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Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 204, 7 June 1878, Page 5

» — , The steamer City of Sydney with, the English mail arrived at Auckland on Wednesday evening. The following is a summary of the news : — GENERAL. Hobarfc Pasha" dined Avith the Queen. Several heavy failures have occurred in Liverpool. Eai-1 Desart has divorced his Countess for adultry with an actor. One hundred and fifty eases of smallpox exist in London. The disease is declared to be epidemic. Irish troops have been transferred to English garrison, and English troops sent to Ireland. England is negotiating with Sweedon for a naval station on Faroe Island in the Baltic. Ignatieff will be appoined Minister without portfolio if ill health makes Prince Gortschakoff resign the Chancellorship. An Englishman has been arrested at Berlin for obtaining plans of fortresses. The British Government declines to interfere. The report of the sale of the City of Sydney to Russia is disbelived by the officers of the ship, who say the rumour was circulated for the purpose of depreciating stock. There was a great tornado at Canton. Thousands of houses were destroyed or seriously injured. Five hundred Chinese were killed. No foreigners were seriously hurt. British Consuls have promised, on the authority of the Marquis of Salisbury, that Greek interests would in no way suffer, and that Greece would be fairly represented before Europe. Typhus rages to such an extent in Constantinople that all departing vessels are given a foul bill of health. In consequence of the epidemic, the Khedive postpones his visit to the Sultan. A London despatch says the attempts to create a scare about Russian privateera are made to affect underwriters, who continue willing to take any quantity of risks on Britisli hulls at 7s to 10s. The Tuileries Commission recommend the restoration of the ruined palace burned by the Commune, at a cost of four million francs. Prussian priests in receipt of stipends from the German Government have been required from Rome cither to renounce their salaries or declai-e their opposition to ecclesiastical laws. Russia has decided to refuse the liberation of 60,000 Turkish war prisoners,* because she is uncertain of the Porte's neutrality in the event of war with England. There was a tremendous fire in Manchester on the 6th. Owing to the want of water two large timber "yards and ten houses were destroyed. It is regarded as the act of an incendiary. Loss, L15,000. The Ist Grenadiers, Ist Coldstreams, and Ist Scots Regiment of Guards are recruiting to their full strength. Their baggage and army chests are already packed for removal. The ranks of other battalions are being filled to 1000 strong. Among other wild rumours in circulation, is a statement by a leading NewYork paper that Russia has enrolled 5000 Irishmen to invade Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Le Nord, the Russian organ, takes the trouble to make a formal denial of this. The Nihilist propaganda in Russia is ex-* tending. Advices from Cracow, state that the Russian railroads are encumbered with the transportation of troops to the north, to check threatened disturbances in various centres of agitation. Tho garrison of Moscow has been reinforced. . A dispatch from Bombay, April 26th, states that troops are arriving daily and embarking. Fifteen ships and twelve Steamers have been engaged for th.9 conveyance of the expedition. Great enthusiasm is manifested throughout India. 'Native troops are volunteering. Burton, the celebrated African traveller, has returned to Cairo from the Land of Midian. He brings 25 tons of specimens, comprising gold, silver, copper, tin, and lead. He found three sulpher centres, three turquoise mines, and extensive doposits of gypsum, saltpetre, and rock salt. He goes to England to arrange for working tho mines for the Khedive.