ADDITIONAL SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 601, 31 August 1878, Page 2

ADDITIONAL SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

[press agency.] GENERAL EUROPEAN SUMMARY. London, July 18. The Prince of Wales proceeded to Paris this day. He visited the Agricultural Show at Bristol, and was enthusiastically received. He was also present at a grand review atAldershot. The second reading of the Bill to create four new bishoprics was carried by 188 against 60. - Edward Jenkins, member for Dundee, brought forward a motion for a Royal Commission to enquire into the ritualistic practices of the clergy ; but after a considerable discussion withdrew it at the suggestion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. , The Prince of Wales is chosen President of the Agricultural Show, to,be held in London next year. It is intended to be international. Forty Bishops preached in London Churches last Sunday wiek, and fortyfive last Sunday. •- v ■

The Winter Gardens at Blackpool were opened by the Lord Mayor in. presence of 60,000 spectators. bir.Coutts Lindsay has opened the Grosvenor Picture Gallery on Sunday afternoon and evening. Lord Gianville laid the foundation stone of additions to .the University College, Limdon. It is estimated to cost £IO,OOO. Several London vestrie3 have commenced an agitation for an inquiry into the property of the City Guilds, with the view of seeing if they cannot be directed towards the relief of ratepayers. ' f A breach of promise case, in Dublin, Fitzgerald v. Gubbins,. resulted in defendant paying plaintiff £2500: The Board of Trade returns for the first half of 1878 are unfavorable, shewing a continuous decline in. exnorts • also a falling off in the .Mn'smuption of all the more important articles contributing to the revenue. '' \ Several thousand nail mako.rs hav« struck in South Staffordshire, refusing to a.:c.ept.a reduction of 20 to 30 per' OfUt.

The Cape war is concluded. General Tliesiger pioceed to the Transvaal, the Zulu Kind's attitude heing uncertain. The Cape Parliament, is granting .£ls 000 of an annual subsidy to a telegvaph cable, from England Via. #atal, Zanzibar, and Aden. i: *

The Knrydiee frigate was raised by the united action of men-of-war. which were partly B unfc, steel hawsers being fastened to the Eurydice, then pumped out. The Thunder er was towing, and the strain was so tremendous that the capstan was broken off, springins into the sea.

Ten pilots were'droW&f.off Queenstown during a gale,; by their vessel foundering. Several Lancashire rioters havfj-been to 15, 7, and 5 years penal servitude. ; * :. ;.' .■••:• i-i

Zorilla Labe, the Spanish Premier, has been arrested near Paris and conducted to the French fiontier. : " : "

Sir Capel Fi»z-.WM, .Bart., is committed for trial.for stealing ,£4OO worth of jewellery from a woman*; whom lie accompanied to Paris. ■The great Italian ironclad Dandolo has been launched a 6 Spm. '..\ . t Nobling is recovering from This wounds. He 'asserts'' he had no accomplicps. -:i.-*;'. ■. ; )*•.'■ " : A ;

The. prosecution against M&hon /was dismissed. The evidence showed there was mason to believe the Govenmenfc intended makinga statement toT-Parlia-ment on the same night as Mahon communicated the Treaty to the that it would he supplied .to ,tne papers : for next morning.- x •"■?■:>*<;uvo • A frightful murder was discovered fin Wales. A farm laborer, his wife, ami three, children were" killed;i supposed by.two tramps* then unsuccessfully atteinped to tire the cottage, ; A. man and his wife haye'been fanud' murdered in a hpgliole in ! , 4he JJoui&y Manogban. The holies WHretiedwlih ropes, and .had heavy sfconestfastened to them. T , The Bradford theatre ls".^rafc" : '^.\, Consxil-General., Faw.cett^ v andWotlker commissioners of. the. Gjraat' leave* Constantinople for : f ;&i ''■myhsf into the Rhodope Mountain The ttusskn authorities »*re to follow their ivcommenfjatitnisiK' "i\ .■.■*>,'.' The Duke of Siither|anff-^wit£jin-, flueiitial aUies', is tafe"ing^ftfi^;l^a : d to construct a- railway /frbm, to the Persian Gulf." " . ' ■■-'/ i -' JV *-~*- ■

Official Ht;itethf*ntß."--nnbHßlied confirm the. aecontitsof. outrage* c< munitted by, «ow on the reports that in nor instance, have Russians |cmiShed the bftWwlers?' ~"' '■''"* It is understood-that the lafco,; jsgari;; necessitates additional taxation in Kus.sk of £1,200,000 annually/ '■-;: vf i