborn. Prince Alfred entertained the Prince of "Wales at Trinity House in compliment to the people of New South Wales for the reception given. A military commission, in which England is represented, sits at St. Petersburg, to consider certain explosive materials in war. Mr Gladstone received a deputation of advanced reformers, headed by a person named Finlan. Mr Gladstone expressed his pleasure in meeting the deputation. Finlan afterwards held a Sunday political meeting in Hyde Park, and used extreme language. He was afterwards brought before the! Police Court for neglecting his children. Admiral Hoskins, commanding the British squadron in the Pacific, ordered the captain of the Chanticleer to reopen the port of Mazatlan, and proceed to Panama to report himself. Lieutenant Meade was killed by the explosion of a torpedo, while experimenting. He was in H.M.S. Esk while on the Australian station. The Dixon Company's powder works have been blown up, and nine persons killed. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has recently received a new title, viz., Duke of Abercorn.