The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-02 00:00:00

Telegraphy in the Antipodes.

Our Australasian friends are determined not to be
outstripped in the rapid transmission of intelligence
by any older States. South Australia is indulging in
a very important and comprehensive enterprise. By
the construction of a line uniting the northern
and southern parts of the Continent, and the com-
pletion of auxiliary works, the principal Australian
cities will be brought into direct communication
with London. The line which starts from Port
Augusta on the north will be connected on the
south at Port Darwin and with the submarine cable
of the British Australian Telegraph Company. Such
an enterprise does honour to the public spirit of
colonial statesmen, and its indirect influence is likely
to be nearly as important as the direct advan-
tages to be gained from it. Traversing the
interior of Australia of which so little
is known, much valuable information will be
gained, and as, wherever the telegraph goes, other
means of communication are sure to follow, we shall
have an end of the great blank now separating North
and South, and trade and commerce will profit by
the change. It is not the first time that our colonists
have exhibited a truly imperial spirit in matters of
practical science, and it is to be hoped the Home
Government will meet them half way in arranging
the details of the matter.

The Khedive is said to have abandoned all inten-
tion of visiting either Europe or even Constantinople this
year.
THE GREEK EX-MINISTER OF WAR.—A tele-
gram received in Vienna from Athens via Corfu an-
nounces that the conduct of M. Soutzos, ex-Minister of
War, is to be the subject of a judicial inquiry.
ALGERIA.—The France repeats a rumour of un-
favourable news from Algeria, which encourages the
belief that a new expedition will be necessary, owing to
the aggressive attitude assumed by the hostile tribes of
the south.

THE SUEZ CANAL.—A. special report of the
Memorial Diplomatique says that M. de Lesseps arrived at
Cairo on the 27th of May, and has had daily conferences
with the Khedive in order to concert preliminary mea-
sures for the sale of the lands belonging to the Suez Com-
pany, which will take place as soon as the judicial reform
is inaugurated. The chief foreign navigation companies
have already entered into negotiations with the Suez
Canal Company for the purchase of land at Port Said.
The total of these purchases amounts to four millions of
francs.

AN ADDRESS TO THE EMPEROR.—A deputation
from the department of Mevre has had an audience with
the Emperor, and has presented him with an address
from the communes of that department, signed by 19,000
persons. After congratulating the Emperor on the success
of the Plebiscite, and declaring him to be the chosen of
the nation, the address goes on to say that the more
rapid the development of liberty, the greater right had
France to demand from her Government the inauguration
of respect for the national will, which is the first of prin-
ciples, and public security, which is the first of benefits.
" Seven millions of voices, sire, ask this from you, and
you hear them, for it has been said in your name. You
penenify the Eight ; in me a need, Y9ll will by Fyne,"

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P UZIS CORRESPONDENCE.
TUESDAY EVENING 4.
A prorogation of the Chamber in a week's time is spoken
of, but I should hardly think the experiment will be made,
for it would certainly make an unfavourable impression.
As the majority has cried out so much about the loss of
time, when really useful debates were in question,
this untimely prorogation would be a strange contradiction.
An observation of,M. 011ivier's in the Salle des Pas
Perdus yesterday is worth repeating, as a straw to shew
how the wind blows: He was going in when all the
deputies were coming out, and was told he was too late.
" Ah !" said the Minister quietly, " and there will not be
another sitting till Thursday." " That is no great mis-
fortune," replied the first Parliamentary Minister
of the Constitutional Empire, who is certainly a little
weary of his "faithful Commons."
It is said I do not know with what truth that M
Cermoctu has seceived permission to return to France, and
that he intends very shortly to avail himself of it. It has
been suggested that in this case the journalists, who have
certainly been less serviceable to the Opposition than M.
Ceruuschi's hard cash, might be relieved of some of the
penalties imposed on them.
While on the subject of the Press I must tell you the
sale of the Lilierte is denied in toto. The statement that
it had been made over to M. Detrozat, the nephew of
M. de Girardin, is contradicted. The redoubtable Emile
is still to retain the direction of affairs—a fact which will.
apparently be less advantageous to M. 011ivier than it
would have been some weeks ago.
The French navy, if we are to accept the dictum of
Admiral Rigault de Genouilly, who ought certainly to
know something of the matter, was never in a better con-
dition. The Minister of Marine, moreover, affirms that
the fleet is ready to put to sea at the shortest notice.
Among the many complimentary and congratulatory
addresses which the Emperor has lately received was one
of some interest to Englishmen. The English and Ame-
rican inhabitants of Tours have presented an address to
his Majesty congratulating him on his escape from the
complot.

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Strikes appear to be gaining ground in France. Iron-
mongers, metal-workers, weavers, shoemakers, and miners
have all been displaying their powers of coercion in this
line of late. The problemssonnected with the relations
between labour and capital are just beginning to assume
a troublesome prominence in this country.
I am sorry to find that, in spite of our deserved repute

for good manners, we Parisians have still some Goths
among us ; and a notice pasted in the public reading-room
of the Bibliotheque Imperiale calls attentionto theinumber
of books lost, injured, or removed from the library.
The smallpox still continues its ravages, and M. Le
Prince de la Tour d' Auvergne is the last person of note
who has been attacked by it. This eminent diplomatist
is intended to replace. the Duke of Grammont as Ambas-
sador at Vienna. In awaiting his recovery the French
Embassy at Vienna is conducted by Count Cazaut, as
Chargé d'Affaires.
Prince Napoleon, who was not able to attend the in-
auguration of the Suez Canal, had intended to visit Egypt,
where M. Lesseps is at present, but he has been prevented
by the illness of his eldest son, who is suffering from an
attack of smallpox.

