THE SUEZ MAIL

Evening Star, Issue 3742, 19 February 1875, Page 3

THE SUEZ MAIL

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. On the 15th a destructive fire broke out in the business centre of Boston, TJ.S, ; the loss is estimated at 1,000,000 dollars. A great fire at Lille destroyed one of the oldest and most important printing offices in France, belonging to Messrs Daniel. Many rare books were consumed. The loss is about LGO,OOO, and only very partially insured, A cotton mill near Oldham, containing 24,000 spindles, was a total wreck, involving a loss of 1.25,000. A spinningmill in Dundee was partially destroyed, causing L 12.000 damage, and depriving 300 persons of employment. Collins’s largo carriage manufactory at Oxford was dost eyed by fire; the loss is valued at L 30,000. Littleton House, near Staines, the residence of the late Gene ul Wood, has been consumed, and several valuable pictures destroyed. The Grand Theatre of Kazzedu, Russia, was completely burned down, but no lives were lost. INDIA AND THE EAST, Dr Goldsmith, a young hut eminent German orientalist, has been appointed by Earl Carnarvon to take copies of and devise means to preserve all ancient records and other arc!.•ecological remains, sculpture, &c., in Ceylon. An announcement in the ‘ Indian Gazette ’ states that the supposed Nana Sahib has been identified as a Benares fakeer, and will shortly be set at liberty. An uneasy feeling is arising with reference to the Mahratta Princes and people. Bciudiah and Holkar, for the first time in history, have recently had a friendly meeting on an c-qu.d footing in larges midway in their boundary, near Nerbuddah, after which Hcindiah visited Bothars in state. This visit is to be return..-.1 Tins circumstance, and a recent attempt t<. poison Colonel Phayre at Bavoda, and atiempt to conciliate theßiitish by arresting Nana, arc taken as indications of some plot. ’ The Baroda poisoning case is still under investigation. The Guicowar and his courtiers are said to he implicated. Mrs Phayre’s ayah confesses to have been bribed. Affghauistan affairs are stfil unsettled, The Ameer justifies the arrest of his son Yokho-n Khan in a letter to the British Government ■ n the ground of rebellious conduct, Yakhoot A kept in the same house as the Ameer. A risW of his supporters is anticipated. The Khan' of Khetat threatens to give trouble to the Bi'ith 1, Reinforcements have been sent to Baroda a., a precaution ary measure. MISCELLANEOUS. Mr Auld, the agent for Otago, whilst arranging for the placing of a cjuantity of salmon ova for Otago on hoard the Timaru, sailing for Pun Chalmers on the last day of the year, fell clown tht hold of the ship, sustaining a fracture of the sight arm and other serious injuries. It is rumored that Dr Tufueli, the Bishop of Brisbane, Queensland, who is now in London, has resigned, or is about to resign, his see. The death of Vice-Admiral Hon. Joseph Denman will be received with much regret in the Australian Colonies, where, as Captain Denman, he was so long in command on lie various surveying expeditions in the Southern Seas. The Rev. Dr Lang leaves by this mail for Sydney, vid Brindisi. Through the death of his brother in London, the late Mr Andrew Lang, of Morpeth, the Doctor has acquired a very considerable acquisition of wealth. His work, just published by the eminent publisher-*, Sampson Low, Marston and Go., beirw the fourth edition of the “ History of Now South Wales continued down to the Present Date,” is exciting considerable attention in England, ihe Secretory of State for the Colonies, in a letter to Dr Lang, has promised to give the publication bis careful perusal

A congregation, which filled the building to overflowing, assembled at St. James’s Chapel on December 13, in expectation of hearing a sermon from the Dishop of Natal, in fulfilment of public announcements. Great anxiety was shown to obtain admission, and so great was the crush that access became a matter of difficulty towards eleven o’clock. At that hour the minister, the Dev. Stopford Brooks, one of the Queen’s chaplains, came forward to the communion rails, and stated briefly that the Bishop of London had pmMbiW.l Dr. Golemo f:\ru preaching there. The announcement was made in the quietest possible manner, but its effect upon the congrcg Aimi wn.« astonishing, for the statement was .scarcely concluded when loud hisses hurst forth ou every sulc, and expressions of displeasure wore fr ely uttered. Such a demonstration has probaCly never before been known in a church of the Establishment, and, althoug it was necessarily of short duration, it was so pronounced and remarkable that it will not quickly be forgotten, The Archbishop of Canterbury has intimated to Bishop Golenso that he consircrs his ecclesiastical status as a bishop of the Church to be as valid as that of any other member of the Episcopal Bench.