ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 212, 2 August 1878, Page 5

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

. _ 4 [By Telegraph.] I Auckland, August 1. The mail steamer City of- New York arrived yesterday. Tlie following is the mail news : — Tho ship Alexander M'Neill and the barque William Mudget are chartered at New York for New Zealand. Tramps have taken possession of some of the railway trains in lowa, and are becoming dangerous. Specie payment will shortly be resumed by the United States Government. Deaths from sunstroke are frequent in New York. Mrs Elizabeth Tilton, of Beecher fame, has been expelled from Plymouth Church. Indian hostilities are extending to Utah, Nevada, and Eastern Oregon. The Socialists in New York in mass mooting repudiated the assassination of Plovny. Russian agents bought three steamers belonging to the Hamburg line; Greece has concluded a loan of a million dollars. Twenty obscure persons have beon ai*rested for conspiring in favour of the exSultan Muracl. The party opposed to the present Sultan is gaiuing strength. Hard times in Europe have increased emigration. A Constantinople dispatch says 25,000 troops are sick with typhoid fever and similar diseases in that neighbourhood. _ Cholera prevails at Marseilles. A Synod of Old Catholics at Boon adopted a resolution in favour of marriage by the clergy. Socialistic pamphlets have been circulated in the Berlin barracks. It is rumoured that the Princess Thynne of Denmark will marry the Prince Imperial, and that Princess Beatrice will marry the new Duke of Cumberland. There are heavy failures in the Staffordshire iron trade districts. Tlie Greeks are massing large forces on their frontier for protection from brigands. The Pope and the German Government cannot come to terms. The Crown Prince, in addressing the Duke of Cumberland, insists on his right to the throne of Hanover. The Spanish Government wish to borrow 2,000,000 francs in Paris. The Ohio farmers are threatened with death by the labourers if they use laboursaving machinery. A Eussian priest has been found murdered im the street in San Francisco. A resolution to restrict Chinese immigration has been passed by Congress. Wilson, for Middlesborough, and Robert, for Flintborough, both Liberals, have been returned to Parliament. American steamers are arriving at Cronstadt with arms and ammunition for Russia. The Emperor of Germany has fully recovered. The Pope has recalled his Nuncio. The Khedive of Egypt recently proposed to abdicate in favour of England. The offer was declined. Graham, the special correspondent of the London Daily News, died at Constantinople of spotted typhus fever. Muir and Sons, grain merchants, Glasgow, have failed. There was a heavy fall of snow in Perthshire on June 11. Macmahon has pardoned 80 Communists in honour of the opening of the Exposition. Six hundred Mormons arrived in New York from Liverpool. Stanley, the African explorer, received the gold medal of the French Geographical Society. The Morning post announces that the Duke of Cumberland's son, late King George r of Hanover, has not abandoned his right to the throne. No arrangement made with Prussian Government. The Austrian Cabinet tendered their resignation, but it was refused by Government. The Spanish Government contracted with Paris financiers for an advance of 20,000,000 francs for six months, with option of renetval. Prosecutions for treasonable utterances and seditious language at Berlin are almost endless. The Crown Prince of Germany thanks the President of the United States of America and the people for the sympathy manifested towards the Emperor ; also, publicly thanks all other symyathisers. The city elections at Borne are over. The Catholics elected two out of twelve Municipal Councillors ; three of tho Provincial Councillors chosen are Liberals. Ex-King George of Hanover has died at Paris. The Duke of Cambridge has gone to Malta. The Intercolonial Copyright Congress opened their session at Paris. M. About presides instead of Victor Hugo. During an interview between Gortschakoff and Bismarck, a large Danish dog belonging to the latter flew at the Russian Minister's throat, who was rescued with some difficulty. It appears that Bismarck stamped his foot impatiently while talking, and the dog mistook it for a signal that his master was in dange. . A Liberal Cabinet has been formed in Belgium under Frele Orlean. « Bonnie Scotland won the St. James Palace Stake. At Ascot in the race for the Rous Memorial Stakes Patriarch was the winner. 1000 cotton operatives struck work at Bury. The Vatican proposed to co-operate with Germany for the repression of Socialism there on condition that the Folks Laws are modified. The Parisian police have made a descent on several German families in Paris, members of which are suspected of complicity with Nobiling. The appointment of Lord Dufferin, the present Governor-Goneral of Canada, will be extended for twelve months, if he consents • but probably he will decline. Indications point to an early cotton strike in England. The Pan Anglican Synod, was convened on the 2nd inst., at Lambeth Palace. Ninety bishops were present. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided. He urged the^ question of maintaining the Faith against infidelity as the principal subject to be thought of. The delegates debated the best mode of obtaining union among I the various Anglican churches. Bishop i of Pittsburgh, Louisiana, and several Eng-

'. - ■ ±Jl lish and Colonial Bishops spoke on this matter, which ivas finally referred to a committee. Special services have been held for the recovery of the Russian Empress. The Town Council of Berlin proposed to order a historical painting commemorative of the meeting of the Peace Congress. It is understood that the Autumn nanceuvres are abandoned this year. Charles Matthews, actor, took suddenly ill at Manchester, and died on the 23rd June. Queen Mercedes of Spain died from excessive hoemhorrage. The Czar is expected at Berlin shortly, on his way to Ems.