ADDITIONAL SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 104, 2 May 1878, Page 2

ADDITIONAL SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

The Christian population on the north, shore of the Sea of Marmora are becoming very discontented at the conduct of the Russians, who have been behaving in a very disr orderly manner. ! A letter from Lady Strangford, who remained in Servia when the Russians entered, states that the Bulgarians and Cossacks behaved in the most insulting manner. No food was given for days. The conduct of the Russians in Roumania is very arbitrary. Leaders in the Times, Standard, and Morning Post, since the arrival of the mail via Brindisi, strongly condemn the revolutionary proceedings of Mr Berry, and express astonishment that Sir George Bowen could have lent his sanction to such dangerous practices. The papers think that the Home Government should take cognisance of the matter. A wing of the Lunatic Asylum in Dublin was burnt on the 4thins:ant, causing damage to the amount of £15,000, and a log? of three U*es, , r " ; i

About £800 was stolen from a working convict prison during a dinner party given by the Governor. On March sth, Major O'Gorman's bill for aasimilating the municipal franchise of Ireland to that of England, was.defeated by 167 to 162, owing to the absence of a number of Irish ' Members ; twenty-four Home Rulers were away, and resolutions condemning their absence on this and other late occasions have been passed by the Home Eule party. A schoolmaster named Heap obtained £1000 damages, for breach of promise, from a Miss Morris, daughter of a solicitor who preferred paying this to having her letters read in Court. The whole fleet in the Mediterranean numbers 15 first-class ironclads, 12 frigates, and two corvettes ', a do2en smaller" vessel, and over 200 large guns. Upwards of 10,000 men and five admirals are now in the Mediterranean command. The navy estimates amount to £11,530,901, being an increase of £82,072. The army' estimates amount to £14,065,900, showing au increase of £492,1000. The total force provided .for, including regulars at Home, India, and in the Colonies, militia, yeomanry' and volunteers, numbers 625,199 men. Two serious colliery explosions occurred within the last week. ,At one, on the 9tb, at Kilsyth, about 80 men were below. The result was the death of 18 men and serious injuries to a number of others. On the 12th there was an explosion at Crook Pit, Yearsly, near Bolton, when all the men in one of the workings, 44 in number, were killed. Several cases of fraud bave been successfully perpetrated upon banks through the removal by chemical agency of writing on drafts and circular notes, and the substitution of larger amouuts or change of name. Edward Jones, an accountant, is under remand charged with having obtained about £50,000 by forged leases. , Lord Lyons has been in London some days ! conferring with the Government in view of the approaching Conference at Berlin where he will represent England, assisted by Lord Odo Russell, the ambassador to Germauy. THe German Press strongly advocates the English occupation of Egypt, and the Berlin Government is believed to favor the idea. The Prince of Wales has sold the celebrated yacht Hildegrade to Priuce Leopold for a summer's cruising. ' Sulieman Pasha is arrested, and is to be tried by a civil and military tribunal for treason and disobedience of orders. The collapse of Turkish resistance and fall of Plevna are regarded as attributable to him at Shipka Pass, regardless of superior orders. A large number of inhabitants of villages in Druico, Syria, have been massacred by the Turks. " Telegrams from St. Petersburg dated I3th inst. state the public mind is much disturbed by the continued warlike preparations in England, and it is believed Lord Beaconsfield is resolved upon military occupation of some frontier port in the Eastern Seas such as Mitylene, which could be converted into a second Gibraltar.,