SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 177, 28 July 1877, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

„ . [Per Rihgabooha.J I- *'£?.} ' ' - * •• oy ,-, 1 -The Queen is^t Wfrfbral'itil |bod health, u In the House of* Commona Mr Bourke, in answer to a question, said that no proposals - -had-bee n- made- by-Russia for the4ecaKsatiea - of the war, and that when the question of peace can be discussed •$ be one that would concern Europe, and the colonies would consider they had a right to share in the deliberations respecting the f utnrey - ! - A ! Mr Howard .Yincent, the correspondent of the Daily 'Tetegh^i_#i> being cordially 5 ec ,?j^ e< ? afc , fche Russian head quarters by tha Grand Duke Nicholas; • waa • :pererrfptoV_|- ' ordered away by insfctnctions from St Petersburg!*,. ■A:: t.. •■: ....-/ ; ;.:.,-, ! Colonel Brackenbury represents the Times at the Russian head-quarters. Mr Archibald FordphdMrMeGabanaroalso thiri; > ; •' Three hundred • -English* officer*' hare offered their ser rices to Turkey/ ; ' : 1 Dervish Pasha has been appointed Goyerrior of Kara.- -•-••■ -■;':..'.-•, ■ a Tarkisll ,P a P*M Constantinopla in commenting on tho pea_« tumora aro f&rbt- '' able to peace. i The Grand Vizier Edtusm Pasha and Saf vet Pasha are in faror of making terms wUh Russia after the first decisive action. J The German and Austrian Arabcessdors are united in endearoring to influence Tarkey in faror of peace. • '. • ' ! Morrisa (?) Bey with _00» Turkish cavalrywas utterly routed at Kule on the ■ let of May by the Russian moveable column of cavalry, infantry, and artillery. They were attacked at midnight on three Sides, and several mountain guns, ammunition wagons, and standards/ besides prisoners; ware taken. - Temple Bey,, nephew of the Bishop of Exeter and physician to the Sultan, has been summarily ordered either to go to Batoum, or quit the Sultan's service for informinghim that many of the shells fired by. hia troops on the Danube contained nb powder. C i The military correspondent of the; DaityTelegraph states that the Russian force destined for the Danube consists of nine corps , yiih a total strength of 310,0QQ man and 970 . guns, besides some battalions of engineers, two regiments,. ol Cossacks, a brigade of, rifles, and two or three companies of raarineaCi Tbenthere is the Roumanian army of lorne 30,000. effectives., .. , .-.j t The Turkish army in Europe amounts to|l2 battalions, 75 squadrons, and 590 guns, a few batteries.; of-: mitrailleuses, 200,000 infantry, and 12,000 horse of irregulars. There appears to be no doubt of the numerical inferiority of the Turks. . a Afc r<laiwa *^ e Snssiang were repulsed : bje timea,' bat pp^he last occasion, when \ they began. to, attack. the - 40,000 Cineh who : were there, the commandant bf Ardahan, a young, man, \osfr. courage, and mad« his escape! ', . " '„' ..',' - ''■ '..'•'-■■-" ; Tjie hereditary Prince of. Bosnia has ar-' , rive^.at Constantinople forth? 'purpose, of submitting,^. plan of attack on Russia, and " n e;nlistin^Stnssnlmari3.C CC. AA '.' '' . ' j Ifal'iau papers announce tba "arrival, -'jit' Rome of five eqges. of presents from Queen" ' Victoria tb the Pope. " ' " i In the cricket^ m,atch North v. South, W. G. Grace in the first innings of the South spored 252 runs, not out.' ' ■' j At the first sale of yearlings at Middle Park, 45 lota realised 12,«85 guineas, or an average of 273 guineas each. The highest price was for a bay cpl.t, hy Rosicrucian, 15QQ guineas. being the price. „ , . . . A. a i Th? best in London is most intense. Early" ih June Sir Henry Pelly, M.P. for- : Uantibg*. don, received a sunstroke while riding iii Hyde Park, and died from" the effects. . German papers state that a league is being formed iu Russia for the rejection of all English products until England shall abandon sympathy with Turkey. ii. li. Hodgson, one of the solicitors to the Treasury, was stuck up on the 28th of May on Blackheath, wheu returning iu a closed carnage from Greenwich with his daughter and niece. The robbers, who were maskod presented pistols at the driver's head, and compelled Hodgson to give up all the money he had about him. A similar outrage occurred in Yorkshire on the following day. In neither case is there any clue to the offenders. < . , William Dufton, the well-known billiard player, has committed suicide by taking poison. * Several thousand men are employed throwing up defences at Constantinople. A resolution in favor of disestablishment has been carried by 460 to 78 votes at the meeting of the . General Assembly of the Fi£e Church of. Scotland. A large and influential meeting of clergymen on the Ist of May unanimously resolved to disregard the decision of the Judicial' Committee in the Ridsdale ca?e. In celebration of his jubilee, the Pope received 500 pilgrims on tha 22nd of Jund. The brigand chief Leone has been killed in an encounter with the gendarmes in Sicily. Julius and Lady Vogel were amongst those present at Lord Carnarvon's on the anniversary of the Queen's Birthday. Obituary— The Grand Duke of Hesse : Miss Mary Carpenter ; Mr Justice Mellish ; £icard, a French senator, and the Rev. G. 1 uks, ex-President of the Wesleyan Con-