THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3810, 11 May 1875, Page 3

THE SUEZ MAIL.

The Queen expressed great* affliction at the death of Sir Arthur Helps, her true and de-voted-friend. Mr Charles Lennox Peel suoceeda to the Clerkship of the Privy Council. The Prince Imperial is likely to attach himself to the Fifth Royal Irish Lancers to, undergo a course of practical military instruction. Bishop Jenner. the rejected of Dunedin, is to come to Colombo, exchanging his parish at Home with .Bishop Jermyn. He promises, however, to be moderate, but this arrangement is likely to hasten disestablishment. Epidemic cholera at Colombo carried off hundreds of natives.

A Buddhist priest has been convicted at Candy of murder, and sentenced to death. Mr Pope Hennessy has been appointed Qovernor of the Windward Islands,

-Sir John Karslake is quite blind in spite of the recent operation. The Queen has granted a pension of L2OO a year to Mr Wood, who is in failing health, in recognition of his valuable labors and discoveries at Ephesus. Mr Gladstone has replied to his critics in another pamphlet entitled “ Vaticanism,” I The Union University in America has offered an honorary Chancellorship to Mr Gladstone, which he declined from inability to cross the Atlantic to deliver an address. •

Parliamentary legislation has a decided retrograde tendency, many enactments, of the past sessions being stealthily undermined; and the Liberal policy reversed. The Regimental Exchanges Bill, for example, is regarded as a covert step towards the restoration of army purchase. There wasfereat indignation amongst the Liberals, mingled with contempt for the weakness of the Government. It is said that mockery, and impotence mark all their measures.

The eclipse of the sun was generally well observed throughout India. A war with Bunn ah is imminent. Colonel Bromes and party, intending to travel through China from Burmah, had scarcely started when driven back by the Chinese Governor of Minnen. Colonel Bromes was treacherously murdered. Colonel Brown repulsed five hundred Chinese with his small party of Sikhs. The travelling expedition was given up, and the latest, news snows that the Bang of Burmah was prompted by the Chinese to this breach of faith and murder, and if so war will be declared. Additional troops have been sent to Burmah.

Sir R. Meade succeeds Sir L. Pelty at Baroda.

The Prince of Wales will have a right royal reception in India. An attempt was made to poison the Maharajah of Cochin. The Viceroy had a grand reception at Delhi from the chiefs of the Punjaub. There was a procession of fifteen elephants, including the viceroy’s, coveted with a gold crown etc. The Viceroy made o speech to the Maharajahs and Rajahs, referring to Burmah, Baroda, and the Pnnce of Wales’s visit. -

Stroud has returned Marling, a Liberal against Lord Bury, a Conservative. At Nor- *** a Liberal, defeated the Conservative candidate; at St. Ives, Praed, the Conservative was returned. ’

Dr Kenealy made his parliamentary debut on the 4th. of April on a Question of privilege. Hs complained of the Hon. Evelyn Ashley’s speech, charging him with subordination and perjury m patting Luie into the witness box. The House Was crowded, and Kenealy was extinguished by laughter. He wound up with a declaration that he shook off all calumnies as “ the lion shakes dewdrops from his inane.” Mr John Bright greatly exasperated the Home- Rulers by the terms in which he characterised the agitation in hia letter to the Rev. Mr 0 Malley. Their objects, he says, are eminently childish and absurd. The break up of the Home Rule Association is anticipated aa .the result of Mitchell’s Tipperary candidature. , The, Channel steamer Bessemer nr>de a successful trip in a gale from Hull to Gravesend.

i The Admiralty Arctic Committee has fixed Smith’s Sound as the route for ihe new expeditiqtia. Lbrd Carnarvon refuses compensation for the liberation of slaves on the Gold Coast, on the . ground that but for British interference the slaveholders would either now be dead, orthemselves in The football trstch on Kensington Oval, Epg•nd v. Scotland, resulted in a draw. There are shocking accounts of the famine in Aaia_ Minor, In one district, hjrentv thousand perished. ft '* Three Liverpool ships, we. missing, and hfcve ; iear “ °i lor. months. / i , , Bishop Colenso’s advdcabacy bfLangalibalele unpopular in Natal; •aw 8 Weed, Who gave all her money to the »ra**’'P* a 8 *^ en pronounced! insane. f i * i tJ?* 8 Polished a verbatim report of 'iSW. ®bayror 8 cross-examinations, and oonSwfV • have rendered it impos*Stty[ “ y tnbUDal fo the Guik owar dead in Public f affairs in disto,entertainiseripTi«_tVmngVitfi 0 |

abdication. His strong-minded sister, the Countess of fjiogenti, has gone to him, but bis Ministiy- is divided. . The report of the attempted assassinationof the King is unfounded, hut with his attendant, the King was nearly suffocated to death by sleeping in a flueless room.

An International Exhibition, in which prominence will be given to matters connected with marine and river industries, will bo held in Paris from July to November next.