SUEZ MAIL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 252, 23 October 1874, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL SUMMARY.

London, Sept, 4. : , The mismanagement of the Pacific triasl service excites serious misgivings. The agents have for two months declined to book passengers through to Australia. According to letters of complaint, the San Francisco agents refused to endorse the railway tickets of passengers from Australia per Tartar, although they had prepaid their fares to Liverpool. They endured/ great hardships, and some "were "cbn^ pelled to pawn their watches and otfier valuables to get on; others are/ still detained in America. From explanations it appears that the London and American agents had .warned the compani'sirepfes^n^ttYe^n Australia T that -unless funda" 1 1& pay tho transit across the United States and the Atlantic passage were remitted they could not guarantee passengers going forward. The agent's letters were acknowledged, but no money was sent. An offer has been made to the Governments at Sydney and New Zealand to take over the contract, and continue the service in consideration cjf an rextenafori> of time, and ojtber advantages. %, ri . ■An es-Bi.P., writing to the Tin%es, suggests that the self-supporting colonies should bear the expenses of vessels of the Imperial navy cruising in their waters. It is the practice of Dutch colonies. The press generally thinks it worthy of imitation. > H.M. sloop Sappho, 4 guns, s£o-^ horse power, is to be immediatej^cooimiseiooed for service on the; Australian stations. : 1/ ~ v •'*• Wm. Hopwood. -WBo^as a witness in the Tichborne case, has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for bigamy. The claimant's late secretary applied for n summons against Mary Loder for perjury, and the applicant was referred to the Court of the Queen's Bench. The labor market still remains ia-a sh»g;hly5 h »g;hly /inflamed -condition, -rind 'tße Wage? question proves difficult of la.l- ; justment. The Belfast strike, affecting 40,000 persons, after lasting eight weeks, was terminated on August 26, by submission to the masters' terms. On the same day, at a meeting attended by 12,000 persons, some quarry men, near^Betheada, it was agreed to acceptconcesaions by Lord Penrhyn, subject jjo the dismissal of two. obnoxious agents, and minimum weekly wages lo be 303 to skilled men. These conditions being refused, the men have cleared out (heir tools from the quarry. The miners of Fifeshire and Clackmaonanshire having refuted to submit lo a reduction of 15 per cent, the masters have decreed a general lockoat. The men, however, are not agreed; 2,100 voted for resistance, and 1,154 for; an Acceptance of the terms;

