NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1233, 15 February 1878, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[Per City of Sydney, via Auckland.] Mukhtar Taslm is appointed to command the army of defence at Constantinople. Lord Derby has recovered, and will resume his Parliamentary duties immediately. Gambetta desires to have the French Chambers adjourned throughout the summer, to ensure political quiet during the International Exhibition.

A Cape Town despatch states that an engagement took place at Komgah, in which the British troops were successful. Volunteers were eagerly enrolling. Dr. Mitchies, a member of the Hungarian Parliament, has been convicted of high treason.

The British Parliament opened on January 17th.

The Queen’s speech, states that tho cause of the early assemblage was the war in Europe. Tho address in reply to the speech was moved in the House of Lords by Earl Wharncliffe, seconded by Earl Lansdowne; in the Commons by Wilbraham, seconded by Robert Tenant.

The budget of Russia shows a deficiency of 600,398,425 silver roubles. Sergeant Chas. McCarthy, lately released Fenian prisoner, died suddenly, 14th, while breakfasting in Dublin with C. S. Parnell, the Home Rule M.P. The funeral was attended by 60,000 persons, and was the largest since O’Connell’s.

At the forthcoming Postal Congress France will propose that an international Post-office at 1 per cent, tax as the rate of exchange be adjusted by the Congress. The cholera deaths at Mecca average daily sixty, and at Jeddah thirty-eight. The Queen in a dispatch to the Sultan expresses her sympathy for him, but says she will follow the counsels of her Ministers.

The yerdict of the coroner’s jury in the case of the deceased Fenian, McCarthy, was “Death from heart disease, accelerated by the treatment received in prison.” The verdict was received with loud and prolonged applause. Cardinal Manning will negotiate with the British Government for the removal of the obstacles to the re-establishment of the R.C. hierarchy in Scotland. The London “Times” and other journals estimate that the fourth quarter of the fiscal year will show a deficiency of nearly £6,000,000 on the budget. One hundred thousand persons were present at the funeral of M. Raspail. The fugitives are arriving at Constantinople by thousands. Layard writes to Baroness Burdett Coutts :—“ Distress terrible.”

Native companies are being formed for the development of Chinese mineral resources. The Japanese ship of war Te Kuwau, built and wholly fitted up in Japan, manned and officered by natives, is about to start on a cruise in the Mediterranean.

In a letter Garibaldi exhorts King Humbert to follow in his father’s footsteps.

A heavy fire broke out in the warehouse of Crocker Sons and Co., Watling street, London. It was the largest fire that, has happened for years, the loss being £200,000. D. McGregor and Co., merchants and steamship owners of Leith, failed. The liabilities are £IOO,OOO to £150,000. McGregor resigned his scat in Parliament. Ex-Queen Isabella insists on attending the marriage of her son, but the Government refuse to aliow her to enter Spain. An unknown man committed suicide by Pa |ling from the whispering gallery in St. Paul’s,

The demand is made by several French Republican papers to remove the present commanders of several army corps as Bonapartiets. Midhat Pasha is in London. A strong demand is made at Constantinople for his return. Baker Pasha has been promoted to Lieut.General of the Turkish army. Joseph Anderson and Sons, provision dealers, London, failed for £200,000. Mexico resumes diplomatic relations with France, and participates in the exhibition. The result of the Triennial Municipal elections in France are large Republican gains. . , .Corporal Chambers, the only remaining military Fenian prisoner, was released. The barque Pensero, from Cardiff for Constantinople, was run down in the British Cbm'i'

King Humbert, of Italy, issued a proclamation in which he pledges himself to carry out his late father’s policy. Robert Watson Boyd, of Gateshead, was defeated by John Higgins of Cardiff, the present champion, in the boat race at Newcastle-on-Tyne, or. December 14th, for £2OO a-side, on the championship course from Highland bridge to Scot’s Wood suspension bridge. The match was won by Higgins on a foul. THE WAR. The Servians were defeated in two engagements, in one by Hafiz Pasha, and in the other by Eyoub Pasha with severe loss. The last-named pursued them to the frontier, burning six military stations and destroying entrenchments.

General Karrgaff cleared Gyopsa Valley of the Turks.

Archibald Forbes, war correspondent, reports terrible sufferings by the army of invasion. Words cannot describe the misery of the situation on the Danube, The Russians suppress telegrams with the view of preventing the state of affairs becoming known in Europe. Spotted typhus has broken out amongst the Turkish prisoners in Frateschi and the neighbourhood. It is whispered that it is the plague. Germany and Italy demanded for their fleet the same privileges in Turkish waters as England. The London “ Times ” special of the 14th reports a heavy battle near Tatar Bazarjik, between Radetsky and a Turkish force while falling back. The victory was claimed by both sides, one report saying that the Russians were defeated with a loss of 3000, and wounding Radetsky. The Turks are bombarding towns .in the Crimea, causing irritation at St. Petersburg, seeing that peace negotiations are proceeding. Erzeroum is little better than a huge hospital. Hundreds of soldiers die daily, and two or three are frozen to death every night, and typhus fever is raging. The corpses are barely covered with earth, and the consequences are terrible. If peace negotiations fail, the Sultan will unfurl the flag of the Prophet and call on the faithful to rally to his standard. January 20.

Turkish peace delegates arrived at Hormanli, and were received with military honours by the Grand Duke, Austria demands a voice in all peace negotiations, and will not recognise a peace concluded without her consent.

The Austrian position is regarded as an understanding with England. Vienna, January 20. A special says Izzed Pasha conveys to the Turkish plenipotentiaries full powers, and will inform them that England is not likely to go to war.

Another correspondent says that negotiations are commenced.

It is stated that the Turkish plenipotentiaries have been instructed they may offer to make Batoum a free port, to cede territory on the Asian frontier nearly as far as Kars, and dismantle the fortifications of Kars and Erzeroum. They also propose the following programme for discussion by the European Conference:—The Balkans to be considered the southern limit of Bulgaria, Roumania being independent; the Dardanelles to be open to men-of-war of all nations : the settlement of the Montenegrin and Servian question to be temporarily deferred. Difficulties have already arisen. It is reported that Russia has demanded Adrianople to be included in Bulgaria, also the cession of Batoum, and the opening of the Dardanelles to Russian and Turkish men-of-war only. AMERICAN. A mob of roughs captured Dead City, a town near Deadwood, Dakatoh territory. Mr Creighton, agent for New Zealand in Francisco, sends by the City of New York a consignment of half a million white fish eggs. The barque G.M. Tucker is chartered in New York for Dunedin and Wellington. The Stella Kate, a schooner with a crew of thirteen men, natives of South Boston, foundered at sea recently. The stage super McKenna captured at Hillsboro, Ohio, on the 15th, had purchased property there with the proceeds of last summer’s plunder, and had married and settled down. General McClellan was installed as Governor of New Jersey. War is threatened between Guatemala and Porto Rico.

Guatemala invited immigration, and is sending out agents to induce it. Three hundred cattle perished in the flames of a burning stockyard at Terre Haute. The Spanish Government proposed peace to the insurgents of Cuba. President Hayes intends to mate the Chinese question the subject of a special message to Congress. General O’Reilly, the Fenian, died.