THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3973, 18 November 1875, Page 2

THE SUEZ MAIL.

The good service pension of Ll5O a year for naval captains, vacant by the death of Commodore Goodenough, has betn conferred on Captain Lethbridge. Sir hienry Barkiy is administering the Government in person on the Cape Diamond neldß The Queen is still at Balmoral. She sent a special communication, through General IPonsonby, to the Isle of Wight yachtsmen requesting the disoo.itinu.mce of the practice of private vessels in the Soleut approaching too near the roy*l yaebt wh-n the is aboard, t his causstd unfavorable com i tut. The Duk of rdmimiyh was banquetted at M* Pttereburg on the occasion of the successtul launch ot a Uussiau ironcl d named ikfter him. >dnce his return Home from Copenhagen,, the Irem.er was in a train during a collision at Leicester, but he was uninjured. Mr Gladstone has been i.peal;ing at Molds ( heshire and Hawden, chiefly on educational t«pics Two hours previous he was hewinir clown trees. Tin; first brick of the new National Open* I Louse on the Thames Embankment wa kid by Mdle. Titiens. _ The total subscriptions «»< nosnital Sunday in London amounted to L2O 703, being L 3 000 i *AXJ aßt year - Kl *l jiti «l Saturday realised -ir Moses Montefiore has returned lTom Palestine. He succeeded in his benevolent mission to the Jews The liessemer .Steamboat Company isi in liquidation, and Hie steam, r is for sale. i he eighty-one ton guu recently completed at Woolwich has been sutce. sfuliy test, d. Hr Kei.ealy atid son, who were proceeded against for defamatory bbeU in t)u> ' Kngliahinan'on Mr beorge PottT. e.s«a[ied on technical grounds. Thewh-at harvest is tuliy fifte-n per cent, below the average Grosvenor ilouse hj s i H un op.nedonSunhiys fo." working t. t eti to. iu«, ci.tion of ita art jalenes. L>es|.dches receive..! b. the 'Daily Telejraph' Horn Mr S.an ?} :u Ccutral Airicaare rot yet pubis; bed. !-aptain A el-b has been mueh f(<te.d, „n i has ■eceived several testL.oniuK M, lCe his f.-at bee has been quite*, lag,- fo, swinaning fom ...ndon Kndge For th s.ke ,f noi..ii«.y, Parkw, ag.d fift. ei . Ilt SWMI , f !o m London .n,igft to JUacuwall, auk*, in an hour nd thirty hve minuteß. The mutilated remains of a fern le. the disovery of which led to the a rest uf a Whitena el tradesman named Wainw.iuht, and a allet dancer named lice .j,iy. have been idenined as ol a woman named Harriet ;.;ne, who jived with viainwngbt :uj Mra »-mg, and cisappeared niysi-enouslv twelve louthH aco leaving two cln dr-n, of whom Vainwriaht was the lather. Day has bton ischarged. W. tr. Grace, at the of the season, lade the 1 scores—ac Gravesend 152. nd at Hastings 210.

The Coim-martial on the officers of th« Vanguard returned a verdict that the collision with the Iron I uke wa« owintr to improper rate of speed during a fog, and the Vanguard altering her speed without orders. The Court adjudged Captain Dawkns to be severely reprimanded and dismissed his ship. The other officers were reprimanded. The decision ia unfavorably commented on. 'enmaiiites were drowned off Plymouth by the overloading <f a paddle boat. Mr ThwahVs (i'«:-servative) has bt-en elected for Blackburn. Mr M'Oul'.agu, member for lippeary, ia bankrupt Theie has heen a g neial advance in the price of meat, owing princ pully to the prevalence of the c ittle disease. A fire at Padeibnm, in Germany, burned ieventeen buildings and rci.dered nine hundred persons homeless. A tall chimney from the ruins of a burnt house near Liverpool tell on to a three-storey factory, in which principally wonv-n were em ployed .Nine wi:, • buried, three killed, and others much mutilated. By an obstruction placed on the Richmond and Drummond railway, Canada, a train was thrown off the line. Ttn persons were killed, and thirteen injured. The obituary includes Sir M. Buckley, a turfite, Si>* <5-. Honeyman, Judge of the Common Pleas ; Colonel Somerset, a Crimean huro; Signor Konconi, the Italian vocalist; General Frossard, formerly guardian to the Prince Imperial; and the B.«v. Thomas Kettle, brother of the author of the Christian year. Mr Chevalier had the honor of submitting to the Prince and Princess of Wales his New Zealand sketches. Mr William Fox, who attended the seventh anniversary of the introduction of Good Templarism into England, Raid the Permissiva Bill introduced in New Zealand unfortunately aid not work in consequence of its opponents'having struck out certain clauses, which contained the machinery for collecting the votes of the people. Sir George Bowcn sailed from Liverpool for imerica on September 25. He leaveH San Francisco on December 8 with Sir Juliu3 Vogel for the Colonies.

Great compl: ints :\re made of the delays in ihe Californian mail service