SUEZ MAIL TELEGRAMS

Cromwell Argus, Volume II, Issue 101, 17 October 1871, Page 6

SUEZ MAIL TELEGRAMS

—o—(Daily Times.) London, Sept. 3. The Queen's health is causing anxiety. The weather is fine for harvesting operations, but the wheat crop is deficient. Mr Walter Montgomery, the actor, has committed suicide.

A large meeting took place yesterday in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, when the crowd

attacked the police, wo\mding 50 of them. The House of Lords has passed the Bill giving army officers compensation for their commissions.' •■ -

lienforth, the well-known sculler, was" seized with a fit of apoplexv, and died, while rowing in the Anglo-Canadian boat-race. The Emperor of Germany.: has bestowed the Iron Cross on Dr Itussel, of the Times. Great dissatisfaction is caused by the Queen's persistent seclusion and lack of hospitality to her Royal visitors, giving rise to a feeling of public humiliation. Colonel Barttelot and Sir Wilfrid Lawson expressed these views in the House of Commons.

The army agency system, and corporal punishment in the navy, are to be abolished. Prince Bismarck lm been warmly urged by Count Beust to open a campaign against the Papacy. The Swiss Republic has declared absolutely against the Infallibility Dogma, and several German Governments refuse to give their official sanction to its promulgation. The Pope declares that he does not claim the right to depose sovereigns, or release nations from allegiance, and taunts his Ultramontrane advisers with the result of their policy. A schism is regarded as imminent. The Algei'ian insurrection is assuming alarming dimensions. The Arabs threaten to exterminate the French settlers. Greatfloods have oecnrred in North-Eastern India, and the railway lines havo been injured. Severe illness is reported to be prevalent amongst the cre'.vs of the men-of-war in the Persian Gulf.

The ravages of cholera and famine in Persia have been mit'igated.