NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1983, 2 July 1880, Page 4

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

[Rbotbe’s Special Sfmhaey.] FPcr s.s. Albion, at Hokit'ka.] LONDON", May 21. The Queen’s speech at the opening of Parliament, indicates no material difference of Ministerial policy from that adopted by the late Government. Conservative papers maintain that a reaction has already commenced, pointing firstly to the defeat of Sir Yernon Harcourt at Oxford, and, secondly, to the result of the Sandwich election, where Mr Crompton Roberts, a Conservative, carried the seat vacated by Mr Knatohbull Hugenson, recently raised to the Peerage, defeating Sir Julius Goldsmith, a Liberal, by a largo majority ; thirdly, the defeat of Mr McLaren, the newly appointed Lord Advocate for Scotland, by a Conservative candidate at Wigton boroughs, where the former was seeking re-election after accepting cilice. Earl Granville has addressed two circnlar despatches to the Great Powers. The first on May 4th, proposed that simultaneous identical notes should be sent from the six Great Powers to the Porte, requiring it forthwith to fulfil its obligations under the conditions of the Berlin treaty, with regard more especially to Greece, Montenegro, and Armenia. The second dispatch suggests with regard to the International Greek Frontier Commission, that identical notes should be despatched to the Porte, which shall contain a proposal for a conference of representatives of the mediating powers at Berlin. The Prince of Wales yesterday laid the foundation-stone of Truro Cathedral. One atone was laid wilh Masonic rites, and another with religious ceremonies. A terrible explosion took place at Birchall Hall ironworks, Halsall, on May 15th. Twenty-three persons were killed, and many injured, some fatally. The whole of the undergraduates of the University College at Oxford have been rusticated in consequence of a practical joke, the door of the rooms of the senior proctor having been screwed up. Subsequently, the principal culprit having confessed, the master of the college issued a notice permitting the undergraduates to return. Cardinal Newman delivered a lecture at the Oratory, Brompton, on —“The conversion of England to the Catholic Faith.” A gold salver from Catholics in Australia was afterwards presented to the Cardinal. The Chinese ambassador in England is going to St. Petersburgh on a special mission, to arrange the Kuldji difficulty. Accounts received from St. Petersburgh, however, indicate, strong expectations of a rupture. General Todleben is being consulted by the Government respecting the creation of fortifications at Yla.livostock and the Amoor district. A quantity of war material has been shipped there ; one vessel of the volunteer fleet is leaving Cronstadt for Yladivostock with a quantity of torpedoes, and several other vessels are fitting out for the Pacific. It is even thought probable that the Tekko Turcoman expedition will be postponed. The Union Steamship Company’s steamship American, bound for the Cape, broke her shaft and foundered on April 23rd near the equator. The passengers, numbering fifty-eight, and all the crew, were safely embarked in eight boats, three of which, containing fifty-four souls, were picked up by the steamer Conga and landed at Madeira. Two other boats were rescued by the steamer Senegal, which, however, herself was wrecked on a rook off the Canaries. In the subsequent confusion, Mr Paterson, of a South African plantation, was drowned, but the rest were saved. Three other boats are still missing. At the Tichborne demonstration in Hyde Park on Whit Monday, a resolution was passed protesting against the continued incarceration of the claimant, and delay in reference to the writ of error. BOMBAY, Jane 4. The Marquis of Ripon, the new Viceroy, arrived hero on the 31st ult., and left for Simla yesterday evening. Great satisfaction was generally expressed at the appointment of the famous Gordon Pasha (Chinese Gordon), who arrived here with the Viceroy but to-day AH India has been stirred by the public announcement of Colonel Gordon’s resignation of his appointment. Happily no difference has occurred between the Colonel and the Viceroy, leading to this most unexpected step. In a letter which Colonel Gordon has sent to the papers he says it was a mistaken judgment which induced him to accept an appointment where his own individuality of character would be lost, and' in undertaking to perform duties of routine and ceremonial to which hia rugged nature was thoroughly antagonistic. The result of the political mission sent to Sirdar Abdul Rahman, who is in Afghan Turkietan, offering him the Ameership of Cahul,'is awaited with some anxiety, for his decision will either smooth our way in retiring from the country, or indefinitely prolong our stay there. ,