THE SUEZ MAIL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 132, 21 May 1872, Page 6

THE SUEZ MAIL.

Preserved meats are reported considerahl lower. The Queen is at Baden Baden, in stij privacy. A fatal prize-fight has taken place n% Dartford, Kent. Cambridge won the University Boat by a length and a-half. The expenses of the Tichborne trial at said to be not less than £120,000. Edinburgh is again threatened with \\ " fearful calamity" of a scavengers' strike. An influential committee has been forme at Bombay to raise funds for a memorial t Lord Mayo. The House of Commons rejected Mr Vet non Harcourt's motion to reduce the nation expenditure. Mazzini died suddenly at Pisa. He wj buried at Geneva, and his funeral was a* tended by eighty thousand persons. In replying to Lord Derby, Mr Gladstoj said that the Ministry would fully maintai their position in the Alabama case. The Paris Soir, speaking of the Thanksgit ing Day in London, says:—"There wet only seventy wounded and one killed." The boy O'Connor, who insulted the Queen has been sentenced to one year's imprisutß ment with hard labour, and twenty lashes. N A Spanish metrical translator of the PsalrJ has received an autograph letter from t[o Pope, who blesses the work and the author.! - The exports for February and March she I a moderate increase. To New Zealand, tt : 3 increase over the previous month is £22,311- I The Indian Council have granted a pensi.v I of £SOO a year to the widow of Mr Justi- l Norman, who was murdered at Calcutta sor J months ago. , Victor Emmanuel killed in (me day latelvf i with his own unaided rifle, 17 wild boars a™ various other wild animals, including JH " veteran old wolf." 3 The claimant in the Tichborne case hs been arraigned, and pleaded not guilty, fj. was removed to the Queen's Bench to awar his trial, which commences in June. Mr John Goss, the famous organist, is ( be knighted, the immediate cause of tb honour being the music furnished by hit for the Thanksgiving ceremony in St Paul's Several carriages belonging to the ex-En, peror Napoleon were bought at an auction is London on March 13th by an undertaker who purposes to convert them into mournins coaches. The Queen has conferred an annuity d £25 on John Brown, and has also presents! him with a watch, for his " active devotion' in seizing Arthur O'Connor, the lad who pre. sented an unloaded pistol at her. At a monster meeting in Manchester 31: Disraeli defended the Throne as tlie soura of all the blessings which the British enjoy He also demonstrated its cheapness, aiic spoke in defence of the House of Lords. Mrs Victoria Woodhull, of free-love note riety, has signified her intention of sendini out five hundred female orators to stump tkfi States, and press before the electors 1 t° claims as a candidate for the Presidency. B The wool sales terminated on Ist Mardß They were characterised by almost unexauiß pled animation. The article attained a high™ value than known during the present gener M tion. The prospects of the next sales areex-R cellent. b« Practical steps are being taken toward l ? 1 making the proposed submarine tunnel be-fj tween England and France. One-third oifc the £30,000 which it is supposed will suffice f<:r cutting the experimental driftway, has beenl subscribed. f 1 Mr Lowe has made his financial statement.!* Last year's expenditure is one million lesE than the money voted. The estimated ex-I penditure for the coming year is seventv-oneM millions odd, and the revenue nearly seventyfive millions. , lo Mr Robertson Gladstone's experimer/| forß the reduction of drunkenness in Liverpoolh;B the publication of the names of the appre-F bended tipplers has failed. The number M excessive drinkers has not been reduced, but I* if anything, has been increased. J : The Prince and Princess of Wales havear-fi rived at Rome. The Prince had a lengthy! audience with the Pope, who congratulated! him upon his recovery, and expressed hisfl thanks to Queen Victoria for the constant! evidences of her sympathy. He also praised P the religious feeling of the British. § Mr Murphy the Anti-Popery Lecturer, died on March 12, at Sparbrook, Birmingham i Since the maltreatment which he received a: I Whitehaven he had not spoken in public * and had been gradually sinking. The Reeoii in an article on the death of Mr Murphy, I says that he lias died a martyr to the cause I of Protestantism as really as'if he had been burned at Smithfield for" his faith. Chaffers, an attorney, in a statutory declaration, published some infamous details of the early life of Sir Travers and Lady Twiss. Chatfers was prosecuted for libel, and during the proceedings tortured the lady by putting the most filthy questions. The libelloW statements were disproved, but Lady Twi?s suddenly left London and the case collapsed. Sir Travers has since resigned his position as Queen's Advocate. The 11 special jurors in the Tichborne case have been paid their fees for attendance for the last 33 days. The solicitors on both sides agreed on a former occasion to pay the jury between them. The first sitting extended over 40 days, the second 30, and the last sitting 33 days, making 103 guineas *> each, amounting in the whole to £1167 one half of which was paid by the solicitors for the Claimant. The special jury had bees granted on the application of the other side.