NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1229, 11 February 1878, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

[By Telegraph, via Bluff.] [per press agency.] London, December 21. Speaking at Edinburgh on the 20th, the Secretary for War thought that great danger to peace arose from largo reserves numbering many millions of men collected on the Continent. Earl Beaconsfield has contradicted the report that tho Pope has written an autograph letter to the Q.ueen, thanking her for freedom of action in connection with tho establishment of a Papal hierachy in Scotland. Five vessels, it is stated, have sailed for Australia and New Zealand ports during the last two months with quantities of gunpowder varying from 10 to 100 tons aboard. The City of Berlin, which brought the Australian mails, via San Francisco, was thirty-three days crossing tho Atlantic, having broken her propeller. She was met and taken in tow by the City of New York. Twenty guineas premium was paid on her. The masons strike continues, both masters and men declining to give way. Several fight have occurred between English and foreign workmen.

Eight thousand Northumberland miners were locked out on ,tho 18tb, refusing 12i per cent, reduction. The iron trade at Sheffield is in a very depressed state. A large number of men have received fornightly wages. Chief Inspector Clarke, acquitted at the late detective trial, has been restored to full pay and reinstated, but will forthwith retire on a pension. The new fortifications of Germany are being rapidly completed. The Commercial treaty between England and Austria is to be prolonged. The Milan municipality lias granted an eligible site for an Inicrnational Exhibition, to be held in 1879.

Captain Malcolm, R.M., is organising the Red Sea Ante-Slavery Police. Queen Isabella and the wife of Don Carlos have exchanged visits in Paris, and there is a prospect of the forty years Oarlist feud being ended. The news of the fall of Plevna was received with the greatest rejoicing in Russia, Rouxnania, ami Sorvia. The Russian losses, as officially stated, were ten officers and 182 men killed, and forty-five officers and 1207 men wounded. The Turks lost •ICJO idled and wounded, and there were captured ten Pashas, 128 staff officers, 2000 officers, 30,000 infantry, 1200 cavalry, and seventy-seven field guns. The siege of Plevna, from first to last, has cost the Russians 70,000 men. The Emperor conferred orders of the highest class on the Grand Duke Nicholas, Prince Charles of Roumania, and General Todlobeo. Many other officers have been nersons, mostly students and labourers, was held at held at Pesth on Sunday, Violent sneeches were made, 1 Lizza declined to receive more than ten or U> preset Uie repofytiW

agreed to. The mob broke into his dwelling, driving back the guards on duty. The windows were smashed, and cries were raised of “Down with Andrassy,” “Down withLizza.” Order was only restored by calling out the troops. The “ Treindenblatt,” the following day, stated that such manifestations would have no effect on the Austrian policy, and added if wo were to cry “ Halt ” to Russia, wo should simply plunge ourselves into war with Russia, and increase the hostility of Germany and Italy. The Greek Cabinet, at a meeting on the 16th, decided upon pursuing a peace policy. A popular demonstration in favor of war was put down by the police. The King has written a letter to Vienna, saying war would ho fraught with great disadvantage to Q-reece, and he would not resort to it except from pressing necessity. One hundred and four cannon were found bried at Plevna. In an engagement on the Lom, on the 13th the Czarewitch was so much exposed to the Turkish fire that a ball grazed his head. The flight of the Ex-khan of Khokand from Orenberg is expected to cause serious difficulty to the Russians in Central Asia.