News by the Suez Mail.

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 37, 27 July 1870, Page 7

News by the Suez Mail.

In consequence of the success of the Suez Canal the proposal for a ship canal from Liverpool to Manchester has been revived. The Mormons, it is reported, are secretly arming in order to resist the enforcement of the national law against polygamy. The will of the late Geprgo • Peabody has been admitted to probate, and it appears that he left only about f 150,000, the whole of which is bequeathed to his relatives. The rascal named Lever, who was committed for trial on a charge of decoying country girls to London and then robbing has been sentenced to five .years’ penal servitude, > • m, , ; m The intelligence sent to the American Government would lead to tho conclusion that tho construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Darien is impracticable at the point now under survey, but the,surveyors do not despair of overcoming the difficulty by the selection of another site for the proposed operations., , ‘ V The Democrats have carried the New 'York State elections by a majority of 50,000, electing the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals and the majority of the Association Judges. They also carried the city elections by a majority' of 60,000, electing the local judiciary and all the aldermen. A monument to King Robert the Bruce is to be erected on the Field of Bannockburn. An influential committee has been formed in London and in Scotland, The committee are obtaining a design from the veteran, artist Mr George Cruikshank.. The Marquis of Bowmont, M.P., and the sons of Burns, Hogg, and Wordsworth have forwarded handsome subscriptions for a bursary to be established in the University qf Edinburgh. The subscription of Wordsworth’s son was sent on the centenary of his honored and revered father’s birthday. The greatest procession that has ever been witnessed in Ulster passed through the streets of Belfast on the 14th May, in !• connection with tire laying of the fonnd.v I tion stone of the Belfast Working Men’s I Institute, which -is to cost £6OOO. The I foundation stone was laid-by Miss CharP tors, daughter of the largest contributor. 9 Belfast town bore quite a holiday appearance all the afternoon, and the proceedings ■ ; wore ot a most harmonious character. « On the 30th April, some excitement wa s i caused in France by a report that an ath tempt had been made to assassinate the ; Emperor. Subsequent information con- | veyed the impression that even if the i j conspirators did not intend to procefcd to extremity, a very dangerous and ; u well-organised conspiracy existed with some || sinister design against the State and the > public peace ; and what with conspiracies tlie excitement created by the Irrojj -concilables in regard to the PKbiscitum, 4} public feeling in France was in a very || disordered condition. The attitude of the p Emperor, however, was calm and dignified, ;1 aH -d amidst all tho abuse of the extreme || Left, M. Ollivier held his own, and seemed ;! to feel confident that the .result of the | elections would be to strengthen the GoH vernment, and to give peace and solidity H tho Empire. All the sovereigns of | Europe have congratulated the Emperor |f on tho result of the Plebiscite. | In Spain, the question as to who shall be King has again cropped up. Serrano j' is anxious that the crown should be dis- | posed of, and has proposed three candidates : -—the Due de Montpensier, Espartefo, and I General Prim. The latter has said that I he cannot and will not accept the offer, M and that he and his party are opposed to I the two former. General Espartero has j refused to offer himself as a candidate for | the throne, on the ground of advanced age i default of heirs, but his refusal is not j cohsidered final. The Due de Montpensier | has not been able to get elected to the ! Labradores Club. | 27th April, at the Glasgow CirIfc Coiirt, before Lord Ardmillan, John lly was sentenced to death for the murder Mary Feouey, a sempstress, on the night March 12, in a field near Duke-street, asgow. He first violated, then suffoM his victim, who was only four foet hj, hump-backed, and otherwise de“ed. Great sympathy is felt in Dundee the wife of Kelly, who, along with ker 3 daughters, resides in that town. The t of the family (two sous) are away from ne. Kelly served in the Federal Army _m the beginning to the . close of the il American War. He returned home about , % tea months ago, but instead of joining his j at Dundee, be took up his abode in • Ifilasgow, where he obtained work in con- ’ lection with the City Union Railway.

