SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 40, 15 February 1878, Page 4

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

London, 213t Dsconobrr. The statement (hat, m a special Cabined meeiing.on the I<M>, arn>H : :<.- monts were miuio for (he p : »reiuni} of the Tnikiah fl.-et !ia<! conflrmaunn l< ; n! <0 it by (he f*et that Lortl Bauooni--fiel.J and Mr Smith, tha F.ist Lord ol iJie Admiralty, ajietjf tie previous night at Win.isor, and the meeting was only convened ut half-an-ijour's aotico ou their reiur.i to town ou tha mirain-' of the 13th. The conduct of Ssrvia ia condemned throughout Europe, and Turkey blames England for having advise! her to treat Servia so leniently laslyear, when she wrß completely conqueraJ. A fearful trade outrage was perpetrated at SUeißsld oa the night of ~ the

Bth instant. Two men, discharged from the Tinsley steel and iron works for not submitting to a reduction of wageß, followed nnothar, who had consented into a butcher'a skip, and one of them, seizing a deliver, nearly cat off the majfi'a hand. The offender has been arraatud. Other trade outrages have taken place. A proposal lias baen.taacle for enlarging the canal between Sheffield and Hull, so as to render id available for sea-^oing vessels. The Sunday, cotton-laden ship, from Norfolk to Liverpool, was burnt at sea on the 3rd instant, The crew were rescued by a passing vessel. The son of M. Provost Paradpl, who committed suicide a few years back, shot himself yesterday in Paris. H? was 17. A butcher, at Rheima, suffaringfroip monomania, made a murderous assault yesterday upon the Archbishop.. Mr Bright, at Manchester on the 11th, strongly ndvocajei the formationof canals in India as a preventive of future famines. • £25,000, 000 or £30,000,000 laid out in that way -would be well -spent* Mr Stansfiald, in addressing his constituents at Halifax, on the 18th, said ! the Established Church was an anachronism, and the severance of Church and State inevitable. He condemned the action of Lord Beaconsfield on the war question and the writings of his supporters in the Preßß. At the distribution of prizes to several Volunteer corps at St. James's H*ll, on Wednesday, it was- stated that there were now enrolled in the force 241,712 men, of whoaa 42,105 are artillery, and that at least half-a-million more men in England had passed through the ranks.