SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2575, 9 April 1877, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

VIA THE BLUFF.

(Piiß PjtESS AGENCY.)

WELLINGTON.

/Sunday^ MuißounNEi"April 3. Tho Bangalore remains in Quarantine till April the 7th. ; . \

London, February 10. The Queen, in opening Parliament, proceeded in state in a coach drawn by eight cream-coloured horses, the first time it has been used. for.a number of years. The, weather was magnificent, and there was an immense throcg. Lord Beacon afield' was received' with' repeated cheers. He was introduced to the HouSe* of Lords by Earls Derby and Shrewsbury. The address in the Lords was indeed by Lord, Grey de Wilton, seconded by the Earl of Haddington. In the Commons Lord. Galway and Mr Fair performed the same office. In reply>,to Earl Granvillej Lord Deroy explained the reason why the Blue Books; did -not contain Salisbury's: account of the interviews with McMahon and Decazes andßismarck, whilst that relative to his conversation with the Austrian and Italian Ministers was given, was that the forme. 1 wa3 of a far more confidential charactery and its .republication would produce an vnpleasant feelingabrqad. , ; The second reading of the Public-house Closing Bill was carried by a large majority. '■ ':" :. <J ':■ - .At Newcastle; Joseph Cowan addressed., his constituents on the Eastern question, condemning Earl Beaconsfbld's speech at; the outset of. the agitation. He com-j mended Lord Derby's subsequent action.! | He had faith in Midhat Pasha, and "thofsht the Turkish Constitution s should; have a fair trial. > ,",.,-*" • The, Queen; is at Osb >me in "cxjjef lent healtli.' ' '^.'[ "_'.. , ■"."*"". ] The Chinese envoyd were; presented to her Majesty by Sir-Thos. Wade. c ; The^Duke of Connaught met witbyia slight accident when out. hunting, but it is not.is'eyious..-_!.< '■-■!. ■;..■■: .-':,;,,;■;-.,■ v -h : .\ Mr-May, AUoiney-Generalforlreland, has been appointediLord Chief; Justice. Mr: Gibson, for Dublirr^Uni-; versity, succeeds-'him, and has been re-: elected without opposition.: >v;"yw:- ;. :i MF Plunketty M.P;,. lias retired. front the ? Irish:J:^olicitoriG'etibralsViß» i.:''W rhi:6h; hais bi?en accepted by Mr Fit^gibbons, .iThe;Eev.-E. Bickerste'th. is likely to be the new Bishop of Kochester, consequent upon Dr. Claughton's transfer to the see ofStrAlbahs" "*' ' ~" '!■""■]

There are r,enewedjoutbreaks of smalM pox at Blackburn, arid it continues at St.! Peter'sr mr rthe r; Isle of jThanet:.' 3 pie ?disease'lias committed ■ great ravaged. The Tillage is tabqoe(?:,--and.«ll communication with it stopped; In!' London deaths are not so numerous.... The Prince and Princess of Wales, with - their household,, in -the tqwn of Sandringham, have been re-vaccinated. Cleopatra's Needle is to be brought to' London and placed on the Thames Embankment, pi, the sole, expense of Dr.' Erasmus "Wilson. Mr Froude has accepted tha candidature and lectureship of the Glasgow University. •. .-. - ' General Tachernayeff has taken up his quarters with his family in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. ::Nb public dembristration has been made. , Silon, a Mexican, rode 505 miles at the Agricultural .Hall in 52 hours.. He was to have ridden 6CD miles, but the horses could not keep it up^, r , „. ■ - ; A poor woman in Liverpool, without expectation, came into seventy thousand pounds, through the death of a relative! whom she neverknew. ? - A man named Druce, who deserted his wife and three children, and joined the Shakers in New Forest, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for deseition. Disclosures were made that the Shakers, men and woicen, were in the habit of , dancing, together in perfect nudity. In consequence of the appearance of the cattle plague in the metropolis, an Order in Council has been issued prohibiting the removal from London of cattle, sheep, or goats. Similar orders have been issued> in Germany and Belgium. Fresh outbreaks of rinderpest have also ap-

