NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2224, 24 September 1875, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

, The Emperor of. Morocco is expected to Visit England shortly. Two kegs, containing 2000 sovereigns, have been recovered by divers from the ■wreck of the Schiller. From Montreal come the tidings that Fechter, the actor, is dying. Lady Flora Hastings, cousin to the Marquis. of Bute, with whom she spent the winter, has gone over to the Romish Church. •U. Miss Agnes Livingstone has. been married to Mr Alexander Bruce, of damill^ton. r "; ' ■■■/_.■■■• The Good Templars have resolved on . riising a fund of Ll0,0(30 for propagandist purposes among the young. Mrs Lucas, ; ' sister .of John Bright, has been elected Grand Vice-Templar. . The membeTS of the Palestine Exploration Expedition have been attacked by a .band of Algerians. The assailants were repulsed, but nine of the exploring party were, wounded. . Two Bhip knackers have been fined and imprisoned for sending rotten ships to sea for the sake of the. insurance. The cases have helped Mr PJimsoll immensely. . .Mr Sebastian Nolan, brother of the . M.P. ior County- Galway, was fired at ,; from behind a' wall,- while travelling from ). Greenville to Mount Belle, and received a Bhot in his side. A suspected tenant tinder notice; of eviction has been arrested. The three men committed for trial on suspicion of being; concerned in the death of the. young midshipman precipitated from ,. the Pullman-car, have escaped through a defect of evidence. The Grand Jury threw out the bill. In a sculling match on July 23, for the . amateur championship of the Thames, Jhe Diamond Sculls were won by -Mr Playford, ,of the London Rowing Club, against MrDlcker, of Cambridge, by 300 yards. Two thousand men struck work in the Gpthard tunnel. At the contractors' request troops were sent, who, being pelted with stones, fired upon the men, ! killing four and wounding eight. The. French Minister of Public Works estimates the damage by inundations in the South of France at 75,000,000fr. The loss, of life is now reckoned at 600 persons, and the houses destroyed at about 7000. The total English subscriptions amount to about.L3o,ooO/ Messrs Grant and Sora' six-storied - cotton-mill at Glasgow has been burnt to the ground, causing damage to the extent /of LIOO,OOO. The Broadwdod Weaving . Gactory at Belfast was destroyed, with damage LIOQ,QOO. . ... Several railway servants were seriously injured by the bursting of the boiler of a locomotive on the North-Eastern Railway, rat Solberg station, near Leeds. Through the bursting of a defective boiler at the Star Ironworks, Wolverhamptou, an engineer was killed, and six workmen ; mortally injured. An officer and two warrant officers, were killed by a terrible explosion at the Pyrotechnic School, at Toulon, said to have been produced by a drop of perspiration falling upon certain fulminates with which some naval lieutenants were filling bottles. At Hounslow Gunpowder-mills, an explosion wrecked several factories. The workmen were fortunately absent at the time. The annhal rifle- contest at Wimbledon O ommenoed on July 12. During several

days .shooting was suspended owing to deluging rains, and the camp wore a forsaken- appearance. The competition terminated on the 24th, when the prizes were presented by the Princess Louise, followed by a inarch past of 3000 men, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimer being in command. The Queen's Prize was won by Captain Eearse, of the 18th Devon, with a score of 73 points. Private Burgess, of Newcastle, won the Prince of Wales's prize, with. 88 points. The Elcho Challenge Shield was won by the Irish team with 1506 points, Scotland scoring 1503, and England 1502. In the contest between the Oxford and Cambridge teams th.c latter were victorious. The Commons beat the Lords by 313 to 220 points. The American Challenge Cup was won by Major Fulton. The Challenge Cup was won by the Gloucestershire, and the Belgian Cup by the Ist Berks. The tale of disasters brought by the last mail has been supplemented by another record of calamities. During what is usually the fervor of the summer season, the whole northern hemisphere appears to have been visited by an altogether unprecedented, rainfall. At BudaPesih it must have descended in cataracts, for on the right bank of . the Danube troops Of holiday-makers were, suddenly swept into the river by the impetuous downpour, .: which carried everything before it, and spread havoc and devastation far and wide. As many as 400 persons are reported to be missing ; and similar inundations are reported to have taken place in various parts of Germany. The south-western, eastern, and midland counties of England have also suffered severely from a like cause ;' and the amount of the rainfall, five, inches and three-tenths, in little more than a fortnight, was something altogether phenomenal. The sun was almost if not altogether invisible for a period of three weeks ; railway communication was interrupted by the destruction of many miles of road, towns were isolated and submerged, business suspended, and the hay crop washed away to sea.