ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 812, 29 January 1877, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(Per Press Agency.') [Per City of New York, via Auckland.]’ GENERAL SUMMARY. The result of the Eastern Conference was that the Porte declared its willingness to make concessions, and offer ample securities io the Powers, but unwaveringly refused to sanction the occupation of the provinces by any troops whatever. They refused to consent to the occupation by English troops, upon which point the Turkish Ministry were confidentially approached, but by what power cannot be ascertained, Belgium refused to allow her troops to occupy, and a corps of 1000 troops of each nation represented on the Commission as a body guard was suggested, but the Turkish Minister, at an interview with Lord Salisbury, refused to recognise the International Commission. The Mussulman population was very excited, and great quantities of arms and ammunition have been received from America, The temper of the population is warlike. The Hoftaa made a demonstration before the Russian Embassy by shouting “ Down with Russia.” The Russian steamers have ceased running on the Black Bea. The Mahometan population in India are also said to be excited. A cargo, valued at a million and a half dollars, was shipped from Connecticut, United States, for Turkey. The Russian Ambassador at the Conference read a telegram from Prince Gortschakoff, positively instructing him not to discuss the Turkish counter proposals. The Marquis of Salisbury had an interview with Midhat Pasha, the Grand after the rejection of the Conference proposals. The Marquis also addressed the Conference, warmly condemning the obstinacy of the Porte, General Ignatieff asked and was granted permission for a Russian man of war to enter the Bosphorus to convey him home, and Lord Salisbury telegraphed for a steamer to convey him to Athens. A despatch from Vienna to the Daily News states that the principal result of the great Cabinet meeting there was the decision that no special armament is to be undertaken by Austria or Hungary, even in the event of localised war between Russia and Turkey, The Times Vienna correspondent says that the news from Kichwer shows that preparations are making to advance the Russian head-quarters to Choton, on the frontier. The signal for this movement was expected to be received from Constantinople to one at the Russian head-quarters. It is stated that the army would cross the Pruth, at Stulgiria, in the direction of Jassy, when the head-quarters would be transferred to Anhen. The Times, in a leader, concludes that the Porte may rest assured that the first shot fired in defiance of the united demands of Europe, would be the beginning of the end, as neither England nor any other Power would interpose to save it from ruin. The Russian General Nikitin has arrived at Belgrade, to take command of the Servian army, and brought a million of roubles. At the review of the Russian division, General Nikitin declared he had come to Servia by order of the Emperor of Russia to assume the command of the army. He said that all foreigners serving in the Russian corps in Servia would be considered as part of the Russian army. Orders have been issued to the corps of commissionaires in the Servian army to proceed immediately to their posts. All volunteers are ordered to proceed to Dwina to join the army, The London Globe asserts that Russia has ordered tho whole of her fleet to rendezvous at Otshakof, as apprehensions are entertertained of active measures by the Turkish fleet. Otshakoff is on the right bank of the Daeiper, at its mouth, on the Black Sea, forty miles E,N.B. of Odessa, and was besieged and taken by the Russians from Turkey in 1757 and again in 1788. The town has since gone into decay, having a population of only about 1000, The Pall Mall Gazette says, if the Porte refuses tho concessions, Britain will not quarrel with Turkey, but will watch the outcome of such refusal with a steady view to its own position in the world. A Socialist conspiracy has been discovered in Russia. The plague has reappeared in Bagdad. The Russian army is said to be in a bad condition from epidemic disease in the camp and barracks. The Turkish fleet is in an indifferent state under the British naval commander Hobart Pasha. The Berlin correspondent of the Times reports that the banking firm of Barmochoff of St Petersburg has failed with a deficiency of 1,000,000 roubles. The commercial crisis continues to be especially serious in South Russia. The Russian papers report a famine in Montenegro. The mobilization of the reserve of 100,000 Russian troops is said to be proceeding at Moscow and St Petersburgh by order ot the Grand Duke Nicholas, Russia is said to have 120,000 troops concentrated on the southern frontier A meeting to promote the purchase of American vessels which may be used as privateers ia case of war is creating much comment amongst Servians, The powers who are largely engaged in carriage of Russian merchandise fear the ruin of their trade if England should ever be compelled to resort to reprisals. A panic has occurred in Roumania, many families fleeing through fear of Turkish invasion. Six conspirators, banded together to dispose of the present Sultan, were arrested in the palace. The ground of the conspiracy is that the ex-Sultan Murad had recovered his reason, and that Abdul Hamid is therefore an usurper. A Times dispatch says that the warlike feeling in Russia is decidedly decreasing, The enthusiasm is partly checked by the discovery of great deficiencies in military stores, and the impression that the Turkish preparations are so great that the force already mobilized in Russia ia insufficient. Measures have been taken for a levy of reserves in Southern Russia, London, January 4. The Queen has granted meuals to the officers and seamen of the Arctic expedition, It is stated that Captain Allen Young, who commanded the Pandora, will next spring attempt a North Pole voyage in the same Teasel,J