Ou tlie 27th April, Mr Walpole, on a motion for going into Committee on the bill {pr'legalising marriage with a deceased wife’s sister, moved a resolution to the effect that it was expedient to alter the law of marriage, which had existed in this country from time immemorial, as to the degrees of kindred and affinity within which marriages are permitted, until Parliament had considered the whole question whether degrees of affinity should be put on a different footing from the correspondent degrees of consanguinity. The hon. member contended that marriage with a deceased wife’s sister was, according to the highest authorities, as illegal and as improper as marriage with a mother or a daughter, and in view of the strong prejudice which existed throughout the country against the measure, it would be necessary for its promoters to make'out an exceptionally strong case before the House would bo justified in adopting it.—Mr Gladstone commended Mr Chambers for the wise discretion which he had shown when drawing up the Bill, in carefully avoiding interference with the laws or bye-laws of any religious com. munity, and merely asking the House to establish a rule whereby, for civil purposes, the contraction of certain marriages might be permitted. He had taken a practical view of the matter, and, in the opinion of the xdght hon. gentleman, ho had with him the support of both facts and justice. Mr Gladstone hoped hon. members would not permit themselves to be influenced by the narrow considerations of class, but would consider how the present condition of the law affected the whole community. It was, he thought, their duty to do away with a prohibition which was not adequately sustained by the public conscience and conviction, and the removal of which had, on almost every occasion when opportunity offered, received the sanction of a majority of the representatives of the pee. pie.—Mr BereSford Hope strongly opposed the Bill, and stated his belief that if it passed, the legalisation of the marriage of nieces with uncles and of aunts with nephews would follow at no distant date. —Earl Percy having opposed the bill, and Mr Melly and Mr Denison spoken in its favour, Sir Roundel! Palmer instanced as showing the lack of settled principle in the bill, that it proposed to legalise marriage with a deceased wife’s sister, but not marriage with a deceased husband’s brother. He protested, in the interests of law and society, against the bill, the more especially with regard to its retrospective character. —Mr Chambers, in replying, stated that the principle of the bill bad been affirmed by the House in thirty-three divisions ; a fact which, he said, accounted for tho absence of fresh arguments in that particular debate.—After some remarks from Mr Collins the House divided, when 184 were recorded in favour of going into Committee on the bill, and 114 against the motion. The House then wont into Committee, when Mr J. G. Talbot immediately moved the rejection of the retrospective portion of tho bill, but was defeated by 177 votes against 90. The bill then passed through Committee, Mr Collins intimating that at a future 'sf ago another attempt would be made to eliminate the retrospective clauses of the bill. A cashier named Tassins, now in custody in Paris for embezzling the sum of 2,000,000fr. from his employers, MM. do Rothschild, Ims given before the examining Judge an account of the circumstance under which his frauds commenced. About ten years back, while in pecuniary difficulty, he borrowed from the funds with which he was entrusted a sum of 5000fr. or GOOOfr. ; this ho hoped to replace a little later. Dr Beckers called on Tassins and asked him for a loan of a considerable amount. The cashier at first refused, declaring that he himself was embarrassed for money. “ I must have it,” insisted Beckers, “or I will denounce you.” “ Where am Ito get it 1” “ Whore you got the other, parbleu !” Tassius, finding himself in tho other’s power, advanced the sum ; the loan was followed by others, and Beckers at last persuaded tho cashier to gamble on the Bourse to make up the deficit. Their speculations were unsuccesful, and the abyss becoming wider, the catastrophe at length arrived. A contemporary says'": —“ Tho strange thing in these great cases of embezzlement is that such laage defalcations as those of Tassius, or of Redpath and Higgs in England, should remain undiscovered for years. ‘ Book-mak-ing,’ we believe, claims for itself all the accuracy of a science, but it would seem that tho art of book-keeping must still be in its infancy. Under any proper system of auditing and balancing, such gigantic and systematic frauds as those of Tassius ought, we should think, to bo an impossibility.”

Mr Charles Rees, formerly Captain of the Eire Brigade, Dunedin, has just opened an establishment at Pimlico, opposite the Victoria Railway Station, called “The Australian and New Zealand Cigar Stores and Reading Rooms.” It is said that Julia Mathews has separated from her husband, but very little is known of tho causes of disagreement!, Tho highly important system of telegraphic communication for connecting the colonies of Australia with India, Europe, America, and other parts of tho world, by way of Ceylon, is in a fair way of being established by the Eastern Oceanic Telegraph Company, before tho close of tho year 1871. The peculiar and commanding advantage of this route consists in its shortness, as any other must make a long detour, whilst it is also the most direct from Australia to England. Proposals have been made to the Australian Governments to connect Adelaide with the Indian telegraphic system at Point-de-Galle, which offer, it is supposed, will bo accepted. Overtures have also been made to the Dutch Government for independent wires to be used entirely for Australian messages, and to bo worked by Europeans. The directors of the Eastern Oceanic Company have already received proposals for the construction of their cables and wires. Experience having proved that submarine communication is the most rapid and direct, the company will lay cables from Ceylon to Adelaide, with tho exception of short aerial lines from Perth to King George’s Sound, and from Adelaide to the east end of the great Australian Bight. The Colonial Governments have fully recognised the desirableness of the route of the Eastern Oceanic or western line by deciding to supplement tho income. The guarantee is not likely to be demanded, as, from the number of messages calculated by the colonial authorities, it is estimated that after the deduction of working expenses and reserve fund, the enterprise will pay 18 per cent. Tho Eastern Oceanic Company have decided at starting to charge £3 10s for a message of twenty words from any part of Australia to England, with the probability of reducing the tariff as the amount of business increases. It is a singular fact that Brisbane would save from threo to four hundred miles and Sydney one thousand miles, by telegraphing over the Eastern Oceanic or Western route, as compared with tho Northern line, by way of Timor ; tho former will bo composed of nearly all submarine cables, with short aerial lines on the Australian continent ; while the latter passes several thousands of miles over land and water, and through foreign countries. Land lines have proved the chief cause of delay in tho transmission of telegraphic communications, from their being—especially tho foreign ones—so frequently out of order. With tho Northern and Western routes, the Colonies will bo amply supplied with telegraphic communication for many years to come. The Young Australian left for Bris'bane on May 12, with some 200 emigrants, and the Elying Cloud will sail from Liverpool on May 25, with about double the number tor Rockhampton and Maryborough. The next ressal following her will start from Plymouth. The new Queensland Immigration Act, as far as can l>e judged, is not likely to bejn as much favour hero as tho old one. The Monarch leaves for Canterbury on May 25, with some 200 emigrants, and will he followed on July 2-0 by the Merope, a new ship now building in the Clyde. Tho next emigrant vessel for Canterbury will be the Zealandia, and, after her, an emigrant ship will sail regularly every six weeks. The Emigrants’ Aid Corporation are not doing much, and many persons think that their existenca will soon terminate altogether, believing their projects impracticable and utopian. The Western Empire starts from Plymouth to Melbourne on May 25, with 374 passengers ; and the Colonial Empire follows her on June 20, with about 400. Tho Victorian Depot at Plymouth is now complete. The Belgian, Latgaumors, who was re- 1 cently convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Madame Lombard, in whose service he was, and the attempted murder of a fellow-servant, has received a remission of the capital sentence, and was brought before the Criminal Court that the commutation to forced labour for life might he announced to him. When tho decree sparing his life was read ho evinced no emotion, but, on tho contrary, told tho officers who guarded him that ho had only one cause for regret, and that was that lie had failed to kill his fellow-servant, tho cook, who was very severely wounded by him.

