SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1332, 5 November 1872, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

[EUROPEAN MAIL, SEPT. 6.] h Tho report of an expedition by the 1 Viceroy of Egypt against Abyssinia is t denied. The Egyptian troops, it is stated, 3 •are only stationed on the frontier to pre- 1 vent incursions oE Abyssinian chiefs, who s have seized more than 600 Egyptians and ( carriefrthem into slavery. 7 . ; . \ The death is announced at Chicago of Mr Tollefson, a Norwegian, "probably the tallest man on record of the present J day." He was 7ft pin in height, and ' weighed 3751 b. He refused all offers '' from speculating showmen, proposing ] that he should exhibit himself. He was ' " in the saloon business." ' The Chancellor of the Exchequer was presented with the freedom of the burgh of Wick on August 23. In acknowledging the compliment the right hon. gentleman made a speech of some length, and, referring to the Scottish Education Act, he expressed hia conviction that the measure was one of the best for the country which had ever been passed. Preparations are making in the Dial Square of the Woolwich Arsenal for a casting which is said to be the largest ever attempted, being intended for the anvil-block of the 30-ton Nasrayth hammer, which is to be erected in the new workshop of the Royal Gun Factories. It will weigh more than 100 tons, and will be a smooth loam casting ; the large slabs of metal to form the bed of the anvil having been cast in sand. •Much excitement was occasioned in Fraserburgh on August 20, by the arrival of the herring fleet, with a capture higher and more valuable than has ever before been landed at that station. Of tho 600 boats which entered the harbor, only a few were unsuccessful. The total will be. 12,000 or 13,000 crans, representing tht> enormous number of 10,000,000 of herrings, the value of whiph way be roundly stated at L 15.000 or L-16,000. It is said that the Pope has informed the generals of several religious orders that in case of their being suppressed they may establish their communities at the. Vatican. It appears that the Jesuits came to an understanding with the representatives of the Government entrusted with' tlie carrying out of the expropriation j of their convent, and" that without any protest on their part it was effected with perfect order. A distinguished engineer, who is connected with pome of thp most honorable families in Italy, has just been arrested at Florence, charged with, attempting murder on a wholesale scale. It appears he was involved in financial troubles, and, -with, a yiew to extricate himself by means q£ the property of hjs friends, which he expected to inherit, the wretched man tried to poison, by morphine, no fewer than eighteen individuals, among whom were his father, brother, wife, and his own children.

The following is a Jist pf th.c cardinals who' are likely to be named in the next Consistory : Mgr. Chigi,'Nnncio in France; Mgr. Falcinelli, Nuncio at Madrid ; Mgr. de Merode, Archbishop of Melitene; Mgr. Pacca, , Major-Domo of the Pope ; Mgr. Antioi-Mattei, Latin Patriarch at Constantinople! Mgr. !E(alleriai^ the same at Alexandria : Mgr. Quibert, Archbishop of Paris, The Pope wil} simply nominate these prelates, without conferring the hat ; but that will give them the right to enter the conclave. The want of laborers to secure the harvest is being felt to an inconvenient extent by many of the. farmers in TSlent and the south-western counties. Appli? cation hag apcorpjingly been made to the military authorities at 1 Chatham to allow the troops to be employed in assisting" to secure the harvest,: which request has been acceded to. Anuinber of infantry troops and Royal Marines have left Chatham for the purpose of being employed in reaping operations. The troops, will receive the ordinary harvest pay given to laborers. : A handsome monument has been erected in the yard of the church' of St. Mary Tower, Ipswich, to the memory of the late Bishop of Melanesia. The work is in the Perpendicular style, and consists of a ma.ss.ive pedestal, the; angles of which are wrought in panels with enrichments. Between these are steps, and on the top is a slender shaft, surmounted by a! crucifix, with two kneeling figures at the foot of the cross. There is a crocketted canopy over the head of the cross. The monument is about 20 feet high, and faces the east. Cardinal Antonelli has had a violent discussion with the Pope. The Cardinal declared that he could not continue to hold office if his Holiness persevered inhis hostile policy towards the Italian Government. ]■- He, moreover, declared that unless the Papacy came 'to terms with the Italian Government, the Church must suffer oven more severely than she has already suffered, and that the policy of Pius IX. made his position equivocal becauso he could not defend what he always disapproved. Cardinal Antonelli has, it is said, requested the clerical journals to abstain from publishing the Pope's speech. The match between the English Eleven and the Eleven of Montreal .was played on August 22 and 23. The English Eleven scored in their first innings 255^ and the Canadians 48. In their second innings the Club made 67 runs, the English winning by 140 runs in one innings. The match, between tho English Eleven and Twenty-two of the Toronto Club commenced on the Ist September. At the clos^e of the play the English Eleven had' made 243 runs lor eight wickets down, Mr Grace scoring 142. There were about one thousand spectators present. The other evening, when the Squadron was in Portland Roads, the nine o'clock gun was fired from the royal yacht. Victoria and Albert. The Lords of the Admiralty, who were in the Enchantress, immediately sent a note to Prince Leiriingen, captain of the royal yacht', demanding why he had fired in the presence of the Admiralty flag. The Prince of Leiningen replied that he did so because he had two royal princes— Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur— on board. The Admiralty rejoined that their flag was supreme. A controversy was kept up, the Prince of Wales taking part in it. It is stated that an enquiry is to take place into the matter.

