NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 700, 20 August 1870, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL.

A valuable seam of coal has been discovered on the Hamilton estate. Sir Arthur Guinness has offered to purchase the Dublin Exhibition Building for £53,000. It is announced that the Mont Cenis Tunnel will be completed by the end of next year. The Porte has granted 600 acres of land near Jaffa for a Jewish model farm.

It is said that the Greek Government will allow Mrs Lloyd a pension of £4OO a year.

Some very favorable assays of gold, found at the Tatin in South Africa, and received from Natal, have been made public. At the interment of Charles Dickens the burial service was read by the Dean of Westminster, and the body lies in Westminster Abbey in Poet's Corner, close to the coffin of Handel, at the head of the remains of Sheridan, and between those of Lord Macaulay and Cumberland, the dramatic poet.

The Thames Embankment Bailway has been opened for general traffic. A woman, on being told of the murders at Denham, became so excited that she committed suicide. It is stated in the " Levant Times " that the amount of property destroyed by the great fire in Constantinople exceeds five millions sterling, and that the loss of life has been fearful. "Up to June 8 more than a thousand dead bodies had been found, but the number of persons reported to be missing was 2,400. The editor of the "Levant Times," the clerks,and the compositors, were all burnt out, and saved nothing but their lives and those of their families.

It has been officially announced that orders have been issued for the withdrawal of all the officers and subordinates of the Army Departments, from Australia, one officer being left temporarily in each Colony, viz. :- Victoria, Western Australia, and New Zealand, to settle all claims against the Government, and to make arrangements for the future payment of pensions in those Colonies.

A fire broke out on June 4, at the factory of Messrs Young, Strang, & Co., muslin manufacturers, Glasgow, after all hands had left the works. The large mill, the warehouse, and its contents were entirely destroyed, and nothing was saved bufc the weaving

engine and boiler shed. The damage is estimated at from £20,000 to £30,000. The Lord Chancellor of Ireland is to be raised to the dignity of a Peer of the United Kingdom, by the tille of Baron O'Hagan of Tullahogue, in the county of Tyrone. The " Freeman " says he is the most popular Catholic in Ireland. For the first time in the history of the two I countries an Irish Catholic Chancellor I sits in the House of Lords. A party of Fenians, having refused to enter the car at Williamstown, New York, were fired upon by the Federal troops, and several were wounded. The House of Representatives has appropriated 100,000 dollars in aid of the Arctic Expedition. It is reported that a first-class European Power has offered 2,000,000 dollars for Samana Bay, in case the United States should repeal the pending Annexation Treaty. Thirty bachelors in Lansing, lowa, have sworn a solemn oath they will marry none but widows. At a premium at last, for the bachelors have all turned sixty-five. A Maine Yankee has invented a five-dollar sewing machine, which is about as large as a four-bladed jackknife, is self-feeding and knits a perfect elastic seam. It looks like an apple-parer or a nutmeg-grinder. Two boys in the employ of the Erie Eailway Company having swindled that company out of 270 dollars, the " New York Herald " heads the notice of the case, " The Force of Example." On June 13, it was announced that the President of theTJnited > tates had ordered the release of the Cuban privateer Hornet, that was seized last year at Wilmington. The owner gave bonds to the amount of 50,000 dollars that he would not sail against Spain. According to the usual monthly statement of the Secretary of the Treasury, the public debt of the United States amounted on June Ist to 2,645,000,000 dollars, being a decrease of 14,250,000 dollars, since May Ist, The coin in the Treasury amounts to 106,750,000 dollars, and the currency to 14,250,000 dollars.

The American Government has determined to rebuild Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbour, in order to preserve this relic of the opening of the late civil war. Although belonging to an obsolete style of fortification, the fort is to be restored nearly to its original condition, so as thoroughly to recall the past. The House of Representatives has referred to the President petitions from the Fenians Nagle and Warren, British prisoners, who asked for the interference of the Government of the United States on their behalf. The House requested the President to take such action as International Law and the facts of the case shall justify. Three gentlemen residing respectively in Washington, Qubec, and Toronto, have issued an invitation to the people of the United States and Canada to attend a convention at Niagara Falls, on July 4th "to see about annexing the two countries to each other." So the three tailors of Tooley street have their imitators in America.

A second list of subscriptions to the Irish Church Sustentation Fund appears in the Dublin papers. Among the subscriptions announced are two sums of £12,000 from individuals, one of £SOOO, two of £4500, two of £3OOO, two of £2OOO, twenty-six of £IOOO each, twenty-five of £SOO, and a number of £2OO and £IOO. Some of the parishes which in the height of the " manual controversy" passed resolutions refusing to send their subscriptions to the representative body, have repented of this determination, and now express confidence in its disinclination to Eitualism. The desirability of an early grant of the charter to the new Church is urged by many. Mr J. W. Ellison Macartney, J.P., of The Palace, Clogher, has intimated his intention of giving a sum equal to £2OOO per annum towards the Sustentation Fund of the Church of Ireland, as connected with the different properties in each parish in which he is interested.