NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 181, 12 April 1878, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(Per Press Agency.) [Per s.s. City of New York via Auckland.]

GENERAL SUMMARY. The Pope proclaims the re-establislmien* of the Catholic hierarchy in Scotland. J. Ham Friswell, the author, is dead. The Crown Prince of Austria visits America.

The Pope indirectly expresses a wish for a compromise with Germany. He has charged three prelates to examine the affairs of the Church of Poland and proposes the solution of pending questions.

The Russian new loan of fifty millions of roubles was taken up immediately it was opened. Vernon, Bros., London stock brokers have failed. They were short half a million sterling in stocks. A storeroom in course of erection at Woolwich Dockyard fell burying hundreds of workmen in the runs. Many were seriously injured. The Times says : —" Nothing could speak more eloquently of the deadening effect of the apprehensions which have fiilerl Europe for many months than the cheapness of money in the Continental mnrket. We have had no greater danger to face for a long tiaae, than this superfieiajly cheap credit at homo and abroad. , ' The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has received from the Sultttn the Grand Cordon ot the Order of Medjidie, the only instance of its bestowal on a lady. There is a typhus fever epidemic at.St , Petersburg. Advices from India state that the Mahomniedans are greatly excited about the overthrow of Turkey, and serious trouble is apprehended unless the Government takes anti-Russian action. It is believed that 2,000,000 Moslem volunteers to serve against Russia could be raised easily. Mr Gladstone has declined an invitation to represent Leeds. Forty men were killed in a colliery explosion at the Unity Brook Pit, Kearsley, near Bolton. Another colliery explosion took place near Glasgow. Twelve miners were rescued and 17 remain in the pit. It is feared that all are dead. Cape Town news received at London says— " Governor Frere and the Com-inander-in-Chief are returning here. A severe engagement took place recently. The Kaffirs were completely defeated and many killed." A despatch from Berlin 6ays the National Liberals persistently refuse to take office unless taxes are voted annually by the Reichtstag. Herr Sulenberg, Chief of the Civil Service, is likely to succeed Herr Camplaunsen as Finance Minister. The plague is raging in Persia.