ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5101, 30 July 1877, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SUEZ MAIL.

THE WAR IN THE EAST. (per ringarooma.) London, Bth Tune. The Queen is at present at Balmoral, in good health. Mr. Bourke stated in the House of Commons, in answer-to a question on the subject, that no proposals had been made by Russia for the localisation of the war, and that when the question of peace came to be discussed, it was one which would affect Europe. In which case the whole of the European colonies would, no doubt, consider they had a right in deliberating upon it in reference to the future. Mr. Howard Vincent, the correspondent for the Daily Telegraph , after being cordially received at the Russian head-quarters by the Grand Duke Nicholas, was peremptorily ordered away by instructions from St. Petersburg. Colonel Brackenburgh represents The Times at the Russian head-quarters, and Mr. A rchibald Forbes and Mr. MoGahan are also there. Three hundred English officers have offered their services to Turkey. Derbish Pasha has been appointed Governor ot Kars. Turkish papers in Constantinople, commenting on the peace rumors, are opposed to peace. The Grand Vizier, Edhem Pasha, and Safvet Pasha are in favor of making terms with Russia after the first decisivfe action. The German and Austrian Ambassadors are united in endeavoring to influence Turkey in favor of peace. Morissa Bey, with 4000 Turkish cavalry, was utterly routed at Kule on the Ist May by the Russian moveable column of cavalry, infantry, and artillery. They were attacked at midnight on three sides. Several mountain guns, ammunition waggons, and standards, besides prisoners, were taken. Temple Bey, nephew of the Bishop of Exeter, and physician to the Sultan, has been summarily ordered to go to Batum, or quit the Sultan’s service, for informing him that many of the shells fired by his troops on the Danube contained no powder. The military correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that the Russian forces destined for the Danube consist of nine corps, with a total strength of 310,000 men and 970 guns, besides some battalions of engineers, ten regiments ot Cossacks, a brigade of rifles, and two or three companies of marines; then there is the Roumanian army, of some 30,000 effectives. The Turkish army in Europe amounts to 412 battalions, 75 squadrons, 500 field guns, and a few batteries of mitrailleuses, 200,000 infantry, and 12,000 irregular horse. There appears to be no doubt of the numerical inferiority of the Turks. At Ardahan the Russians were repulsed five times, but on the fifth occasion they began the attack on the 40,000 men there, the commandant, a young man, lost courage and made his escape. The hereditary Prince of Bosnia has arrived at Constantinople, for the purpose of submitting a plan of attack on Russia, and enlisting Mussulmans. Italian papers announce the arrival at Rome of five cases of presents from Queen Victoria to the Pope. In a cricket match, North v. South, W. G. Grace, in the first innings of the South, scored 250 runs, not out. At the first yearling sales at Middle Park, 45 lots realised 12,205 guineas, or an average of 273 guineas each. The highest price was for a bay colt by Reservation, fifteen hundred guineas. The heat in Loudon was most intense early in June. Sir Henry Pelly, M.P. for Harlingtou, received a sunstroke while riding in Hyde Park, and died from the effects. German papers state that a league is being formed in Russia for the rejection of all English products until England shall abandon her sympathy for Turkey. Mr. W. H. Hodgson, one of the Secretaries to the Treasury, was stuck up on the 28th May, on Blackheath, when returning in a close carriage from Greenwich with his daughter and niece. The robbers, who were masked, presented pistols at the driver’s head, and compelled Mr. Hodgson to give up all the money he had about him. A similar outrage occurred in Yorkshire on the following day, and in neither case has there been any clue to the offenders. William Dufton, the well-known billiardplayer, has committed suicide by taking poison. Several thousand men are employed throwing up defences at Constantinople. A resolution in favor of disestablishment has been carried by 460 to 78 votes at the meeting of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.

A large and influential meeting of clergymen was held on the 21st May, when it was unanimously resolved to disregard the decision of the Judicial Committee on the Ridsdale case.

In celebration of his Jubilee the Pope received 5000 pilgrims on the 2nd June. Sir Julius and Lady Vogel were amongst those present at Lord Carnarvon’s levee on the anniversary of the Queen’s Birthday. Obituary. Grand Duke of Hesse, Miss Mary Carpenter, Justice Hellish, Ernest Picard (Ji reach Senator), and the Rev. G. Pape, expresident of the Wesleyan Conference