SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2806, 11 February 1878, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

(Via the Bluff.)

(Pee Pbess Agency.

! Mjsmjouhne, February 5. : ; . * iLoNDOJf, December 21. { Speaking at Edinburgh on the 20th, the' Secretary of State for War thought the great danger to. peace arose from the large, reserves, numbering many millions of men, collected on the Continent. I Earl Beacdn3Jfieid has contradicted the reports that the, Pope has written an autograph letter to the Queen thanking her for freedom of action in connection with the establishment of a Catholic hierarchy in Scotland. j Five vessels, it is stated, have sailed for Australian and New Zealand ports during the last; two months with quantities of gunpowder, varying from ten to a hundred tons, on board.

The City of Berlin, which brought the Australian mails via 'Frisco, was 33 days crossing the Atlantic, having broken', her propeller. She was met and taken in tow by the City of New York.,, Twenty, guineas premium were paid on her. ; The Masons' strike continues, but mas-; tersi and men decline to givb way. Several fights have occurred between the English and foreign workmen. „. 4 , ' Eight thousand .Northumberlandminors were locked out on the 18th for refusing to accept twelve aud a-half per cent, reduction. - The iron trade at Sheffield is ,very much depressed. It is stated that a large number of mea received fortnightly wagesChief Inspector Clurke, who was acquitted at the late detective trial, has been restored to full pay, arid reinstated, but will forthwith retire on a pension., The new fortifications in Germany aro being rapidly completed, i The commercial treaty between England and Austria is to be prolonged. The Milan municipality have granted an eligible vote for an International Exhibition to be held in 1879. ; : Captain Malcoem, E.N., is organising thy lted Sea Auti-slavery Police. . ;; Queen Isabella and the wife of Don Carlos have exchanged visits iv Paris, aiid there is a prospect of the 40 years Carliat feud being healed. The fall of Plevna was received with the greatest rejoicing in Ilussia, Itoumania and Serviu. The Russian loss, as officially stated, was ten officers and 182, men killed, 45 officers and 1207 men wounded. The Turks lost 4COO killed and wounded, and there were captured 10 pashas, 128 staff officers, 200U officers, 30,000 infantry, 1200 cavalry and 77 field guns. The siege of Plevua, from first to last,

h«3 cost tho '.Russians 70,000 men. The Emperor'conferred orders of the highest class ori the Grand Duke Nicholas, Prince Charles of Koiimanin, and General.Tqdloben. Many other, officers huvo been decorated.

An anti-Russian, meeting, attended by 800 persons, mostly students and laborers, was held at- Pesth on Sunday. Violent speeches were made, and M. Tizza declined to receive more than ten or twelve persons to present the resolutions agreed to. "The mob broke into ins dwelling, driving buck the guard on duty. The windows were smashed, and cries raised of "Down with And.mt.sy;,". ".Down with Tizza." Order was only restored by calling out the troops: Tho Trcmedenbla, the following day stated that such manifestations would, have no effect on tho Austrian .polioy'.inndSaddtfd/jf we were to cry "half' to Russia we should, simply plunge ourselves into war with Russia, and increase the hostility of Germany and Italy* ' „'"■' The Greek Cabinet, at a meeting on the 17th; decided upon- pursuing a peace; policy. ;,',>:;*■ ' i- -\ ■■:■' ■'■ : ■.""•■' A popular demonstration .in favor of war was put'down by the police. The King has written a letter to Vienna, saying that war would bo fraught with great, disadvantages to Greece, and he would not resort to it except from pres-V sing necessity. , A hundred and four cannon were found buried at Plevna. J ; , -

In an engagement on the Lorn on 13th inst. the Czarewich was so much exposed to the Turkish fire that a ball grazed his head. ■ ■ ■• • '• <" ' :i ■'• ■ ■■'"'■ " • ''' "

The flight of the Exkessan of Khokand from Orenbcrg is expected to cause serious difficulty to the llussians in Central Asia.' :i'":r "'"" ''" '"': '."' ;,.'' ' '■'