NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.
—0 Dates from London are to the 23rd November ; telegraph news to the 27th. The Queen's health continues to improve. The Prince of Wales is ill of typhoid fever. The wool sales opened at a penny higher i rate. There is a great demand for Australian meats. Four shops have been established at' Aberdeen for the sale of New Zealand pre-1 served meat. The new Victorian tariff is likely to considerably hamper the export trade, and emi- j ' gration. Fifteen thousand persons attended Mr i ! Gladstone's meeting at Greenwich. His ! I speech occupied two hours. One hundred j and seven reporters were present, and the whole was cabled to Aunrica the same night. The agitation in the labour market is extending, and the nine hoars' principle has been generally conceded. J LATEST TELEGRAMS. London, November 27. ' Mr Bright has recovered, and will return i j to public life. Mr Disraeli his been elected Rector of J Glasgow University, and Sir William Max-' j well Rector of Edinburgh University. 2000 applications have been made by officers to retire prior to the issue of the warrant : to carry out the Ar.ny Act. Cholera has reappeared in Constantinople. The famine in Persia is rapidly increasing. ' Disturbance! hive occurred among the Chinese at Singapore. The Prince of Wales became suddenly in- ' j disposed. An official bulletin of November] 123 rd, states that the Prince of Wales is suf- i Iferingfrom typhoid fever, but no unfavour-i able symptoms had appeared. On the 27th 1 i the fever was increasing. Prince Bismarck is unwell. I The boiler of the steamer Moolfcan burst. ' i but no lives were lost. j Some of the Rangoon's mail bags have been I recovered in good preservation; also some I passengers' luggage. Mr Pigott, proprietor of the Irishman, has | been sentenced to four months' imprison-1 i taunt. Kelly was acquitted of the murder of Constable Talbot. ! LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. j The Queen returned to Windsor on the! I 25th. Her health is much improved. , The Great Britain has arrived. ADDITIONAL SUMMARY. AMERICA. i Chicago is already rising from its adies. ' ft is estimated that from "70,000 to 80,000; persons will have to be provided for through; the winter. England's generous assistance' is warmly acknowledged in America. CHINA AN'l) JAPAN. The well-known clipper Tacping has been j lost off Cape James. Part of the crew is ! missing. The barque Hotspur has foundered, and | twenty-seven lives have been lost. I The schooner Rantipole, the ship Sinbad, ; : the Japanese steamer Scotland, and the ; steamer A.zoff, have been all lost in the China ! and .Japan seas. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. London, November 11. i Sir Charles Dilke in n speech at Newcastle [made an elaborate and scuidalous attack; I noon rovaltv. He advocated a republic for England.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 113, 9 January 1872, Page 6
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