THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 4001, 21 December 1875, Page 3

THE SUEZ MAIL.

It was the Inman steamer City of Berlin that made the swiftest passage on record between ISew York and Queenstown, in seven days and fifteen hours. A court-martial will bo held on Prince Leiningen and Captain Welch of the Alberta, as soon as the civil court of inquiry is d aposed of. The Trades Union Congress proposes a scheme for the consolidation of all trade societies having 10,090 members into one gigantic association. The state of the iron and coal trades is extremely gloomy. In S >uth Wales, too, there ure apprehensions of further reductions of wages. New difficultici.|bave arisen among the coal and ironstone miners of Warwickshire, which threaten to prevent the resumption of work. Iron shipbuilding on the Clyde continues in a depressed condition. • The Whitech ipel tragedy entered upon a new phase by the am at and examination of Wainwright’s brother Thomas. He admits having purchased the chopper and spade found nt.ar thfc ljre ve of the murdered woman. He is proved to have frequently visited Humes lane under th“ assumed name of MrFriedke, and the letter Mid telegrams professing to ae count for the woman's disappearance are traced to him. He was therefore charged as accessory to the murder after the fact. Both brothers are committed for trial, and are now iu Newgate, and tho grand Jury have found true bills a. ainst them. Through the efforts of tho Corporation ol Loudon, 2,000 acres of land, which had been illegally enclosed, have been restored to

Spping Pomt, making iti whole extent 3,000 sores. Those who have built mansions will have to pay quit rents. Another great metro politan improvement is projected in the neighborhood of Holborn. Four new streets ure to be opened up at a cost of L 371,500. A Dublin committee has b cn appointed to raise a memorial to the late Sir John Gray. LI,OOO has been already subscribed. Mr Thomas Jessop, steel manufacturer, of Sheffield, has undertaken to defray the entire cost of a woman's hospital, amounting to L 22.000. Melancholy tales of disaster from gales and floods reach us from all quarters. Indian advices report calamitous floods at Ahmedabad, embraced in the Prince of Wales's tour. Had the city was inundated, and 20,000 persons rendered homeless. Great distress prevailed Trieste has been invaded by a flood fide, inundating the streets a foot deep. _ Bourdcaux has been visited by a furious hurricane, by which, trees were toru up, gardens wasted, chimney* blown down, and the telegraphs interrupted. Numerous wrecks are reported from the northern seas, with heavy loss of life. At Home we have a succession of gales, accompanied by sud marine disasters, and relentless descent* of rain, followed by floods almost as alarming as those from which the country suffered in Julv. The losses by inundations in the South of France are officially stated at four millions sterling. The subscriptions received at the Treasury exceed one million. The Mansion House Fund amounted to L2G 457. A Southampton undertaker and his wife are in custody for having on their premises a large number of unburied bodies of children, some quite decomposed. Groat excitement in the town. Professor Fawcett in opening the session the Midland Institute, at Birmiuaham, d livered an address cn education, in which hj took a hopeful view of the course of elementary instruction, asserting that in a few years enforced school attendance will have seemed to every child a knowledge of rending, wri ing, and nritt metic. In addressing his constituents at Dumlalk Mr Sullivan, remarking upon the political situation, observed that Mr Disraeli had a large party, but not a strong one. The day is not distant when the Tories will hold office only on sufferance, while the Whigs will be too weak to take their places. The destinies, not only of Ireland, but of the British Empiic, will then be in the hands of the Home Rule party. The Lnrgau open coursing nice 1 ing commenced on the 11th, and concluded on the loth amidst much enthusiasm. The throe events were the Brownlow <’up, G4 dogs, nil ages ; bangblan Stakes, G4 slut puppies. Mr Hutchinson’s Honeymoon won the Brownlow Cup, being the second time. Mr Hornby’s Hematite again won the Rangblan Stakes, and Mr Dyke’s Don’t Forget carried off the Derry Ma Casu ' takes. At the annual tournament of the Aberdeen Golf Club the cup presented by Prince Leopold was won by Captain Fordyco, of Biucklay,and Mrs Fordyce’s gold cross was won by Mr W, G. Roy, with 157 ► trokes. Lord / ylesford’s horses were sold at Newmarket on the 13th. Julius Cmsar fetched L 3,300 ; Southern Cross colt, LI 300 ; Dukedom, L 1,200 ; and Leveret, LI,IOO. Twentyeight hunters, belonging to Sir ■ homas B Lcnnard, averaged by auction 172 guineas each. Mr Hemraing’s famous kennel of greyhounds, numbering fourteen, have been sold by auction. The highest price was 135 guineas for Peasant Boy. A week later Mr David Jones, of Conway, sold his kennel of twentyfive, when Hamby was bought by Mr M'Quade for 135 guineas, and will be sent to Australia. The Papist fury has provoked Protestant repris ds. The menacing attitude cf the Romish Church is rousing indignant resistance, A crowded public meeting »t Glasgow has passed some strong resolutions. The police force which since June had protected Father O’Keefe’s house having been withdrawn, the premises last week were plundered and totally wrecked by a lawless gong of men, who defied the authorities. The father is reduced to utter destitution. Twenty-eight men are in custody. Mr Gladstone lias written an article in the ‘Church Quarterly Review’ on the Chu’ch and State question in Italy. The council of Queen’s College, Birmingham, have unanimously declined to admit female • students to the institution. The surviving heroes of the Balaclava charge have been handsomely entertained with a ban- i quet and ffte at the Alexandra Palace, the j directors bearing all the expenses. Mr Pennincton recited Tennyson’* “Charge of the iSix Hundred ” in the banqueting-room, and Mrs Stirling subsequently in tne theatre. Crimean relics were on exhibition in the central balk