SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 760, 17 September 1878, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

London, August 2.

Earl Beaoonsfield visited Osborne on 20th ult., and was invested with the Garter. Lord Salisbury was also invested with the Garter at Osborne on the 30th. On the same day General Sir Lintorn Simmons was invested with the Grand Cross of the Bath, and Sir Arnold Kembeld and Lord Tenterden were presented with the insignia of K.C.B. Sjr Richard Wallace has presented to Lord BeacQnjrfjeld the star worn by the late Marquis of Hertford, as Knight of the Garter. The diamonds and rubies are valued at L 12,000.

The reserves have all been dismissed to their homes, and a general order commends them for their conduct. The only disorderly conduct manifested was among a number of Irishmen at Portsmouth and Cardiff, on their re-embarkation for Ireland, and this was caused by excessive drinking. All the extra hands taken on during the last few months are being dismissed from the dockyards and arsenals. Qn the 25th, Mr. Gqwen, amidst much laughtsF, presented a petition from a number of persons in various parta of the country, asking for the impeachment of Lord Beaeonsfield for his doings in connection with the Eastern question. Mr. Cowen disclaimed all sympathy with the petition.

On the same day, Sir Charles Dilke moved an amendment against the proposal to grant the Duke of Connaught an additional LIO,OOO per annum on his marriage, with L6OOO to his wife in case of her surviving him. Mr, Gladstone supported the motion, and the amendment was rejected by 320 to 33. During the

debate on the Duke of Connaught's marriage allowance, high encomiums were passed upon His Royal Highness from all aides, and testimony was borne of his great popularity in Ireland by several of the Home Eulers.

An insect a quarter of an inch long is doing great damage in the turnip fields in Ireland.

Captain Coppen has contracted to raise the Vanguard by the 31st October. The German Government are preparing for the raising of the Grosser Kurfurst. Several thousand persons visit the Grosvenor Gallery every Sunday afternoon and evening.

Bennett, of the New York Herald, is sending the yacht Dauntless to the Polar regions, via Spitsbergen.

The Tichborne claimant has been visited by Mr. Onslow, who states that he has gained two stone in weight since his removal from Dartmoor.

The Queen's assent to the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill, passed in Natal, has been refused.

A beerhouse-keeper at Greenwich took his three young children for a walk in a wood, cut their throats, and then killed himself.

The trial of the prisoners for Lord Leitrim's murder is postponed. At the official banquet in Paris the health of the Prince of Wales was proposed by M. Feras, member of the Left Centre of the Senate, and was drunk with tremendous enthusiasm. It was stated that the Prince had interested himself as much in the French Exhibition as if it had been held in England. An official oontradiction has been given to the report that the King of Spain intended abdicating. Phylloxera is spreading both in the Northern and Southern Provinces of Spain. The cotton crop in Egypt is expected to be deficient both in quality and quantity. Suleiman Pasha's trial has commenced at Constantinople. It will last some time. Baker Pasha is to re-organise the Turkish gendarmerie, and to be charged with a apeoial service in Eastern Roumelia.