NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2703, 16 October 1871, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

The Emperor of Brazil is still in England. The Order of the Garter has been conferred upon him. Colonel Elphinstone is gazetted K.C.B. Lord Bloomlield is raised to the peerage. Senor Chri te, the Brazilian Minister, is created C.B. Mr Paget, surgeon, is created a baronet. Mr Smith, curator of the Patent Office Museum ; Mr Chalk, secretary of the Ecclesiastical Commission ; and Mr Hugh Allan, of Montreal, are knighted.

The Star of St. Stanislaus is bestowed on Mr Heed, late chief constructor of the navy, by the Czar. Sir William Anderson, assistant comptroller of the forces, withdraws shortly from the public service. Mr Bussell Gurney, Recorder of London, proceeds to America to settle the legal details connected with the Washington Treaty. A site is chosen on the Thames embankment for a statue to the late Cord Derby. The Goodwood hj aces, favorite disastrously failed, confounding the turf prophets. The Goodwood Stakes were won by Taraban. The Prince of Wales, the Crowu Brince qf Germany, and the Duke of Cambridge were among the visitors. The Cyclops, a double-turret ship, has been launched at Blackwall.

The Lady Mordaunt case is pronounced one of feigned insanity. Lady Mordaunt is in the custody of her father. Sir Charles will again apply for a divorce. The Council of the Workmens’ Peace Association has commenced an agitation fof the establishment of a High ( oiirt qf Na : tious for the settlement of international disputes. Another rattening case has occurred at Sheffield in connection with serious disputes in the coal trade there. Another baby farmer, Frances Rogers, was sentenced at Manchester assizes to twenty years’ penal servitude. A fresh seizure of Fenian arms has been lately mado at Liverpool. In the North of Ireland the Nationalist party has sustained a series of crushing defeats. The Ulster Protestants, after temporary irritation are returning to fervent loyalty. Alarm is felt at the advance of the Asiatic cholera, Deaths arc numerous in Russia and the Baltic States. Two Hull vessels had cases on board. Stringent precautions are now enforced. Sir C. B. Adderley opened the longthreatened debate in the House of Commons on the Washington Treaty upon a motion for papers. His motion was ultimately withdrawn. Sir Roundel Palmer’s vindication of England was very effective. Mr Gladstone’s supposed policy in relation to Irish collegiate education excite) distrust amongst liberals. He opposed Mr Fawcett’s Dublin University Bill, and maintained that Catholics were entitled to a distinct college in the University. This view is objectionable to tbe bulk of his followers, and much ununeasiness prevails. A debate on the loss of the Captain was initiated on the 9th in the House of Commons. The Government was censured on the 10th by Colonel Anson for its abandonment of the Berkshire campaign. Mr Corry assailed the present constitution of the Admiralty. Shipping.—Tbe tonnage on the berth on the 3rd August for Australia and New Zealand amounted to 40,601 tons. Fourteen thousand pounds worth of cargo has been saved from the wreck of the Queen of tbe Thames. An amendment of tbe bills of lading via tbe Suez Canal is likely to be effected, governing the Australian trade also. Arrived: From New Zealand ports, Cyrene, Queen Bee, V\ arrior Queen, Zealandia, Farningham. Sailed : For New Zealand, Gamble, Peter Denny, Young Australian, Chili, Robert Henderson. Loading : For New Zea* land, 13. FRANCE. After repeated delays the Communists trials commenced on the 7th ult. The prisoners number 30,000, including 2000 women and 2000 lads. Four courts-martial are sitting. Seventeen of the leaders were arraigned on the first day. The prisoners appear in good spirits, and generally show levity when the indictment is read charging them with conspiracy to overthrow the Government, incitement to civil war, besides special acts of pillage, massacre, and outrages. Some documents ordering the incendiarism are pronounced forgeries by the counsel for

the accused. The bearing of Assi is most insolent. Rossel and Rochefort were to be tried before a separate court a fortnight later. Larogues, ex-mayor of Puteaux, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. Several of the guiltiest of the Communist leaders are in London. _ The official journal gives an angry denial to the charges preferred by English journals of inhumanity towards the prisoners at Satory and Versailles. The indemnity payments are being made satisfactorily, and the German troops aie withdrawing their numbers, being reduced to 150,000 in France. M. llemusat’s appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs gives general satisfaction. M. Jules Favre returns to the bar. Stormy scenes have occurred in the Chambers between Thiers and the majority, regarding the financial difficulties ahead. The Finance Committee has rejected the Government Customs duties, and an income tax is suggested to meet the deficit of 24.000. francs. M. Gambetta is suspected of the intention of seizing power at the first opportunity. The soldiers raised by him during his rule as Dictator are very discontented. Numerous Communists have been returned at the Paris elections for the municipality, owing to the apathy of the trading M. Leon Say, prefect of the Seine, proposes to Paris to contract a loan of 350,000,000 francs, and to authorise a floating debt of 60.000. francs. Admiral Crosmier has committed suicide. A large majority of the Assembly has decided to fix the seat of government permaneutly at Versailles, . Marshal M‘Mahon has published a vivid account of the conquest of Paris from the Communists, ITALY. A monk has been tried before a criminal court for murder, and condemned. Subscriptions are invited towards a throne of gold for the Pope. LATE TELEGRAMS. Military manoeuvres are to be held in the neighborhood of Aldershott and Cobham in stead of in Berkshire. 33,500 troops will take part. The army agency system has been abolished. Mr Charles Buxton’s motion in the House of Commons for the appointement of a Royal Commission to decide on the reorganisation of the army is withdrawn, Mr Cardwell resuming the entire responsibility. The Government has announced that the establishment of a money-order system between India and Europe has met with difficulties in India. Several incendiary fires have occurred in Algeria, and the revolt there continues. Mr Charles Buxton, M.P., is dead.