NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 137, 25 June 1872, Page 6

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL

The Ballot Bill has passed. Brigham Young has been released. The Pacific Islanders Bill has passed. The London International Exhibition is opened. The Emperor of China will be married in October. At Deesa two officers have been shot by an insane soldier. A conspiracy to murder the Mikado of Japan has failed. England has guaranteed a Canadian railway loan of £2,500,000. The Marquis of Lansdowne is appointed Under Secretary of War. Horace Greoly is nominated for the Presidency of the United States. Mr Jacob Bright's Woman's Franchise Bill was defeated by 222 to 14". The report of the Commission on the surrender of Metis, blames Cazaino. The ConstUuliiiitifd newspaper was suppressed by the Military Commander of Paris. The Carlist rising in Spam is assuming formidable proportions. 15,000 insurgents are in the held. A reward of 100,000 dollars has been given to the othcei's and crew of the Kearsarge for destroying the Alabama. The Government was defeated on the Scotch Education Pill, a el iuso being carried providing for Biblical teaching. Therewei*e severe eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, lasting over ten days, which spread devastation and death arouud. Several villages were destroyed. Prince Charlie won the Newmarket Twothousand guineas ; Cremorue, 2nd : Queen's Messenger third. Heine won the Thousand Guineas. In the Chester Cup race, luv mess was Ist. ; Soncar, 2nd ; Neanulita i. Did. On the oth of .May. a fearml inundation conk place at derive in the Madras presidency. Forty tanks burst. 10,).) lives were lost, 0030 people rendered destitute, and 13,009 homeless. Belief was sent at once by the Government. The American journals announce (hat the ; r Government is iu'ly determined to ask no further compromise regarding the indirect claims. The Congressional Committee therefore expects England to withdraw from the Geneva Arty tratkm. The Tichborne claimant was bailed out on the 2Gth. The trial for perjury will con - mence in November. Tlie Australian witnesses are required. Lm*d Nivies (!) Dr Attwood, and Messrs GuihKord, Cuslew, and Jas. Lament stood bail for the claimant. A telegram from Aden reports Dr Livingston safe with the Nrw York JlcrtiUl'n Specia l Commissioner, who reports a '-reat hurricane at Zanzibar, on the 15th April, by which 1.50 vessels and £2,000,000 worth of property were lost, and the town nearly destroyed. A great fire covering two square miles has occurred at Ycddo ; fo.'ty-flve streets and tive thousand buildings were destroyed, twentvone thousand persons were burnt out, three hundred and fifty persons killed, and a million and a-half dollars' worth of propertv consumed. Obituary.—Professor Mauritme, Sir Algernon Peyton, General Win';!ieM, Major-Ge-neval Gambicr, Col. Biddulph, Professor Roberts, Dr Ferrol (Uishop of Edinbu'-dik aged 81, Dr Hood (Dean of Argyle), Alfred Shoolbrcd (senior partner in great dranery linn), Mr Palmer (Recorder of Yarmouth) Admiral, Slaughter, Major Hamilton, Gen. Orel, Marquis Graham (son of the Duke of Montrose), Sir Henry Wilmot, Dr Norn's, Dr Short, Edward .Mitchell the sculptor (who committed suicide). The Trochu libel case is the great sensation of the month. It is an action against the conductor of the Fujam for assertin" that General Trochu insinuated himself into the favour of the ex-Emperor and the Governor of Paris to betray his country. The le idnv* Donapartists were cited as witnesses, and exciting disclosures were made. After six days' trial a verdict was given acquitting the accused of defamation of character : hut convicting him of insulting a public funetionarv. He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, and ordered to pay a line of 4000 francs.