BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 281, 31 October 1867, Page 3

BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

The heat/initondott* and over the greater part of the country has been intense. 'At m|a£ places the thermometer has stood at l^n-tj^gun, and at 95 in tt^-(shadej<w^il(^t|tef variation between *h«r: extremes.f fias f *been from 35 to 37" jflegree3. These changes have affected the public.'health, though the average is good and indeed high; Eight or nitUS cases of sunstroke, most of them fatafcpecurred in Essex during ■ the past fei^plya, owing to the great I heat of the weather, the persons affected being those generally engaged in field labor. ••-'•••';. The Lords cff the Admiralty have invited the principal^ shipbuilding firms in the United Kingdom to send in tenders for the constructibti of an armour-plated iron ship of about 2300 tons. This vessel is to be supplied with twin screws, and her bottom is to be sheathed with wood, which is to be coppered. A most disastrous fire occurred on August! in Glasgow, upon the premises of Messrs John M'Farlane and Co., calenderers, in Mitchell street. Several adjoining buildings were destroyed ; and the total 'damage is estimated at [ lioo,ooo. -. : I [t is reported from Paris that the I Turkish Government is in treaty with I certain French and English capitalists for B the sale of a vast quantity of timber in its ■ forests: The purchase money i 3 said to ■ be L 14,000,000. B M. Krupp has made a present to the HKing of Prussia of his monster cannon, at the Paris Exhibition ; and his Hfcjajeaty has ordered it to be placed in one the fors of the port of Kiel. Count Bismarck has met with an acciAs he was returning to Berlin on August 10, at one of the on the line, the door of the carin which he was sitting was acciclosed upon several of his The hand (whether it be the or left is not stated) is temporarily ■ * Tycoon of Japan has purchased late Confederate ram Stonewall for The Miantoriomoh, lately the United States ironclad in comrnisis now laid up in ordinary, a gentleman residing in New celebrated his " Golden Wedding," daughter's "Silver Wedding,"' at the same time, the wedding of daughter. Such a triple is remar table. Austrian journals have been for past insisting on the necessity the number of religious One. of them states that during of June last the population of in tlie Tyrol, had 15 days' from work. to Now Biwrince Auguste de Broglie died at his HP wlence in Normandy a few days ago. melancholy accident has just taken at Ostend. A. gentleman named a baker of Berlin, while bathing a female companion to float lost his footing and disappeared the water. The lady remained on the surface, and was down* by a lady and gentleman, to her assistance, but were swept away. Those three however, rescued by boatclung with such desperaof a man named Hooghe, to his aid, that he dragged the water and both Home Jow'nal annou nces startling magnitude as viz., the con- ' under the Atlantic, : with the Old World. ( says that the most ; in America and in . consulted, that they , perfectly feasible, ' 1 course, a good deal ■ \d that the necessary 1 SHpoming." By their ! will complete ■ committed , *fter. Ip the Rue St. life j a^| about fifty p'm " 'Beiifa tfound he wias 1 J^j -;%pired -shortly is exist* I disappoint- * 8 iad hi <**& fatality a bee * tkrjk, he had ! i ~~* \ an end to j : " Q believed, ft date say

| tion of South Germany has been maturely examined by the two sovereigns,, who agreed in disapproving, the entry of the Southern States into the North German Confederation. The affairs of the Danubian Principalities were also considered. The necessity for j peace was recognised. The .Emperor Francis Joseph on presenting. Prince Metterhich, Austrian Minister at 'the court of the Tuileries, with the order of the Golden Fleece, eulogised in pre sence of the whole court-the services he had rendered the State by re-establish-ing a good understanding with France. The Emperor Napoleon expressed aloud to the Emperor Francis Joseph his thanks for this declaration. This incident created a great sensation among thoso present. Formal steps are said to have been [ taken by the Austrian Government for commencing negotiations with Rome respecting a revision of . the Concordat. The Minister of Finance has repaid in bank notes the whole of the 608 mil- j lions of florins advanced to the government by the National Bank. The Emperor and the Imperial family | of Austria have expressed to the Prus- \ sian Government, through the Austrian j Minister for Foreign Affairs, their thanks j for the devotion and great energy displayed by Baron Magnus, the Prussian Minister at Mexico, in his efforts to save the Emperor Maximilian.