NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 923, 9 June 1877, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Every creditor of the Western Bank of Scotland, the liquidation of which commenced 19 years ago, has been paid in full with interest. The liabilities amounted to £6,134,000. Each shareholder also has been paid £72 on. every £125 share paid up. A motion brought forward by Sir Robert Anstruther to pay to the heirs of the late Earl of Dundonald the arrears of half-pay due to him from the time of his trial until his restoration to the navy, was carried without a division, after a speech against it from Sir Stafford Northcote.

A man who claims the ground on which Cleopatra's needle, recently presented to the United Kingdom by the Khedive lies, has fenced it round, and demands several thousand pounds compensation before he allows it to bo removed.

A correspondence has been published between Mr James Ashbury, M.P., and Mr Gladstone, relative to a statement made by the former regarding the large profit alleged to have been made by the sale of the late Premier's pamphlet on "Bulgarian Horrors." Mr Gladstone states that he lias been an author for forty years, but all his gains during that period have not come near £IO,OOO. A serious military disturbance took place at Southsea on Easter Monday, between men of the first battalion of the 60th Rifles and Marine Artillerymen, consequent upon one of the former kissing—while playing in the game of kiss-in-the-ring —a girl with whom one of the latter corps was "keeping company." The fight was pretty general, waistbelts being freely used. The police were powerless, and strong pickets of the 60th Rifles and the 21st Fusiliers had to be brought on the ground to restore order.

A military riot took place at Limerick on the Btli instant between the civilians and about eighty men of the 90th Regiment; the latter had to make tracks, and were confined to the barracks. The disturbance arose in consequence of some proceedings calcxdated to offend the Roman Catholic population, in the robbery of a chalice from a church.

A photographic publisher named Alfred J. G-ratridge has been charged at Birmingham with selling indecent books, &c, and has been committed for trial. Among letters found in his possession were communications from pupil teachers, boys at schools, curates, and bank managers, applying for copies of his work. One letter, from a Yorkshire bank manager, asking for 30s worth of obscene publications to be sent to him, reqiiested that they might be sent to a place "to be called for," so that his wife might not see them. Tyrannical acts are still reported from Turkey. The pupils of the military school at Constantinople having signed a petition for the recall of Midhat Pasha, they were siimmoned together, and the writer of the petition ordered to receive 200 lashes. lie died after receiving 100. The London city authorities contemplate the establishment of a national industrial University of scientific and technical education, under the auspices of the Livery Companies of London. The building will be erected on the Thames embankment, between Blackfriars and the Temple. At the annual meeting for the election of churchwardens at Hatcham, the two late office bearers, were not re-elected, Mr Tooth's churchwarden, it appeared, had not been qualified for several years past, not being resident in the parish, and a Protestant was chosen by 180 to 20 against the Ritualist candidate, as the people's churchwarden ; care was taken that none but parishioners should enter the vestry. Mr Tooth purposes resigning the vicarage, and his brother, Mr Robert Tooth, will nominate the curate, the Rev. W. 11. Browne. Considerable excitement has prevailed at many of the vestry elections, and generally the Ritualists have been defeated.

An alarming railway accident occurred at Matlock on Grood Friday. Some 15,000 excursionists were visiting the place; as the last special train was coming into the station to take the excursionists home a rush was made to secure scats, twenty persons were thrown on the line, and the carriages passed over them. Several were seriously injured, but none fatally. An explosion, which has caused nearly as much discussion as that of the powder barges in the Regent's Canal, occurred at the wellknown place of amusement, the Welsh Harp. , at Hendon. On Easier Monday evening, a diver in the employ of the Trinity House had been engaged to lire a torpedo in the lake, which covers an area of 350 acres, but instead of doing so discharged it on land whilst the assemblage were viewing some fireworks. His statement is that he did it to give them a start. The shock was very great, and was felt as far as Eltham, in Kent, seventeen or eighteen miles off. Many of the people were thrown to the ground. All the panes of glass at the hotel and many buildings near were smashed, lights were extinguished in houses in the neighborhood for miles around, and a huge chasm in the ground where the torpedo exploded, r ,Boft. in circumference, and five or six feet deep, was made. All over London in the north it was thought an earthquake had taken place. The torpedo was only two feet in length and five inches in circumference. It contained a charge of 121 b of the best cotton powder. Respecting the recent fire at St. Louis, we find the following telegram in the Times of April 13th : —" Later reports show that the loss of life caused by the fire at the Southern Hotel is five less thanat first reported, though the number is not vet accurately known. Twelve bodies have been recovered, and the search among the ruins is being continued. Among the dead are the Rev. A. R. Adams, Berkshire, England, and Mr William Felix Minister, England. Mr Minister, who escaped from the building, had become separated from his wife, who was reported to have been burnt, and died of excitement. His wife was afterwards found to be saved." [A report that Mr Minister had committed suicide on hearing of the supposed death of his wife lias been contradicted.]