. Mr Stewart Treuch died on the 19th August at Carrickmacross, the seat of .Jjo'rd Bath, of whose estates he was agent. Mr Trench was best known 1 the public as the author of "Realities of Irish Life," and of a book called "lerne."

The deceased was one of the largest land < ageats in the kingdom, and in his works ; will be found curious reminiscences of his varied experience in that capacity. During his earlier years he acted as agent [to the Kerry estate of the Marquis of Lansdowne, and it was by, and under him, that the transhipment of some thou- . sands of the noble marquis's tenants from Queenstown to the quays of New York was effected. " ; Throughout a large area of Scotland, v^ but especially in Fifeßhire, there have*been heavy falls of rain. . In Fife the rainfall was of an extraordinary character, and from almost every district there are reports of extensive damage having been, caused by floods and otherwise. In tho centre and south of the country in par-, ticular fields have been submerged,, bridges carried away, dwelling-houses-: inundated, and" mills and. ■ other public- , works, slopped by the overflowing, of. the :.. rivers, and trains, were delayed by the lines being flooded and embankments carried away. Much damage has been i done to growing crops, and it is expected' : that a great impetus will be given to the, progress of potato blight, which is making ■ way in the country. So lives are.reported to be lost. Anew Arctic expedition is now being, prepared to the North Pole to discover;, the long-sought passage - from the North .':■ Pole to the Atlantic Ocean/ M. Octave; , ... Pavy, nephew of the former Bishop of Algiers, and secretary, companion, and .- v . 1 friend of the well-known traveller Lam'r<:; : 1 bert, is to command the expedition; During the last three months M. Pavy 1 has been at San Francisco preparing for I- his task, and will start from that port. ; : M. Pavy proposes to abandon the route/ .'. ' hitherto followed by navigators to the ' east of the American Continent, in order . 1 to try by the west, which has never been , 5 - attempted. The great difficulty; will be *'■ to free the ice which blocks the approach; • but he hopes to find the gulf stream, T which, having crossed Behring's Straits, , ought tp njee't-f arther on the ice strea.ijjii I from the north., The expedition - wUt j take provisions for two years, and it is j intended to bury a portion of their stores ; : 3. in case of being compelled to retrace its j steps. .',...,. ;■.., ,- The Tichborne " Claimant" made his 1 appearance at the Oxford Music Hall on. i August 21, after his lengthened tour j through the provinces. The reserved i seats, stalls, balcony, and area were well filled, the prices of admission being 3s, ■ 2s, and Is respectively. The great ma's jjprity of those present had no need pf •'• 1 lirgument to render them believers in y li Sir Roger," as from the' first theiy s opinions found enthusiastic expression. , Mr Guildford Onslow, M.P., MrTTballey, s M.P., and Captain Hunt, Royal Ar? c tiljery, took part in the proceedings. Qn. q v the fky follqwing another mgetiijg r «,wa§ held, when "Mr Anderson, '* the a Wizard of the I^orth," attended, and s stated the- incident of the horaersteaUng charge at Castlemaine, positively asserting s that the Qlaimant was Ele^astro, and noit' ■ t Arthur Qrtoh, both of whom he was in ■; company with on the termination of the \ trial. He stated, as a further proof of ; the Claimant's identity, that, requiring a • whip for use in some portion of his per-/ . kt f ormance, De Castro, to whom he was i-Q« ■ c tFPdiiged as. the son pf a b,aronei, made/ p him a present pf the one h.e had in his,' c possession at the time, the said whip ; being now procurable, ' r P. r. Featherstone (who ha 3 just returiigd from France) has made arrange^ . <- mentsfpr sending otit to New Zealand a t srjiall number of selected emigrants, from, t the wine-produciag countriea of the i- Rhine, in the hope of encouraging the 1 "; c cultivation qf th.c vine «t Wanganui, and t in other disteicts of the colony; which ar© 0 said to be admirably adapted ta the' s growth of the grape. The experiment is •r well worth a trial, The worthy dootor • t has not spared himself in regard 'to fta- - nishinsf .New Zealand with fresh blood, s for within the next seven or eight days he jt will have sent off more emigrants than have ever been despatched before within 1 the same period. The Agues Muir -will , take about 120, the Christian M'Ausland f 350, the Pleides 130, the Chili 220, the c Jessie Headman 300, and another vesseL^ s not yet selected, will leave ab.out Set^T? l tember §Q with 80Q. The/bulk oi'thft / . above, consists of navvies engaged for " p the construction of the railway. The i rest consist of agricultural laborers,, s with a small number of mechanics. If. 1 you consider that every one of these have 3 to be examined separately on the score of 1 health, antecedents, and general aptitude for colonial life, you will see-that the ■■-■--. b business of an Agent-General's agency is. 1 rather heavy. ' '

