SUEZ MAIL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 160, 2 July 1875, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL SUMMARY.

"The Sk?i mill arrive! at Adelaide on the t 34|hJae. .... v. : ! VBy winding uji. the Australian Direct Navigation Company grjeat distress has been inflicted on the -immigrants, who had paii their passage money, and broken tap their homes John Bennett, agent for the Company, has answered s.veral more summonses The Sixth Company of lloyal Engineers are ordered to embark for Fiji. Three hundred agricultural laborers sailed on June sth for New Zealand. i Daring- April 13,248 passengers left Liverpool, in 52 vessels. This shows a decrease of 2535 compared with the corresponding month of last year. The fl st four months of 1875 show a ciecrease of 4995. Parliament is beginning to excite national dissatisfaction. Halt the session is orer, and the public business is disgracelully in arrears. A few of the C yft Service Estimates are passed, but the Budget discussion is postponed till after the Whitsuntide holidays. Scarcely any of the Ministerial: legislative promises, have been fulfilled, and the press laments the degeneracy of the House of Commons, and severely rebukes the Premier for his indigent indifference .ami bal leadership. Throughout the past month the House has been 'the theatre of scandalous scenes; personal-squab-ble*, questions of piivi ege, and the sudden exclusion of stringers at the cictste of certain impulsive Iri-hmen. Parneit, home ruler, has been elected for Meathby 1771, against 192 for Napier, a Conservative. Whitworth, the Manduater manufacturer, is returned for Fulkenny (?) by a large majority brer Grey "and Marum, home rulers. Mr ITilett has been Unseated for Norwich, after a day's trial revea!iog cases of treating by unauthorised partizans, of which he wa« prevlou>lv unaware. He decided not to defend his seat. The Duke of Buckingham has accepted the Governorship of Madras. Earl Pembroke retires irnm the UndefSecretaryehiu on account of ill-health. Cardinal Manning is suffering prostration from over exertion since lis return from Home, yet at the clo«e of April he opened a Franciscan Church at Ches'er. In the course of his sermon he • eplored the spread of rationalism and scepticism. At the luncheon subs queutly, in proposing the toast of the Queen, he epoke in high terms of the purity of the Court. Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne has been received inio the Kotuish Church. The reconstructe i Alexandra Pa'ace was opened on May let with great eclat. The strike of cotton f pinners at Blackburn has been amicably settled, and the anticipated lock-out averted. The anniversary meetings of religious and benevolent societies, show an unflagging interest on the part of the Ch istian pubic. Their financial statement* prove thim 10 be growing actively in popularity. All Eu' ope is prof oun sly agitated by apprehensions of war. The German Empire, instead of being a guarantee for peace, is the cause of constant disquietude snd restlessness. The twofold iear of Ultramontane intrigues, a^d of the resuscitation of V ranee font upon vengeance engenders the suspicions of ;the neighboring St. t 3, and provok s irritating demands, which cannot be complied with by the other Governments. The press has been let loose to sow di cord, and excite suspicions, and to influence national hatred. The Times j last week publishe 1 a Paris letter, exposing 1 the German designs, which produced a pro iound sensation, throughout Europe, and roused the ire of the B.rlin journalists. In anticipation of the meeting between the Emperors, the Times had a ka ling artice in which, while acquitting the bulk of the German people of a , design so r e testable, it ■olemnly .warned ibe warp.irty that a criminal attempt to crush France into a second-rate Power would alarm a Senate every nation, and probably array them in an intern itional It-ague against the lomra n enemy. The meeting of the Emperot s, and the Conference between Bismarck ami Gortachalcoff were followed by a c4mer feeling, and the tr-nquilising assurances of Mr Bmrke in the House of Commons, and the moderate tone of the German press, have t nhanced the belief that peace is not to be disturbed at present.