THE SUEZ MAIL.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 167, 22 April 1872, Page 3

THE SUEZ MAIL.

By the Wonga Wonga, on Friday, the Auckland portion of the Suez mail was received. From Australian papers wo take tho following telegrams, which are additional to those received by telegraph from the South : GENERAL SUMMARY. London, February 23. —The Court is in mourning for the death of tho Queen’s niece, the Duchess of Saxe Meiningen.— Mr Pope Hennessy is appointed Governor of the West African settlements.—Torpedo experiments are carried on vigorously.— An extraordinary case of disappearance of a Russian traveller has occurred in London.— Colonel Tomlin’s pertinacity has been rewarded by Mr Lowe ordering the Bank to exchange old silver for new, and the Mint to coin night and day to relieve the scarcity. OBITUARY. Mr Stansfield, M.P.; Elbevts, formerly a printer; C. Pcto; Robert Paterson, F. zoologist; R. P. Weber, manager of the National Discount Company ; Dr G. E. Day, General Loroon ; MajorGeneral Chesncy, aged 83; Admiral Gambier, 81 ; General Ewell, Confederate officer; General Beaston, LieutenantColonel Alison, Lord Morrey ; Dr Hinds, ex-Bishop of Norwich ; Sir T. Phillips ; John Poole, dramatist; James Thorne, Plymouth ; Rev J. Shedlock; Leigh Hunt’s eldest daughter; Mr Chorley, musical critic; Lieutenant-Colonel Wyndham ; Dr Morriss, Bishop of Troy; Canon Barrow ; Minister Gibson, Irish taxing officer. CONTINENTAL. FRANCE. France is again verging on a revolutionary outbreak. The Bonaparlists, Monarchists, and Bcpublicans are all conspiring against the present transitional situation. The Legitimist party have issued a manifesto, signed by 80 Orleanists. The Republicans are greatly excited. The National Assembly are adopting measures for the safety of the country in case of an outbreak. An important discovery of Communist correspondence has been made. The rabid Ultramontanism of the new Archbishop of Paris is producing a serious schism amongst the clergy, ot whom Moiulaine is leader; a a large secession is expected. AMERICA. Terrible tidings have been received of the massacre of foreigners from Buenos Ayres by a band of natives under tho leadership of a fanatic. INDIA AND THE EAST. Galle, March 16. — Tho Loothir expedition against the wild tribes has been entirely successful, with little loss. The Flying Squadron, under Admiral Hornby, is expected in Bombay in a few days. COMMERCIAL. The exports to Australia for the pas 4 weeks show a decline. The aggregate value is £687,700, against £1,060,200 for the previous month, or a decline of £372,500. Two clearances originally included in the taffies were finally effected later. To Victoria the shipments were £301,300; decrease, £161,000. To Sydney, £206,600; decrease, £74,200. To Adelaide, £30,000; decrease, £64,800. To Queensland, an increase of £43,700. To Swan Itiver, a decrease of £31,000. To Tasmania, a decrease of £23,500. To New Zealand, a decrease of £89,600. The aggregate declared value of British exports to the colonics for 1871 was £10,706,700. For the previous year it was £9,975,320.

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. March 12: The army estimates were decreased in the Commons ; an amendment was proposed by Mr Holmes for reducing it by 20,000 men, and another by Mr Monsell to 10,000. Both were rejected. —Mazzini is dead.—March 13 : It is feared that disturbances will break out in Spain in consequence of the coalition of the Radical Carlists against the Government. The Erie railway ring has been broken. The Conservatives have elected Mr Wallingford for East Gloucestershire. Sir C. Dilke’s motion regarding the Civil list is fixed for Tuesday. He asks for full returns of the income and expenditure. March 14 : Several witnesses prove the Tichborne claimant to be Arthur Orton. The Judge has refused the offered bail, and will consent to prosecution to-day.— Mary Ann Loder, of Wapping, the old sweetheart of Arthur Orton, identified the Tichborne claimant as her fforiner lover. She stated that he had been in his younger days a sweetheart of hers, and produced his love-letters to her. Sir Charles Cowper, at the banquet given to Mr Verdon, the late Agent-General of Victoria, declared that the colonies wanted English capital to develop their resources ; more liberal postal subsidies ; naval protection ; and more than all, population, but not British paupers. —Mrs Yelverton is about to visit Australia. She will bo recognised as the Miss Longworth, the lady whose actions at law in England, Ireland, and Scotland, several years ago, produced much sensation. —A motion was made in the House of Commons for tho production of the correspondence which took place between Mr Duffy and Earl Kimberley in reference to intercolonial tariffs ; but the Government declined to produce it till they had arrived at a decision on the matter. —The costs of the Firebrace Divorce case amount to £IO,OOO. —lron and all other metals are at extravagant prices in the English market. Peak Downs copper has advanced £1 on the previous month’s sale, and is now £92. —Advices have been received in London from Port Darwin, via the Timor Cable, to the 2nd February, stating that a horse-express trans-continental telegraph by way of the Roper River and the Alice Springs is impracticable. Obitua 'Y. —Generals Thomas A&hburnbam and Marcus Slad*.