SUEZ MAIL ITEMS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2644, 29 June 1877, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL ITEMS.

A verdict has been given against; the Brighton Aquarium Company for £200 for keeping open on Sunday, but the Court of Exchequer granted a rule for a new trial. ; - Works at the Royal arsenals and the dockyards are being carried forward with dispatch. It was stated at Woolwich on the sth that within a fortnight there would be ready for issue at an immediate notice a complete equipment for an army corps of 50,000 men. . At a review of the Highland* Rifle Military, at Fort George, on the 22nd, upon Colonel Kois asking who would volunteer for active service, the whole regiment, 700 strong, stepped forward as one man. Lieutenant-Colonel Baker, of the 18th Eoyal Irish, who served in New Zealand, has been appointed an A.D.C. to Her Majesty. Colonel Herbert Sandford, -R.A., has been knighted for his services at the Philadelphia Exhibition. The Duchess of Edinburgh is visiting the Queen, and will shortly proceed to Russia for a lengthened stay. Becruiting is brisker than ever since the Crimea war. . . ' The news of war breaking out in the East was received with great satisfaction ] at Aldershot, it being hoped that it would lead to active service. * A Birmingham manufacturer has received an order from the British Government for 25,000 tents. . , Five hundred of Wbitehead'storpedoes have been bought at £500 each. ; The Emperor of Germany has been, visiting Alsace and Lorraine, and has been well received. During an illumination at Mete the. Cathedral caught fire, and was seriously injured". ThekEmperor and Yon Moltke superintended the efforts to extinguish the flames. <■-. rl\ \ Pabis, May 24. The French MinfgJrjjUt-the. request of the Spanish Government have ordered the expulsion of Don Carlos from France. - ; ' ; '' May 16. Negotiations for;; the renewal -cf a Treaty of Commerce between England and France, are virtually suspended, the French Ministry feeling unable to press the Chamber 6Fj)eputies for an extension of free-trade upless England reduces the import duty on cheap wines. rT" - May 17. ;:..After a violent speech by M. Gambotta, the" Chamber of Deputies adopted, by 335 against 154 votes, a resolution brought forward by him that the Chamber could only place confidence in a Cabinet possessing freedom of action and governing in Republican principles.

ItdbiE, May 24. There are daily receptions, and bands of pilgrims from all nations are pouring into Rome. They come offering presents, and many receptions are bein* heldatthe Vatican by the Pope. His Holiness, in receiving some German pilgrims, made a speech, in which he. compared the Emperor of, Germany to Atilla. Constantinople, May 14. The Turkish Chamber of Deputies voted an address thanking England for her reply to the Russian Circular justifying the proclamation of war. May 24. The demonstration of Softas only numbered 2,000. A deputation of five of them was admitted to the >■ Turkish Chamber of Deputies, and demanded certain Ministerial modifications. A court-martial has been ordered on the Governor of the Ardahan fortress, with reference to.the retreat of the -Turkish force from that place before the enemy.