NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 965, 30 July 1877, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

London, June 8,

The Queen is at Balmoral in good health. In the House of Commons, Mr Bourke, in answer to a question, said that no proposals had been made by Russia for the localisation of the war that when questions of peace can be discussed it was one that would concern Europe, and the European colonies would consider that they had a right to share in the deliberations respecting the future. Mr Howard Vincent, correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph,” after being cordially received at the Russian head-quarters by the Grand Duke Nicholas, was peremptorily ordered away by instructions from St. Petersburg. Colonel Brackenbury represents “ The Times ” at the Russian head-quarters. Archibald Forbes and McGahan are also there. Three hundred English officers have offered their services to Turkey. Dervish Pasha has been appointed Governor of Kars. Turkish papers in Constantinople, commenting on the peace rumours, are opposed to peace. The Grand Vizier Edham Pasha and Safvet Pasha are in favor of making terms with Russia after the first decisive action. The German and Austrian ambassadors are united in endeavoring to influence Turkey in favor of peace. Four thousand Turkish cavalry were utterly routed at Kule on the Ist May by a Russian moveable column of cavalry, infantry, and artillery. They were attacked at midnight on on three sides. Several mountain guns, ammunition waggons and standards, besides prisoners, were taken. Temple Bey, nephew of the Bishop of Exeter and physician to the Sultan, has been summarily ordered either to go to Batoum or to quit the Sultan’s service, for informing him that many of the shells fired by his troops on the Danube contained no powder. The military correspondent of the “ Daily Telegraph” states that the Russian forces destined for the Danube consist of nine corps with a total strength of 310,000 men and 1970 guns besides some battalions of engineers, ten regiments of Cossacks, a brigade of rifles, and two or three companies of marines. There is also the Roumanian army of some 30,000 effectives. The Turkish army in Europe amounts to 412 battalions, 75 squadrons, and 590 field guns, a few batteries of mitrailleuses, 200,000 infantry, and 12,000 horse of irregulars. There appears to be no doubt of the numerical inferiority of the Turks. At Ardahan the Russians were repused five times, but on the fifth occasion they began to attack 40,000 men there. The commandant of Ardahan, a young man, lost courage and made his escape. The Hereditary Prince of Bokhara has arrived at Constantinople for the purpose of submitting a plan of attack on Russia and enlisting Mussulmans. Italian papers announce the arrival at Rome of five cases of presents from Queen Victoria to the Pope. In the cricket match, North v South, W. G. Grace, in the first innings of the South, scored 252 runs, not out. At the first yearling sale at Middle Park forty-five lots realised 12,285 guineas, an average of 273 guineas each. The highest price was for a bay colt by Rosicrucian, 1500 guineas. The heat in London was most intense early in June.

Sir Henry Pelly, M.P. for Hurlington, received a sunstroke while riding in Hyde Park, and died from its effects. A serious robbery of securities, principally English bonds, was committed in the express train from Paris, between Calais and Boulogne. Scrip to the value of a hundred thousand pounds was stolen from the van under seal. W. H. Hodgson, one of the solicitors to the Treasury, was “ stuck up” on the 28th May on Blackheath, when returning in a closed carriage from Greenwich with his daughter and a niece. The robbers, who were masked, presented pistols at the driver’s head, and compelled Hodgson to give up all the money he had about him. A similar outrage occurred in Yorkshire on the following day. In neither ease was there any clue to the offenders. Several thousand men are employed throwing up defences round Constantinople. A resolution in favor of disestablishment has been carried by 460 to 78 votes at the meeting of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland. A large and influential meeting of clergymen, on the 21st May, unanimously resolved to disregard the decision of the judicial committee in the Ridsdale case. In celebration of Ids jubilee, the Pope received 5000 pilgrims on the 2nd of June, The brigand chief Leone has been killed in an encounter with gonsd’armes in Sicily. Sir Julius and Lady Yogol were amongst those present at Lord Carnarvon’s on the anniversary of the Queen’s birthday. Obituary—Grand Duke of Hesse, Miss Mary Carpenter, Mr Justice Hellish, Ernest Picard (French Senator), Rev. G. Puks, cxpresident of the Wesleyan Conference. German papers state that a league is being formed in Russia for the rejection of all English products until England shall abandon her sympathy for Turkey. William Dufton, the well-known billiard player, has committed suicide by taking poison.