LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 132, 14 October 1868, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

[Translated for the Sydney Morning Herald from the Semaphore de Marseille of the 14th and 15th Aug., and the Gazette dv Midi of the same dates.] Berlin, Aug. 1 1, evening. The Queen of Holland, who is now in Switzerland, is about to pay a visit to the Queen of England. We hear also that the Queen of England and Lord Stanley, on leaving Switzerland, are to meet most of the German Sovereigns as they travel through that country. — Semaphore. Paris, Aug. 14. A supplement of the Moniteur (published late this evening), states that the documents which have reached the Ministerial Department of the Marine do not confirm the details, published by the Messager di Midi, relative to the surprise of the military post of Raghia (or Raeh-Gia) in Cochin China They appear, on the contrary, to show that all the victims died fighting against the enemy. London, Aug, 13. Troubles have broken out at Monaghan in Ireland. The riotous mob was dispe/sed by the constables. The authorities have called for reinforcements, and the public agitation is great. Brussels, Aug. 13. It is confidently affirmed here that the children of the Prince of Prussia are expected at Laeken. They are to come on a visit to the Prince Royal of Belgium, whose health is evidently improving. Copenhagen, Aug. 12. The Royal family left this evening for Russia, where they propose to stay for several weeks. The Prince Royal of Denmark is charged with the duties of regent in the absence of the King. The Minister of Justice has resigned. He has been replaced by M. Nutshorn, a councillor of State. Lisbon, Aug. 14. Letters from Brazil, brought by the packet boat Navarre, state that the new Conservative Ministry was formed on July 16, immediately after the dismissal of the Zachurias Cabinet, which had disapproved of the nomination ot a senator. The Legislative Chamber, on the morning of the Uth. carried a motion hostile to the new Cabinet by a majority or 85 to 10. The Chamber was then dissolved. The new House is to meet on the 3rd of May, 1869. From the seat of war we hear that on thj 12th of July nine Paraguayan vessels of a small size attacked the two Brazilian ironclads near Tagy. The Paraguayans were beaten off. Paris, Aug. 14. This day, at 3 p.m., the Emperor quitted the Palace of the Tuileries on horseback, with the Prince Imperial, and passed in front of the line of troops occupying the gardens of the Tuileries, and the avenues to the ChampsElysees, amid the cheers of an immense concourse of persons. The Empress had, about ten minutes previously, gone out in a carriage, and having passed before the troops, her Majesty had proceeded to the ChampsElysees. The review terminated without any accident. Their Majesties were warmly cheered. Lord Napier was present at the review. He is going, to-morrow, to the camp at Chalons. [From what is stated iv another part cf the Semaphore, it would appear that there must have been at this review not less than one hundred thousand men underarms.] son of Queen Victoria will travel through Germany before his mother goes there. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has arrived at Potsdam, on a visit to the Royal Family of Prussia, and grand fetes are being got up there for his entertainment. The latest French papers continue to re- ! port several proceedings against members of the French newspaper press. Proceedings of a similar character appear also to have become not uncommon in Belgium. The Gazette dv Midi ot the 15th August, states that the Island Queen, Mohely (who has been staying for some time in Paris) is expected at Marseilles, on her way home to the Comores via Reunion. i^The tone of the clerical party in France (as manifested by leading articles in the Gazette dv Midi and elsewhere) appears to be one of great dissatisfaction with the Imperial Government. The Gazette^ dv Midi says that the " State " in France has no longer any religion, or even any respect for mo ( des of worship. Of all religions one is as good as another in its eyes, which is tantamount to saying that it has no preference for any. It holds the balance evenly between Mahomet and Jesus Christ. These remarks are made apropos of the national fete of the 15th August, aud after some rather palpable sneers at Napoleon the First. . ' . Respecting the supposed interview between '

| Queen Victoria and the French Empress at I Paris, a correspondent of the Gasettedu Midi, writing from Paris on the 9th August, says: — " Certain journals, who, apropos of the arrival of Sovereigns and great official personages at Paris, suppose themselves obliged to get up a scene, have favoured us with many of the details of the visit which the Queen of England was to have paid the Empress Eugenic at the Tuileries. Now, it is at present well known that Queen Victoria dispensed with the laws of politeness, and did not stir out of the halls of the English embassy, except when she went straight to the railway terminus. An officious chronicler in the Figaro admits that the Queen of England did not visit the Empress, and has the stupidity to say that her Majesty remained at the Klysee awaiting Buch a visit The scribbler has thought proper to add that the crowd which stationed itself before the Klysee, indignant at the waut of respect shewn by the Queen of England in the presence of the French Empress, should have made her amends for it by more enthusiastic cheering. As if that mob could, for one moment, tell whether the Queen of England had visited the Empress, or had any intention to do s\" It was stated when the mail left Marseilles that all the members of the Orleans famil}- had met together at Geneva. This reunion may have something to do with the singular position of the Duke de Montpensier (the brother-in-law of her Most Catholic Majesty), who, by the way, is so indignant at being ordered out of Spain that he has renoun ed all his Spanish titles.