Additional Mail Items.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2921, 26 June 1878, Page 3

Additional Mail Items.

London, May 10.

H.E.H. the Duke of Edinburgh has been transferred from the command of the Sultan to the Black Prince, the crews of the two ships havirg been changed. The "Black Prince is at Malta, and remains part of Lord John Hay's squadron.

The Duchess of Edinburgh returns to Russia, the Duke accompanying her a portion of the journey. She will, however, spend some time in Coburg. A movement is on foot for' the creation of a Bisnopric of Liverpool. The iund needed for the endowment is eighty thousand pounds, and half of this has already been promised. Sir J. Fergusson has recently been entertained at a banquet by the Greenock Conservatives, who' failed to return him to Parl;ament in the late*elecUon contest.

Colonel Wellesley has been appointed First Secretary to the English Embassy at Vienna.

In anticipation of elections for the new Parliament in autumn, candidates are everywhere working the constituencies, and many^bld representatives have signified their intention to retire.

The New Hall and Library at Xeble College Oxford, was opened, last" week with great ceremony. Mr Gladstone and Mr Gathorne Hardy were the principal speakers. There is an agitation among the metropolitan police for an increase of pay. It originated with the sergeants, and ■ has extended through every giade ,of the service. '-. . "-■' .'.■"-■ ....,' Obittjaky.-^Admiral Sir F. W. Grey, Mr G. B;..Crawford, M.P., for County Down rAldejrman Carter, Mr W. Mitchell (proprietor of the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette), and Viscount Southwell. ; :-- : --^/.y. :■■■-, ■ ■:<;■■

News from the (Jape is very diiqoieting. General Zhoismer Bas rendered himsely extremely popular with fche Volunteers. s ■

A writ of habeas for the production of the liev. Mr, Dodwell, from Broad moor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with a view to hi« discharge/ was refused by the Judges. - A remarkable will case has been proceeding for the last three weeks in the Irish Probate Court;. rMrs,Bagot. granddaughter of the late Sir H. Verner, challenges the will-of her husband (W. C. A. Bagot), who had large estates in the west of Ireland, and had amasssd an immense fortune in Australia. She con« tests it on the ground of unsomidriess of mind and undue influence. A son, born shortly after the marriage, was repudiated by the husband. * Some .disgraceful disclosures have been made regarding the Verner family. ■".■■.'. Humour has fixed upon stipulations respecting the delineation of the new Bulgaria,-and the cessions demanded in Asia Minor are those forming the chief subject of contention between the two Government.' It is said that England, Supported by* France, objects to the extension of Bulgaria to the iEgean sea board, while in Armenia she is determined to tolerate no changes calculated to compromise her communication with India.