THE SUEZ MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 4212, 26 August 1876, Page 3

THE SUEZ MAIL.

London, July 26. The Victorians have taken about twenty minor prizes in the rifle competition at Wimbledon. They depart for America in the middle of August. The Home team won the Kholapore prize, f£f|r* Canadians being the only Colonial team to compete. The English won the Elcho shield with a score of 1,463; Scotland, 1,458; Ireland, 1,383. The Edinburgh Volunteers secured the China Cup. The sculling match between Trickett and Lumiden, for L2OO a-side, takes place on August 21. _, : , The San Francisco mail was delivered on the 18th. Metsrs Harris and Co., of London and Queensland, have failed, liabilities L 300.000. The Stella, s.s., belonging to the New Zealand Government, has had to put into Lisbon owing to the insubordination of the crew.

Lord Derby persists in his refusal to intervene one-sidedly in the Servian difficulty, and instead of the suppression of the rebellion be would have order restored before applying any scheme of reform. Bishop Coplejton, of Colombo, a youthful high churchman, or rather ritualist, has withdrawn their licenses from twelve church missionaries for alleged contumacy in refusing him full power over the missions, lay agents, congregation* and services. Great indignation is felt, as some of the missionaries have been at work forty years in Ceylon. Public meetings to express sympathy and memorialise Lord Carnarvon, and +o appeal to the metropolitan, Bishop Gell, gf Ifaurag, have been held. The Mahometans of Ceylon and Tndia are taking' £*«** interest ill Turkish affairs and war news. Two military scandals have been brought to light during the month, and although no action has been taken for their condemnation, they will not be forgotten. The aris. tocratio officers of the Guards have been so long in the practice of misappropriating the funds entrusted to them that they have c me to look upon peculation as a right, A large lump sum is annually handed over to them by the War Office, ostensibly for recruiting and r ' the maintenance of an hospital; and they are not called upon to account for its appropriation. One-half of the amount

is/ to apeak plainly, embezzled, and the Government know it. Parliament is thus cheated into an increase of the estimate for the Guards, and the officers salve their consciences -with the excuse that they have always looked upon the hospital and recruiting money as a perquisite with which they might do a3 they liked. The other scandal is the appointment of the Duke of Cambridge, by himself, to the colonelcy of the 17th Lancers. He was already colonel of four different regiments, and the meaning of the fifth appointmeut is simply that he puts another thousand or fifteen hundred a year into his own pocket, and, as a matter of course, prevents it from going to someono better deserving it. Three Oxford clergymen in one week went over to Rome ; and a son of Lord Nelson, a mere boy, was secretly baptised while bih father was out of town. This boy, it is asserted, was advised by the priest to deceive his parents lest they should interfere to prevent his salvation. It is thought that Cardinal Manning must denounce or sanction such proceedings. If he keeps silence, people will know what construction to put upon it.

Several coroners have obtained unenviable notoriety of late, but none fell so far short of his duty, as Mr Carter, of Surrey, who, out of mistaken regard for the feelings of survivors, hurried over an inquest on the body of Mr Bravo, who had died from a poisonous dose of tartrate of antimony. The friends of the deceased made a noise over what appeared to be a failure of justice, and the matter was taken up successfully by the detectives of Scotland Yard and the Secretary to the Treasury. The case was then taken into the higher courts, the proceedings before the coroner quashed, and a fresh inquiry ordered. 'I/here is no evidence to show that it was a case of murder, but whether the poison was taken by the deceased by inadvertence, or in a moment of vexation, after having had a qaarrel with his wife a native of Australia—has yet to be found out. On the order being issued for a second inquest, an inquisitive member of Parliament wished to know whether the Mistletoe case might not be similarly re-opened. Of course he was put down.

Vnasked Advice. A Danbury man says he never belonged to a fire company ; that he once attempted to advise the foreman of a company at a fire. " And what did he B*y ?" asked the interested listener. "He didn't say anything" "He didn't like it, did he?*' " i'ni sure I don't know; but aB he knocked n e off the walk with his trumpet and stamped on me in the street, I have always believed that he took some offence at my advice. Still he said nothing to that effect."—' Danbury News.'