SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 152, 25 June 1878, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

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London, May 10. The Prince of Wales when visiting Jthe Colonial Courts at the Paris Exhibition is said to have greatly delighted the colonials by holding out the prospect of a not distant visit to the antiDodes

\ The Queen fs at Windsor in excellent health.

It has been finally arranged for the Duke of Edinburgh; to continue in the Mediterranean. The Duchess returns to Russia on a visit to her parents. The Bishop Selwyn Memorial Committee have resolved to erect a monument in Lichfield Cathedral, and to found a Selwyn College at Cambridge, to include provisions for the education of mission students. Liberal subscriptions are flowing in. The impression generally prevails that Ministers will appeal to the county at the close of the present session, which will be abridged, whether there be peace or war. By a terrible squall which passed aiong the Biscayan coast on the 20th ult., 80 boats were destroyed, and 320 men perished. By a boiler, explosion at a Dublin foundry on April 27, about 20 lives were lost, and the premises were reduced to ruins.

The unfortunate Eurydice is still at the bottom of the sea, and all attempts to raise her have proved unguccessful. There is much grumbling at the want of skill displayed. The number of persons dependent on those who perished is estimated at about 300, to relieve whom £20,000 will be required, and nearly that amount has already been raised.

Advices from the Cape continue disquieting and fighting from day to day is reported from one quarter and another, with indecisive resulte. In each encounter fifty or sixty Kaffirs are killed and sheep and cattle are taken, but the enemy retires into his fortress and so protracts the contest.

It has required £19,000 a week to afford a moderate amount of relief to the distressed people on account of the strike in Lancashire. The Chancellor of the Exchequer informed the House that the cost of the Indian expedition would be borne by the Imperial Exchequer, and that the troops while in Europe would remain under the provisions of the Indian Mutiny Act. The Czar has lately signed a decree, calling cut 240,000 men of the reserves.

_ 14,000 spades have been sent to the Russian head quarters in Rouuiania.

20.Q00 cartridge chests have been ordered in Holland and Cronstadt, and Whitehead torpedoes are being steadily manufactured. One large factory was recently blown up. The military situation as regards Russia and Turkey appears to be improving. The attitude of the Russian army in the neighborhood of Constantinople is less menacing, while the Turks have been diligently employed during the past few days in multiplying and strengthening the defences

around their capital, so that any attempt on the part of the Russian! to seize the city would certainly provoke a stubborn resistance.

Intelligence comes from Armenia to the effect that the Russians are moving in considerable forco into the district adjoining Batoum, with the intention apparently to attack the place if it should not yield peaceably. The Christian copulation are hostile to Russian rule. They fiee from their homes and abandon their fields, and have sent formal complaints to the Porte of the Cruelties of the invaders.

Baker Pasha's appointment to the command of the division occupying part of the defensive lines of the capital i 3 regarded with satisfaction at Constantihople. *the lines are occupied by 90,000 men, and .forces are Constantly arriving from Asia. The Sultan inspected his troops last week.