THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 4149, 14 June 1876, Page 2

THE SUEZ MAIL.

LATE TELEGRAMS. Constantinople, April 22. The Porte has ordered the formation of a camp on the frontier of Montenegro, and threatens to occupy that Province unless neutrality is observed.

April 25. The foreign Ministers of all the great powers have advised the Porte to abstain from taking action against Montenegro, and have promised to unite in their efforts to pacify that Province. The Porte has accepted their promises, but in the meantime military preparations continue. Vienna, April 24. An address has been sent from the insurgents to. the great powers expressing their readiness to submit to the Porte if Andraasey’s scheme of reforms is locally executed, with the guarantees which they (the insurgents) demand.. The Porte, in an interview with Sir George Elliott' and General Ignatieff, the British-and Russian ambassadors, declared that Turkey has nd intention to declare war against Montenegro. May 1. The Turks have succeeded in-relieving Niksic, the insurgents being defeated in the engagement. Telegraphic communication with the United States is for the present interrupted in consequence.of the breakage of the AngloAmerican cables.

. St. Pbibrsbubo, April 25. The official gazette, in confirming the news from Constantinople relative towe*advice of the foreign Ministers to the Turkish Governinent, declares that the great powers are l firmly unanimous in adopting a pacifying tone in regard to the Eastern question. •rIiOKDON, April 27. . In the House of Commons this evening Mr Disraeli refused to delay advising Her Majesty to proclaim the title of An adjournment of the House was then moved, and a stormy debate ensued, in which Mr Fawcett took the lead. Party rev criminations were freely indulged in. The Marquis of Hartington declined to assist Mr! Fawcett’s motion, on the ground of the use*' lessness of doing so. The Queen has given Her assent to the Royal Titles Bill.

April 28. The proclamation declaring the Queen to be Empress of India was issued today. After recital the proclamation declares that, so far as may be conveniedt on all occasions and in all instruments wherein the style and titles of Idler Majesty are used, excepting charters, commissVons, letters patent, grants, writs of appointment, acid similar instruments hot operating beyond the United' Kingdom, the following addition to the style and titles pertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom and its dependencies shall henceforth be made in the Latin tongue, “ Indies imperairte,” in English, “Empress-of India.” The proclamation farther states that all coinage shall continue to be lawful without the additional title until the Queen’s pleasure is further declared. .

April 28. Her Majesty has been pleased to confer a. baronetcy on Sir Bartle Frere. : The total amount tendered for the new Indian loan of L 4,000,000 was L 8,600,000. Tenderers at LlO2 8s will receive about 73 per cent, of the above in full.

May 1. The Rev. Dr. -Mylne was consecrated today as Bishop of Bombay, the ceremony being performed at St. Paul’s Cathedral by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

LATE SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

Galle, May 16. (Reuter's Cable Telegrams from Europe.) London, May 15. The Liberal papers, in receiving rare proclamation of the title of Empress, sharply criticise the absence of words limiting the title to India only, as promised by Mr Disraeli. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in replying to Sir Henry James, said that the proclamation covered all the pledges mane by Government; and Mr Israeli, in answering Sir Charles Dilke, said that the employment of the Imperial title was necessary for the commissions of officers, .of the amxy on account of the employment of troops in India, otherwise the proclamation completely covered all exceptions enumerated in Sir Vernon Harcourt's: question of the. 3rd of April, a The Lord Chancellor refuted. Lord Selbpme’s charge that the proclamation in any way violated the solemn pledges made to localise the title.

In the House of Commons, on the 3rd of May, Mr Disraeli, in the name of the Queen, denied the assertion of Mr Lowe that two former Prime Ministers were eVer requested to propose a new title for the Queen, and Mr Lowe next evening apologised for and retracted the statement.

A discussion took place iu the House of Commons on the 11th May, on the motion of Sir H. James, that the proclamation was inadequate, andwonld not prevent the use of the title in Her Majesty’s'dominions other than India. After an animated debate, in which Sir Vernon Harcourt and the Marquis of Harrington supported and Mr Disraeli and Mr Gathorne Hardy opposed Sir H. James’s motion, the vote of censure against the Government was rejected by 334 against 226. .

The One Thousand Guineas was won by Caraelia; AUumette second, and Seine third.

Prince Bismarck's scheme for transferring the German railways to the Empire has been voted by the Reichstag. Tbe Porte has reinforced tho garrison at Salonica, and promised the French and German embassies full reparation. The House of Commons adopted, by 224 against 167, a resolution by Mr Smith for stopping the Sunday liquor sale in Ireland. The Government opposed the motion.

(Reuter's Cable Message, via Oalle.) London, May 9. The mails have been delivered, the Queensland on April 24, Pan Francisco on the Ist, and Brindisi on the 6th.

Mr Daintree has been gazetted a Companion of the Order of St. Michael ar.d St. George.

