NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Kumara Times, Issue 625, 28 September 1878, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[PRESS AGENCY;] : ; In north France strikes are commencing. AH the coal pita at Denaih,' in the department of the Loire, are deserted, The. last year’s reveuue of the Germau Central Exchequer was 15,000,000 marks below the estimate, in all branches. The - deficit is covered by savings from the French indemnity. The Austrian police surrendered to the Berne authorities a Swiss lady, who, under the name of the Rnsssian Countess Cajofosko, had sold false jewellery to the amount of a million francs during the past three years at Nice, Paris, Monaco, and other fashionable resort*. Bismark has informed the Papal Nuncio that the recognition of the Ecclesiastical laws by the Bishops, who name candidates for livings must precede all attempts to reestablish an understanding between Germany and the Vatican. Agitation is bad at Serejero, and openly assuming a communistic character. Captain Millinkadie, Chief of the Staff, was sent from Derbend on August Ist with a squadron of Hussars to reconnoitre the Valley of Bosnia; he was seemingly received everywhere with joy. Hearing that an insurrection was being organised at Schebeech, on the river Bosnia, the Captain proceeded thither, and was received at the entrance of the town with a volley of musketry. The Hussars were formed for action, but perceiving it impossible to force an entrance into the town, they marched back to Mogli, where the inhabitants, previously friendly, opened a heavy Jcroas fire niion, the Hussars, who were obliged to pass at a rapid 1 pace a defile occupied , by Bosnians/ The loss of the Hussars was about; 100 out of 189. The Bosnians murdered and mutilated the wounded; Another despatch says the best part of the Austrian division was engaged in a so-called skirmish at Kishna. Austrian losses serious. The Austrian force advanced on Seravego and captured it after a struggle. ; An official report says General Tegethoff occupied Viskoa onthe 17 th instant, capturing a quantity of arms and amunition after an engagement, in which 12 men were wounded and four killed. He immediately advanced a considerable distance in the direction of Seragero, On Monday General Tegethoff’s force formed in column of attack against the northern side of Seragero,, and opened a cannonade against the castle at half-past six o’clock in the morning—the insurgent artillery replying. Meanwhile the force of General Phitipotich divided into two columns and was favored by a thick fog in effecting a movement of the column directed against the insurgents’ position on the western side of Seragero. They com> menced the attack at half-past seven o’clock, but the main column driving the insurgents with difficulty from their strong position, only reached its appointed post on the heights south of the city at 10.30. When the insurgents’ cannon were silenced, and the Austrian infantry advanced in swarms, G *n«ral Phitipotich says that fighting of a most 1 honiblt kind ensued, which lasted until' 1.30. The tmops were fired upon from every doorway and window, ".evcit, women and sick and woundied in j,he ;

military hospitals participated in in* credible scenes of the wildest fanaticism, and it was only owing to the good discipline of the troops that the town was not more seriously. jlamqgecL- as it is, many houses were burned; 'bur losses are large. The insurgents fled in all durations.At the : cloae f 6f the fighting the Imperial flag' was hoisted and sainted amidst the cheers ot the Christian population. ' The loss .of Bosnians at Seragero was' killed and 700 wounded. It is thought that many iu addition were carried away by their friends. The Austrian wounded, 800. In Herzgoyina the Austrians are advancing towards Mostai, and fonght a short engagement near Citlake with 500 insurgents and killed, several. At Mostai, the capital of Bosnia, the Governor and mufti were assassinated, and the whole population are in arms, and Mussulmans from the surrounding country are flocking in to join- the insurgents. One account says the insurgent force opposing the Austrian occupation consists of Bosnians, Turks, Aruots, and Albanians to the number of a million (1) of men, well armed. A correspondent of the Daily News in Cyprus reports fever prevalent at Nicosia, oh the northern side; of the island, and that seventeen men and two officers out of a detatchment of 120 stationed there were attacked by tho disorder. Later, telegrams state that typhus fever is increasing at Cyprus, and one-fourth, of the European troops and two-thirda of the doctors are down with it. ■

and the port ofAleppo are named a? -a probable point 'England wishes to acquire, on the mainland of Asia'Minor. . ,

; . .It‘is now as good as settled lhat for the present the Foreigp Office is to have Cyprus, and that {he. affairs of our new dependency are toLbe, managed by a special , branch übderri the control of Philip Currie, C.B/-- jhe -reason given for this decision is’fo avoid a probable clashing with title seignorial rights of the Sultan—his sovereignty being still supreme, and bur only conditional and. temporary.