Heads of Intelligence.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3212, 5 June 1879, Page 3

Heads of Intelligence.

, Another disaster, though on a comparatively insignificant scale, has befallen our troops in South Africa. A detachment of the 80th Regiment with a convoy of ammunition and provisions from Luneberej were surprised by .a large Zulu force at Intombi Drift. Sixty men were killed, and the remainder escaped by flight. ;.-, . The Queen will return to Windsor from Italy on April 26. ' : .- j iThequeation : of the mixed occupation] of Eastern Eoumelia is not yet settled. ! The Bulgarian Assembly has made^pro- ! gress with -.the* Constitution, and, has: adopted some - new articles, of; a ipurely i Democratic character. , There is a political crisis in Canada in cpna^qilenceiot^ Lord Lome,- having declined to adopt the action recommended by his Ministers as to the dismissal of the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec. ■ 'v General? Garibaldi .has! been; taken to Rome* where he-has been «Tiiitod by the King of Italyv^: ..':-.. uj .i.ii-j'i . : • It probable that England and "Prance wiU place pressure upon the Porte to catisp theEheciiye to retire. • The Duke and Duchess of s OGnnaught embarked at Bordeaux, March 30, in the royal yacht Osborne, for a trip in the Mediterranean, and ( hare since; visited Lisbon and Madrid. Priuce Waldemar, son of the Grown Princes of Germany, aged eleven, has died suddenly from ; heart disease.-, . > The House of Lords, has decided, on their appeal from t.h6l Scotch High; Court, that 1 trustees are boltl^ responsible *;as ■hareholdeVs ftbflhe extent ftf their ■ oWn private itfe'anis.'; - -; ■ ;:'- "•■:;': -; •• ■''■'■'' The University Boat Bace was won by Cambridge, who led all the way, by over a length. - OuiTtrAßY op the Month.—The Fon. H. Butler Johnstone; the Hon. C. Spencer Cowper j the Sight Hon. T. F. Kennedy j 1 I. Fletcher, M.P.,; Lady Tend'erden: The' Hon. Harriet A. L. Henley; The Hon. Eleanor Eden; R. Milward, J.P. and D.L. for Notts; Dr. W. Robertson, R.N.; Sir T. B. Beevor, Bart.; Gen. Sir C. S. Stuart, G.C.B; Lord George Hill; Viscountess Dungarvan; Countess of Radnor; Lady Charlotte Stuart; Lady Trevelyan; Admiral Smyth; Miss E. Meteyard (Silverpen); Sir A. Panizzi, X.C.8.; Sir H, L. Anderson, K.C.SJ.; J. Grairigef Maybr of Oxford; Capt. the Hon. R. G. E. Campbell, Coldstreams Guards (killed at the Qape) i, the Hon. C. W. G. Howard, M.P. ; J\ Crosslev, late M.P. for Halifax iDrF.R. Dixori, Bishop of Tasmania; H: Sneedy, late E.1.C0.; Dowager Lady Cockbmy; the Hon. Mrs Ramsden ; s Mr G-, Hadfield,: late M.P.; Sir Jjames^tewar^ Bart. -( ; ;