April 21. Something like alarm was produced when it was discovered that nearly all the members of the Royal PaAily were absent from England. The Queen was in Germany, the Prince of Wales in Egypt, the Duke of Edinburgh in Russia, the Duke of Connaught at Gibraltar, Prince Leopold at .Nice, and there was only young Pnnce Albert Victor in England to represent the Royal line. Among the recently-imported strikes are those of 1,000 dock laborers at Liverpool; 2,000 men and boys at Britannia Ironworks, Middlesborough; 2,000 colliers at the Clay Cross Pits, in resistance to a reduction of 15 per cent. Extensive strikes are expected throughout Warwickshire. The operative house-painters of Bath, have been out, but their . employers have made concessions.. Three thousand stone-cutters and mason*

at Nantes struck last week. A fresh dispute has occurred in the (Hdhnrvjcottou trade, owing to a dsuui ior which the employer*' cannot" gwmt. rln Sheffield trade is so depressednthat rainy leading firms contemplate a reduction of wages. In the county of Durhanwtighteen collieries are unworked, and It),OOOmenbave been idle for months.! By .the ehfl 'of the present week 15,000 coiners will he On strike in South Yorkshire and Northßerbtshire against the threatened.redUotion: of 16 percent. > > v 7 ./ Incited by \Veston’s pedestrian .triumphs, Joseph Spencer Walk lid I 'miles in twenty-four hours in -tho Agricultural Hall, but was compelled to give in after accomplishing about seventy-four miles in 21h. 15min.

On the Ist of April a great billiard match was played at the i <3n»nd"Bbt«4,' , P»rißi* between M. Vignaux, of Toulouse, and Wm. Sexton, of New York.. . Vignaux gained a silver cup at the International match in America, and held it on condition jth&t Jhe accepted the challengeof all-comers for eighteen months. Sexton came over to dispute < the prize, accompanied; by, many. Americans. Six hundred spectators. present. The game lasted three hours ; a half, and Vignaux won. . Great Britain will not "bo represented in the forthcoming American Rifle Match for , the championship of the world, owing to the sectional action of Scotland and Ireland. I In the chess match between, Oxford end Cambridge, at the Freemasons’ Tavern,the. dark bine, scored sey§p games against won by Cambridge.’ , . , 1 : . ; On the 10th Spencer commenced the feet ♦f walking 3,000 miles in sixty days. 1 1 .1 1 Three more deaths have occurred from the Bolton milk epidemic,-bringing the number of victims hp to eighteen. Thelatest deaths* that of the owner of the' dairy from which the mischief proceeded. - !

COLONIAL ITEMS.

: A ease of some interest to oololnial seamen has been heard at Liverpool, Captain Taylor, of the Zetland, being charged with an bffCnce - Binder the Merchant Shipping Act, injiKnd-r xng over .the vessel to an uncertificated aon. Mr Hicks, to whom the Command waa t handed over, held‘a Canadian certificateOf - service, which did not allow him to navigatea foreign-going vessel from an English poitr The Court reprimanded the captain, and said they" hoped the inquiry would be a 1 warning to colonial shipmasters, and prevent; any repetition of such-offences, as any future bases of the kind would be severely dealt with. • A divorce case, Goodsir v. Good sir, up ti lieard on the 7th April, and was undefended. The parties were married at York in 1864, and in 1868 the husband, after ill-treating and abusing his wife, went to New whence he has not returned. Before leaving Bngland he had committed adultery and - frequented brothels. A decree nisi was granted. . ’ A coroner’s inquest was held the other day on the- body of Thomas Adison Whitfiingbam, who shot his wife at Leamington, and then committed suicide. Bis wife was. hotkilled, but is still in adangerous condition.' He was married twice, and lived unhappily , with his second wife, to whom he-often be--haved like a madman. He Seems goneout to Austria, where he lost his first wife during the gold’ fever,' and made bis fortune there. On his way homehe received-, a violent blow on the head, which is stood to have caused temporary fits of nei rangement.'

t A singular circumstance has come to light in connection with the wreck of the Strat- ■ more, which is not without a certain value as affecting the truth of the doctrine advocated by the Spiritualists. It appears that at a time when the vessel had been long missing, and when the public mind was much •- agitated upon the subject, a clairvoyAnt wrote to Mr Bruce, the owner, stating ttinf. ■ the vessel had been wrecked, and that a portion of the passengers and. crew had been.saved, and were "then upon an uninhabited; island. This matter has since been inyestiV gated by the Psychological Society, whose president wrote, to Mr Bruce inquiring the truth of the report. That gentleman replied that the fact was as started, and that, the information had been communicated in writing by post, so that there was no ques-; tion as to its being made before the loss wo if known.

AN ATROCIOUS MDEDEE.