Great prgpar^tipfli ai<e now being I made, by the General Council and various branches of the International Assoi ciation for the approaching annual Congress of the International Working Men's Association, which is announced to be held at the Hague. In consequence of the fall of the Commune and the hostile attitude assumed by the various European Governments towards the International, the Congress was not held last year, but a conference .of delegates from different > parts of Europe and America was held in London, when it was decided that the appoiutment of the time and place of the Congress of 1872 should be left to the General Council. Since that time serious charges have been niade against the General Council by some expeUed French, members of the Association, who have formed a small Republican Club in opposition. The time of meeting has, thole- - fore, been appointed for an early, day in September ; and it is : stated that great changes will be made in the organisation of the Association, and that it will become more secret and more revolutionary-: . on the Continent than hitherto. Dele,- ? gates are expected to attend from Amo, rica, Australia, India., Ireland, England, and all parts of the Continent. In Ireland a most active system of propaganda . is to be adopted. Mr Barry Sullivan has been playing a round of his favorite characters at Margate. Here, too, is Spiers and Pond's Hall by the Sea— an establishment which is devoted to the Muses. It is fitted .and; adorned in that liberal sty^e for which the proprietors have a world- wide reputation. Tha art busts and medallions which adorn the Colosseum at Borne are reproduced, and are ranged on either side of the Hall, giving it an elegant and pleasing appearance, enriched as it is by a brilliaut flood of light, which sheds its, lustre from no end of chandeliers, The arrangements are under the management of Mr Hingston, who, yoii will remember* first visited Australia with Mr Anderson. He is an admirable caterer, and no one knows better how to suit the public

taste. The best possible vocal talent is secured, and the band, under Mr Thaddeus Wells— who, with Mr Powell, a very pleasing tenor, may one day pay you a visit — is certainly the best I have heard out of London. Mr Farquharson, too, well known in Melbourne, is at this establishment, and he plays and sings as charmingly as ever. The amusements are divided into two parts. Part 1 consists of a well-arranged concert of vocal and instrumental music, and the second part is devoted to Terpsichore—the visitors, of course, being tbe principal performers. After the concert the chairs disappear as if by magic, and some two or three hundred couples are to be seen upon the floor flying hither and thither to the lively strains of Strauss, Meyer, Henißdorff, and others of the leading composers. The effect of the kaleidoscopic coloring produced by the varied dresses of the fair votaries is most charming. If any of you should pay a visit to tbe old conntry in the summer season, I should recommend you to go to Margate, where you are sure to fall in with no end of fellow-colonists, and to meet with a kind reception at the hands of the indefatigable proprietors of the Hall by the Sea. Mr Hingston is about to become the manager of the Opera Oomiqne, a handsome and commodious theatre in the Strand, built, I believe, at the instance of Leslie, Steele, and Norton, of Christy Minstrel celebrity. He intends to open with opera bouffe, and has already secured an [efficient and highly popular company.