SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 292, 10 December 1877, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

[Per Akawata at Bluff.] TT Losuoy, October 26. Her Majesty i.s at Balmoral iu good health. The Prince of Wales, with his two sons, left Abergeldie on the 15th, aud then proceeded to Dartmouth, where the two princes were placed on board the Britaunia. His Royal Highness is now in London. The Princess has remained at Abergeldie in consequence of the dangerous illness there of Miss Knollys.

On his way to the south the Prince had a lone; conversation at Ballater with Mr Archibald Forbes, the special correspondent in Bulgaria for the Daily News, who was proceeding to Balmoral, baring been honored by an invitation fram her Majesty for his bravery and careful accouut of the war. Mr Forbes has had conferred on him the Order of Saint Stanislaus by the Czar. The Shah intends visiting Loudon and Paris next spring. Alderman Owden has beeu chosen Lord Mayor of London for next year Sir J. Bennett, who was elected Alderman for Cheapside a third time, has agaiu been rejected by the Court of Aldermen, and exsheriff Breefith has been appointed by them. Slavery has been abolished in Madagascar, and three million slaves are being set free. Sir Allen Young is having the Pandora refitted with a view to anofcher start for the Arctic regions next spring. The Spitzbergen route wfll be tried in preference to that by tsmith's Sound. During this year's raring Lord Falmouth has netted £34,433, exclusire of the Ascot Gold Vase, in stakes up to the 15 th October, which 13 by far the largest amount won in one year. Prince Nakato has declared the campaign ended by tbe occupation of the district of Baujani. thereby effecting the deliverance of the upper Herzegovina. The German irouclad squadron has returned from the Mediterranean, and will winter afc Wilheltnshaven. The Queen has presented £250 to the Red Cioss Society for the relief of the sick and wounded of the two armies, The correspondent of the Standard at Nicopolis states that during the twenty days ending the Bth October, 15,000 of the allied troops died in Bulgaria. The management is so bad that the army between tbe Jantra and the Lom was left for three days without supplies, and tbe men were half starved. At Simitza aud Tururaargureeki horses are daily suffocated in liquid mud four feefc deep, and hundreds of men who daily die u ider canvas are carried out of the hospital tents and thrown into the mud not fifty yards from where they died. Many hundreds of Mahommedan families have been expatriated by the Russians to the north of Russia, where they are suffering terrible privations. A baud of Cossacks burnt the village of Agvar, south-west of Loftcha, on the 27th September, and carried off the inhabitants tied to the tails of their horses They were met by a body of Turkish troops, who released the prisoners aud killed every one of thc Cossacks.) It ia positively stated that after the fight outside Kars some Russian officers' found fche dead bodies of Arab women among those slain in the fight, and deliberately cut them into small pieces, in order that by concealing their sex the army generally should not know how deep was the feeling of enthusiasm against the invaders. So great is the deficiency of officers amongst; the Russian army that all the pupils at the military colleges over sixteen years of age have been sent to join their regiments. The want of medical men is also shown by the fact that at Fratesti, where there were 10,000 sick, there were only two doctors and six attendants to look after them. The Madras News states that rain has fallen in the north-west provinces, and thafc the prospects are good everywhere. Prices are falling. The distress is increasing in one or two districts, but is stationary ia six. The harvest, where gathered in, is fair.