NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 642, 10 July 1876, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The following items extracted from the Argus' summary supplement the news already published by us : London, May 12. The hearing of the action brought by the owners of the Strathclyde against those of the Franconia, to recover £45,003, was comeluded last week, and the Admiralty Court have given judgment in favour of the Strathclyde. On the Bth May the Merchant Shipping Bill passed through committee, and was reported to the House. On going into oommittee of supply, our shipbuilding policy passed under review, and the appointment of a Royal Commission was moved by Mr Brassey. On the 10th, Mr Norwood's Bill, proposing to deal with the practice of barristers accepting retaining fees in cases in which they failed to appear, was rejected by 107 majority. The nomination of Mr Pierrepont, as French Minister at the Court of St James'o, has been confirmed in the Senate. The British escort with Mr Grosvenor'e party from Pekin, arrived at Bahma on the 21st inst, all well. They encountered no trouble of any kind, either in Chinese or Burmese territory, or in the tract occupied by the hill tribes. The party left for Mandalay on the 25th. Tho anniversary meetings of the religious and benevolent institutions are now in full swing. London is thronged with provincial visitors. The gatherings are large, the tone earnest, and most societies give signs of growing usefulness. The Bible Society report showed receipts £222.320, payments £211,251, with a circulation of 2,682,185 copies of bibles, testaments, or portions of scripture. The iuoome of the Religious Tract Society has risen to nearly £147,000. The Church Missionary Society reports its income at £189,457, and expenditure £191,238. The income of the Propagation Society was £125,294, and that of the London Missiouary Society £118,181?, expenditure £115,152. The Government has refused to allow Mr Rivers Wilson to take office in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance, unless he quits the English civil service. Mr Disraeli, in the House of Commons, replying to Mr Maurice Brooks, said he must decline to recommend an amnesty towards the Fenians. A lively discussion followed. INDIA AND THE EAST, Gali/e, June 2. Australian wines (chiefly Victorian) are beginning to find favour in Ceylon and India. The barque Madeline arrived yesterday at Colombo, fifty-four days out from Melbourne. The Viceroy of India has sent a special messenger to Afghanistan preliminary possibly to the settlement of an envoy at the court of the Ameer. Sir Philip Wodehouse, K.C.B, governor of Bombay, has been created G.C.M.G, in acknowledgement of his reception of tho Prince of Waks. Sir William Muir, Finance Minister, is likely to retire in November. A discussion has taken place on" horsebreeding for India. It is proposed to import for this purpose French horses. Horses can be imported from Trieste at 150 rupees per head, it is estimated. The P. and O. Company has been fined 500 rupees at Bombay for importing firearms intended for China.

The new title of Empress is received with generp" in India, especially by tbe nativt. ~o are proud of being so specially recognised. The 8 8. Dunraven, homeward bound, has been lost near Suez No lives were lost. The Americau officers appointed to visit India and report on the army, &c, write in the highest terms of both the European and native army, which is always ready for action, aud ia commanded by as intelligent and spirited officers as any iu the world. The French steamer Moseuue, a second present to the King of Annarn, is on the way to Saigou. LATE SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. London, May 24. Further details, dated 9l'h May, received by the mail, regarding theSalouica murders, stated that the emeutc began iu consequence of a young Christian girl wishing to become a Mohnmmedan. The originators of the disturbance iled to the adjacent mountains. Three French, one English, and two Italian, besides German and Austrian, war vessels: have been ordered to proceed to the Gulf of Balouica. A Turkish frigate with a new governor has also been sent to Salonica from Constantinople. Samfet Pasha has been appointed Minister of Justice at Constantinople, and Dejeodet Pasha has been appointed Governor of Syria. Viknna, May 27. Tbe insurgents now demand the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina. London, May 27. The steam yacht Pandora, Captain Allen Young, sailed from Portsmouth to day for tbe purpose of communicating with the depot of the Polar ships, the Alert and the Discovery, at the entrance to Smith's Sound. A panic was caused on the Stock Exchange to-day by the intelligence that the foreign fleets were assembling in Eesika Bay, near the entrance to the Dardanelles. The King and Crown Prince of Hanover are gazetted, the former a general, and the latter a colonel of the English army. Lonbon, May 30, The announcement that the Sultan has been dethroned was to-day officially made,

His nephew, the heir-presnmptive, Mourad BfEendi, has been proclaimed Sultan in his stead. Lord Northbrook arrived in London yesterday. London, May 31. The deposition of the Sultan was peaceably effected by his Ministers. Abdul Aziz iB now a prisoner. There are rejoioinga at Pera. The London press considers that the dethronement of the Sultan favours a peaceful solution of the Turkish difficulty. London, June 1. The deposition of the Sultan of Turkey on the 26th ult was brought about in this way. The Minister of State, after vainly soliciting for reforms in order to replenish the war Treasury from the Privy purse, determined on the Sultan's deposition. The palace was thereupon beset by troops, and the heir presumptive, Mourad Effendi, was proclaimed Sultan at the War Office, before all the Ministers, the Sceikul Islam being spokesman. Sulieman Pasha having intimated to Abdul Aziz Khan, that the nation had deposed him, conveyed him, together with his family and household, including fifty-three boats full of women, to the old Seraglio. The beir presumptive, Mourad Effendi, immediately occupied the dolma. The Christian patriarchs have paid homage to him. England, Prance, and Italy have recognised the revolution. The change is considered anti-Russian, but the rumor of the recall of General Ignatieff, the Russian ambassador, is unconfirmed. The Northern powers intended to have presented their memorandum on the 30th ult, but this has now been postponed. Replying to a question of the Marquis of Hartington in the House of Commons this evening, Mr Disraeli said he had just received a telegram from Sir Henry Elliot, in which the only interesting fart was that Constantinople was tranquil, and the Mussulman population was content. He hoped that the presentation of the Berlin memorandum would become needless. The situation, he allowed, waß critical, but he had taken all precautionary measures. He wished decidedly to state that the interests of England were best studied and her honor vindicated by taking a leading part in contributing towards maintaining peace. London, June 2.

The English naval preparations in the Mediterranean have caused a panic on the Stock Exchange. Last Saturday, Consols fell over 1 per cent. The deposition of the Sultan is favourablyreceived. The revolution is considered adverse to Russian designs. Mourad, the new Sultan of Turkey, reduces the civil list, and promises to relinquish the revenues of the Crown property, to improve finance and education, and reorganise a state Council and Ministry of Justice; aud has instructed his Ministry to devise a form of Government most suitable to all subjects of the Empire alike, securing liberty to every one. lie hopeß the bondß of friendship subsisting between the Empire and other Powers will be drawn still closer. Finally, he proclaim? big accession by the grace of God and the will of the nation,