THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2722, 7 November 1871, Page 2

THE SUEZ MAIL.

(Prom the Argus.) LATEST TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES. 'ihe disestablishment of the Church in India has been discussed at a meeting. It is expected that Prince Arthur, attended by Sir G. WoLely and Captain Hosier, will visit Lord Mayo, and several of the nobility are expected to remain in Bombay till 1873. The Queen’s health is steadily improving. The Prince of Wales commands the cavalrybrigade at the Hampshire campaign. The Prussian evacuation of the departments near Paris and the northern forts is proceeeding. Mv Duffy’s elevation to the Premiership of Victoria is favorably noticed by some of th© English papers. The wool consignment correspondence is still continued in The Times. Arrived.—ln time for wool sales—Somersetshire, Agnes Rose, and Storm King. Too late—Kosciusko. The Mont Cenis tunnel has been opened successfully. International festivities took place at Turin. There has been a heavy withdrawal of gold for Germany. Wool advanced Id more since the opening of tbe sales, being unaffected by dearer money. The competition keeps prices firm, exporters buying largely. The wool sales are progressing favorably. Home competition is brisk, but the foreign demand is slackening. Mr Disraeli, at Hughenden, in proposing the health of the Queen, said she was physically incapacitated from performing ceremonial but zealously discharged the state duties of the Grown. 'MILITARY MAKCEUVBES, The abandonment of the “ Berkshire campaign”—as the proposal was called for the manoeuvring of a large body of troops in that country—has been almost forgotten in the preparations made round Aldershot for a month’s operations in Hampshire. The fields and bare commons of that district arc now covered with white tents ; the roads for miles around are daily thronged with marching troops. It is long since so large an army was collected in England—3o,ooo men, of all arms, including militia—some yeomanry regiments, and a contingent of voluuteers. The Prince of Wales will have charge of the cavalry in the second division; Prince Arthur is already on the field, serving with his own regiment. Tue first incident of the campaign was a miShhauce, ludicrous and yet serious—a stampede of the horses of the Ist Life < uards. They had arrived from Windsor, aud the horses were picketed outside the encampment, according to a new system said to be introduced from Germany. Just at dusk two dogs found their way into the lines, and began to quarrel ; one of them bit the other, which ran with a hideous yell f owards the horses. In a moment they were seized with panic, and simultaneously started as in sudden frenzy. At least 300 horses broke loose with a bound, carrying all before them. “ An indescribable scene of confusion ensued, the whole locality for miles round,” says a letter from the camp, “ being are used by the flight and pursuit of the excited animals, some of which dragged the cords and pins. About fifty horses galloped through the town of Parnhatn ; of these, fifteen were secured. At Willey, about two miles beyond Farnham, a number dashed against the closed toll-gate and smashed it to pieces; while on the commons around Eamborongh and Aldershot, in the opposite directions, many plunged into stakes or other obstructions, which penetrated their breasts or otherwise inflict d serious injury. Several horses dropped dead within an hour, some were drowned in the canal, and others were captured iq a ©rippled state. The pursuers returned to their quarters about midnight, leaving a number of horses at large, and the search was resumed on the following morning at an early hour.” When the regiment mustered next day a la>ge number of men appeared dismounted. More than a dozen splendid creatures appear to have been killed, many were injured, and the rest have since been recaptured. But two or three nights later nearly eighty horses of the 2nd Dragoon Guards started in a similar manner, and of them three were killed and four seriously injured. This week the Hussars had an alarm, forty of their herses taken to sudden flight. Directions have now been issued to return to the old system of picketing, and this is the first result of our new experimenting in campaigning. The sham campaign commenced on the 18th September ; the second and third divisions, under Generals Staveley and Carey, attacking General Grant, who occupied Hog’s Rock, defending London. Tbe Duke of Cambridge awarded tbe strategic victory to Hope Grant. There were numerous com-

plaints of the control department. Th e mancenvres were resumed tlie 1 BthStavely and Carey again attacked and outflanked Grant, who retired on Chatham. The press representatives criticise the execution of the manoeuvres. On the ithh Grant repulses the combined attack on entrenched positions. On the 21st, in the final battle the troops were equally divided, and fought brilliantly. The weather throughout was splendid. The movements this week have been mainly preliminary - such have involved practice in marching, commissariat duties, and the ordinary though important routine of camp life ; but an active en«my is supposed to be ever on the alert, and not far distant, to quicken any laggards. NAVAL CASUALTIES. So much for our land forces ; hut of the navy I have only to report the grounding of another ironclad. The Ucpulse is this time the unfortunate offender. She stuck fast on a bank in Ihe Nore, on her way into Sheerness, but was got off at the next tide without injury. The decision of the Admiralty in the case of the ironclad Agincourt has been generally approved of by the country. Vice-Admiral Wellesley, C.8., who led” the line, and Bear-Admiral Wilmot, C.8., are directed to strike their flags ; Captains Wells and Beamish, of the Minoteur and Agincourt, are superseded ; Staff-Commander Kiddle, the senior navigating officer of the flagship is placed on half-pav, and the captain and navigating officers of the Warrior and Northumberland, the ships astern of the Agincourt, are censured for not apprising the latter of her immediate dancer. On the other hand Captain Lord Gilford, of the Hercules, is rewarded by a marked approval af rh l skill he displayed in rendering assistance to the strandhd ship. It is to the credit of ViceAdmiral Wellesley that he shirked no blame, and while others were for shifting the responsibility at the court-martia 1 , he offered his shoulders for the burden.