NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1246, 5 March 1878, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

[by telegraph from thk bluff.] UNIVERSITY DEGREES FOR WOMEN. THE PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD. GREAT DISTRESS IN SOUTH WALES. INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH CONFERENCE. THE HOME RULE PROGR iMME. FIRES, COLLISIONS, FRAUDS, AND OTHER EXCITEMENTS. London, January 18. The convocation meeting cf the University of London was held on January 15th. It was decided by 242 to 132 to grant degrees to women. John Freeland, who died lately at Nice, bequeathed £4OOO to the Glasgow Western Infirmary, In the event of H. M. Stanley accepting the invitation of the Royal Geographical Society, the reception will bo held in the Albert Hall. The Pan-Anglican Synod will open at Lambeth on July 2nd, and will lust for weeks. Terrible distress exists in South Wales. Lord Aberdare has taken the initiative in organising relief. The Lord Mayor, in view of the many recent public appeals, declined to inaugurate a special Mansion House fund Many of the younger men in the Principality are stated to propose emigrating to Australia. Chief Inspector Clarke having been reinstated on full pay at once retired on a pension of £lB5. It is understood that the detective commission will recommend the employment of an inferior class and greatly increased pay. General Grant has had a magnificent recep tion at Malta. An international telegraph congress will meet in London on July Ist. The principal task will be to agree upon a uniform international tariff. Lord Shaftesbury, Canon Miller, and a couple of other leading men have retired from the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge on the ground that two of its publications, Bonney’s <r Geology,” and Rev. Brownlow Maitland’s “ Argument from Prophecy,” are heterodox. Temple Bar is totally removed. All the outside stones were previously numbered. The Bethnal Green Vestry has asked that they may be re-erected in Victoria Park. A woman named Martha White has died at Market-Scarborough, who is said to have taken no food for four years. Very riotous proceedings took place at Birkenhead on the night of the 31st ultimo, in consequence of a Protestant band playing anti-Papal airs in the early part of the evening. Two thousand persons assembled, who marched through the streets smashing windows and doing other damage. St. James’s Church was attacked and every pane of glass broken. The police were taken by surprise, and were powerless. Lord Yarmouth, speaking at Stratford onAvon, strongly advocated the introduction of a Bill rendering compulsory the slaughter of all foreign cattle at the port of debarkation. He thought the farmers ought to be protected, as they were beginning to feel American competition in the meat trade. A marriage has been arranged between Earl Roseberry and Miss Hannah Rothschild, daughter of Baron Meyer Rothschild. At a meeting of the Home Rule Conference, held in Dublin this week, it was resolved that the Home Rule party should take counsel together and decide on their line of action as a party respecting the Eastern question. Mr Butt emphatically declared he would engage in no war upon the House of Comirons, and asked if the House imprisoned the members would the Conference come over and lilqnce them. Mr Biggar advocated war with Russia in the interest of Irish farmers. The projected establishment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy in Scotland is attracting attention there, and a meeting has been held in favor of taking legal action to prevent it. It is expected Dr. Eyre of Glasgow, and Dr. Strain of St. Andrew’s, will be created archbishops. A report that Cardinal Manning had been authorised to come to an arrangement with the English Government on the subject has been denied. The four liberated Fenian prisoners arrived at Dublin on the evening of the 13th. The streets were crowded and ten bands with a numerous procession escorted them to the European Hotel. Several Irish M.P.’s took part in the proceedings. Their release was in consequence of the Queen directing the discharge on account of his youth of Lawrence Walsh, the gunner lately sentenced by courtmartial at Aldershot to ten years’ penal servitude for writing letters of a seditious character. Walsh was only seventeen years of age, and Mr Cross pointed out to her Majesty that, if he were released, the other military Feniau prisoners ought also to be discharged. They are on ticket-of-leave. The masons’ strike still continues. About „ 270 Germans and fifty Englishmen are employed at the Law Courts. Many other German masons are at work elsewhere in London. In a few places fights have taken place between the Germans and the unionists. The London Society of Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners have given their employers six months’ notice of their intention to demand an increase of Id per hour. The masters have resolved to obtain a|supply of foreign workmen. Great depression exists in the iron trade. One large company are blowing out their fdrnaces. There have been several railway accidents during the month, but none attended with serious consequences. Through a collision between the steamer Varna, plying between Bristol and Cork, and the Italian barque Pensiro, on the night of the Bth instant, the latter foundered with ten of her crew out of eleven. The Friesland; steamer, from Java to Holland with a valuable cargo worth £200,000, has been lost off Cape Finisterre, with all on board, 144 in number. 1 A large fire broke out on the morning of 12th at Messfs Crocker and Sons’ Manchester warehouse, ‘ Watling street. ’ The premises were being fb-built, and the fire was caused by Overturning a naptha lamp amidst soine shavings. Altogether eighteen warehouses, lying between Watling, Bread, and Friday streets, and Cheapside, were more or less injured. The damage is £200,000. The hydrants were found veryeffective in quenching the fire. Messrs Wood’s cotton mills, Manchester, were burnt on the 10th inst. The loss was £20,000. A block of five warehouses, containing jute, flax, See., was burnt at Wapping on the 31st alt. On the the 4th large cotton mills at Stockport were destroyed by fire, through the falling of a lighted lamp amidst a quantity of fluff. : There has been another large jewel robbery in Surrey, the residence of Earl Cottenham at Sandrige Court, Godstone, having been broken ipto and a ‘ quantity of valuable jewellery carried off ; Much excitement was caused by the making of in affiliation order against the Sacristan of fft, Ifgy’i Sottw WW Ctolrt

A number of priests were examined, and the proceedings extended over several days, A daring attempt, at murder was made on a Mr Hamburger, a diamond merchant, in some chambers at the Holborn viaduct on Tuesday. He had a bag containing £l2 000 worth of diamonds with him, and the wouldbe murderer tried to kill him with a revolver. Mr Hamburger was seriously wounded, but the man, alarmed, made off without the diamonds. Frederick Dimsdalo, for the forging of deeds, by which he obtained £300,000, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life.