NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1284, 1 May 1878, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL

[Per Arawata, via Bluff.] London, March 15. The Queen is at Windsor, and will shortly go to Osborne. The Duke of Connaught resumed his military duties at Dublin. The Duke of Edinburgh left Malta for England, where he will shortly receive flag rank. Two steamers have left Malta with a telegraph cable to bo laid down in various parts of the Levant for the British Government.

Notwithstanding the signature of peace, preparations for contingencies still continue. The vessels already in commission and fitting out include the Thunderer, Dreadnought, Succumbent, Northampton, Monarch, Superb, Belle Isle, the two new ironclads purchased from the Turkish Government; the Independence, purchased from Brazil; the Euryalus, Agammemnon, Lord Warden, Triumph, Hercules, Thunderbolt, Northumberland, Princo Albert, Grattan, Cyclops, Hydra, Hecate, Philomel, and Cormorant. The Inflexible is being speedily pushed on, and her eighty-one ton guns are nearly ready. Large quantities of war material are being shipped to the Mediterranean fleet and fortresses. Great precautions are being taken by the fleet in the Dardanelles and Sea of Marmora against attack. Each vessel is protected by hawsers and spars. Steam and torpedo launches are used. Extra sentries posted and the heavy guns are kept constantly loaded, while the electric lights from the maintops of the Alexandra and Temeraire render all objects visible for two miles around. A number of commissions in the ordnance and transport departments are being given to non-commissioned officers of the artillery. Lieut.-General Sir Patrick McDougall, late of the Intelligence Department, Horse Guards, will assume the command in Canada in May, and Major-General Hamley succeeds him. BakerJ Pasha was entertained at a grand banquet at Stafford Houso by the Duke of Cumberland, when a large party of general officers and noblemen, &c, assembled to meet him, including the Duke of Teck, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Field-Marshal Lord Strathnairn, Sir Garnet Wolseley, Midhat Pasha, and many others. The guest of the evening received a perfect ovation, and warmly returned thanks. Startling revelations have been made before the Stock Exchange Commissioners, and very strict measures will bo proposed to abolish certain practices which have been the cause of the heavy losses sustained by private individuals during the last five years. Tho Admiralty Court fixed tho amount ot the Cleopatra's Needle salvage at £25,000. Earl Cadogan has succeeded Mr Lowther as Under-Secretary for the Colonies. Viscount Bury takes his place at the War Office. . ,ii Mr Vincent Howard, bamster-at-law, lias been appointed Director of Criminal Investigations by the Metropolitan police, with control over the detective force. Mr Pease's Bill for tho Abolition of Capital Punishment was defeated on the 13th in the , House of Commons, by 263 to 64. Mr Oeborne Morgan's motion in favour i of intenaentß in churchyards without a

religious service, if desired, was lost by 242 to 227.

An annual grant of £3OOO is proposed for " Hansard," to improve the system of reporting debates, with special reference to late debates, discussions in Committee and on private Bills.

Colonel Henderson Chief of the Metropolitan Police, has been knighted. General Siv Arthur Barton succeeds Sir Van Straubenzie as Governor of Malta.

Tho London Salvage Company have commenced operations for raising the Vanguard. Colonel Arbuthnot, Conservative, was returned for Hereford by 1110 votes against 1066 given to Pulley, the Liberal candidate. Exploring expeditions for Africa are being fitted out both in France and Germany, and both Governments are aiding.

The Indo-European Company have introduced the telephone into Persia, and 300 miles have been spoken over. The intended marriage of the Duke of Genoa with a sister of tho Queen of Spain is announced.

Oliver Pain, who escaped with Eochefort from New Caledonia, is stated to have been captured and shot by the Eussians. The DePris Ministry has been broken up through a domestic Bcandal in connection with Signor Crispo, (who repudiated his first wife on the grounds that the marriage had not been thoroughly legal although she had been presented at Court, and married again. In consequence of the great outcry, he resigned his seat in the Ministry. Signor Carioli, an opponent, was elected President of tho Chamber, and on the resignation of the Ministry was called upon to form a Government, and has succeeded. Scandals have come to light in connection with the management of the French military garrisons. The Shah of Persia starts for Europe on the sth of April. During the last sittings of the Turkish Parliament public affairs were discussed with great freedom, both Christians and Musselmen joining in exposing the faults of administration. On the prorogation, prominent members were expelled to Asia Minor.

Fifty thousand Eussians are to remain in the new principality of Bulgaria for two years, until a national militia is organised. Communication with Eussia will be maintained by sea from Varna and Bourgos. The obstructions at the Sulina mouth of the Danube are being cleared away. All Mussulmen who have quitted Bulgaria can return to occupy their homes.