TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 864, 2 April 1877, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

LATEST FROM EUROPE [By Submarine Cable.")

[Per Ppess Agency.]

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN YUANCISCO MAIL.

Auckland, April 2,

The following is the official report of the voyage of the City of Sydney to and from San Francisco. She left Auckland on January the 17th, arrived at Kandavau on the 22nd, and at Honolulu on February Ist at midnight. Sailed on the 2nd February and arrived at San Francisco on February 10th ; landed mails at 10.30 p.m, and despatched them cast by the Sunday train on the 11th. The accident of breaking the connection link of the air pump, between Auckland and Kandavau, delayed her about ten hours. Strong head winds with a cross swell characterised the whole of the passage.

Regarding small-pox at San i raneisco, it is°reported that hopes are entertained that it is about to die out. The total number of cases since its outbreak has been 1500 ; the average mortality 25 per cent. Sixteen cases for the last week are reported, and eighteen in the previous week. The mails arrived from the East on March 3rd, and were received on board the City of Sydney at 10.30 p.m. She sailed at 11 p.m, and anived at Honolulu on the 12th, after detention of nine hours on the 10th, caused by a hot “journal.” While at Kandavau wharf, the bolt ho’ding the low pressure piston rod up, while it was disconnected for examination, broke, and went with a run, cracking the piston. As soon as the extent of the damage could he ascertained, a survey was held by three scientific engineers, and the decision was given that the ship should proceed to Sydney with the one, sum!] high-pressure engine. The chief engineer, O’Hara, completed the whole of the very complicated alterations necessary, without assistance from shore, in twenty hours. The vessel sailed on the 14th, arrived at Kandavau on the 28th, and at Auckland at 9 this morning. Notwithstanding the accident to her machinery the vessel has come 4000 miles under a single high-pressure engine at an average speed of 9:| knots. The s.s. City of New York arrived at and sailed from Kandavau on the 19th March. The City of Sydney arrived at Honolulu on the 12th. While in harbor the low pressure engine was disabled, which caused the detention till the 14th. Unable to repair it there she came on under one engine high pressure, and averaged nine knots. The steamer is not the same vessel as was sighted at the Bay of Islands yesterday. London, March 3.

The Vienna correspondent of the Standard understands that the Porte intends to invite England to consent to the immediate return of her Ambassador to Constantinope, and thus set an example to the other Powers in this respect. Prussia is endeavouring to obtain concessions in Constantinople in return for pecuniary assistance. The whaling steamer Sptzbergen has been lost, near Bergen with all hands numering twenty-one persons. The Spanish Ministry is engaged upon the draft of a treaty of commerce with the United States.

The understanding come to between Turkey and Servia was that the Turks were to evacuate Servia within twelve days after the sigining of the protocol. Austria will concentrate an army corps on the Servian frontier which will affectually guarantee the neutrality of Servia. At Constantinople the Russian, charge d affaires is very active. Russian influence is paramount at the palace. The porte’s note to Servia will treat of four points, the erection of new fortifications in Servia, the hoisting Ottoman flag side by side with the Servian on

existing forts, the recognition of the equal rights of Jews and Christians, and the prevention of armed bands from crossing the frontier.

The water-logged wreck of the barque Maria, having on board two survivors of fourteen ; the Found men have been without food or water for thirty-two days, subsisting on the dead bodies of their comrades.

Several agitators have been shot in the interior of Servia. The Grand Duke of Oldenburg has, by special commission of the Czar, intimated to the Emperors of G ermany and Austria, the Czar’s desire to meet them again. Edhcim Pasha, the Turkish Grand Vizier, has resigned at the request of the Sultan in favor of Mahomed Damoud, brother-in-law of the Sultan, whose policy aims at the abrogation of the constitution.

Eight thousand Russian Engineers have been engaged changing the Roumanian railway gauge to that of the Russian lines. All the Powers have replied to the Russian Note that they would not interfere until the Porte had shown itself incapable of carrying out the promised reforms. The Pacific mail subsidy will bo opposed in the Senate.

Twenty Bulgarians have been sentenced to long imprisonment for participating in the insurrection, while Chcakcl Washa, notorious for the part he took in the atrocities has been appointed commander of the army corps on the Danube. The Russian mobilised army numbers eight hundred thousand. There is great activity in the Turkish war department, troops being despatched to the Danube constantly. Fox’s American Threatre, Philadelphia, has been burnt.

The British steamer Ethel is wrecked, and nineteen persons drowned. Trouble is expected between the blacks and whites in Louisiana.