THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3739, 16 February 1875, Page 2

THE SUEZ MAIL.

. Emigration from the Mersey is still decreasing, there being 1,868 fewer than in November, 1873; decrease on the year. 66,900. The total number of emigrants despatched to Now Zealand during November was 2,448, in nine vessels. Numerous servants of the railway companies are emigrating to the Colonies, The French annexe at South Kensington has been purchased at a cost of LB.OOO for Colonial museums. Mr Nelson, chief officer of the Oandahar, which ran down the Kiugsbridge, has had his certificate suspended for twelve months. Captain Joughiu is paralysed, * Mr Horne, the author of Orion, is about to publish a historical tragedy, entitled “ Maori Wife and Daughter.’’ Commodore Goodenough has received the thanks of the Colonial Office for his action in connection with the cession of Fiji. Some excellent printing paper has been manufactured in England from a Parcel of Austrahan papyrus sent some months aim. 1 hough hurriedly made, under every disadvantage, the sample produced is valued at L4O per ton. r At a meeting of the Aboriginal Protection Society, under tho presidency of Sir Charles Wingfield, congratulations were indulged in on the annexation ot Fiji, and reference was made to the bad treatment of the aboriginal population in Queensland. Miss Emily Faithful read a paper from the Victoria Discussion Society on New Zealand immigration. She strongly favors settlement Ui that Colony iu preference to America.

At a recent meeting of the Colonial Institute, Sir Charles Clifford in the. chair, a suggestion was made for concentrating all Colonial agencies under one roof, with a musuem and an exhibition of Colonial products. ( the chief surveyor of Lloyds has issued an elaborative report relative to the dismasting of several new iron sailing ships. Of twelve vessels affected, seven were bound for Australia and the others for various eastern ports. Overmasting and injudicious stowage are pronounced as the chief causes of disasters. The benchers of Gray’s Inu, having disbarred Dr Kenealy, he has issued a frenzied appeal to the nation, asking for a million subscribers to the ‘Englishman.’ He intends to seek a seat in Parliament, so that he may restore Magna Charta, and overthrow' tyranny in high places. The Lord Chancellor having removed him from the list of Q.C'.’s, he intends appealing to the judges. A fourth steamer, of 1,200 tons burden, tn route to Australia, has sailed from the Clyde for Queensland. The Queen was at Windsor on the 17th, and was to spend Christmas at Osborne. The impress Eugenio previously spent a day and night there, where great attentions were shown her. Mr Disraeli has repaired to Bournemouth, where his health is improving, but the Conservatives have held a meeting to discuss the succession to the Premiership. The Press regard his early retirement as extremely probable. In the prospect of this contingency the Liberals are closing their ranks. Mr Gladstone is receiving thanks from public b °dies for his work on the Vatican decrees. Bishop Colcuzo has been stirring up fresh strife in the English Church. Three bishops, Oxford, Liucolu, and Loudon, have inhibited ms preaching in their dioceses, and revive the memory of his heresies and condemnations, inis has rallied to his side such sympathisers as Dean Stanley, Dr Temple, Dr Jowett, and btoppord Brooke, who have opened their pulpits to his teaching. It has been resolved to widen London Bridge by providing new foot pavements on either side, at a cost of L 40,000. ~Parliamentary Bill is in preparation for the purchase of the interests of all gas companies within the metropolitan area, the purchase money to be provided by creation of irredeemable consolidated stock, with a small annual sinking fund. Of the transit of Venus observations, the successes were more numerous than the failures, and have delighted the scientific world. During a storm on the 20th December a powder magazine was stmek by lightning, and exploded, destroying several houses and portions of the city walls at Scutari, Albania; 200 persons were killed or wounded. Fifty persons have been poisoned in Cornwall, by drinking water from a tank into which arsenic had been maliciously thrown, .J 11 ® University boat race is fixed for the 20th March ; the trial eights have all commenced practising.

In a bicycle race at Wolverhampton, between. Keen and Stanton, the former won. He did fifty miles in three hours ten minutes. The great chess match between the Rev. Mr M Donnell and Mr Wisker terminated in favor of Mr Wisker. Fifteen games were contested, beginning 29th October, and continuing every Monday Thursday, and Saturday till the end.