Dr Schlemann'while excavating at the supiposed site of the tombs of Agamennon and Cassandra, discovered immense treasures. The Cambridge University declined the challenge of the Yale and Cornell Univer si ties to a four-oared race from Putney to Mortlake. Charles Brent, the Louisville forger, hap been delivered to the American authorities On the voyage of the steamer Cay of Bristol, from Liverpool to Philadelphia, four seamen were washed overboard and drowned The official reports show that the nurabei-v of small-pox patients in Londouou December 21st was 722, against 178 in the'fcwo months previously. In the middle of December there were severe gales throughout the United Kingdom, 120 vessels and 250 men were lost. On the Aberdeen coast sixty lives were lost, and the shores of the Tyne were strewn for miles with wrecks. Great quantities of wreck have been seen in the Pentland Firth. Dover pier was partially destroyed, and nearly every town between Dover and Portsmouth partially inundated. The furniture was washed out of the houses. On board the steamer Prussian of the Allan line, a coal gas explosion blew out the lower deck. Ten men were terribly mutilated, France A majority of the members of the Left refused to vote the budget until a Republican Cabinet was formed. M. Simon has been appointed President of the Council and Minister of the Interior, M. Martel), Minister of Justice, vice MM. Dufauro and Marcere. Several estimates were then passed. Attempts were made to increase the grants for religious purposes, but failed. There have been tremendous gales on the Atlantic coast of France, which destroyed many lives. One cable between France and England has parted, Berlin. The Imperial Bank of Germany has resumed the sale of silver for the Government Treasury. Belgium. The leas to the Union Credit Bank by the defalcations of the president is estimated at four millions of francs. President Meriqun absconded, and the manager attempted suicide, Berne, Herr Sehenck, Vice-President of the Federal Assembly, has been elected President of the Swiss Confederation. Vienna. There is great agitation against the scheme for establishing a Bank for Austria and Hungary. The scheme is designed to settle the relations between the two halves of the Empire, The scheme has excited great dissatisfaction in Austria, as unduly favoring Hungary. The Hungarian Finance Minister has gone to Vienna to confer with the Austrian Minister. Both Governments adhere to the Austro-Hungarian compromise Rome. The Parliamentary committee on the penal code reported in favor of abolishing the death penalty. Spain. The Basque provinces having refused to pay eighteen millions of reals for the mainlenance of the army of occupation, General Quesada seized the Treasury, but found it empty, Copenhagen. There has been an acrimonious debate in the Reiohrad on the Financial Bill The Radicals expressed a determination to resist the collection of taxes. The Cabinet was beaten by 61 to 22 on the proposal to insert a new clause in committee of ways and means, The consequence will be that the whole Cabinet will be cited before the Supreme Court for violation of the Constitution. By a railway accident between Hoaenesi and Aarhures nine wore killed and thirty wounded, India, Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India on January Ist, at Delhi, with great ceremonies. At Singapore sis persons were hanged for the murder of Mr Birch, the British resident at Malacca, The accounts of the famine in Madras are worse than in Bombay, large numbers flocking into the city of Madras to escape starvation. Japan. There is a great emigration movement to New Zealand and Australia of Japanese pensioners, who use their capitalised pensions to pay their passage fare, A fire at Yokohama destroyed 10,000 houses, and 100,000 people were rendered houssless. The area covered by the fire extended to six square miles, AMERICA. The American steamer Centennial, valued at 520,000d015, and several other vessels, were totally destroyed in the ice cruise. At St Louis, Moody and Saukey are more patronised than ever. At Chicago an unknown vessel went ashore near Bllworth. Several dead bodies were washed ashore, Mr E. J. Creighton, late of the New Zealand Times , has addressed a long letter to the San Francisco Post on the subject of the Pacific Mail Route, showing the advantage to the United States of the route, and advocating the abolition of the forked and coastal services. A report is current that Major Randall and a detachment of troops and friendly Indians, part of General Crook’s command, have been surrounded and massacred in the Big Horn Mountains* The [steamer Montana, 1900 tons, was burned off Cape Harris on the night of the 14th December. The vessel was ran ashore to save the passengers. No lives were lost The vessel was laden with Government stores, Lieut Baldwin, with 100 men, drove Sitting Ball’s camp across the Missouri on the Bth December, Sitting Bull, when last heard of, was camping on the Bark Creek, with 6000 warriors, The crews of thirty-seven ice bound vessels in the Magoty river, near Baltimore, are suffering great privations. In one vessel four men ware found dead in the cabin, There is great agitation on the Canadian frontier in consequence of the threatened invasion of American Fenians. It is reported that the Fenians will take advantage of the Extradition treaty to commit raids on the frontier, and then retire. The London Times says that Congress <yill be perfectly within its powers in considering how the surplus money of the Geneva award shall be divided. It cannot be expected that the surplus should be returned,

