NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 940, 29 June 1877, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

London', May 11. American engineers have readied St. Petersburg to enter the Russian service. Russian subjects in Turkey are placed under German protection; Turkish subjects in Russia under English protection. In consequence of Lajard's remonstrances, Chefkat Pasha, a leader in the Bulgarian atrocities, has been removed from his military command, and sent to Bagdad. The non-punishment of the leaders of the outrages maintains a strong feeling in England against the Turks. W. H. Wood, late assistant-secretary to the Colney Hatch Gas Company, has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude for embezzlement. After his defalcations were discovered he sailed for New Zealand with a young woman, in the May Queen, but was arrested on arrival by a detective, and brought back to England. He had left a wife and five children at borne. A man named Fred Ford has been sentenced to seven years' penal servitude for stealing New Zealand bonds to the value of £2060 from his employers, a firm of solicitors. He bolted to San Francisco, was there apprehended, and was brought back to England. A seam of bright soft coal has been found at Billingborough, Lincolnshire, in which county none had hitherto been found. Sir John MacDonald and Mackenzie, of Canada, propose that the Queen should assume the title of Empress of Canada. The International Prisoner Congress at Stockholm, intended to have been held in August, has been postponed till next year, on account of the war. A Polish legion is being formed in Turkey. A Russian commissary has been summarily shot at Odessa for tampering with the provisions. It was stated in the House of Commons on the 13th April, that the total expenses of the circuit in the Ticbborne trial were £60,000. Mr Shaw's motion for a committee to enquire into the demand for Home Rule was defeated on the 24th by 417 to 67. Thirteen English members were in the minority. The members of the late Government voted with the majority. A large number of 10-horse power boats arc being built at Devonport for landing troops on shallow beaches, to be finished by the end of May. 200,000 felt helmets, to replace the shako worn by tlio Infantry, have been ordered through the Royal Clothing Factory. The Glasgow News lias been the vehicle of a great hoax upon the public. It contained a full and circumstantial account of the capture of a sea serpent 110 feet in length by llin. in girth, at Oban, in Scotland, after being surrounded by boats and fired at by local Volunteers. A telegraph from Mr W. Robertson, manager of the Westminster Aquarium, offering to purchase the animal for exhibition, elicited the reply tbat the statement was a shameful hoax. At a review of the Highland Rifle Militia at Fori George, on the 2nd, upon Colonel

Koss asking who would volunteer for active service, the whole regiment, 700 strong, stepped forward as one man. Lieutenant-Colonel Baker, 18th Royal Irish, who s.erved in New Zealand, has been appointed an A.D.C. to Her Majesty. Colonel Herbert Sandford, R.A., has been knighted for his services at the Philadelphia Exhibition. The Duchess of Edinburgh is visiting the Queen. She will shortly proceed to Russia for a lengthened stay. Recruiting is brisker than it has been since the Crimean war. The news of war breaking out in the East was received with great satisfaction at Aldershot, it being hoped that it would lead to active service. A Birmingham manufacturer has received an order from the English Government for 25,000 tents. Five hundred of Whitehead's torpedoes have been bought at £SOO each. The Emperor of Germany has been visiting Alsace and Lorraine, and has been well received. During an illumination at Metz, the cathedral caught fire, and was seriously injured. The Emperor, the Crown Prince, and Yon Moltke superintended the efforts to extinguish the flames. Much excitement was occasioned by a speech from Moltke in Parliament on April 24th, in which lie drew attention to the masses of French troops between Paris and the frontier. The war budget led to the discussion, and it is now believed that the speech was a Parliamentary manojuvre to secure the passing of the vote, which was effected. Many English and German Liberal papers call attention to the cruelty and persecution practised in Russia on Poles and members of the United Greek Church. The English consular correspondence on the subject has been laid before Parliament. The translation of the Bible into Russian has been completed for that Government. The British Bible Society's version is strictly prohibited. The Italian Senate lias rejected a Bill dealing with clerical abuses, thereby giving great satisfaction to the Ultramontane party. A complete amnesty has been granted to all Carlists, without exception. The statistical bureau of Washington states that the present grain supply is short, and tli at the Californian crop for 1877 will be short.

The commander of the Darien expedition has expressed the opinion that the canal will soon be made through Columbia if the public do not withhold faith, and the enterprise be persevered in with energy. Preparations are still making in India for warlike eventualities. Tenders for tonnage to transport 15,000 men to stations in the Persian Gulf are required. The s.s. Leo, from Savannah for Vassau, has been burnt at sea, and thirteen of the crew were rescued from a raft, whilst eight others andUhree passengers are supposed to have been lost.

The Chinese Government have purchased the Shanghai and Woosung railway. They propose to establish railways in other parts of the Empire, particularly |in Formosa, where there are valuable deposits of coal and petroleum. A verdict has been given against the Brighton Aquarium Company for £2OO, for keeping open on Sunday. The Court of Exchequer has granted a ride for a new trial. Works at the Eoyal arsenals and dockyards are being carried forward with despatch. It was stated at Woolwich on the sth that within a fortnight there would be ready for issue at immediate notice a complete equipment for an army corps of 50,000 men. The Channel Squadron is being refitted and greatly enlarged. Orders have been given for the immediate completion on the Clyde of all vessels being constructed there. The following items are from Indian papers: — Constantinople, May 14th. The Turkish Chamber of Deputies have voted an address thanking England for the reply to the Russian circulars justifying the proclamation of war. Pabis, May 16. Negotiations for the renewal of a treaty of commerce between England and France are virtually suspended, the French Ministry feeling unable to press the Chamber of Deputies for an extension of free trade unless England reduces the import duty on cheap wines. May 17. After a violent speech by G-ambetta the Chamber of Deputies adopted, by 355 against 154 votes, the resolution brought forward by him that the Chamber could only place confidence in a Cabinet possessing freedom of action and governing on Republican principles. Constantinople, May 21. Sheik al Islam has proclaimed a holy war against Russia. May 22.

A strong Turkish force was advancing from Van towards Bayazcd, but withdrew upon the Russians reinforcing the latter place. Pamis, May 24.

The French Ministry, at the request of the Spanish Government, have ordered the expulsion of Bon Carlos from France. Rome, May 24.

Daily receptions of bands of pilgrims of all nations pouring into Rome, who come offering presents and money, are being held at the Vatican by the Pope. His Holiness, on receiving some German pilgrims, made a speech in which he compared the Emperor of Germany to Attila. Constantinople, May 24.

The demonstration of Softas only numbered 2000. A deputation of live of them were admitted to the Turkish Chamber of Deputies, and demanded certain Ministerial modifications.

A court-martial has been ordered on the Governor of Ardahan fortress, with reference to the retreat of the Turkish forces from that place before the enemy. The Russian troops in Roumania are moving towards the West, and 85,000 men are concentrated on the Upper and Middle Danube. London, May 27.

The Persian Minister at Constantinople has presented a note to the Porte containing the most pacific assurances from the Shall. The latest advices from tbe scat of war state that tbe bead-quarters of the Russian army corps of the Caucasus bus been transferred to Alexandropolis, and that the left wing has reached Van. A Turkish ironclad has been sunk at Ibraila by a torpedo vessel. Pams, May 29.

Due de Brogli has issued a circular requesting the legal authorities to repress Radical attacks, and curb the license of the Press.

Renewed wholesale changes arc being made in the French Prefectoral administration.