ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1418, 31 August 1878, Page 3

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] [FROM TEH CORRESPONDENT OF THE PRESS.] A Parliamentary guarantee for the Euphrates Valley railroad will be asked by the Duke of Sutherland and other capitalists. The survey lines are arranged for, as the Porto has granted a concession to an English company to build a railroad from Trebizond to Erzeroum, to join the Euphrates Valley Railway, thereby destroying Batoum as a seaport terminus for the overland traffic. The Russian troops are returning home at the rate of 5000 per diem. The Russian authorities are endeavoring to charter steam transports for the conveyance of 100,000 troops to Odessa. The Roumanian army is expected to make a triumphal entry into Bucharest, accompanied by Bulgarian trophies. Prince Milan resolved to proclaim the independence of Senna on August 22nd, and abolish the state tax and martial law. The Marquis of Lome assumes office as Governor-General of Canada after the Canadian elections. The Princess Louise will hold Court at Ottawa. H.M.B. Shah, carrying Admiral DeHorsey’s flag, sailed from Victoria for San Francisco on August 3rd, for docking at the navy yards. Isaac Friedlander, Californian grain king, is dead, and the Californian millionaire, Michael Reespoas, died in Germany. At New York the German Socialists declare in favour of a revolution to depose Bismarck. A New Orleans telegram of August 4th records twenty new cases of yellow fever, and twenty-one deaths. The reception of Lords Beaconsfield and , Salisbury on the 16th, on their return from ' Berlin, was a triumph, A number of Lords and members of Parliament went to Dover to meet them. The vicinity of Charing Cross ( and Trafalgar square was packed with people. , The passage on the west of the Strand and Whitehall even were blocked. Houses were covered with flags and decorations. There , were many American flags flying. The Ploni- ) potentiaries alighted at Charing Cross station ] at 430 p.m., and, with Lady Salisbury, entered carriages, and were drawn along the West Strand. The cheers were continuous, j with showers of bouquets. The crowd followed the carriages, cheering and throwing flowers all the way to Downing street. Traffic was stopped for fifteen minutes, until the Plenipotentiaries passed. Lord Henry Lennox had charge of the organised demonstration of welcome. Earl Beaconsfield waited on the Queen at Windsor on the 17th, her Majesty having 1 postponed her departure for Osborne in order I to receive him. At Philadelphia, on July 16th, an adjourned meeting of some of the Jersey heirs of the Jennings estate in England, was held in j Morgan Hall, Camden, for the purpose of completing arrangements for sending Samuel A. Cook to England to get possession of the property. His offer to collect the vast j. amount at 10 per cent, has been accepted, j. Some £4OO is to be raised to pay expenses. _ The members present were quite hopeful, c under the representation made that the connecling link in the heirship had been found, and that it removed all bar to their becoming possessed of the property. Mr Cook will jj start for England in a short time. The inquiry into the Rhodope insurrection is to be continued. The Russian Commissioner objected to a continuation of the inquiry. As the insurgents had disclosed some r , agreement between themselves and the Russian p commander, the Russian Commissioner threatened to withdraw if the inquiry were p continued. The English, French, Italian, and Austrian Ambassadors at Constantinople being consulted, replied that the inquiry n should continue. The Russian Commissioner D then withdrew, leaving his dragoman to represent him. On July 25th, news reached Vienna that Cl the Treaty of Berlin had caused great irritation among the Bulgarians, who since the „ Russian occupation have been the ruling class t< in Eastern Rouraania, A so-called pan- ri Bulgarian committee has been formed at Adrianoplo to agitate for Bulgarian independence, The committee telegraphed to Prince r) Labanoff, Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, to Aksakoff, chief of the pan-Slavic propaganda at Moscow, and to the Czare- n witch, informing them of the pan-Bulgarian 81 movement.

A telegram from Berlin, dated August 2nd, states that the election returns show that the Socialists polled 30,000 votes in Hamburg, 7000 in Kiel, 10,000 in Breslau, 1300 in Dresden, 1400 in Leipaic, 100 in Nuremberg, 6500 in Hanover, 4000 in Frankfort, and 4000 m Stuttgardt. The latest returns indicate the election of seventy-three Conservatives, 110 various Liberals, sixty-seven Ultrarnontanes, and three Socialists. The elections were terribly against the Prussian Government. Falk, who drafted the celebrated Falk church laws, waa defeated in two diatricts by a tremendous majority. The Provincial Parliaments of British Columbia opened recently. Measures are to be brought in to compel the Dominion Government to comply with the terms on which British Columbia joined the federation. A tax of fifty dollars a head is to bo imposed on Chinese residents, and their employment on public works prohibited by clauses in contracts, Chinese immigration to Victoria threatens to swamp the labour power of the settlers. A despatch from Texas shows that quite a considerable number of railroad towns and cities of that State are thoroughly quarantined against Now Orleans, and that it is the determination to keep yellow fever out of Texas if possible. Children are being arrested in Germany for speaking disrespectfully of the Emperor. Garibaldi’s message to the Milan meeting read : —“ Enslaved people have a right to revolt. Men of Trieste, take to the mountains.” Public meetings have been held at Eome, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Venice, and other large cities, in favor of the annexation of the Italian Tyrol. The Italian Government has explained to Austria that she will observe her internal obligations. Gambetta in a speech approved of the Berlin treaty. The interests of England and France, already somewhat identical, have now become more so, and on that account he hailed the change with gladness. There is a rumor of negotiations for the cession of Ehodes and Scio to Franca for commercial purposes. A neutral strip of territory between the Austrian military frontier and Mitrovitza, the northern terminus of the Salonica railroad, has been set apart by Congress for a railroad connecting the Austiian railway system with Salonica. It is placed under Austrian supervision. Austria thus becomes independent of the Black Sea and Dardanelles for a commercial outlet, and obtains direct communication with the Mediterranean Gulf, Salonica, and HCgean sea. The “Times” summing up the labors of Congro's says it has made provisions which transfer an empire, has removed a longstanding cause of discontent, has pacified, wo may hope, provinces which were torn by dia-

11 sension and misrule, and has placed a barrier (I between rival forms of implacable bigotry, i- It has stopped many avenues of foreign n intrigue, and, if it has abridged the power of h the Porle, it has given peace to Europe. l " Earl Beaconsfield denounced Mr Gladstone at the Carlton Club banquet to plenipotentiaries to Congress, which took place on July 28th, at the Duke of Wellington’s Riding School. Five hundred Peers and commoners wore present. Earl Beaconsfield in replying to the toast, awarded Lord Salisbury the r greater share of merit in his labors at Berlin. ( He spoke of Mr Gladstone as a sophistical s rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of , his own verbosity, a sophistical Imogene. . Lord Salisbury said the plenipotentiaries had 1 tried to pick up the broken thread of England’s imperial tradition. Ho refused to - believe that other powers would display 5 jealousy when they saw that England’s object 3 was merely to establish peace and order. 3 A telegram of August 2nd, says Captain Webb commenced the feat of swimming j thirty-six hours continuously, without rest, in the Thames. He dived off the Parade at , Woolwich at 6 o’clock in the morning, and is now swimming towards Gravesend, on reaching which place ho will turn with the tide and come back to Woolwich, expecting to roach there at 6 o’clock this evening, when he will again turn with the tide and repeat the trip, A later message from Woolwich states that owing to high winds Captain Webb left the water at sixteen minutes past three, having been swimming nineteen hours, and completed twenty-two miles.