It is thought that the Ministry will use every exertion
to'get through the Parliamentary work, in order that
the Chamber may be closed by the middle of the month
of July. The other day M. Jules Ferry called the
attention of the Government to the prevalence of small-
pox in Paris, and said that re-vaccination ought to be
resorted to. M. Chevandier de Valdrome, the Minister
of the Interior, said that the public establishments were
all in a healthy condition, and that his department hid
afforded every facility to re-vaccination. The disease had
not broken out in the prison of St Pelagie as had been
reported. With regard to re-vaccination he had so much

faith in it that he had desired all the members of his
department to resort to the experiment, and he himself
had set them the example.
The visit of the King of Bavaria to Berlin, which the
Prussian press has talked so much about, will not take
place after all; but, on the other hand, King Louis in-
tends to meet the Emperor of Austria by the Lake of
Stahrenberg, where the Empress Elizabeth will pass some
weeks with her illustrious parents.

There seems a fatality attending out-door life in Paris

just now. The other evening M. Pelletier was driving in
his carriage in the Champs Elysees, when he came in con-
tact with another carriage with such violence that he was
thrown out. His head was so seriously injured that he
has lost all consciousness. It was only by accident that a
gentleman recognised him at the chemist's, where he was
taken, and he was then carried home. M. Pelletier is the
president of the Chamber, a la Cour des Comptes.
A great scandal has been caused in the religious world
by the civil interment of the Abbe Laroque of the diocese
d'Eoreux. During the time of his ministry there was no
suspicion as to his heterodoxy, but after his death one of
his nephews, who attended his last moments, ordered
the funeral to take place as described. A brother to the
Abbe was also present at the time, but he throws
the responsibility of the affair upon the nephew. The
public is divided between two opinions—either of which
is painful to consider. The Abbe Laroque must have been
a deceiver all his life, or else his family must have taken
upon themselves to carry out their own notions at the
expense of his character.

In Tuesday's sitting of the Cortes Senor Garrido
proposed the immediate election of a King, which failing
in three successive divisions, Le then moved that the
Federal Republic should be accepted as the definite form
of Government.

It is said tkat two of the young gentlemen so
unhappily' involved as leaders in the iconoclast riots at
Christ Church, Oxford, are the sons of partners in two of
the wealthiest London breweries, one of whom is a dis-
tinguished patron of art.
Mr. Thomas Heslop, farmer, of Battlebridge, arose
early on Monday morning, and went out with his gun for
the purpose of shooting small birds. Some time after-
wards he was found lying dead, having been shot, and his
gun, which was discharged, lay by him.

The screw troopship Tamar sailed from Ports-
mouth yesterday for Quebec with two companies of Royal
Engineers and discharged dockyard workmen (principally
from Woolwich and Chatham), with their families, as
emigrants to Canada.

The Record says the Ritual Commissioners have
adjourned till the 27th of June, and it is therefore evident
that there is to be no report this session. It is, however,
understood that certain resolutions are in a fair way of
being carried as a substitute for a report.
The Record is informed that the announcement of
Sir Robert Phillimore's intention to strike the Bennett
case off his list of causes in the Court of Arches, was on
the next day followed by a movement on the part of the
proctors for the promoter, which will be sufficient to avert
the execution of this threat.
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Admiral Rigault de Genouilly, French Minister
of Marine, has just given ample details to the Committee
upon the Budget as to the state of the French Navy.
He stated that it was never in a better condition than
at present, nor more ready to put to sea at the shortest
notice.

The Hon. and Rev. Francis Nathaniel Clements
Hon. Canon of Durham and Vicar of Norton, near Stock-
ton on Tees, has died at the vicarage of congestion of the
lungs, after a few days illness. The vacant living is in
the gift of the Bishop of Chester, and is worth £378 per
annum, with residence.
The American papers delivered in London yesterday
mostly contain critical notes of Mr. Disraeli's new novel.
The New York Times considers " Lothair " a surprisingly
able production. It combines in a striking degree the
lightness, the elasticity, and the imaginative freshness of
youth with the tact and the wisdom of age. To carry the
former attributes into advanced life is said to be one of the
characteristics of genius. Mr. Disraeli's imagination is
so naturally vivid, and is still so unworn by time, that he
is able to paint con amore with all the vigour and
picturesqueness of lusty manhood scenes the attractive-
ness of which, for men of his years, ha 3 usually vanished
for ever."
BURNING OF A SHIP AND Loss OF SIX LIVES.—
Intelligence has reached Liverpool of the total destruc-
tion by fire of the ship Sunbeam, Captain Chadwick,
on the 31st of March last, at Valparaiso, and the
loss of six of the crew. The fire is reported to have
been caused by the ignition of a case of var-
nish in the hold and the flames communicating
with a quantity of saltpetre, which formed a portion
of the cargo, the vessel was soon wrapped in
flames from stem to stern. Immediately after-
wards a fearful explosion took place ; the
Sunbeam lurched suddenly over, and went down,
taking with her six of the sailors The whole affair
was so sudden, that there was no time to launch a
boat, and the remainder of the crew precipitated
themselves into the sea, clinging as well as they could to
a studding sailboom, a plank, and a hencoop. Fortu-
nately, there were three whalers in sight at the time of
the explosion, and one of them bore down to the scene of
the disaster, and succeeded in rescuing the survivors, who
consisted of Captain Chadwick, his son, the mate, and
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