SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2778, 9 January 1878, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

(Via the Bluff.)

(Pee Pbess Agency.)

Melboubne, January 3.

Four new-Cardinals are to be created at the next consistory—Monseigneurs Maram and Pelegrini of the Apostolic Chamber, Monsignor Morelti, Archbishop of Ravenna, and Monsignor Agostini, Patriarch of Venice.

A new Ministry has been formed in Holland. The King is about to contract a morganatic marriage with Mddlle Eniilie Hambre, an actress in her 25th yecr.

Much alarm is felt throughout the kingdom in consequence of numerous deaths from hydrophobia. The same or a very similar disease has brolken out; amongst the deer in several parks.

A Swedish arctic expedition is to start next spring trying to force a passage along the coast oLSiberia, and returning home through Behringa Straits and the Suez Canal. The two ressels carrying the expedition will be victualled for three Jear9- ♦

An Italian chemist has discoTcred a new process of tanning leather, greatly reducing the time required, and abolishing the nauseous effluvium prevalent near tanyards. The cost is very slight.

The Supreme Court has annulled Lord Fenzance's decision against Mr Tooth in the Hatcham case, on the ground that his lordship was not authorised by the tenor of the Archbishop of Canterbury's direction for the trial in sittings at Lambeth.

A Roman Catholic Hierarchy is to be established in Scotland at the beginning of the year, and it is slated that a Scotch Cardinal will be created.

The new Opera House on the Thames embankment is not to be completed for theatrical purposes, the project lapsing for want of support. It has been suggested that the area on which the massive foundations hare been placed might be available for the proposed India and Colonial Museum.

The Thames Ferry between Kotherhithe and Wapping was formally opened by the late Lord Mayor on October 31.

Cleopatra's needle will remain at Terrol during the winter, pending the settlement of salvage by the Admiralty Court.

Stanlej arrived at the Cape from Loandra in H.M.s Industry, and received a most hearty welcome. After conveying his followers to Zanzibar he expected to arrive:in .England early in December. He has received congratulations from all quarters. » Mr James Baill, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and Mr A. B. Walker, Mayor of Liverpool, are io be knighted. An order was received at Chatham dockyards on the 16th directing that the Monarch, Imulus, and several other men of war that were being got ready rapidly for sea should not be commissioned until April or May. :;■-' ; Admiral Eandolph has succeeded ViceAdmiral Beauchamp Seymour in command of the Channel squadron. Lord Derby, replying to a deptation, said he differed from the prevalent opinion that the Euphrates Valley was the best route to India. He also said Constantinople was not in imminent danger, and the Suez Canal was not menaced. Several general officers fell at the taking of Kara. . , The war news generally is anticipated. Tho Countess of Aberdeen has been robbed of five thousand pounds worth of jewels while on her wedding tour at Serenoaks. '