ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1001, 10 September 1877, Page 3

ADDITIONAL NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Telegraph.] [from the correspondent or the press.] Auckland, September 8. A despatch from Rome, dated August Ist, states that uneasiness is felt regarding the Pope’s health. He had been seen only by a cardinal and his own domestics for the past few days. Cardinal Rizzio Shorzas’s chance of succeeding Pope Pius improves daily. There was rioting in Londonderry on August 13th on the occasion of opening the Apprentice Boys’ Memorial Hall. A number were injured and fatally stabbed. The military had to bo called out. A telegram from Montreal of July 27th states that sfeps are being taken to prosecute prominent Orangemen as members of an illegal association, secret societies being prohibited in the province. The American Cabinet have prohibited the sale of arms to Indians. During Sunday school hours, in the Swedish Lutheran Church at Jamestown, on August 12th, lightning struck the building, killing one person and prostrating four others. The lightning also set the building on fire. The Russian Government have issued an international loan of £30,000,000, but. it, is now stated on undoubted authority, that, all exertions have up to this time failed to procure more than £10,000,000 of subscription. A telegram from Alexandria says it is reported that, the Egyptian Government have made an agreement with the Suez Canal Company to erect forts commanding the entrances of the Canal. The Khedive undertakes to pay the cost by instalments. A tigress escaped from a train in which she was being conveyed to Liverpool. Some soldiers sent from Weldon Barracks found the animal at Long Buckley and shot her. A petition has been presented to the Queen bearing 41,200 names, protesting against, the decision of the judicial committee of the Privy Council being binding in ecclesiastical matters.

There is much talk concerning the next. Papa] election. The German Government is r ‘ported to be considering what steps should be taken in anticipation of its early occurrence. It is said that, in anticipation of the event, Prince Bismarck is preparing to seek the support of the Great Powers, claiming for them all right of veto against an obnoxious candidate. The British steamer Cashmere has been lost in the Red Sea. Seven passengers and the chief officer were drowned. The Rev. Mr Tootli obtained rule nisi in the Queen’s Bench for prohibition against further proceedings against him under the Public Worship Act. A public meeting was held on July 22nd at Exeter Hall, when a resolution strongly condemnatory at the introduction of private confession into the Church of England, was passed. The Hon. G. M. Waterhouse, formerly Premier of New Zealand, has arrived in Europe. He is now in Carlsbad. During the visit of Mr Thomas Russell to San Francisco, it was decided to extend the operations of the New Zealand Insurance Company throughout tlie States and British America. It is said that the South British are about to open in San Francisco. WAR ITEMS. Adrianople is full of Musselman refugees. Kalafat is reported to have been destroyed by an accidental explosion of a powder magazine. The Egyptians, under Prince Hassam, began an offensive movement from Varna towards Adrian’s Wall. The Turkish legation complains of the Russians near Kara firing upon a flag of truce and wounding Osman Effendi. Responding to an appeal from the Russian Government to the Queen of Wurtemburg, an ambulance corps is being formed at Stutgard, and goes promptly to Bucharest. Azim Pasha, one of the best Turkish officers, was killed in a skirmish at Schumla. A despatch from Constantinople says that in a naval engagement in the Sulina river, a Turkish ironclad attacked seven Russian gunboats, and destroyed two of them. The Servian Legislature, before prorogation, decided to continue the payment of tribute to the Porte, An Athens despatch states that many villages in the district of Yolo having refused to pay taxes, the Turks placed six guns before the gates of Yolo, and threatened to bombared the town on the first sign of insurrection. Great uneasiness prevails in Thessaly and Epirus. [PKIt PRESS AGENCY.] AMERICAN. There have been fearful riots caused by strikes all through the States. At the end of July, at Chicago and St. Louis, three-fourths of the manufactories were stopped. The military were called out, and fired on the mob at Chicago, killing fifteen, and wounding over fifty. Riots occurred at Harrisburgh, Columbus, Toledo, Detroit, Scanton, Pittchingh, Omaha, Jackson, Inclianonopolis, and a score of other towns. At Baltimore 8000 miners are on strike. Cabinet Councils have been held at Washington to devise measures of safety, and detachments of military are sent in all directions. The destruction of property is enormous. The crops in the Western States are splendid. The wheat averages higher than usual At San Francisco a mob has arranged a plan for exterminating the Chinese, and burn the docks of the Pacific Mail Company, which brings Chinamen to the country. The Yigilence Committee was revived to prevent outrage. Detachments of soldiers are placed along the Central Railway lines to secure the safe transit of the mails and passengers. At Baltimore, St. Louis, and other places, the strikers signed a requisition for the eight hours’ law. At Reading six people were killed. A compromise was effected, and work resumed in most distrtios. The President’s message is expected to dwell principally upon the labor question. Several members of the Cabinet are known to favor a law for providing the organisation of a Commission having due regard for the interests of all classes. The insurance losses at the St John’s lire were 6,700,000 dollars. A workhouse at Samcol has been burned with seven inmates. The village of Talen, Wisconsin, has been destroyed by fire, communicated from Fort street, which burnt five weeks. One family perished, and several are missing. The Chinese question occupies the columns of the American journals The San Francisco “Post” of August Bbh has a letter stating that hundreds of officers in the civil war are now earning a bare sustenance at the washtub. On August Bfch a dastardly outrage was committed at the New York Aquarium, by which all the fish were poisoned. The Indian war continues. General Gibbin attacked at Indian camp at Big Hole Basin, and after a severe struggle, routed their troops with a lost of seventy of all ranks, and of the Indians of 150. COMMERCIAL. New York, August 11. Wheat, new crop, Idol. 50 cents to Idol. 66 cents. Sperm oil, 1 dol. 15 cents to Idol. 17 cents ; winter, bleached, 66 cents to 70 cents. Wool, dull ; spring, fine, 22 cents to 28 i cents; curry, 12 cents to 16 cents ; pulled, 25 cents to 35 cents ; Californian, 17 cents to 22 cents. Petrolium, dull. Boston. Wool dull. The market is quiet. Prices arc easier. Liverpool, August 11. Wheat, average, 12s 2d to 12s Id; club, 12s fid to Ifis per central. London. Consols, 06Silver, S lid per oz. Gold, in Now Y~ork, being 205, makes relative price of legal under 05.01. A special from New York says the raising of the railway blockade lias increased business. It is believed in financial circles that capital will soon find increased employment, as the result of a fine harvest, and then create larger traffic than known since or before the panic. With freer receipts and unequalled harvest prices of grain and broad stuffs are tending down, though the decline is not heavy. The excitement attending the coal strikes has snbsibed, and prices current not readily obtained. |At one time the prices advanced from 60 cents to 75 cents per ton. The iron market continues depressed. Whale oil dull and steady. The raw sugar market is very unsteady. Quicksilver and vermillion lively at 65 cents to 70 cents. Seven thousand cases of refined petroleum have been sold at 16£ cents to 19 cents,