INDIA AND THE EAST.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 449, 22 November 1875, Page 3

INDIA AND THE EAST.

Ceylon, October 22. All India and Ceylon is full of official and unofficial bustle, in preparation for the Prince of Wales’ reception. Committees are at work in all the chiif towns, and even in the rural municipalities subscriptions have been liberally furnished in addition to the revenue votes, and the wealthier natives are busy preparing some characteristic display, or have intimated their readiness to endow institutions bearing the Prince’s name. The agent of the Crystal Palace pyrotechnics has contracted for a ten thousand rupee display of fireworks in Madras and Mudpra, 12,000 in Calcutta, and probably 15,000 in Bombay. Illuminations, balls, reviews, as well as field and jungle sports are all being arranged for. The Piiuce will be in Ceylon from Saturday to Thursday, December 17th, He will lay the foundation of the breakwater at Colombo, and attend a public ball with illuminations and fireworks, and open the Agricultural and Horticultural Exhibition and new museum ; attend a grand native perabara of chiefs and elephants i” Candy, inspect parties of Weddahs and other jungle tribes, and hunt wild elephants, bears, and deer in the Triucoraalee jungle, H.M.S. Undaunted, Rear-Admiral Macdonald, called at Colombo on the llth, en route to Bombay, to assume the command of the flying and East India squadron which is to accompany the Prince. Sir R. P. Morgan, Acting Chief Justice of Ceylon, after a trip to the Straits and China, has returned not improved in health, and he is likely to retire, Mr Charley, M.P. for Salford, is spoken of as the coming ChiefJustice. Interesting reports on the Buddhist temple libraries and ancient rock inscriptions have appeared. The Madras breakwater is to cost £640,000. Lord Napier of Magdala, retires from the command of the Indian army in April. The Turkish Embassy of China is likely to he unfavorably received. The wreck of the P. and O. s.s, Sunda was attacked by pirates. Attempts were made to float her, LATEST TELEGRAMS. Constantinople, Oct 9, The decree issued by the Porte respecting the public debt takes effect immediately, and not from the Ist of January. The decree was that the public creditor is to be paid half cash and half bonds. The guaranteeing powers have recommended Servia to adopt a pacific policy, and to withdraw her troops from the frontier, otherwise they will allow Turkey to occupy Servia. London, October 13. An Admiralty minute, which has been published, disagrees with the opinion expressed by the court martial on the late collision, that the loss of the Vanguard was attributable to the high rate of speed of the squadron, but considers the accident was muinly due to the reduction of speed of the Vanguard and the Iron Duke simply steering out of line. Lieutenant Evans is dismissed his ship, and Captain Hickley, of the Iron Duke, exonerated. The other findings are approved. October 14. The London press disapprove of the late Admiralty minute regarding the collision of the Iron Duke and the Vanguard, because it exonerates Vice-Admiral Tarleton and Capt, Hickley from blame. Milan, October 18. The Emperor of Germany arrived here today, and received a splendid welcome from King Victor Emmanuel. London, October 19. The King and Queen of Denmark are coming to England, to remain until the beginning of December, and then return with the Princess of Wales and her children to spend Christmas at Copenhagen. The reported Russian preparations for an expedition against Bokhara, for assisting the Khokanders, is denied at St. Petersburg.