SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 174, 24 July 1874, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SUMMARY.

Mr Disraeli announced in tbe House of Commons seventeen domestic bills, and urged diligence to avert a protracted session. Earl Yarborough has been missing and was discovered on Jersey Island, He left for London in charge of his friends and a policeman. Mr Gladstone presented a petition signed by 8600 laborers asking for an assimilation of the county and borough franchise. Forty deaths from cholera are reported from India. Moslere's cotton mills near Manchester have been burnt down, loss £50,000. There have been extensive inundations in Hungary and many villages swept away. Copies of the New York Herald containing Rochfort's letter were seized in Paris owing to ita attack oa McMahon. The Turkish steamer Kars with 330 persons on board waa run into in the sea of Marmora by an Egyptian vessel and sunk; 320 lives were lost. The Emperor of Austria has summoned an international Congress to consider sanitary measures for the prevention of cholera. Despatches from Algeria state that an insurrection at Fez was extinguished by the Sultan bombarding the town and the inhabitants being killed. Despatches from India announce famine riots at Darjeeling. The troop 3 fired on the rioters and several were killed. A letter from a China Missionary published in Paris states tbat there were 80,000 Christiana in that country last year, and that 1000 had been strangled, burned, or drowned. He adds that he himself does not expect to escape martyrdom. The Pope in answer to argent solicitations irom exalted political personages for reconciliation with the Italian government said that he would yield nothing. The Spanish Government solicit a loan of fifty million reals. A London special despatch from Berlin says tbat the Government of Germany service Roumama (?) confidentially inform the other European powers that they have concluded an agreement to mutually protect their interests against tha designs of Turkey. Despatches to the Daily Telegraph from Berlin assert that the differences between the Khedive of Egypt and the Sublime Porte are serious and intimate that grave complications in the East are probable. The Times Berlin correspondent says that the congress which assembles at Brussels nest month to consider the subject of international rights in time of war will codify the recognized usages of international law which affect tbe actual conduct of war, and then enact a new code in the form of an international treaty which promises to become tbe first law common to the whole. The draft of a treaty which has been made bas seventy-six clauses stating the rights and obligations, and mutual claims of belligerent States and individuals, specifying what armß may be legitimately used. They are making a regulation for the treatment of prisoners. At a banquet given in honor of the agricultural exhibition, the Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany in reply to the toast of the Emperor William expressed a hope that foreign exhibitors would on their return home convey the assurance to their countrymen that nowhere was the wish for the peaceful continuance of labor and civilisation stronger than in the German Empire.