B,3Ooj?,bfcy?\'not Toted, and recession from the union is probable. In West Lancashire, Flintshire, Lanarkshire, and Darbam, notices of redaction have been given by colliery owners. A simitar, movement is impending in Northumberland. The Yorkshire and Derbyshire masters and men submitted the question of reduction to arbitration in London, and the decision affirmed the yemanda of the employers for 12$ per %y nt abatement. Some Leicestershire* .miners .have struck against the reduction >of 6d per day. After protracted resistance and several conferences ihe'Sdtitn Wales miners agreed to submit to 10 per cent redaction on condition that the wages are not again lowered during the present year* The bul£ .of locked»out laborers . have obtained work withont surrendering their ticket at improved wages. Any aged"'- men,- however, by joining the"'] 1 onion will have to enter vor£hcfu£iefl< The lock-oat lasted 18 weeks, and cost the union £25,000, 400 men have emigrated, and 870 have returped to work without giving up theif tickets, and about 400 are still unemployed. The pilgrim band finally broke op at Halifax, only 21 of the origins! 100 feaJaicing. At Bradford Bour6 f bav3'beeVarreßted on a charge of begjfip^;* As># £70£ was cleared. Two new bishops, St. David's and Central Africa, were consecrated on Aag^B^,24 ; ;in; Westminster Abbey by the, Archbishop of Canterbury. The. .bre^i-ti^ of the Ashantee monarchy is quickly following on the j Eoglisth yictoryv The Sings of j Djuabin and Beequa having declined to rWew their homage to King Coffee, he has appealed to the British Admiojfffcrstion at Gape Coast Castle for asßidUnce^andnhe situation is further compiTcaied by a report that the hostile kings have been promised support by tbe,iiebiefe,Tof Akim and Denkara. Captairi Lees = having gone to Coomafefe 1 to tirtidiate, has been well re- | ceived. ! Lieutenant Cameron, in a letter to theSflorifign "Gftiee, 1 baa declared, that the slave trade still flourishes in a belt of jangle .villages about a week's march j fronj, fche Eaet : Coast. In order to destroy the traffic he . recommends the construction of a railroad from Bagomo|«^ii»,Xrj|j.'> onder the protection" of a Eoropean^commissiooer. professor Tyndall, the president, delivered tbe ijjaugorsl address before the British Association. He demanded absolute liberty "for scientific invest!ga« tion, and the aobmieflion of all religious Iheflriep^ «*y mee, and systems to its decisions. He was afterwards ably supported by Professor Huxley. Ap, association is being formed in London to prosecute ritualistic clergymen under the new Act. Ac lexfiitibg controversy, inimical to the 'popular i(^ of' the Church of England, has been provoked by the refusal of a clergyman,, supported by the Bishop of Lincoin,i to permit the word "reverend '-'r to be inscribed on the tombstone of a daughter of a Weslejan minjßJerV"! Tbe ; subject was brought befoj-e the conference at the recent sittioss.:, Archbishop Tait, 5.G.6., in the Times, and other correspondents, cod^mtt ?he : bftter intolerance of the .sacfifdAta'l %*jiy., , , ' " : Tbe frightful increase of crimes of a brol|l e cliftactVr, and especially kick-' lDgj tp^eai|), ; i 8 provoking an indignant outcry against the absurd leniency of thenopaDtshmentfl inflicted, and even magTß^tes' declare that the savage feisfsfigaijamg ground ..must ' be. met byri^psewsV legislation. ' .' Cremation gains'grodnd io European opinirfn^' 'wni!6 ; in ''America German* Bociei|esjf|sg; fl pnnging up for burniog the dead. > On 1 Satojufof, August 22, the great hosiery factory of Messrs Moriey, at Swioton, near Nottiugham, was burnt dowM/tad worth of property , deatrojedv^tSOO"- p'ersdns were thrown out tff^m^ioynVent. Incendiarism is Baspac|e37 r .Early on Sunday .morning Messrs Kicoa^jdson a large paper mills, near Jarrow-o'n'-Tyne, were' consumed. The estiniated damage ia £60,000. Qp Mbhda'y an extensive conflagration occurredSii 'Southampton dock?, result-ing^m-Tn'erdeatruction of the range of bnildings occupied by the Royal Mail Company atia' tided aa workshops. The loes is estiraatey ['at 'several . thousand pound?. On Tuesday a fire broke out in the top flpor pMhe South Prison at Glasgow. j'Tbe flames were not subdued until' the "•' west ' Wirig was gutted. On th^ 16tb August, owing to the ignition of a thatched stack, a considerable part of Market Harborough was burned downl ' A : destructive fire occurred at.' Mr Gresty's timber-yard, ManctftstorE; the loss was £40,000. Sir Arthur Guinness's extensive porter Storfg'iatt $b.4nopn Harbor have been totally j^rpjed bg fire. , , A terrible tragedy occurred at the Princess dinb)- Manchester, on Aug. 25, w&r^i young-merchant named Barge, after a ßßaki6g 7 habds with another named Maclean, r ßhof him dead aod' then instantly slew himself. A verdict of temporary insanity was returned. Saddler haaaccepted the challenge of George BMitttot Nova Scotia to row fotiSSßo'Bff3 !j the clianjpionsbip of the world. The date, pfthe race is Ocf. 19, atgoJer«fij(e, L lreKlnd. ' "*■ Inthe tTniveraity boat race on the Dee, between Aberdeen and Edinburgh, %(M&5 W P D ty * length. Leger at Stockio hf^AoW^y Trßn ! ; h J ha!f « length over Koatrevor, and at \ Oxford the rrinoeuu}/ Wales' Plate wbb won by

Cranbourne, and Wild Myrtle won the Oxfordshire Stakes. A ladies' cricket match has been played in Bucks between two elevens. A railway to tbe summit of Mount j Vesuvius is projected. / Etna is in eruption. / Brigandage is assuming dangerous proportions io Sicily. / A swimming race for the amateur championship of England took place at the Welsh Harp, Hindon. Six/men swam one mile in still water, an d H. Davenport won by .80 yards, in 31 mips 9 sees. A discussion has taken plaoe iathe London-papers relative~to emigration, principally to Canada. ' A Bohemian published in the Times some doleful letters on bis experience and observations in the United States and Canada, which elicited replies from Mr Edwftrd j Jenkins, the Rev Mr Herrys, and othe/ promoters of emigration. / A Philadelphian society, established to assist Knglishmen in distress, recommends the temporary suspension of emigration to America, atri is helping hundr^ return. 1 *J.he cruel.'misrepresentations of agents !n England are strongly denounced, and artizans especially are warned against leaving England. Tbe quality of men Bent out is much complained bf in Canada. The Times pronounces against Canada on account of' the "severity of the climate, and recommends New Zealand, and Tasmania in preference. 'Yet large cargoes are still being shipped off. Five hundred laborers and their families left last week, and the agricultural strike having collapsed, Mr Arch threatens wholesale deportation" lo Canada. Mr Taylor, secretary, has gone over on a tour of inspection. Irish emigration bos greatly declined. One hnndred and thirty emigrants from Shetland bave left in the steamer Schiller for New Zealand. Eighty deceived emigrants have just returned from Brazil to Berlin in a wretcbed>coudi^ibo. Tallermao's Meat Agency Company bas declared another -dividend of 10 per cent; The Count de Jnrnac has been ap r pointed French Ambassador io Lon*. don,