NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1008, 18 September 1877, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

[By Telegbaph.] Bluff, September 17. The Suez mail brings news to the 3rd August. The Queen was then at Osborne, and in good health. Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, had an attack of typhoid fever, but was recovering. Mr Alfred Watkins, a Liberal, has been elected for Great Grimsby. The boat New Bedford, 10ft. long, and one ton and a half register, arrived in England after a passage of forty-nine days across the Atlantic. The only occupants were the owner and his wife. The boat had to lay to several times during heavy gales. The Holy Cross Society is still the subject of much public comment; the practice of confession, inculcated by the society, receiving general condemnation. The law officers of the Crown have declared that Admiral D'Horsay was quite justified in his action against the Peruvian ironclad. The Government and people of Peru are highly incensed against England, and demand satisfaction. The suicide of a Blue Coat School boy, aged twelve years, has led to much discussion and the appointment of a commission into the management of the school, it being alleged that the younger boys were subjected to great tyranny at the hands of the older ones. At the Mansion House dinner, Sir G. Wolsley, alluding to the war in the East, said that the British army was never in a more efficient condition than it was now. At a meeting of the Home Rule members, Mr Butt stated thit, should the p esent aimless obstruction be persisted in, he should probably withdraw from the leadership of the party. The Lancashire colliers' strike has ended 3 after lasting six weeks. William Gale, the well-known pedestrian, has completed at Cardiff the extraordinary feat of walking four thousand quarter miles in as many periods of ten minutes. A pigeon match for £IOOO, at Hurlingham, between Captain Forrester Leighton and Captain Aubrey Patton, each receiving fifty birds, resulted in a tie, each bringing down 39 birds. Samuel Warren, author of " Ten Thousand a Year," is dead. Prince Reass, German Ambassador atStamboul, is spoken of as the probable ruler of Bulgaria. Enormous defalcations continue to be discovered in the Russian Commissariat Department. The Emperor has ordered the most rigorous proceedings against the culprits. Great difficulties are felt in provisioning the invading army, and the cattle plague seriously effects the price of meat. Outside the army and the Slavo-phil party the feeling is against the war. The Russians have thrown a bridge over the Danube at Pyrgos. Sir Arnold Kebball has telegraphed that it is true that a portion of the garrison of Bayazid in the town surrendered and; were massacred by the Kurds. The remainder, in the fort, held out until relieved by a Russian corps. Parliamentary papers have also been published, showing that frightful atrocities are being committed by both sides. The Eussians had obtained a list of the persons implicated in the Bulgarian atrocities last year, and shot all that they caught. The Mussulman population flee before the Russians in consequence of the Bulgarians being armed by thousands, and committing all sortß of outrages. Frederick Arthur Stanley has been appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in place of W. H. Smith, who has been appointed First Lord o£ the Admiralty. The Mansion House Famine Relief Fund is rapidly increasing. The Queen and the Prince of Wales subscribed £500; Messrs Rothschild and Baring Brothers £IOOO each.