NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 941, 30 June 1877, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

ADDITIONAL WAR AND G-ENEEAL

NEWS. [by tedeoeaph. FROM the correspondent of the press.] Dunedin, June 29.

Among the Bangalore’s passengers for New Zealand are Captain Russell, M.H.R. for Napier, Mrs Russell and family. The Rev. Dr. Somerville, who is on a mission from the Free Presbytery, Glasgow, was a passenger for Melbourne. The Irish Sunday Closing Bill Committee decided, by nine to seven votes, to recommend the application of the Bill to the whole of Ireland.

The will case of Raev Rivers, in which very serious imputations were made against the defendant, formerly a squatter in New South Wales, by the plaintiff, his sister, has been amicably settled. The rumor of the contemplated visit of the Prince of Wales to the colonics is again revived. If he goes out it will not be in the Serapis. He will take the Princess and one of his sons with him.

On June 22nd Muktah Pasha’s army was reinforced by twenty-four battalions. Major-General Sir Arnold Komball is one of the commissioners at the Turkish headquarters on the Danube. Colonel W. O. Lennox, attachd at |Constantinople, is also there. Colonel H. T. Sibborne, R E., is at Talitz. Lieut.-Col. Hon. T. A. Wellesley is with the Russian head-quarters. General Tchernaicff has been reinstated in the Russian army. As the Russian army advances proclamations arc issued both to the Christian and Mussulman population of Turkey ordering them to remain quiet, and attempt nothing against each other, and they will be unmolested.

The Pesth (Hungary) official journal says the Czar by his isolated action has seceded from the alliance of the three Emperors. However, [the Russian troops will not enter Scrvia, she being excluded from the plan ol operations. The Russians have eight batteries bombarding the forts at Kars. The Turkish loss at Delibaba was 1000 killed and 450 prisoners. Russian official

despatches state that their loss in the first capture of Ardahan -was 235. They captured sixty guns. The Circassians, on capturing Sukhum Kaleh, massacred the garrison and burned the town to the ground. In the now French Ministry Due de Broglie is President and Minister of Justice ; Fourtu, Minister of the Interior; Caillaine, Minister of Finance ; Comte de Paris, Minister of Public Works; Meaux, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce ; Brunet, Minister of Public Instruction and Worship ; Due Decazes, Foreign Minister ; General Ccrthant, War Minister. Berlin semi-official Journals have assumed a hostile tone towards the French Ministry. The Bill for dealing with clerical abuses had passed through its various stages by sufficient majorities, and had been amended in the Italian Senate, but was thrown out at the last reading. On the news being carried to the Pope lie exclaimed “Thank God.” There is a Parliamentary dead-lock in Denmark. King Christian wants an increased vote for the army, which the Legislature will not give.