SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 55, 5 March 1878, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Loxdox, January 18. ■ Terrible distress exists in South Wales, and many of the young men are emigrating to - 1 . ustralia. General Grant had a magnificent reception at Malta. The International Telegraph Congress meets in London on the Ist of July. The principal task will be to agree upon an uniform international Tariff. The Bethnal Gieeu Vestry has asked that T mple Bar may be re-erected in Victoria park. Martha White who is sai-i to have taken no food for four years, died at Market liarborough. There has been great rioting at Birkenhead, in consequence of Protestants playing Anti-Papal airs. All the windows iv St James Church were broken. Lord Yarmouth speaking at Stratford-on-Avon strongly advocated the introduction of a Bill rendering compulsory the slaughter of all foreign cattle at the port of debarkation. He thought English farmers ought to be protected now that they were beginning to feel American competition in the meat trade. A marriage has been arranged between Earl Havenberry and Mis 3 Hannah De Rothschild daughter of Baron Meyer Rothschild. The masons strike still continues and about 270 Germans are employed at the Law Courts. Many other German masons are working elsewhere. The Loudou carpenters and Joiners Society have given their employers six months notice that they intend to demand an increase of a penny an hour. The masters refuse and have resolved to obtain a supply of fresh workmen. The Frieslaud from Java to Holland has been lost with all on board, consisting of 144 souls and a cargo worth £2U0,000. Crober & Co, warehousemen at Manchester, have been burnt out. The loss is £200,000. Several large fires bave occurred in London mills and warehouses. There has been a jewellery robbery from the residence of Lord Cotteuham Fredk Drinsdale has been sentenced to life imprisonment for forging deeds by which he got £3.),000. Much excitement has been caused by the making of an affiliation order against the Sacristan of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church at Rugby. A. number of priests were examine , and the proceedings extended over several days.