SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1384, 23 July 1878, Page 3

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

[Per Arawata, via Bluff.] London, Juno 7. The German Emperor consents to the wedding between the Duke of Connaught and Princess Louise being celebrated in England. Ministers will shortly ask Parliament for a marriage portion of £IO,OOO a year, in addition to the £ISOO which the Duke already draws from tho State, The Duchess of Edinburgh will spend some months at Coburg, and will not visit St. Petersburg}! at present. The University College, London, and tho University College Hospital, gain between them £500,000 by the bequest of Sir Francis Goldsmid, who was treasurer to this institution. Cleopatra’s needle has been moved from Westminster to Adelphi Pier, and preparations have been made for landing and erecting it on the embankment. Doctor Hooker retires from the presidency of the Royal Society, and will probably be succeeded by Mr W. Spottiswoode. Sir C. Reed has accepted the invitation of the Prince of Wales to act as juror for Groat Britain on tho education section of the Paris Exhibition. An influential deputation has had an interview with the Home Secretary to present a petition, signed by many thousands of persons, praying that all public houses may, by legislation, be closed on Sunday. The Home Secretary, while sympathising with tho object, said he could not introduce such a Bill. Admiral Hornby is to bo created K. 0.8. Earl Dufferin has accepted the presidency of the Royal Geographical Society. The Princess of Wales was present at a grand concert given at St. James’s Hall for the benefit of Signor Mario. The whole of tho artistes gave their services gratuitously, and Sims* Reeves, who was too unwell to be present, sent £IOO. The hall was crowded, and about £ISOO was realised.

Tho Treasury is prosecuting a London chemist for having sold extensively violet powder in which arsenic is the principal ingredient, and by the use of which the lives of several children were sacrificed.

The interment of Earl Russell took place last Thursday in the family mausoleum attached to tho parish church at Cherns, Buckinghamshire. The Government offered the honor of a public funeral at Westminster, but the Earl’s testamentary instructions did not allow of this arrangement. Jas. Duff Henderson, of Canada, has started to walk a distance equal to the earth’s circumference. He proposes to cover forty miles each secular day for two years, travelling in Africa, Great Britain, and on the Continent, He is to receive 10,000 dollars if successful. The visit of tho Parsec cricketers to England has been postponed till next year. On Juno 3rd the directors of the Eastern Extension Australia and China Telegraph Company invited a largo company of gentlemen, including many Australian colonists to inspect (lie now repairing ship, the Shcrard Osborne, which is about to start for Singapore to replace the Edinburgh. Great admiration was expressed by all at tho excellence of the arrangements on board, and the interest was further enhanced by an examination of the extensive works of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company. The inspection was followed by a dinner at the Ship Hotel, Greenwich, at which 150 gentlemen sat down. Amongst those present wore Sir Garnet Wolseley, the Agents-General for the Australian Colonies, Sir Spence Robinson, and Bishop Perry, Mr Pender presiding. In proposing the toast of “The Colonies” the chairman referred to the completion of the arrangement for duplicating the cable and eulogised colonial enterprise. Sir A. Michie and Mr Foreler responded. The British Consul, while journeying in Crete, was shot at by the Turks, but escaped unhurt.

Four hundred Mormons have lately left Liverpool for America, Gold has been discovered in Patagonia. A railway for the Sandwich Islands is being prepared by an English contractor. The Indian Government has resolved to limit the strength of the feudatory army to tho number actually required for internal protection.

Tho Shah of Persia has commenced his European tour. After a week’s stay at St. Petersburg, he left on May 28th for Warsaw, whence he proposed to journey to Berlin, Vienna, and Paris. He will subsequently visit England incognito, and inspect the great industrial establishments.

M. Sardou, the celebrated dramatist, has been formally received as a member of the French Academy, Alex. Dumas is president.

At Barcelona there has been an extensive strike against the tax imposed by the town council. There has also been considerable Republican agitation in the province, requiring military interference. On the 23rd May the Pope gave audience to 500 German pilgrims. On the 26th May-, in the Vatican gardens, ten portraits were taken of His Holiness by London photographers. The physicians are anxious about his health.

A reduction of expenditure to the extent of £250,000 is proposed by the committee of inquiry, to be chiefly obtained by military retrenchment.