In reference to the arrest of Brent, Mr Secretary Fish has written to Sir Edward Thornton, saying that the President will in future consider the extradition treaty tending as hitherto, subject to the right reserved to either paity to terminate the -rune pursuant to the eleventh article. Two nurses, convicted of selling the oothes taken from small pox patients at the Victoria Pest House, British Columbia, have been eentenced to eighteen mouths in the chain gang. The Convent of the Sisters of Providence at St Elizabeth, Montreal, was burnt on the 26th of December. Thirteen of the inmates perished. The steamer Oceanic Bay made the shortest passage on record from Yokohama to San Francisco, viz. fourteen days fifteen hours twenty minutes, beating the fastest time of the Oity of Pekin by twenty-one hours. The Lick trust will be amicably settled. The old board of trustees are likely to resign and surrender the matter into the hands of a new board. The cotton ship Harvey Mills took fire at Beaufort, South Carolina, on the 20Lh Dec. Two lives were lost. General McKenzie with 1000 troops attacked a large Indian camp on the norh fork of the Powder liver on the 25th Nov, and dislodged the enerayafter severe fighting, fhe Indians still occupy the Big Horn mountains, and will prolong the struggle. Mr Marriott, the proprietor of the San Francisco News Letter, was fine! 600 do Is for publishing a libel against Mr Fred. Olay .fudge Federal, in passing sentence, said it did not matter whether the publications were true or false. If they were true, Mr Olay’s career for twenty three years as an upright citizen should be considered. There is a rumour in New York that the mail steamer Nuva Oubano has been captured by the Cubans in a similar fashion io the Montezuma. General Crook and General McKenzie are to arrive at Fort Fetterman soon, and the whole force will be disbanded. The Pacific Mail Co’s steamer Colima has been released by the Marshal, the rates having bsen paid, Mdlle De Mnrska ia expected at San Francisco by the next mail steamer. An Irish claimant has appeared in the field, and has employed counsel to establish his right to Mr Stewart’s property, A fearful catastrophe to a train took plac at Ashtabnda, Ohio, on the 20th December. The bridge over the creek broke and pzecipi tated the train down seventy-five feet Over 1000 lives were lost, either crushed, burned, or frozen to death. There was a great sensa tion at the time of the accident, and fora long time the particulars could not be obtained. The citizens of Ashtabuda worked hard in removing the debris and every house in the neighbourhood was turned into a hospital. Twelve Mollie Maguires were sentenced to death for wholesale murders in Pennsylvania. the Presidential election is still undecided. The Florida vote ia disputed, The Tribune's special says that Hayes just now is the favo rite. A solution of the difficulty proposed is to hold a new election next fall, if so Blaine or Morton is likely to be brought out in Haves’ place The enow in Broadway, New York, drifted five feet high on January 2nd Disastrous floods have overflowed the railway on the Isthmus of Darien, and destroyed all communication, and are still doing severe damage. In Mexico Iglesias has proclaimed himself President. Information received in Washington says that the Kevolutionaiy party intend to take advantage of the disturbed state of Mexico and the strife between the rival Presidents to establish, by aid of America, independent states to combine ultimately with the United States, luglesias has 12,000 troops, and Diaz 18,000. Both are ambitions for recogI ration by the United Biatea, The country Lis now under three Governments, a legal ! president, an ad interim one, and a military dictator, A reign of terror exists on the frontier of Lower California. Moro has levied a tax of 24,000 dollars on the people for the support of ; the Government, A great fire has occurred destroying part of Valparaiso. It began on the 14th of November, lasting thirty hours. The Costa Bica and Nicaragua war still continues, and President Herrera has abolished the press. A battle in the state of Oauck la claimed by both parties, Kenor Moreno, the Dutch Consul, Senor Augustin Vapez, and two others were assassinated in Oarthagena, The assassins were arrested. COMMERCIAL. Flour is Aim ; superfine at sdol to sdol 75c; extra, 6 dol 58c to 7dol. The wheat market is quiet, from 2dol 20c to 2dol 25c; wool, from 10c to 20c; New Zealand rope, IJ-in and upwards, 10e; salmon, 2dol 10c per doz ; Downer’s kerosene, 50c per gallon; Devoe’s, 44c; nonpareil, 50c; photolite, 43c; oleophene, 44c. ADDITIONAL NEWS. The Board of Trade enquiry into the collision between the Hurunui and a Greek barque, has resulted in the suspension of Captain Boyds certificate for twelve months. Steinberger has claimed a million dollars from the British Government, and Captain S bevens, of the Barracout a, for the Samoa affair. He says the leading barristers and members of Parliament support bis claims. The Aberdeen newspapers state that the captain of the whaler Jane Mayor, of Perth, had recently encountered Esquimaux, who informed him of a tribe of Esquimaux, living far to the northward of Cumberland Gulf, who many years ago massacred Captain Crogier, second mate, and five other whites, because they refused to surrender their guns and ammunition.