ARRIVAL OF THE NEVADA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1359, 26 June 1872, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE NEVADA.

LATEST FROM EUROPE, AMERICA, &c. The arrival last night of the steamship Nevada, Gapt. Blethen, placed us in possession of the European and American mails via California. Extracts will be found below. The Alabama Controversy. London, May 14.—1 n the House of Commons to-night, Mr Gladstone made a lengthened explanation of the regulations regarding indirect claims, and the position of the Government therein, which was accepted with satisfaction. London, May 15.—The message to President Grant and the United States Senate, submitting the proposed additional article to the Washington Treaty lelative to indirect claims, serves to reassure the public that the differences between the two nations will be honorably settled. The publication of the message has had an effect upon American securities in the market, which are now firmer than at the opening.—The Daily News says that all eyes in England are turned on the American Senate. We have done our duty, and the best hope remaining is that the decision has been confided to a body always holding the highest place for gravity and wisdom. The Morning Chionicle and Telegraph are sanguine that patriotism will overrule politics, and the treaty survive. The Standard remarks thai, we have made sacrifices enough. Let the Senate repeal the treaty. It is not our fault if the American Constitution is defective, or the Government weak ; nor our loss if we are erased from the liability incurred out of an exaggerated deference toward a kindred high-spirited but exacting people. London, May 17.—The leading arfcicles in every morning paper are devoted to the supplemental treaty of Washington. The delay of action in the Senate is regarded as fatal to the proposed article.

London, May 22.—A London special says the English papeis continue to discuss the Treaty of Washington with undiminished interest. Editorials are generally inspired by a desire to prevent a failure of the arbitration and to save the treaty. An article in the Pall Mall Gazette says the whole drift of feeling in England justifies it in saying that "the worst thing to do with the treaty is to save it. Saving the treaty means offence and humiliation to England or America, or both nations. 11 means a renewal and not an abatement of the ill-feeling it was intended to allay. The American papers appear to exclaim against the adoption of the supplementary article. Here there i* only one opinion : that its acceptance would be discreditable and dangerous to both. People will be pacified and concent at once if the treaty and the articles connected therewith were dropped as an irredeemable blunder, for which the Government are alone to blame. That is the proper fate of the treaty, and the only safe and peaceful way of disposing of it. New York, May 22.—The Senate went into Executive session this afternoon on the additional article to the Treaty of Washington, with the modification proposed by the majority of the Committee on Foreign Relation to effect the original object by change of phraseology, but make it of equal application to both sides. Great Floods in India.—Reported Loss of 1,000 Lives. A despatch received in New York contains information of a terrible calamity which has befallen the town of Yell ore, in Madras, British India. During a hurricane, which extended for miles along the eastern shores of the Indian Ocean, the waters rose to an immense height, and swept over the sloping table lands which form the coast boundary of the Presidency of Madras, inundating the country for miles into the interior. The town of Y el lore was covered by the flood : many houses were swept entirely away, and upwards of 1,000 of the unfortunate inhabitants were drowned. When the hurricane abated and the flood receded

the country bordering on the sea coast, was found to be strewn with the bodies of men and animals,, mingled with thewrecks of dwellings. The amount of damage caused by the flood is beyond estimation. Over of the inhabitants of Vellore are now houseless,, and are living in rude and improvised dwellings until a better means of shelter is obtainable. 3,000 unfortunate families are utterly destitute,, every portion of their effects having? been swept away by the, voraciousflood. Thousands of acres of crop* which before the calamity were in at thriving condition are totally ruined. The Earthquake in Syria -1,900 Persons; Destroyed. Particulars of the late earthquake in* Syria are coming to hand. The fatalities we*e not the greatest in the city of Antioch. A letter from Antioch, dated April 4, says r—"The American Protestant Church* was severely injured, and a few of theAmerican comm unity were killed. AIL members of the families of missionaiiesare safe. The number of persons, killed, in the City of Antioch is less, than 300,. but is known that I,6Q(X perished in* the surrounding towns of the country,, where the shocks were as severe, if not greater, than here. This number maybe increased. The distress of the people will be only temporary." Horrible Tate of Suffering: The Louisville Ledger says :-~TheHolland arrived at New York on the24th of March, after a long and boisterous trip, with 550 passengers on board,, being at least 200 more than she had accommodation for. The vessel had been at sea but a few days when it was? discovered the stock of provisions wasvery light. Tn less than a week all the flour, potatoes and other vegetables, were exhausted and the passengers, were reduced to a diet of ship biscuit. and horse beef, and this of ti:e poorest quality, and doled out in the smallest, portions. Starvation began to stare the wretched emigrants in the face,, although the ship's officers and crewseemed to have plenty of good and healthy food. To all appeals for a 'fairdivision of this food among the. emigrants the officers and* crew onlyanswered with curses and blows. Sickness broke out among the emigrants* and in their desperation some of them made an effort to secure more food, but. were knocked down and kicked sand beaten by the crew. Many of thesemiserable people, men, women, and children, were exposed on deck to the* cold, and were badly frozen. To such: a degree of starvation were these emigrants reduced that when their scanty allowance ot food was issued to them, they had to fight for its thedesperation of the half-starved passengers, uuder the impulse of self-preserva-tion, leading them, to try to take by force from the weakest their share of the wretched food. The horse-beef asabsolutely half rotten, and its stench, almost stifling, yet the emigrants wereforced to eat it to save them from a horrible death by starvation. The limbs of many women and children, as well as a number of men, were s©» severely frozen that in many cases amputation will be necessary. A report of the sufferings of these emigrants was made to the authorities, in New York. Miscellaneous General News. On the 7th May a telegram was received in San Francisco from New York to the effect that " small-pox is increasing. Thirty-three new cases were reported to-day." Small-pox and leprosy have appeared at Honolulu. France is still proceeding in the painful duty of reviewing her disasters, and distributing praise and blame, reward and punishment, to the chief actors in the late terrible drama, and at the same time recruiting her exhausted energies. Civil war still rends Spain, and a guerilla and a vendetta between the Garlists and the existing Government are working destruction to the people. The Presidential election is engrossing public attention in America. The candidates are Grant, Davis, and Horace Greeley, editor and proprietor of the

New York Tribune. The nomination of the latter gentleman —between whom and Grant, according to all accounts, the contest will lie—will throw additional interest into the struggle. 300,000 francs have been raised in Paris for the sufferers by the eruption of Vesuvius. The accouchement of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales is expected in the latter part of June or early in July. Over 10,000 emigrants arrived on the 21st May at Castle Garden, New York—the largest number landed in one day since the establishment of the institution. A fire in Broad-vay, New York, destroyed $500,000 worth of dry goods.