ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1290, 8 May 1878, Page 3

ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

; Per Zealandia, via Auckland.] San Feancisco, April 15. Subscriptions are invited at St. Petersburg for the new issue of fifty (million ?) roubles treasury bonds. It is generally believed that an English war with Russia will cause a national bankruptcy there and entire suspension of payment of the Russian national debt. Earl Leitrim was shot opposite a cottage from which he had evicted a widow. Ninety tenants were notified of an intended eviction. A hostile demonstration was made at the funeral. The Eurydice, in full sail, capsized off the Isle of Wight in a sudden squall. She sank immediately, drawing nearly all on board under. Five were rescued. Liberal representatives from all parts of England waited upon Ministers to protest against calling out the reserves. The Marquis of Hartington and Mr Chamberlain represented their views. Earl Granville replied that Government required no stimulus to preserve peace, and the Opposition could not prevent war, if the Government determined on a warlike policy. King Humbert is neutral, but favours the extension of the Hellenic Kingdom and the creation of other Christian nationalities to oppose Russia, The iron trade in south Yorkshire is stagnant. There are 30,000 unemployed. Four war vessels were despatched to Nicaragua to enforce reparation for the consular outrage. Sir 0. Adderley has been elevated to the Peerage. Viscount Loudon succeeds him as President of the Board of Trade, Earl Salisbury is appointed to the Foreign Department ; Mr Hardy, Indian Secretary; Lord Stanley, Secretary for War, and Mr ihbetson Secretary to the Treasury. Typhus is raging throughout Turkey. _ Mr Butt resigned the leadership of the Home rule party. Troops and war material have been sent to England from Jamaica. The Paris bankers refused a further Russian loan of three hundred million francs. South Loudon was flooded two feet through the bursting of a sewer, much damage was done. Intense cold prevailed in England. There was four inches of enow in the Midland counties. Sir Bartle Frore announces the termination of the Kaffir war. A subsequent telegram reports an insurrection in the Transvaal. One action took place in which the British troops were compelled to retreat before an overwhelming force. Assistance is asked. All the Government’s prudence is required to prevent a general native war. Eight thousand destitute Mussulman refugees are in Greece. There is increased famine in China. The relations between Austria and Russia are more conciliatory. The Czar sent Francis Joseph an autograph letter. Austria will not participate in further hostilities. The revenue of Great Britain for the fiscal year ending March 31st shows a surplus of £615,000. It was expected to show a considerable deficit. The Pope instructed Cardinal Franchi, Secretary of State, to enter upon diplomatic relations with England. The Communist, Captain Garcia, has been sentenced to death at Paris. He was ringleader in shooting General de Compte and Thomas. The steamer Childwell Hull, from Liverpool for Bombay, was wrecked at Sagres, in Portugal. The Greeks demand that the Patriarch should summon the Russian Government to declare itself on the question of GriecoBulgarian schism. Should Russia recognise the Bulgarian Church, the Patriarch would declare Russia a schismatic. The people in Albania, ravaged by the Montenegrins, ask Austrian assistance. Eight thousand Thessalonians, utterly destitute from the burning of their villages, have taken refuge in Greece, Bismarck inspired an article in the “ Berlin Provincial Correspondence ” in favor of protection for German native industries. Hurricanes and waterspouts occurred at Canton, doing immense damage to the city. There is a prospect of an extensive strike among the cotton operatives in England on account of the masters demanding a 10 per cent reduction. Noisy meetings are held in every direction. In the House of Lords, Earl Beaconsfield said he could not see why England should be unarmed when all countries were arming. Earl Derby denied that calling out the reserves was the sole or principal cause of his resignation. He admitted that circumstances might force England into war, but at present lie could see po ground therefor.

