SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3634, 19 August 1880, Page 2

SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

(Pboh thi Eubopbik Mail, July 2.) Mr Gladstone apprehend! a delay in settling the French treaty: It is impoa■ible that the new wine duties shbuld take effect before the 15th August, and there* fore a fresh proposal will be laid before j Parliament next year. ; , :P" The second reading of the bill wag carried in the Commons in favor of Sunday closing in Wales. ./; : .... The French Government hay*. Intro* duced a bill granting an amnesty to tH engaged in the disturbances in 1870 and 11871, including all convicted for press and ! political offences before the 19th June. I An amendment to exclude all guilty of | common law offences was neglswred: by the .Chamber by 262 totes .against; 186. The bill was, ultimately carried by 333 Totes against 140. „ -, „„ . , ,;; ; ! The religious orders in Franoehave taken no steps to comply with die lawi and. refuse to obey the decree whiehoon* stitutes them illegal bodies. ; ,' Several orders are preparing' to remove to England.' • ••'/■■; :.-i -.! t-~ <*] On the 26th tilt. Lord Houghton presented a petition, signed by 42,500 fediesV in favour of legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister. He moved the second reading of the bill.; Lord Beau* champ opposed the measure, especially, the making it retrospective. Lord Clifford condemned establishing the principle denounced in the Levitieal law. Lord Coleridge considered that it would interfere with the saoredness of domestic happiness. Earl Granville supported the proposal on the ground that large numbers desired to eontraot saoh marriages. The House of Lords threw out the bill. The Commons carried a resolution in favor of dosing public houses entirely on Sundays, except that provisions should be made for the sale of liquors in limited hours for consumption off the premises. The Sultan is in a state of nervous excitement, fearing the end of the imperial . power. He meditates rendering the Dardanelles impregnable by torpedoes, forts* and batteries. The Berlin conference held the seventh, and last sitting yesterday, when a document was signed, embodying the decision relative to the new Turko-Greek frontier line. It proposes to give Greece all that she ever suggested she should have, except the Adriatic coast line north of the Kalamas, and the higher spurs of Olymphus. Greece acquires—the towns of Janina, Larisson, Ivfafova Preveso, Arta, Ac, with a great' portion of the Zagorian district,.and all the Thessalian Hill, south of Mount tlios. The inhabitants number about 260,000, more than a third being Mahommedan, and Greece undertakes to pay a proportionate share of the Turkish debt. The resolutions of (he Conference will be em*, bodied in a collective note which will be communicated to Turkey and Greece. Some anxiety, however, exists regarding the final issue.of this question, in view of the disinclination of Turkey to yield territory to Greece, and the faot that the Albanians, who occupy a large .portion of it, are encouraged by the Forte in their refusal to surrender anything to Monte* . negro or Greece. ■ <•■ . The Sultan has ordered measures to " be taken to render the Dardanelles im> ? pregnable by torpedoes, and the erection of batteries for a plunging fire. Other ■■ warlike preparations are being made althouKh it is considered highly, improbable that the Sultan will' openly resist the decision of the Berlin conference. Greece, however, does, not believe she will acquire, the ceded ferri- > tory without war, and is making military preparations on a large scale,