, race at Putney, on the 10th, forLIOO, Thomas Griffiths, of Wandsworth, beat .John Coxen, of Surbiton, by four lengths. In the pair-oared race on the Tyne, for L2OO a-side, between Winship and Bagnall on the one part, and Boyd and Hamsden on the other, over a course of three and a-half miles, the latter won by six lengths. Perkins, the champion walker, attempted tho teat of walking eight miles in an hour, but failed. *

The Clyde shipwrights are determined to resist the proposed reduction of wages, and as masters are equally resolute, the present partial strike will probably become general Nearly b,(JOO men engaged in the iron and steel trade at Sheffield are out of employ, and many hundreds more are under notice. Some will be reengapd on lower terms. 800 men are idle at Miadeßborougb, and an equal number at Stockton. Some men consent to ten hours’ work in preference to a reduction of wages. On the 15th a conference took place at Cardiff between the associated coal masters of South Wales and the colliers’ delegates, when the masters declined to postpone notices for reduction of wages, or refer disputes to arbitration. A strike is imminent. Mr Henry Crawshay, the head of a large colliery firm at Forest Dean, has announced by letter tlat a diminution of wages is not warranted, and the communication caused much excitement.

Renewed struggles on the educational question are anticipated. Mr Bright reports himself better in health than for the past five years.

Sir H. Baddy has annexed Griqualand east, Adam Hok’s territory, to British territories. Hok is pensioned on a salary of LI,COO a-year. itesistance frjm the Ponds Tribe, mustering 2,000 warriors, is apprehended. Recent advices from the Cape report that Transvaal goldfields have created extraordinary excitement in the Colony. There is a great rush of diggers, and gold, including nuggets, has reached Cape Town. About 140 persons belonging to the community of Shaker, were last week evicted from their settlement near Lymington. After spending a night on the road, praying and singing, a barn was placed at their disposal. They refuse to disperse. Mrs Girling, their leader, was arrested as a lunatic, but after examination was dismissed. Their lodge was offered for sale on the 22ud, and fetched L 1,340. The cruelty of the proceeding during this inclement season is generally condemned. The severe weather of December has greatly augmented the death rate, thousands of persons having ventured the on ice in the metropolitan parks before it was sufficiently thick to be safe. About 100 have suffered immersion, and ono young man perished.

Obituary: Colonel Grey, equerry to the Prince of Wales; Watts Phillips, dramatic writer; John Mitchell, dramatist; Sir John Ronald Martin, connected with the medical profession; Admiral Denman; Mr O’Malley, 0.L.; Lady Stirling Maxwell, from effect of burns; Captain lv. C. Clarke, formerly etatiouel in Now Zealand ; Mr Warren, of the British Museum; Mr William Torr, the emin«nt - “Bricultimst; Mr T. Marshall, racing ournal; Baron Kesteven ; Lord Bonder, aged eighty ; Duke de Rochefoucauld, aged eighty • Signor Desnmbrois, President of the Italian benate j Lord Albert Gower j Lord Romilly, It is not impropahlo that Commodore Goodenough will shortly hoist the pennon of a firstclass commander.

The following is a list of the ships and number of emigrants forwarded to New Zealand by the Agent-General for that Colony during the month of November last -.—City of unedin from Glasgow, for Otago, with 226 souls j^ ds ° n ; Hawke’s Bay, 204; India, Auckland, 163; Edwin Fox, Wellington, 250; Oamaru. a ß°. 270 ; Wellington, Otago! 180 5 Fritz Reuter, from Hamburg, 517 ; total number of souls (including shipments per Garelooh and llakaia), 2,448. The Hon. Mr Vogel ai’rivcd in London on December 19.

Dr Colenzo returned to the Cane on December 28.

England counselled the Porte to grant to Roumania the right to conclude commercial treaties direct; but the Porte declined the counsel offered. , The inquest on the Shipton railway accident has opened. The cause of the accident ip proved to be the breaking of the tyre, not the axle. Two more passengers have died. A meeting of Conservatives discussed the succession to the Premiership, in case Mr Disraeli s health should compel his resignation. Lord Derby had a small majority. Lord Northcote subsequently stated that Ithe Premiers health was restored. Brand, the member for Stroud, has been unseated for bribery. Bishop Martin has been removed from tho Court* ijUlcoln by order of Ecclesiastical Commander Markham, has been appointed second m command of the new Aw»f{« Expedition. The- Bloodhound, a Greenock co 6 S Tof h L2OS PUr<W f ° r BerViCC at a O"the l -oh, the Earl and Countess of Du <lcy lost a LIo.OOU. A reward of LI.OOO is offend.

