SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue X, 6 January 1875, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SUMMARY.

Twenty-One liyes yete, ; ;lbst during Satujrdav. and Sundayjs fes.le ota VRq Scottish coast. : "'A ship, ,, Supposed to bo .the J?ontiac f< om Sower and for Bonfbav, w«B>burned at sea,; and twenty-six of the crew perished. h/ A despatch from Berlin>saj a-it is reported that Great Britain has finally refused to tafe<-' part in the International Law Conference, which Bussia proposes to re-open at St. Petersburgb. *.. ' ' h^ ' J ~f; ' '■ Prince Bismarck, in the course of hisrep'y to Herr Windhorst in the R<ich«tag, said: — " I am in possession of conclusive evidence that the CEcumenicaUCouneil -vrasjjut ..short, on account of the Franco-German war, and that the Council would have been very different had the French been victorious. I know from the best sources that Napoleon was drag, edrato war -very much against his will by Jesuitic influences. At the eleventh hour he determined on peace, and kept his resolution for half an hoar, but ultimately was overpowered by. persons representing the Vatican." ji f\ \I \ .^-j) ' • >*'«■§ • : '» ! Archbishop Mahrihifif obtained ah audience of the Pope who received him, and exp-essed his fullest confidence in the progress., of. Ca hoticism in England, despite the present misrepresentation of the policy of the Church. The Carlists have laid siege to Berga, fifty miles fr^m Barcelona. £Jf i j" " f * v -> The Chamber of Deputes has unanimously adopted a motion for the immediate consideration of Garibaldi's pnnsion. TScyr.B ihas/ire&i Jicieitftl >of the illness of ther Czar rof Russia, .'and be is believed] < to bo . insane. The Times says th"»t Italian unity mu«t irrevocAbly be accomplished i( Fance wishes, to preserve the friendship of Italy. She roust recognise this fact, and not adopt a c erical policy towards the f ountry. - <;••«-«•-■).•-. The Pope has abs >lutely refu?e'l io! ice'f ' commend the bi-hops imprisoned in Brazil to resign their .Sees at a measure for the r concilia ion of their difference with r the Government of Cuba. '-■•' K 1.C... ■'■ i._ _'.] <■ ; The Spn:sh coasting steamer Tonias Brooks from Santiago de Cuba for Guantanamo, s nk, and thirty lives were lost. | The Cuban Insurgents are operating succefßfuly. , , r int^neni?sagcment «^ San Gregorio rece"tly > :. sixty soWifers'wJßre-killet; and, much booty! was captured. The village waß fired, and the Spnnißh garrison surrrnlered. vA^ter the \ fight twenty-five Spanish soldierfelof thej Artillery garrisoning fort St. Hillacco, in the Central Department of Cuba,, jeyoJted, seizing a coasting schodney, and uoiier tlireH,*; ofjdeath ordered the captain to take them to a neighboring islan 1. The captain s t sail, an»i ran th» vess 1 aground on a neighbor ng island, and wem to the neirest military post and notified to the commander, who , arrested, i the deserters, eier'en of whom wer<J fenof "the ; next day, and the rest imprisoned. . „, , _„, ,