ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FEANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1415, 28 August 1878, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FEANCISCO MAIL.

[By Telegraph.] Auckland, August 28. The b.s. Zealandia arrived shortly after eleven last night, after a fine passage. She left San Francisco on the sth August. Passengers for New Zealand—Mesdames Turner and daughter, Holmes and children, Messrs Levy, Ruehilt, Alexander, Young, and twelve in the steerage. EUROPEAN SUMMARY. The ceremonies in honour of Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury at Guildhall were interrupted by a person who denounced the plenipotentiaries as traitors to the Constitution. Kelly, the Fenian, was liberated from Mountjoy prison on account of ill health. Captain Webb attempted to swim in the Thames for thirty-six hours continuously, but owing to the high wind, left the water after completing twenty-two miles in nineteen hours. Prince Bismarck has been asked by Greece to induce Turkey to come to terms. Russia is still buying German-Lloyd's Hamburg steamships. Locusts are ravaging Madras. In the debate on Lord Hartington's resolution, expressing dissatisfaction with the Berlin treaty, the mover made a powerful attack on the Anglo-Turkish Convention, and asked if the British Government would have deemed a similar agreement between Russia and Turkey justifiable. He said Cyprus was useless for the defence of Asia Minor. Mr Gladstone resumed the debate, and read a letter addressed to Earl Beaconsfield, asking him to cite instances in support of his accusation of unjust and reckless attacks on Earl Beaconsfield by Mr Gladstone, that he (Earl Beaconsfield) had debased the great name of England. Proposals will be made in September to erect Servia into a kingdom. The London " Times " writes severely against Mr Gladstone, Fourteen children and three teachers were drowned by the capsizing of a boat in the river Blackwater in Ireland. There has been heavy fighting in the Transvaal, in Africa, with losses to the British forces. Five hundred peers and commoners were present at the banquet of the Carlton Cluh to the Plenipotentiaries from Congress. Lord Beaconsfield spoko of Mr Gladstone as a sophistical rhetorician, inebriited with exuberance of his own verbosity, and an egotistical imagination. Lord Salisbury refused to believe the other Powers would display any jealousy when they saw that England's object was merely to establish peace and order. The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs has gone to St. Petersburg by request of the Czar. Eight thousand Lizes displaying the British flig are concentrated to prevent the Russian entrance to Batoum. Mr Gladstone declined the leadership of the Liberal party, and ctilled the convention with Turkey an ipsai.p covenant. Meetings are being held in Rome favoring the annexation of the South Tyrol to Italy. The Ministerial journals in Vienna warn Italy that it is dangerous to play with fire, and Austria is taking timely precautions against Italian aggression, Bisruarck emphatically informed the Italian Ambassador thatTrente ard Trieste can never become Italian. Garibaldi approves of the agitation, aid recommends nlle practice throughout Italy.

George McNeill and Co., of London, have Hailed lor £OIO,OOO. They have involved

Baddecott and Co., brokers, who recently suspended payment. The pigeon shooting match between Capt. Bogardus, of the United States, and Wallace, of England, resulted in a draw, each man killing ninety-seven. Playford won the Thames single scull race for Wingfield Sculls over Payne. Time, 24mins. 13secs. There arc strikes amongst the silk and lace operatives at Stenniene in France. Yelvertan, Lord High Admiral, died on July 24th. Vera Lassulitch, who was feted at Geneva, turns out to be an imposter; the real weman is in Siberia. Gambetta congratulated France on the enlarged policy adopted by England consequent on the Berlin conference. An abortive attempt has been made to enroll volunteers at Kavenna and Geneva for the annexation of the Tyrol and Trieste. The Bologne " Gazette" publishes a rumor that King Alphonso threatens to resign the throne of Spain. King Humbert has been telegraphed to by his Ministers to return to Rome from Turin, and a hostile attack on the British Embassy at Rome is feared. Ministers are discussing the expediency of sending a fleet to the Levant. Two parties of railway experts, under the direction of the British Government, will examine the Tigrus and Euphrates valleys for the best railway route to the Persian Gulf. A Berlin despatch announces that Russia proposes to appoint diplomatic agents at various points in Asiatic Turkey to watch Russian interests. Russ-'a is also making an effort to secure the early construction of the proposed railway from Oenberg into Central Asia. A dispatch at London dated July 7th from Mandaly, in Hindostan, reports 4700 houses destroyed by fire at that place. Nobling's attack on the Emperor William's life is connected with the interests of Russian Socialists. The officers of the Grosser Kurfurst and the Koneig-Willhelm are exonerated from blame. Count Hatzfeldt succeeds Prince Henry, the German Minister at Constantinople. Great fires are devastating Thessaly. It is supposed they are the acts of incendiaries. Sir Garnet Woleey, the new Governor for Cyprus, has already a scheme of a financial company for the construction of railways. The island will be permanently garrisoned with the same small number of troops, the militia doing the rest. General Wolsey will divide the island into five districts, and decide the land titles by a mixed commission. The Queen has issued a proclamation declaring her interest in the islanders and their progress. Lords Beaconsfield and Carnarvon had sharp words in the House of Lords on the Ist instant, on the occasion of the former intimating that the latter had flinched at a critical moment in dealing with Russia. The Prince Imperial has recovered £BO from "LaSiecle," a Parisian newspaper, for libel. The paper charged his father, Napoleon the third, with appropriating Crown property. The immigration from Egypt to Cyprus is large. A line of steamers will be established between the two places. The British Commissioners at the Paris Exhibition formally notified to the other Commissioners the fact of the Internation Exhibition to in Melbourne in 1880, and invited them to be present. The weather is very hot in England; the temperature is almost unbearable. The Vatican proposes to remove the Catholic Churches of Great Britain and America from the control of the propaganda, and place them under the immediate control of the Pope. The Anglican Conference in London has adjourned. The Liverpool summer Cup was won by Mr Robert Jardine's four-year-old Strathmore. Padre San Felice, of the Benedictines, has been appointed to the see of Venice. The obsequies of Queen Mercedes were celebrated with great pomp. Four thousand persona were present. Nine Bishops assisted at the requiem mass. The Australian cricketers play at San Francisco against a local twenty-two in October next. The Pacific Mail Company have severed their connection with the central railroad running in opposition. The English residents at San Francisco are subscribing to the Beaconsfield testimonial. Public opinion favors General Grant as the next President. A Sioux war is imminent in Kansas. An army of tramps is committing excesses in the western part of State. The railroad labor troubles in Washington are ended. Railroad freights between New York and San Francisco are doubled. The export of fresh meat to England has greatly declined. ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS. The Russians at the G-ulf of Saro fired on the boat of a British man-of-war bearing a white flag. Result of the Wimbleton firing for the Elcho Challenge Cup : —lreland, 1710 points ; England, 1560; Scotland, 1552. There is great indignation in Russia at the result of the Congress. The Russian diplomatists are spoken of with contempt. Prince Milan has issued a proclamation declaring Servia made independent. Ruperra won the Newmarket Stakes. The French Press attacks England for the acquisition of Cyprus. Gortschakoff now declares that had he known of the Anglo-Turkish Cyprus Convention, before the Batoum matter, he would have made no concessions.