SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1640, 19 August 1887, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

London, July 28. 8!r Charleß Tapper, High Commissioner of Oanida, accompanied by Sir John Hose, lata Canadian Minister of Finance, and Mr Baden Powell, M.P. for the Liberal division of Liverpool, had an Interview on July 27th with Mr Gosohen, , Chancellor of the Exchequer, and urged , the adoption of the Canadian Pacific Railway as thefroute for British mails to i China and Australia. The Chancellor promised favorably to consider the matter, i Despatches of the 27th sa? the Porte hai decided to re-opeo negotiations with i England direct for the settlement of the ■ Egyptian question. Tho objeot of the j Porte Is to have the negotiations proceeded with without the other Powers i being oensolted with. < The congress for the codification of the < law of nations agreed on July 28 h to j ftoommend that the maritime powers j •dopk Wyeneoken's code, < The E»rl and Countess of Aberdeen ] arrived Home on July 25th. They speak i m warm terms of their reception m the < colonies and the United States, and regret the shortness of their visit. i i Mr Swinburne hafc watered the lists against what he calls the excessive hero worship of Walt. Whitman, the American poet. ' The British ship Barremaln, from 1 Shield! to San Francisco, Is reported (Jaly 2ist) loet with all on board. I It was "reported In Glasgow on July \ 22nd, that the ship Firth of Olna bad , been lost ir> a cyclone In Javan waters Lord Salisbury promised a deputation whloh called on him on July 21 at, to urge the Government to take steps to preserve British trade from foreign competition if i •Misted by bounties. He said that the < European Oonferecce would soon consider i the matter ; meantime he could only sty , that there were only two ways of dealing 1 with the sdbjeot. If reasoning failed, I Englishmen would return tho blow. i An exploring expedition, headed by ( Joseph Manson, started from London for i Central Afrloa on Jaly 23rd. Mr Andrew < Carnegie, the millionaire, pays the bulk j of the expentes. < One hundred members of the House of i Commons have formed a Committee for ] the purpose of endeavoring to cheapen 1 postal and telegraph charges between the < Mother Country and the colonies. i Brand worth, corn merchant, Bristol, \ failed on July 19th with liabilities reachIn* £60,000. J Profesior Tyndall published another anti-Gladstone letter on July 25th, called , forth by the candidacy of Bir George 0. ; Trevelyan for the Brldgeton division of j Glasgow. It says :— " I must renew my c solemn protest against the scattered t Royalists of Ireland beiog handed over to t the tender merciei of a hierarchy and the \ IfUh National League. Trevelyan has B abandoned the company of men of truth ( and honor to follow the fortunes cf a c hoaty rhetorician who sets at nau ht the £ plainest dictates of political morality." c At an electric bar quet held m London { on July 27th telegrams were read from all 5 quarters of the globe. ) John Nash Peoke, a colliery owner m j Staffordshire, has failed, with liabilities . bttween £100,000 and £200,000. , Lord Rosebery, speaking »t a Liberal baoquet on Jaly 18th, declared that Sir Ht Dru" mond Wolff had made England's name and honor a laughing stock m the back quarters of Constantinople. A violent eruption occurred on ths I«land of Galitia, m the Mediterranean, off the coast of Tunis, on July 25th. Btreams of lava Issued from the crater, and the glare from the fUmes emitted is visible for forty miles. Reports up to July 27 th on the condition of the Crown Prince Frederick William of Geimany are to the effect that he is progressing rapidly, arid has no difficulty m speaking ; but his physicians advise him to exerolse care. The Emperor William, Prince Bismarck, the Queen of Spain, and Senor C»ndons Des Castello hay »> received the Pope's gold medals m memory of the Caroline Islands arbitration. The Atabian Prees has announced that King John of Abyssinia seked Queen Victoria, through the British resideut at Aden, to mediate between Italy and Abyssinia. The Porte has dismissed Us reserves. A despatch of the 27th says th.t the arms manufactures at Sautil, Germany, have received orders for 500.000 side arms for the Tntkifth army. The Afghan boundary question wss settled on July 20th. Russia gives up the territory between the Kuphk and Murflhtb Rivers, accepting m return the English frontier en the Ox us River, rencunolng her claims to the districts to whioh she would be eDtltled aocordlng to the terms of the arrangements of 1883. Natives report, according to a Bombay despatch of July 20th, that Russia is secretly negotiatine with the Government of Kharkand, m Chineso Turkestan, for permit ion to pass troops across the country. Later despatches say that Sir W. Rldgway, the British Boundary Commissioner, is on his way Home. The Ameer Is dis contented with the boundary settlement, and says the concessions to Russia have bsea too Lberal. German papers think the settlement augurs peace m Central Asia.