SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 222, 3 September 1878, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

(per press agency.)

[Per Australia, via Auckland.]

GENERAL SUMMARY,

The ceremonies in honour of Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury at the Guildhall were interrupted by a person who denounced the Plenipotentiaries as traitors to the Constitution Prince Bismarck has been asked by Greece to induce Turkey to come to terms. Russia is still buying Hamburg steamships. "■ In the debate on Lord Hartington's resolution expressing dissatisfaction with the Berlin treaty, the mover made a powerful attack on the Anglo-Turkish Convention, »nd asked if the British Government would have deemed a similar agreement between Eussia and Turkey justifiable. He said that Cyprus was useless for the defence of Asia Minor. Mr Gladstone resumed the debate, and read a letter addressed to Lord Beaconsfield asking him to cite instances n support of his accusation of unjust and reckless attacks against Lord Beaconsfield. Mr Gladstone said that he (Lord Beaconsfield) had debased the great name of England. Proposals will be made in September to erect Servia into a kingdom. The London Times writes severely against Mr Gladstone. ..There has been heavy fighting in the Transvaal, Africa, with losses to the British forces. Five hundred Peers and Commoners were present at the banquet of the Carlton Club to the British Plenipotentiaries at the Berlin Congress. Lord Beaconsfield spoke of Mr Gladstone as " a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and egotistical imagination." Lord Salisbury refused to believe that the other powers would display jealousy when they said England's object was merely to establish peace and order The Gresk Minister of Foreign Affairs has gone to St. Petersburg by request of th£ Czar. * Eight thousand Lazes displaying the British flag concentrated to prevent the Russians from entering Batoum. Mr Gladstone has declined the leadership of the Liberal party. He called the with Turkey an insane convent. Meetings are being held at Rome favoring the annexation of the South Tyrol to Italy. Gambetta congratulated France on the enlarged policy adopted b) England conseauent on the Berlin Conference. Jung Humbert has been telegraphed to L by Ministers to return to Rome from Turin, and a hostile attack on the British Embassy at Rome is feared. are discussing the expediency of sending a fleet to the Levant. Two parties of railway experts, under the direction of the British Government, will examine the Tigris and Euphrates valleys for the best railway route to the Persian Gulf. A Berlin despatch announces that Russia proposes to appoint diplomatic agents at various points in Asiatic Turkey to watch Russian interests, Russia is also making an effort to secure the early construction o&the proposed railway from Oenberg into Central Asia. Nobeling's attack on Kaiser William's life was connected with the interests of Russian Socialists. officers of the Grosser Kurfurst and Konig Willhelm have been exonerated from blame. Sir Garnet Wolseley, the new Governor of Cyprus, has already under consideration the scheme of a financial company for railways. The island will be permanently garrisoned by a small number of troops, ihe militia doing the rest. Sir Garnet Wolseley will divide the island into five districts, and decide land titles by a mixed Commission. The Queen has issued a proclamation, declaring her interest in the Islanders and their progress. "lords Beaconsfield and Carnarvon had sharp words in the House of Lords on the occasion of the former intimating that the latter had flinched at the critical mdment with Russia. The Prince Imperial has recovered £80 from Lα Steele, a Parisian newspaper, for libel. The paper charged his father, Napoleon 111, with appropriating the Crown property. The emigration from Egypt to Cyprus is large. A line, of steamers is to be established between the two places. The British Commissioners at the Paris Exhibition have formally notified the other Coemissioners of an International Exhibition to be held in Melbourne in 1880, and have invited them to be present. The Vatican proposes to remove the Catholic Churches of Great Britain and America from the control of the Propoganda, and to place them under the immediate control of the Pope. The Australian cricketers are to play at San Francisco against a local 22 in October next. The Russians, near the Gulf of Saro, fired on a boat belonging to a British man-of-war which was flying the white flag. The fact has been reported by a special messenger to Constantinople. The shooting at Wimbledon for the Elofeo Challenge Shieid resulted as follows: —800 yards—lreland. 543 ; England, 534 ; Scotland, 532. 900 yards—lreland, 535 ; Scotland, 523 ; England, 521. 1000 yards —Ijeland, 532 ; England, 505 ; Scotland, 49iT Summary—lreland, 1610; England, 1560; Scotland, 1552. „ Great indignation is felt in St. Petersburg and-Moscow at the result of the Congress. =: The Russian diplomatists are in general spoken of with contempt. Prince' Milan has issued a proclamation 'declaring the independence of Servia. Prince Gortschakoff now declares that had he known of the Anglo-Turkish-Cyprus convention before the Batoum matter, he would have made no concessions.