For some time past Blackburn and neighborhood has been in an .intense state of. exciteinent ih consequence of the murder, under revolting.circumstances, of named Emily Holland/" ’ Policemen and others scouted the country, and tramp after -tramp was arrested on suspicion. _ As it was suspected, however, that the right man had not been secured, bloodhounds were obtained to assist in the search, and then followed the realisation %C : the adage ‘‘ that murder, though it hath nJrtongue, will speak >vith most miraculous organ.” It appears that suspicion has always attached to a barber, • named fish, who keeps, a lock-up shop, and resides at 162 Moss street with his wife and -two children. The discovery of the skull was made in a most extraordinary manner. Chiefs. t constable Potts arranged with a mah named Preston to,bring oyertwo of his dogs, one half* bloodhound and spaniel, and'me other. V Clumber spaniel. Folics-deteotives Bolden ' and Livesey were sent out with the dogs and their owner to the place where the trunk of the body was' found at Bastwell, to see if any scent of the remaining portions <bf tho body could be found. The dogs did not appear to scent anything. They were taken ' to Eoyshaw Wood, dose to -where.a matt' had been seen to go backwards and forward! to Lower Cunliffe, Eisbton, where the legs of the child wdre found, but without any ro* - suit. They returned to Blackburn, and lH Potts then decided to have the dogs taken to , Fish’s shop and the house of a baroer named Denis Whitehead, Who also had been nu| pected. The detectives entered the pre* mises of the two barbers simultaneously, Police - detective Holden remaining at' Fish’s 'shop while the other establishment was examined. From the move-: meets of the dog tho police had ho reason suppose that anything was concealed there/, and Superintendent Eastwood, Detective Livesey, Tailor, and the dogs proceeded to Fish’s premises, in which there are two rooms below and two kbove. The bloodhounds ran round the rooms doitih stairs and jumped upon the slop-stone in the back kitchen. Then the officers and dogs went up- ■ stairs, and the bloodhound at once scented up the chimney of the front room, and tbe . owner of the dog put his hand up the chimney and pulled down from the recenl of the draught hole the skull and some other portions of a child wrapped in a paper covered with blood. From a medical examination made by Dr Patohett it was evident that tbe head had recently been burnt. Two teeth were left remaining., in tho lower jaw. It was with difficulty that Fish could be taken to the loch-up. He was iu danger of'being lynched, and% the police had not been prompt in gpttinl/ him away violence would. have been resorted to. The prisoner appears penitent for' the crime he has committed, and oveTpbweriib| ' remorse has set in. ‘ Ms sleep is fSitiesa.; He turns from side to side, add dozes a'little towards, morning. Two policemen constantly ‘i keep guard over him; ffii wifehas had a iutemew wtfh Hm, which]kstod;l^jij : : 'IMVI .« . ■ i',; v ■

hour. She took her eldest child, one year and eleven months-old, in her arms ; when . the prisoner saw them he burst into tears, weeping bitterly. His first emotion overcome, he took hold of the child and kissed it. Then he got up and shook hands with his wife. Jsoth burst into tears, and she frankly fofjpfte him. She told him to prepare for another world, and there was nothing else before him. She said, “Don’t think anything abont us, we shall be provided for, you will see ” She repeated this several times, but he never spoke a word in reply. He was still in tears when his wife left him. While Fish was in the service of Mr C. Bramwell he was always reserved, and sometimes would not speak a word for a week. At that time he attended St. Paul’s Sunday School, and afterwards St. John’s. When he got married, five years ago, he joined the religious sect of his wife, who is’a Primitive Methodist. She is described as a decent, industrious woman, and when able she works at the mill as a weaver, When Fish’s shoo was first searched by the police she declared - to a neighbor that she did not suspect her husband, and that if she knew he had committed the .terrible outrage she Would inform against him. The barber said little to those he shaved, and never visited the pnblichonse across the street. He often went, however, into a slaughter-house kept by Mr Bradley, in Moss-street, and saw the cattle slaughtered and the carcases cut up. No doubt he utilised the lesson learnt here in the dismemberment of Emily Holland's body. Before the murder he professed to be a teetotaller, but after he was suspected bis wife would frequently go to the shop for him at night and fetch him a glass of port wine from the Foster’s Arms. It was matter of surprise to the neighbors that Fish should carry on his business in a lock np shop when the houge was sufficient to accommodate his wife and family. When the funeral of Emily Holland took place he was seen in the front kitchen with the door wide open smoking . his pipe. The houses on the opposite side of Barley street command a good view of the shop, and the hack premises of Birley street ana Fisher street have a good view of his back premises, and .there is a large yard common to balf-a dozen bouses. The neighbors express surprise that they heard no screams on the day of the murder. The prisoner’s confession is substantially to the following effect That Oh the day when the tragedy Was enacted he spat Emily Holland for half an ounce of tobacco. When she returned he asked her to come in this house*. He got hold of her and carried her upstairs, and in the front room committed the outrage upon her. He took a razor and coolly cut her throat. To prevent the blood from covering the floor he wrapped her clothes around her.*- Next he battered her brains oufeand cut np the body, patting the head and anus on the fire which he _ bad recently kimlled in that room, and wrapped the trunk and legs in newspapers, concealing the parcels till it would be convenient for him to remove them. It is stated that after this he went downstairs and shaved sbme of his customers with the ra?or which had been used to cut the girl’s throat. The horrible work having been finished, he locked the door of ms shop and went to the Amphitheatre of the Varieties, to stifle, perchance, for a moment the stings of conscience. Great felt for the bereaved parents of EmSy Holland. The mother is in a desponding state, and was’ only confined about seven weeks age. Thefather is a little better now that the murderer has been found out.