Additional Items by the Suez Mail

Cromwell Argus, Volume 1, Issue 52, 9 November 1870, Page 1 (Supplement)

Additional Items by the Suez Mail

London, Oct. 3. Tho St. Leger was won by Mr Hislop's Hawthorndeu; Lord Falmouth's Kingcraft, second; Wheeler, third. The English journals show the impolicy of unduly humiliating France, and plead for generous treatment. The English people are doing all they can to mitigate the distress. Surgeons, nurses, and appliances have been sent to the battle grounds. The Americans are also acting philanthropically. . The late Mr John Abbott, possessing estates in the Australian colonies, has left sixty thousand pounds to charities.

The Earl of Aberdeen has been drowned. Miss Glyn left New York on the 27th on a tour embracing Australia, George Dyer has been committed for trial on a charge of murder committed at Guildford in 1857. He now denies all knowledge of it. Donte, the wizard, who robbed Counsel on the voyage home, has been found guilty.

Jefferson Davis has arrived in England. Mazzini has been arrested in Caprera, and is closely guarded. The attempted revolution in Roumania has failed. The Russian Government is- averse to the dismemberment of France. The Pensylvania coal strike terminated in a compromise.

Great fires have occurred in Chicago and Ottawa; lives were lost, and much damage done to property. The City of Raguse model steamer has arrived safely at New York. Galle, Oct. 4. The likelihood of England being involved in the war is considered remote. The David and Jessie, of Melbourne, has been wrecked at Colombo. The Japanese have declared war against the Coreans. The Japanese Government forbade an engagement between a French and German frigate in their wateis, The following additional items of European news have been published : Marshal M'Mahon is still alive, and is a prisoner at Wiesbaden. Fort Evary was summoned to surrender, but refused. The election for the Constituent Assembly is fixed for the 17th October, until which date England delays her recognition of the French Republic. Order has been re-established at Lyons. It is stated that the Tours Government have given the American General Beauregard a commission to raise an army corps in South Prance.