Reinforcements of French troops are to be sent to New Caledonia to repress the revolt. England has formally assured France that she will take no independent action about E r ypt. The Australian cricketers will be paid 2000dol!nrs for their expenses to San Francisco. ■ Safvet Pasha has demanded 1 the expulsion from Constantinople of Gallenga, the Times , correspondent. Fawcett (Consular Judge) advises ambassador Layard to refuse. The treaty of Berlin is to be printed on parchment in antique type, each signatory Power to receive a copy signed by the Pleni-potentiaries. The French press attacks England for the acquisition of Cyprus Prince Bismarck wanted to hold a supplementary Confeience in Autumn, but the British Commissioners refused. Public opinion turns towards U. S. Grant for the next President. A Sioux was is imminent. George W. Burleigh, an actor, blew his brains out after delivering an infidel lecture. The Hon. E. Chambers has been gazetted Governor of New Brunswich, vice Tilley, resigned. Ella M'Coll, an actress, committed suicide in New York. July 19. Yellow fever has appeared at St Louis. Duriug a cyclone at Albany on June 21, 100,000 dollars worth of damage was done. The Gasworks were wrecked, and the City was left in darkness. Atchison, the jeronant, was killed by falling from a balloon at Elmwood, Illinois, on June 21. The Town of St Miguel, Peru, was recently invaded by 25 desperadoes for murder and plunder. All were killed by the inhabitants.

[FROm THE " GLOBE " CORRESPONDENT.]

London July 18,

In the House of Commons, Mr Bourke stated that the Government knew nothing of the negotiations between Holland and Germany for the cession of the Netherlands to the Empire. It was unaware of any rumor that Tunis and Tripoli are to be ceded to France. The Russian semi-official Press has given explanations, with the object of shewing that Russia has gained a substantial advantage. The French Press generally appear satisfied with the Berlin Treaty, but Monarchical aad Ultra-Republican papers maintain that French interests had been sacrificed to English and Russian ambition. A similar view is held by the extreme liberals in Italy, and even the Government organs only justify the acquiescence in Anglo-Turkish convention, aud Austrian occupation of Bosnia by alleging the impossibility to successfully oppose them. On the Continent the alliance is rather adversely criticised, especially in France, where a good deal of irritation seems to prevail on the subject, notwithstanding formal assurance given by England that she will not take independent action regarding Egypt. The English Liberals, and also a considerable section of the Conservatives, view the step with distrust, as a tendency to embarrass England's foreign relations. In Cyprus, and on the neighboring coast of Syria, however, there is only one, which is a feeling of unalloyed pleasure. House property in Beyrout and other Syrian villages has risen greatly in consequence. The Cyprus people have sent a formal vote of thanks to Great Britain for occupation ; emigration has set in from Egypt, and a line of steamers is projected in England. It is amusing to read the advertising columns of the Times and see what an influence this little island has on society. It seems as if everybody wanted to go to Cyprus, or wanted someone else to go. Sportsmen want to make a party to go and shoot game, which " swarms " there. Some man who talks Turkish wants the post of interpreter, and another one who understands the Levant trade, wishes to establish a business. A couple of gentlemen are required as directors for a new business to be established in Cyprus ; some one else is about to proceed to Cyprus. He wants a valet to accompany him. The British gold in the pockets of tourists is rapidly flowing there. Large fortunes have been made out of Turkish and Egyptian bonds. A week or so ago the Turkish stoot at £8 10s—in six days, they were up to £19. It is thought possible they may reach par.