SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIIL, Issue 211, 15 October 1878, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Tb,e pape? tm'ils of Messrs Bagshaw, Norwich, have beep defrayed by fire; also a pavilion of the Great Eastern Company's railway works at Ipswich! jl'a a te^ri^le fire ftt Birmingham, four persons perished, arid &t Pjiyl/co there has been a great timber fire. The want of cordiality in the relations between Marshal *<L'Mahon and his Minister, has given rise to rumprs'ihat php. President tyjll resign iu the autumn. t*ne Marshal fpfouif} to attend the service at Notre Dame, .on the aupij/jersary of the death of M. Thiers. He sigued eighty pardons aud commutations of sentence tor persons compromised during the commttce, ' * '

Violent shocks of earthquakes were felt last Monday morning at several towns in the Pthine Valley and i:i Belgium, at Karwen, a house had the roof displaced. The furniture was shaken, and the shop goods overthrown. The silver weddiug of the King and Queen of belgmin has been celebrated with great festivities. All the European Governments were represented. Lord Torrington delivered to the Queen an autograph letter from Queen Victoria, with the Or-ler of the Crown of India. The fete extended over several days During the past three months 256'? persons have been prosecuted for insulting the Oernmn Emperor, of whom fi2l have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Cardinal Franchi is belii-ved to have been poisoned in drinking a glass of sherbet. His successor has had several suspicious attacks of illness.