pe^re'd. The miners in the Forest of Dean have consented to accept ten per cent, reduction, on the understanding that when coal advances one shilling per ton the old rate will be paid. A number of convicts^at the Naval works, hauling bowlines, .near Queenstown, attacked the warders with picks and shovels, and the military were called out and charged the prisoners with fixed bayonets. , - • - . Tread way, found guilty of the murder of. Collins, at Plimlico, put in a plea of insanity, but failed. A frightful tragedy, has taken- place at St. Brien, in Brittany. A Pluralist, named Lefol, sent for a captain in the; 71st Regiment, wfom_he suspected ofj being intiinate with hi*-wife, arid staibbedi him on his arrival, and then went and! stabbed his wife to the heart, and finally, in company with a young woman, com-: mitted suicide. ; _ ; .rSriA woman named .Elizabeth Kirkbridge has been committed for trial at Ptmrith: charged with murdering and concealing the bodies of six infant children she-has had during several year's^- There was great sensation in Court" doling the hearirigof the case.;. She.accused a man she had been living with as the instigator of the crime. He had left her and married.

Considerable excitement was manifested some days ago on the discovery of a number of bodies on nn undertaker's premises near the Regent?i?Park, and an investigation showed that they were still-: born children, for the burial of which; the man said he had fees but had never removed them to the cemetery. Commodore Hoskins has been appointed aide-de-.camp'to the Queen. - .: There were fearful gale 3at sea and land during January, and between thirty and forty .North Sea fishing smacks are missing, with about two hundred men on board.

The steamer George Washington was< wrecked off' Cape Race, and all on board (twenty-four in number) perished. M. Thiers has had a severe attack of illness. * i\. -. : Count De Chambord is said to be-stay-ing at Versailles. Many hundred papers in France have been fined in vrrious sums for.slanderous articles against the mother of the Empress Eugenic. The exports to New Zeaknd are £184,400.

It is generally understood that Abraham (formerly Bishop of Wellington) will be the first Bishop of Derby. A special service wss held for the sick fund in the cathedral at Lichfield, in connection with" the consecration of the Hey. J. E. Bclwyn in New Zealand as Bishop of Melanes a. The Argus correspondent telegraphs that a small local loan for New Zealand has also been successfully negotiated during the past month. The City of Christchurch instructed the Bank of New Zealand to invite tenders for the half of a loan for £200,000, the money to be employed in carrying out an efficient scheme of drainage.for that city and district. In the announcement the Times warned the colony of the danger involved :'i making these appeals to the British purse. " The rapidity," says the ci*y editor, "wEh which the Government and municipalities of New Zealand bring out new loans | is not a good sign, and it is to be re-! gretted that Works .so indirectly beneficial" as drainage could not have 4>een^maUe with money rnised in the town itself,; secured though it be on the rateable pro-i perty of the town said to be of an annual value of £201,301, This loan can h,ardly form*; an enticifag" subject^iff investment here." The public, for once, however,: .did- not heed theso solemn dissuasions,! the 6 per cent, debentures"at a minimumi of 98 were too attractive to bo resisted! when there is.BUchSM"rphisage» ofmoney I in the market earning nothing. Appli-j cation has been made to the titock Ex-: change Committee -for a special .settling! day in respect of this loan ; and an official; quotation in the,daily list. The posi-; tion of New Zealand securities in ourmarket has undoubtedly: -been™ streng-; thened by--t'he; public announcement re-; cently made.by. the r Agpt)t-Gcneral that! the Government will ridtf bring forward! any r further loan in -London during, the; present yearr**? <<-^*--- . ..3. . - „SHiPi>iN<3-.-^|ailed.;-,; Ben Poidel, VJt? for| Wellington, January 29; Hoogley, for; ._Ot9-gp-,t^yMjtT^'^B : i;Lomb^TA, for Auok-j land, January 26; Otago, for Porti.'tJnal-; mers,.,February- 1; Piako;. for Canter-i bury, February 5 ; Alabaster, for; Auckland, February; 1; Hermioneirfor; Otago, February 12. Loading at Lori-; donr.For Auckland,rK.Zv^-Spirit of the; Dawn, Dilpussund, Yosmit, Hudson. For ■ Canterbury !^Primere; jMerope, Wanganui," ODaTte;'.^aikato. i For'Otagp^Epkewpo^ilslit^A^lilesey," Zealandia, 'Waitangi^jFdnarsnire. For Wellington—Weririihgton, Queen of the West, Warlock, J. Broughton, Halcione. At. Glasgow for Lytteltqn, Liirline,;. and .fo^P4rfciGhalmerß,tDehne3rbgrl L >sA'< itj