SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2940, 18 July 1878, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

(Via Hokatika.)

(Pee Press Agency.)

London, June 7

The great constitutional debate was resumed in the House of Gommons on May 23. After the debate a division took place, which showed a majority for the Government of 121 votes. ■

Mr Newdegate was the only Conservative who voted for the resolution, though several abstained from voting. Altogether nineteen Liberals vo;ed for the Government, if the eight Irish Home Kulers who so voted may be ranked with that party. Several Liberals absented themselves. -

A Blue-book has been issued containing official correspondence respecting the insurrections in Thessaly and Epirus. The despatches are 233 in number, and show that the insurgents were induced to withdraw on the assurance of the British Government that the cause of Greece should not thereby suffer. A compromise has been arranged regarding the obstinately resisted Irish Sunday Closing Bill. On condition that its operation is limited to four years, it will be allowed to pass. A general impression prevails that if the Congress proves successful, the Government will appeal to the country, taking credit for their foreign policy, and obtain another lease of power.

The heat iv Calcutta has been unprecedented, and many deaths have occurred among Europeans from heat apoplexy. A serious outbreak occurred at Burresal gaol. Eighteen long term ponvicts escaped. Three were phot dead by the gu<M'd, and three mortally wounded. The latest famine reports from Mysore state that no cause for fresh anxiety exists, heavy rains having fallen there. The monsoon has set in down the coast, but has not yet fairly burst. In the Bombay district there is an utter stagnation of business owing to the unsettled state of politics and the near approach of rains. (This is only a portion of the mail news wired from King George's Sound this morning, Melbourne, 11th July.)