SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2920, 25 June 1878, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

(Per s.s. Abawata at the Bluiv.)

(Per Press Agency.)

Gercral Summaiy.

London, May 10. The Piince of Wales on visiting the Volonial Courts at the Paris Exhibition, is said to lnve greatly delighted the colonials by holding out the prospect of a not far distant visit to the antipodes. The Quejn is at Windsor in excellent hrJih. It has been finally arranged that the Duke of Edinburgh shall continue in the Mcdi erraneau. The Duchess will return to Bussia, on a visit to her parents.

The .Bishop Selsvyn memorial committee have resolved to erecL a monument in Lichfield Cathedral, and found a Selwyn College at Cambridge, to include provision for the education of mission students. Liberal subscriptions are flowing in. An impression generally prevails that ministers will appeal to the country at the close of the present session, which will be abridged whether there be peace or war. By a terrible squall which passed along the Biscayan coast on- the 25th ult., 80 boats were destroyed and 320 men and boys perished. By a boiler explosion at Dublin foundry on April 27 about 20 lives were lost and; vhe prem'ums were reduced to ruins. The uufortunate Eurydice is still at the bottom of the sea. All attempts to raise her have proved unsuccessful. There is much -' grumbling at the want of skill displayed, and the number of pensions dependent on those who perished is estimated at about SCO, to relieve whom £20,CC0 will be reqtrved, and nearly that amount has already been raised. . , '■ Advices from the Cape, continue dis-, quieting. Figbiiug from day to day is reported irom one quarter and another, wiih indecisive results. In each encounter fifty or sixty Kaffirs are killed, and sheep and cattle taken, but the enemy retires into his fortress, and so prolongs the contest.

It has requiied £19,003 a week to afford a moderate amount of relief to the distressed people on account of the strike in Lancashire. ' : ;

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has informed the House that the cost of the Indian expedition would be borne by the Imperial Exchequer, and that the troops while in Europe would remain, under the provisions of the Indian Mutiny Act.

The Czar lajtely signed a decree calling out 24 \OGO men of the reserves.

14;C03 spades have been sent to the Eusslu:i headq".arf"ers in iioumania.

20,030 cartridge s chests have been ordered in Holland and at Cronstadt, and "Whitehead torpedoes are. being steadily manufactured. One large factory wj.s re* cently b?.own up. ' ■

The military situation as regards Russia and Turkey appears to be improving. The attitude of Ihe Russian army in the neighbourhood of Constantinople is ltss menacing, while tfce Turks have been diligently employed during the past few dajs in multiplying and strengthening the defences arourd their capital, so that auy attempt on the pari of the Russians to seize the city would certainly provoke a stubbora resistai se.

Intolligence comes from Armenia to the eff ct that the Russians are moving in considerable force into the districts adjoining Batoum, wjth the intention, apparently, to attack the place if it should not yield peaceably. , .. The Christian population are hostile io Russian rule. They flee from their homes and abandon their fields, and bave sent formal complaints to the Porte of the cruellies of the invaders. ;

Baker Pasha's appoinlmeot to the couimand of the division occupying part of tue defensive lines of the capital is regarded with satisfaction at Constantinople. Tbejines are occupied by 90,000 men, and forces a.c consij-jtly arriving from Asia.

The Sultan inspect: ' his troops last wejk. __^___