LATE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 507, 13 May 1878, Page 2

LATE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NEWS.

Advices from 'Tiflis state that typhus fever is raging among the Russian troops in Asia. , Generals' .MelikpiL Seiov/icb, deaths from sickness since the cessation' of the war than on the battlefields during the war. In the House of Commons: Sir S.. Northccte stated that the February dividend of the Turkish guaranteed loan -was paid by England. The amount was £t 7,446. A portion of that dividend should come f.-om the Egyptian tfilnite, but this was paid. The Khedive' bad promised to forward the ,parb : immediately, and England had taken steps to obtain the half of the i'77,i3S from I ranee which was joint guarantor. A telegram received from Paris says England asked permission to establish acoal depot on the Island of Jennada.

The British fleet is protected from torpedoes by electric lights constantly burning, and boats making a circuit of the ships. The officers visit Constantinople freely.

AMERICA. A dpel was fought between two Virginia gentlemen, Sydney and .Pitts, at a distance of six yards. The weapons were pistols, and both men were killed on the second tire. '

Mr (h-iffin, recently U.S. Consul at the Samoan Islands, has been trans-’ ferred with his consulate to Fiji. Silver is being shipped in large, cjuautiries from England to the- United Stales,' ■ • . ■ . •

A telegram from Lloyd’s agent at Constantinople, dated March 7, contains the intelligence that the British steamer John Michlolton, Captain Hobson, ironi Odessa-, grain laden, whilst i viug at anchor was mu into by a Turkiou uinn-01-'var. Tim John Middle* ton, by the force of the collision; was forced from its anchors and d t If ted against the Antt-lope (Biitisb gunboat), causing sjine injury to the latter. The v

John Middleton' ; so much damage that -she‘sank in-.the harbor. The crew were saved by the English man-of-war. The John : Middleton was the property of Milhnrni and Co;, London, and was-an iron screw steamer of 1200 tons gross; 'in the early part of - the year it arrived at Constantinople -with a icargo of military stores from the United States; after discharging it-went to- take grain- for Antwerp. . The ' Antelope was stationed at - Constantinople at the disposal of the British ambassador. ,

A fire at ■ Philadelphia destroyed 100,000dol. worth of property. ■-. Captain Baavdus has challenged all Europe for pigeon shooting. Mr Gladstone has declined .an invitation to visit file States and deliver ’an address to to the' graduates of Yale College, ' • ” • : ■ O’Donovanßossa ? s lecture on “Ireland,”' at Toronto, on the 12th ult,y gave rise to a- riot between the Ribbon and Orange men of that city. Rossa was forewarned that his reception might be warm. He leaped: off the train in motion, fell into the mud, and was nearly smothered. Over live companies of the' Queen’s Own mustered; and four--tenths of the Royals, in the drill-shed near where the lecture was delivered; 1000 guarded St. Patrick’s Hall, and a mob-of 7000 stocked the corner of King and Jarvis streets, fillihg the; Market' square. Rossa got. ,to the hall unrecognised j- . 1500 wei’4 "fitment,''mostly ...Young .Irishmen." The fighting between the mob and the r fiodice" wad af severe struggle. .. . ‘1