, The Italian Consul at Buenos Ayres, it /is reported, has been assassinated. k The richest gold-mino in the whole of California yielded last yea# a profit of 1340,000. t , The Anglo-Australian (writing in the European Mail) says:—“ The affected Spartan sternness of Lord Granville, in denying pecuniary aid to New Zealand in her distress, has at last succumbed to the persevering arguments of Messrs Featherston and 8011, and these gentlemen may be congratulated on having obtained a victory. The Government having consented to waive the principle of refusing a guarantee to a colonial loan, it was miserable statemanshipto quarrel whether the amount should, be a million or half-million. Yet haggling on this point was persisted in. by Lord Granville up to the last moment. The Commissioners refused to entertain the offer of a guarantee of half a million, but consented to forward the proposal of this minor amount to their Government, which they did by telegram on May 11, in order to overtake the steamer at Galle. Lord Granville agreed subsequently to concede the guarantee of a million, on condition that half should be spent in the construe' tion of roads, so as to give, amongst other things, employment to the friendly Maoris; and the other half for immigration purposes. The fact is that his lordship found out that the Commissioners were in earnest, and that the talk about submitting an ultimatum of assistance or separation of New Zealand from the mother country was not all moonshine. Messrs Featherston and Bell were tf-be seen smiling and happy at the State Ball at Buckingham Palace on May 17 ; and thus ends this ‘ strange, eventful history’ 1” The subject of the new mail routes to the Australian colonies has been naturally exciting much interest and speculation. The Postmaster-General recently received a memorial signed by most of the leading establishments connected with Australia an 1 India, in favour of the Brindisi route. Mr Purdy has been writing strongly in the Timas in support of the superior claims, on the whole, of the Suez over all other routes. Letters were received in London from New Zealand on the morning of Friday, May 13, via Brindisi, being usually delivered on the Saturday, That route is generally emsidered a great success, as it allows several days’ longer time to reply to letters. There is not much confidence as yet in the new San Francisco line, for the steamers employed are considered too small, and unadapted for the purpose, so that there is no reliance felt on their regularity and punctuality. The very first vessel of the Company, for instance, that reached San Francisco on May 5, was five days behind her stipulated time. It is quite certain that for the present only duplicate correspondence will be sent by this line. The other company proposing the through route, via Milford Haven and Portland, have not yet got their capital together. In their prospectus, they state that they will complete the whole journey to Sydney in forty days, but this is obviously an under-estimate, and forty-four at the very least will probably bo required. From Sydney to San Francisco, including the detention for calling, would take twenty-eight days (reckoning ten knots an hour as the speed of the steamers), thence to Portland six, whence to Milford Haven would demand, on an average, not less than ten. From Orleans, in Franco, a frightful case of parricide and matricide is reported. In the commune of Cravaut, near that city, a young man named Thoopile Piednoir, who has been epiliptic from a child, went to his mother’s bed in the night time, and cut her to pieces with a hatchet. He afterwords killed his father, who was sleeping in another room, with the same weapon. Ho then went to the house of his fathcr-in-law, who, seeing that he was in a state of excitement, rccoramcndol him to go to bed.. This ho did, without saying a word of what had happened ; but, before going, bo covered his father’s body with straw. lie was arrested, made a confession, and was taken to the Orleans prison. The Tribunal Correctionnel of Paris, on the 6th May, disposed of the case of Lcrmina, who at a recent public meeting read a pretended judgment in the name of the French people, convicting the Emperor Napoleon of numerous crimes against the State, and condemning him to hard labor for life as a fitting penalty for his numerous misdeeds. The trial was of brief duration, the accused admitting that ho had prepared and read the document. The Court, after a speech from the Avocat Imperial, pronounced a sentence of two years’ imprisonment and 10,000fr. fine.