The Directors of the European Fire and Gss Company are committed for trial on charges of conspiracy to defraud the Stock Exchange. The Company is ordered to be wound up. FRANCE. The revelations in the Arnim trial of Prince Bismark’s views, and of las policy towards French parties, have excited great indignation amongst politicians. In the documents pro duced in court, Bismark is .seen upholding tli Republic as the weakest Government France could have, rejecting the Bourbons as Ultramoutanes and likely to find monarchical allies, •nd next to the Republic approving the Bonapartists, as unlikely to promote a war of|revsnge. Parties are much irritated, and taunt each other with Bismarck’s approval or condemnation. A. great sensation was caused by the Archbishop of Paris standing beside MacMahon at the New Year’s day receptions. It is supposed to indicate that the Ultramontane* are in favor. A new Press Bill in course of prepartion will empower the Government to suspend newspapers aa a preventive measure, and fines will be considerably increased. The Emperor of Russia has conferred on Marshal MacMahon the highest rank m the Order of St. Andrew. The ‘ Pays ’ has been suspended for a fortnight for attempting to implicate the Government in a conspiracy in favor of the Prince Imperial GERMANY. There have been exciting scenes in the German Parliament during the debates on intervention iu Spanish affairs, and on Alsace and Lorraine, also on the abolition of the envoy to the Vanca? i, and the arrest of members during the sittings of the House. A conflict between the Parliament and the Government arose out of the arrest of Deputy Magimce, editor of the Ultramontane paper ‘Germania,’ to undergo a sentence of a year’s imprisonment for violation of the Press laws. Parliament passed a resolution affirming the inviolability of its members, and Prince Bismarck interpreted this as equivalent to a vote of want of confidence, and tendered his resignation, which the Emperor refused to accept. Nineteen men belonging to a band of assassins have been tried at Ravenna, and eleven sentenced to hard labor for life ; four others were condemned to from seven to fifteen years, and the rest acquitted. It is reported that the creation of new cardinals is postponed till Easter. Numerous biahops have been appointed. The King of the Belgians has founded an annual prize (LI 00) for the best work on historical, commercial, or artistic subjects. Twenty thousand forged preference coupons of the Eastern Railway, Hungary, have been seized at Pesth, and the plant destroyed. Important measures for the re-organisation of the army and navy have been introduced into the Danish Parliament. Some brilliant experiments with new Ans trian guns have produced excitement in military circles. They proved superior to Krupp’s, The Archbishop of Cologne has been again fined 30,000 thalers for contumacy. SPAIN. Alfonso’s acceptance of the crown is generally regarded ns satisfactory. General Rivers was the person who communicated with the Queen during the negotiations. The King at once telegraphed to the Pope for his blessing. He afterwards told the ‘ Times’ correspondent that his Ministry would include all shades of opinion. Darregary and other Carlists laid down their arms, an amnesty being granted. The King telegraphed to Cudha, urging pacificatory measures. The Orleans princes congratulated Alfonso. A decree was issued suspending the Jury System, On January 11, Don Carlos issued a defiant proclamation against Don Alphonse. The Carlist leader Lozano was shot at Albracte for assassination and robbery. Great dissensions are reported from Catalonia between the partisans of Don Carlos and of Don Alfonso. General Labello ordered Ilobater, the founder of the first Carlist newspaper, to be shot. Mr M'Leod, a young Englishman, seized by Carlists and detained for ransom, has been released. A battalion of reserves in Madrid, having been ordered to the north, mutinied, but were reduced to submission by a large military force. The German Minister has quitted Madrid on six months’ leave of absence. The census showed that India has not lesa than 300,000,000 people, which is probably more than the population of China. India is likely to be a great mineral-pro-ducing country. Coal, iron, and limestone have been found in Wanda Valley. A discovery of copper in Nerboodda is attracting attention. The progress of the Dutch iu Achcen is very slow. _ There is bad news of the health of the troops in Kraton. .Eight ships, including the Conqueror, the Sir Washington, and the Horatio were destroyed by fire at Shanghai within three weeks.