NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 434, 18 September 1877, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Pee Auawata, at the Bluff.) Lond >x, August 3. The Queen is at Osborne, in good ealth.

Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, has had an attack of typhoid fever, but is recovering. " The Rev. Rowley Hill, Vicar of Shefis the new Bishop of Soclor and Man.

Mr. Alfrsd Watkins, a Liberal, has been elected for Great Grimsby. The New Bedford boat, ten feet long, and one ton and a half register, arrived at England, after a passage of 49 days across the Atlantic, the occupant being the owner. The boat, which was a lifeboat, had to lay-to several times in heavy gales.

The Holy Cross Societj' is still the subject of much public comment ; the practice of confession, inculcated by the Society receiving general condemnation.

The law officers of the Crown have declared Admiral D'Horsky quite justified in his action against the Peruvian ironclad. The Government and people of Peru are highly incensed against England, and demand satisfaction.

The suicide of a Blue Coat School boy, I aged twelve, led to much discussion, and the appointment of a Commission to enquire into the management of the school, it being alleged that the younger boys are subjected to great tyranny at the hands of the older ones. At the Mansion House dinner, General Sir Garnet Woolslej', alluding to the war in the East, said the Britis i army was never in more efficient condition than now.

At a meeting of Home Rule members, Mr. Butt stated that should the present aimless obstruction be persisted in, he should probably withdraw from the leadership of the party. The Lancashire colliers' strike has ended, after lasting six weeks. William Gale, the well-known pedestrian, completed at Cardiff, the extraordinary feat of walking four thousand quarter miles in as many periods of ten minutes.

A pigeon match for LIOOO came off at Hurlingham, between Captain Forrester Leighton and Captain Aubrey Patton, each receiving 50 birds. The match resulted in a tie, each bringing down 39 birds.

Samuel Warren, author of " Ten Thousand a Year," is dead. ! Prince Reas, German Ambassador, at Stamboul, is spoken of as the jrobable Ruler of Bulgaria. Enormous defalcations continue to be discovered in the Russian Commissariat Department. The Emperor has ordered the most rigorous proceedings against the culprits. Great difficulties are felt in provisioning the invading army, and the cattle plague seriously affects the price of meat. Outside the army and the Slavophil party the feeling is against the war. The Russians have thrown a bridge over , the Danube at Pyrgos. |

&'j ; Sir Arnold Kemball has" telegraphed, tHat it is true that a portion of the esjrprison of Bayazid, which was? tovvh, .surrendered, and were massacred by tire i Kurds, the remainder in the fort there-j fore held out until relieved by a Russian .corps.

': papers have also been published showing that frightful atrocities are being committed by both side). Tiie Russians have obtained a list of the persons implicated in the Bulgarian atrocities last year, and shoot all of them that they catch. The Mussulman population flies before the Russians, in consequence of the Bulgarians being armed by thousands, committing all sorts of outrages. Mr. Frederick Arthur Stanley has been appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury vice W. H. Smith, appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.

The Mansion House Famine Relief Fund - is rapidly increasing. . The Queen and Prince of Wales each subscribed L~,OO. Rothsc.ild and Baring Brothers LIOOO each.