THE SUEZ MAIL.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 191, 8 March 1878, Page 6

THE SUEZ MAIL.

The AraAvata, with the Suez Mail, arrived at the Bluff on -Monday . afternoon. The follo.wing is a summary of the neAvs .:• — London, January 18.: - At. the meeting .of the 'University -of ■ .London, held on the 15th,; it was decided,: by, 242 to 132, to grant degrees -toAvomen. John Freeland, Avlio died lately at Nice, bequeathed L4OOO to the GlasgoAV "Western. Infirmary. -■'',■• ' ,''■;'■ Thei Pan- Anglican. Synod will open at Lambeth on July , .2, . . and Avill last * for a Aveek. : 7 .. . Terrible ..distress, exists, in South, WalesaLord Aberdare has taken the initiative in, organising relief. The Lord' Maypiy' in j vieAV of the * many recent public appeals, declined- to inaugurate a special Mansion' Bfpuse fund.- Many of the younger meri in the Principality are : stated^ ito prefer emigrating, to Australia.,- 7 . . Chief Inspector Clarke, Avho >vas .tried * for complicity in the. recent turf . frauds,having been reinstated dii full pay, at once retired on a pension" of LlB5 per annum. -It is understood that- the' Detective' Commission wills recommend the -employ -' ment of ani. inferior- class, and greatly*increased 'pay. ■- „. 7 ; , . ,i j : 7.,-i . An international Telegraph Congress will; meet in London .on July ,1. . . -The, principal : business will be to agree upon a, ..uniform international tariff. ?"'"."'"'" , : Lord Shaftesbury/ the Rev. John Cole Miller, D.D. , and a couple of other leading' men '.have retired from the- Society for Promoting Christian $aiowledge, 0 n the ground ;that' -twb r > of 'its "publication^— ; Bohnpy's ' l Geology," --and ■> the Rev.' "'ti/Lv Bfownlow': Maitland -s* « " Argument : frbm Prophecy "—are heterdox. ■* V' • ' •*?? -'- '-'I Teinplp Bar. r has r be;en., I rempyed.^ r : All . the! .outside ? stones' ; were 54 previously ,i*e-j jnovedi' \ The^Betlmar--^ .asked Ahat^he'f-b^-'ihay^ bfSSre^ei'ected hS' -^otorklPark-7;Hi: ; .*ls^?^?-7;r:?^^ y ! f. 4 f

"Very riotous proceedings took place at Birkenhead ; on- the night of the 31st uit., i* 1 .conseciliehce.ofithe.Prot'estants playing--anti-^apal airs ; in the -earlyv-part.of. the? evening. ' 2000 persons assembled, who . inarched through the. ..street, smashing windows and doing other damage. St. -James's Church; was! attacked, and every pane of glass broken.. The police were taken by surprise; and were 1 powerless. A woman named Martha. White has died at Market Harborougli, who is said to have ' taken. no. food for four years.,,? . . ■•-= „- . 'A marriage lias been arranged between -Carl: Roseberry- and Miss. Haririah 'De' Rothschild, daughter of Baron Meyer De .Rothschild. '-■•■"'-'■-' ! Aira; meeting of the Home Rule Conference, held at 1 - Dublin, it was resolved' that the Home Rule party should take '■council together ' and decide "on their line of action as a partyrespeeting the Eastern question. "Mr Butt," M.P., emphatically declared; he would engage in- no war upon ,, the House of. Commons, and asked if the House' imprisoned the' members would the .Conference come over and silence them. ; Mi* Big-gar advocated war with Russia. in the interests of the L-ish farmers. :_ The establishment- of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Scotland is attracting attention there, and a meeting has' been held in favour. of, talcing legal action to prevent it. - . ■■ ' . ■ ..■-•:-;- ■-- Jt is expected Dr Eyre,' of Glasgow, and ■Araion, of St. Andrew's'/. will' be created Archbishops?' •'"• .; A report that Cardinal' Maiming had been authorised, to, come to an arrangement with the English Government on the. subject has been denied. ' ■•-••■ The four liberated Fenian prisoners arrived at Dublin ,011. the evening of the 13tli. The streets were crowded, and ten ■bands, with a. numerous' processionescorted them to . the European Hotol. Several _ Irish M.P.'s took part in the proceedings. Their release was in consequence of the. .Queen..'. directing -the discharge, on. account of -his. youth, of LaAvrence Walsh, the "gunner, latterly sentenced'by a ; 'court-martial at Aldershot to 10 years'' perial servitude for writing a letter. ■ of -a seditious character. Walsh was only 17 years , of age, and Mr Cross pointed out to E_er- Majesty that if he was releasee! the, other .military Fenian prisoners ought also to be discharged. They, are on.ticket-of-leave. ; : " The^ London Society of Amalgamated Carpenters and' Joiners have given their -enployers six months' notice of their intention to. demand an increase of Id per , hour. The masters have resolved to obtain a supply of foreign workmen. Great depression exists, in the iron trade. The Qonsett Company are blowing out their furnaces. ' There have been several railway accidents during the month, but none attended with serious consequences, though in a collision between the steamer Xema, plying Between Bristol and Cork, and the Italian barque Pensiers, on the night, of. tlie Bth instant, the latter foundered with 10 of her crew of" 11. ■ The steamer Friesland, from Java to' Holland, with a valuable cargo, worth L 200,000, has been lost off Cape Finisterre with all on board, 144 in number.