NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1362, 26 June 1878, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

[Per Aruwata, via Bluff.] London, May 10. The Prince of Wales, in visiting the Colonial Court at the Paris Exhibition, is said to have greatly delighted colonials by holding out a prospect of a not distant visit to the Antipodes. The Queen was at Windsor, in excellent health, It has been finally arranged that the Dulco of Edinburgh shall continue in the Mediterranean. The Duchess returns to Russia, on a visit to her parents. The Bishop Selwyn Memorial Committee have resolved to erect a monument in Lichfield Cathedral, and to found a Selwyn College at Cambridge to include provision for the education of mission students. Liberal subscriptions are flowing in. An impression generally prevails that Ministers will appeal to the country at the close of tho present session, which will be abridged, whether there be peace or war. By a terrible squall, which passed along the Biscayan coast on the 20th ult, eighty boats were destroyed and 320 men and boys perished. By a boiler explosion at a Dublin foundry on April 27th, about twenty lives were lost, and the premises reduced to ruins. The unfortunate Eurydice is still at the bottom of the sea. All attempts to raise her have proved unsuccessful. There is much grumbling at the want of skill displayed. The number of persons dependent on those who perished is estimated at about 390, to relieve whom £20,000 will be required, and nearly that amount has been raised. Advicos from the Cape continue disquieting. Fighting from day to day is reported from one quarter and another, with indecisive results. In each encounter fifty or sixty Kaffirs are killed, and sheep and cattle taken, but the enemy retires into his fortress, and so prolongs the contest. It has required £19,000 a week to afford a moderate amount of relief to those in distress on account of the strike in Lancashire.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer informed the House that the cost of the Indian expedition would be borne by the Imperial Exchequer, and that the troops while in Europe would remain under the provisions of the Indian Mutiny Act. The Czar lately signed a decree calling out 240,000 men of the reserves. 14,000 spades have been sont to Russian head quarters in Roumar.ia ; 20 000 cartridge chests have been ordered in Holland and Cronstadt, and Whitehead torpedoes are being steadily manufactured. One large factory was recently blown up. The military situation, as regards Russia and Turkey, appears to be improving. The attitude or the Russian army in the neighborhood of Constantinople is less menacing, while the lurks have been diligently employed during the part few days in multiplying and strengthening the defences around their capital, so that any attempt on the part of the Russians to seize the city would certainly provoke a stubborn resistance. Intelligence comes from Armenia to the effect that the Russians are moving in considerable force into the districts adjacent to Batoum, with the intention apparently of attacking the place if it should not yield peaceably. The Christian population are hostile to Russian rule. They flee from their homes, and abandon their fields, and have sent formal complaints to the Porte of the cruelties of the invaders.

Baker Pasha's appointment to the command of the divisions occupying part of the defensive lines of the capital, is regarded with satisfaction at Constantinople. The lines are occupied by 90,000 men, and forces are constantly arriving from Asia. The Sultan inspected his troops last week. The Duke of Edinburgh has been transferred from the command of the Sultan to the Black Prince, the crews of the two ships being changed. The Black Prince is at Malta, and remains part of Lord John Hay's squadron. The Duchess returns to Russia, the Duke accompanying hey a portion of the journey. She will, however, spend some timeinCoburg.

A movement is afloat for the creation of a Bishopric of Liverpool fund. The amount reeded for endowment is £BO,OOO. Half is already promised. Sir J. Fergusson has recently been entertained at a banquet by the Greenock Conservatives, who failed to retirn him to Parliament at tbe late election contest.

Colonel Wellesi>y has been appointed first secretary to the English Embassy at Vienna. In anticipation of an election for a new Parliament in autumn, candidates are everywhere working the constituents, and old representatives have signified, their intention of retiring.

The new hall and library of Keblo College, Oxford, wa.3 opened last week with great ceremony. Messrs G-ladstono and Qathorne Hardy were the principal speakers, There is an agitation, amongst the Metropolitan poUoe for an increase of pay. It originated with the sergeants and extended through every grade of the service. Obituaby!—Admiral Sir P. W. G-rey ; Mr G-. S. Crawford, M.P. for County Down j Alderman Carter ; Mr W. Mitchell proprietor of the "Shipping and Mercantde Gazette ;" Viscount Southwell.

The n t iws fvom the Cape is very disquieting. General Thesiger has rendered himself extremely popular with the volunteers,. A writ of habeas for the production of the Rev. Dodwell from Broadmoor Criminal Liiuatio Asylum, with a view to his discharge, was refused by the Judges. A remarkable will case has been proceeding for the last three weeks in the Irish Probate Court., Mrs Bagot, granddaughter of tholate Sir W. Verner, challenges the will of her husband, M. E. A. Bagot, had large estates in the wost of and had amassed an numon;}? fortune in Australia, She cqrstjstq it on the ground of unsoundness of mind, and is under the influerce of a son, born shortly after the marriage, who was repudiated by the husband. Some disgraceful disci »Bures have been made regarding the Verier family.

Cor.tr.icls been mase for, the supply of & minion yards' of cloth for militin uuifoi;me,

It is giiici that in Armenia JDngland is determined to tolerate no changes calculated to compromise }\e>s oommunication with Jnd.it*.