SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2891, 22 May 1878, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

(Peb s.s. Albion at Hoeitika.)

(Pjee Peess

kail NWs to April 12.

An Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Scotch business is to be appointed. Mr Alcourt, Conservative, has been returned for Manchester against Sir Francis Lycett, Liberal. The Comus, the first of six steel corvettes for the nSvy, was launched at Glasgow, on the 3rd; She is a very powerful vessel.

• Sir —— Allison has taken charge of the intelligence department of the Ilorse iGuards. ,-•. • ■

I Mr Wm. Thos. Chalin, M.P., has been chosen common sergeant for the City of London. There were seventeen other candidates, including amongst them several other members of Parliament, and Mr Bourke, Under-Secieiary for the Foreign Office.

Questions have been asked in Parliament on several occasions relative id the execution of the Tanna native on board the, Beagle. The invariable reply is that the Admiralty are waiting for further information.

Canadian militia officers are offering their services ia large numbers to the British Government.

Abo it three thousand pounds 'have already been subscribed for the relatives of those drowned in.ttie Eurydice. A Governmeali enquiry is to be held. Masters of several vx sseis which were in the Channel the same afternoon that the frigate was lost state that ilio squall came On suddenly, and that it could not have been perceived from on board the vessel so close to the high cliffs of the Isle of Wight east of Ventnor. A grant of public money will be made to the families of deceased, as iv the case of the captain. A serious riot occurred at the Liver* pcol Sai.ors' Home on the 2nd. The

origin was owing to the dulness of trade. Many black saiiors are in port and cannot get employment. As a number of whites were b'jing shipped, the blacks, 200 strong, attacked them, and the riot was only ended by the arrival of a large body of police. Many of the seamen were severely injured. Out of 15 elections in France on the Ist inst, fourteen republicans were elected. A. fresh ballot is necessary in the other instance.'

An article" contributed by Prince Jerome Napoleon to the Eevue Dcs Deux Mondes has created much sensation.. It attributes the isolation of Franne in 1870 and 1871 to clericalism, and ..assents that had it not been for the rapid advance of the Prussians and the persistent refusal of the Emperor, prompted by the clerical party, to 'evacuate Roaie, both Austria and Italy would have consented to aid Francs. , The Nicaraguan Government have accepted the conditions impose! by Germany for the insult offered to the German Consul. A German squadron was sent to San Juan to enforce them.

The .Kmpe'ror of Germany has replied ■to the Pope's announcement of his accession ia a very courteous note, expressing his willingness to entertain friendly relations with the Vatican.

TII3 Pope is stated to hare entrusted GarJioal Cullen with negotiations with the English Government respecting the .establishment of a hierarchy in Scotland. Cardinal Manning having exhibited too Ultramontane tendencies, Cardinal Manning has returned to England. ' .[\ /.Telegrams from Rome in the Standard of the 9th says the Pope has stated that the actioi of England in the present crisis will be the means of saving Europe from Russien barbarism.

The Vatican will favor any alliance of L. tin Europe with England as a barrier against Slavism. A Commission of Cardinals has been appointed to investigate the Peter's Pence Fund. There is a report that large sums have disappeared, leaving no trace. Jhe administration is in the utmost confusion, and there is no means of knowing how much has been received, or how much spent for many years past. His Holiness has provided a remedy for all this in the filter:.