The situation nt Constantinople is still regarded as dangerous. Notwithstanding (lie protestations of the Porte, intrigues are going on among the Pashas. A riot occurred in St. Petersburg on account of a woman who had attempted to assassinate the Chief of Police, The students followed her from the Court and cheered. Pistols were fired and one student killed. The Porte is considering the advisability of transferring the seat of Government to Scutari. Bismarck, it is said, believes a congress possible, if (be Powers consent to the retrocession of Bessarab's, the extension ef Russia in Asia as far as Erzeroum, aud a pecuniary indemnity to Russia. The French budget estimates the surplus at 12,000,000 francs. Baroness Burdett Coutts is negotiating for land in Osnaburg street, London, on which she intends to erect lodgings for the poor—capable of accommodating 10,000 persons at a rental of 4s 6d weekly. Earl Derby’s resignation caused a profound sensation among official circles at St. Petersburg. He is reproached for having misled Russia and England by going as far as he did in a direction which he disapproved. Thomas Henderson, of Glasgow, founder of the Anchor line of steamers, is on a visit to California. The cotton masters in the north and northcast of Lancashire have combined against the strikes. Prices for board and residence in Paris are advancing enormously, in view of the approaching Exposition. Marshal Bazaine is reported to be at Madrid in good health. The responsible editor of the Parisian “Journal of the Commune” was sentenced to a fine of 500 francs and a year’s imprisonment by the jury. The “ Gruud ” Bank, at Prague, has suspended payment. The Head of (he Jesuits wishes to return to Rome. The Pope declines to comply. The Jesuits therefore oppose the Pope’s general policy. King Humbert’s foreign policy will be strictly neutral. He will, however, seek to prevent Russian predominance in Europe by aiding to extend the Hellenic Kingdom, and by constituting other Christian nationalities. The Pope will issue no Encyclical, not wishing to commit himself to any definite policy in the present state of European affairs. The Society for the Protection of Aborigines recently addressed a memorial to Sirßartle Frere deprecating the present stern suppression of the Kaffir disturbances. In reply Sir Bartlo stated that from evidence there is reason to believe that the Galekas have taken up arms as part of a vague sort of combination agiinst the white men and all that belonged to them. Sir Julius Yogel rend a paper before the Colonial Institute on New Zealand aud the South Sea Isles and their relations to the Empire. Sir Thos. Russell was presented to the Prince of Wales. On March 25th nows reached London of the wreck of the Eurydice off the Isle of Wight, almost within sight of Spithead, for which place she was standing at the end of a pleasant and successful cruise to the West Indies. The Eurydice was a training ship for young seamen, and had 368 sailors on board. At the time she was bringing a number of military officers, superannuated and invalids, from the West Indies. She was a wooden sailing fullrigged ship of 921 tons, and was at one time considered one of the smartest twenty-six gun frigates in the service, built about 1843. She sailed from Portsmouth November 13th with a crew of about 300 ordinary seamen and officers, all of whom w ere lost, with the exception of two seamen. Captain Hare had been commander of the St. Yincsnt training ship at Portsmouth, and was selected for the command from his knowledge and experience of young seamen. The Eurydice left Bermudas on March 6th, and nothing was heard of her until she was seen by the coast guard at Bonchwich on March 24th, bearing for Spithead, under all plain sail, her object being clearly to arrive at the anchorage in Spithead before nightfall. There was an ominous stillness prevailing at this time, and heavy dark clouds were coming down from the north-west, and the glass was falling rapidly. Such wind as there was came from the westward, and blew on the port quarter of the ship. From the direction in which the ship was steering, she would be in comparatively smooth water untU she rounded Dungeuess, where the disaster occurred. This explains the fact that the Emma, schooner, which was near at the t ime was not affected by the gale. Just before four o’clock the wind suddenly veered round from the west to the east, aud a gale accompanied by a blinding fall of snow came rushing from the high land, striking the Eurydice just a little before the beam, driving her out of the course which was heading to north east, turning her bow to east. This is what seems probable, though from the manner in which the sea was concealed by snow nothing was seen of her at the moment when she capsized to starboard. It cleared as suddenly ns it had become overcast, the wind sinking away at (he same time. As soon as anything could be-seen, the masts and top hamper of the ship were discovered above water, about 2 1 miles E.N.E. off Dunnose. The ship lies in eleven fathoms, and from her position appears to have righted in going down. Of the whole souls on board only two persons succeeded in reaching the shore alive. These are an able seaman named Benjamin Cuddiford, a native of Plymouth, and Sydney Fletcher, an ordinary first class seaman, aged nineteen, belonging to Bristol. Lieut. Laborn, who was rescued from the sea, died before reaching shore. One of the survivors states that when the squall struck the vessel they were taking in sail. The captain ordered the men to come down from aloft. The water was then running along the lee netting. He caught hold of the weather netting, and could see the vessel’s keel. The vessel righted alit'le before settling down, then went gradually over from forward, the greater part of the hands being forward. A telegram from Lloyd’s agent in Constantinople, dated March 7th, contains intelligence that the British steamer John Middleton, Captain Robson, from Odessa, grain laden, whilst trying to anchor was run into by a Turkish man of-war. The John Middleton, by the force of the collision, was forced from her anchors and drifted against the Antelope (British gun boat), causing some injury to the latter. The John Middleton sustained so much damage that she sank in the harbour. The crew were saved by the English man-of-war. The Pcra correspondent of the “ Daily Telegraph” says there is terrible distress at Schumla, where some 250,000 fugitives are now collected. A note was sent to the Porte by the English Embassy, representing that unless something was done immediately, immense loss of life was certain. The Porte declares itself unable to decide on a place to send these people to. Being used to the climate of Bulgaria, they would soon die if sent to Syria. Hard times are causing more numerous enquiries in England about New Zealand, especially among farmers, Earl Leitrim, his clerk and driver, were all shot dead while driving near his lordship’s lodge, Manor of Vaughan, County Derry, The act was committed opposite a cottage from which he had ejected a widow of eighty-nine. His tenants were under notice to quit. The Earl’s body was found in a ditch, with the left side of the head battered in. The fatal shot was through the heart. His left arm was broken. The driver and the clerk were shot in the head. The ground where the murder was committed showed traces of a hard struggle. A fowling piece and part of another gun were found near the spot, A deep feeling prevails everywhere on the subject. In the House of Commons, Under Colonial Secretary Lowther said there was the best reason to suppose that the crime was of an agrarian character. The funeral took place on the 11th, when a vast crowd assembled outside the church, hissed, hooted, and cheered. At Paris work was suspended in the printing houses, and the publication of books stopped in consequence of a printer’s strike. The war correspondent of the London “ Times ” was murdered by the Turks near Mitcriritja.

Drought and famine prevail to a disastrous extent in Morocco.

The Queen’s message calling out the Reserves is us follows—“ The present state of public affairs in the East, the necessity of taking stops for the maintenance of peace and for the protection of tho interests of the Empire, having constituted in the opinion of her Majesty a case of great emergency within the meaning of tho Acts of Parliament in that behalf, her Majesty dooms it proper to provide additional means for the public services. Therefore, in pursuance of tire Acts, her Majesty has thought it right to communicate to the House of Commons that she is about to direct that the Reserve Force, or such part thereof as her Majesty may think necessary, be forthwith called out for permanent service ” The United States Senators propose to offer a resolution in deprecation of the interrupted peaceful relations between England and Russia, and asking the President to offer aid as far as he constitutionally can in restoring harmony.