ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISO MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 176, 17 July 1876, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISO MAIL.

Auckland, Saturday. Tbe City of New York has arrived from Kandavau, having left there on the llth inßt. She had been waiting five days for the City of Sydney, the through boat, which arrived on her due date and sailed for Sydney the same day as the City of New York left for Auckland. The City of Francisco with the outward mails, arrived at Kandavaa on the 7th inst. Passengers by City of New York .-—For Napier— Mr. E. L. Meinertzhergen ; for Welliogton — Mr. Clarke and wife ; for Lyttelton— Messrs Davis, Gilbert, and Beddoes. She will sail South at 2 a.m. on Sunday. ENGLISH & FOREIGN SUMMARY All the Liberals of the Basque Provinces in Spain who supported Alphonso are to be exempt from conscription. The remainder of the population will ] be liable lo militia duty the same as other Spaniards. ] " Mr. Schoffleid, M.P. for [Pembrokeshire, is dead. • A Vienna correspondent reports that dne of the last decrees eigned hy the late Saltan, was a secret order for the invasion of Servia, and that the Aus- i Irian Ambassador at Constantinople succeeded in having tbe orders withdrawn. : Prioee Hassan, son of the Khedive of Egypt, has resigned bis commission in the Prussian army. He goes to Egypt, where be will be Minister of War. The Porte has promulgated a full amnesty to ail insurgents who wiil lay down their arms and renew allegiance to the Turkish Government during the next biz weeks' armistice. The Russian Ambassador complained to the Governmeht of Austria of the numeasured attacks on Russia published ib certain newspapers, especially those of Hungary. The Mexican Government have just leased the mines of San Louis, Pottose, Guanajuato, and Zatacecas, to an English Company for 100,000 dollars per a mum. Trade is prrstrated, and the Government is unable to pay its employees. The Servian army consists of about 125,000 men, and the militia of 100,000 more. The Servians are convinced that war is a moral necessity. A vote for the Duke of Connaught's establishment on his marriage with Princess Frederiea, daughter of the exKing of Hanover, will be submitted to Parliament this session. The Berlin memorandum has been withdrawn. England and the other Powers agree upon certain points, amoag wbioh is one not to exercise undue pressure on the Porte. Rossis, France, and England have made successful representations to Servia for the meintenance of peace. The Pone has courteously asked Servia to explain the meeting of her armament. Thiß request was not made in a threatening manner nor as an ulti* tnatum. The Czar has prevailed upon Servia to adopt a peaceful policy. Turkey has spontaneously offered the insurgents two conditions inoluded in the memorandum, viz , three months' armistice, and direct negotiation. The Spanish police have discovered two depots of cartridges at San Sebastian. A Paris letter says that George Sand died in great pain, which caused her to writhe and shriek. 1 Correspondents agree that the danger of an immediate outbreak on the Servian and Montenegro frontiers is removed. Eighty Spanish senators were in favor of an amendment for totally suppressing the privileges hitberto enjoyed by the Provinces of Biscay and Navarre. At a torchlight procession in Dublin in celebration of tbe escape of Fenian convicts from West Australia, Disraeli was burned in effigy. A Berlin despatch says that the insurgent leaders bave accepted tbe armistice, and appointed Wessilitzeke to arrange guarantees with the Northern Powers. It is reported that the Turkish Governor of Herzegovina offered 2000 florins reward for tbe capture of the Russian organiser of the insurgent forces. The Khedive has consented to visit Constantinople as requested by the Sultan. The Grand Vizier bas notified to tbe Imperial Commissioners in Bosnia and Herzegovina that the reforms already granted for those Provinces will be maintained in tbeir integrity. DdhomBy will pay the fine imposed upon bim by Commander Hewitt, for maltreating a British subject. The Provinces of Roumania and Servia have sent telegraphic despatches to the Forte announcing tbat they will be represented at the investiture of the Sultan. WiDelow, the Boston forger, has been discharged. The exploring expedition for Northwestern Africa has left England. The main object is to ascertain the feasibility of admitting the water of the Atlantic to a portion of Sahara. A pleasure-boat capsized at Eastbourne, on Saturday, and twelve people were drowned. A letter from Madrid gives details of recent prosecutions against the Press. It says, witbin the last month three leading liberal journals have been suppressed, or are on trial witbin the forty days ending June Ist,

The toleration clause of the Constitution may possibly pass the Senate, but by a very email majority, if at all. Ruiz Gomez, supported by Celloa and and Duke Ferrin Nemuez will propose a measure for re-establiehing liberty of conscience and public worship, making native Protestants eligible for Professorship and State employment. Great riots occurred in Belgium through the success of the Catholics in the elections.

At the Antwerp elections many thousands were marching through the streets shouting " Down with the Ministers." The mob attacked and wrecked the Catholic Institute. The gens d'arrnes charged upon the rioters, and several were wounded and a number of arrests made.

The cereal crops in the Provinces of Badojose and Cuidereal have been entirely destroyed by locusts. Over six hundred tons of these insects have been burnt with petroleum in the trenches, and 15,000 soldiers have been occupied in destroying them. Serious inundations have occurred in western Switzerland, caused by heavy rains and tbe melting of the snow on the mountains. The railways are much damaged.

The whole canton of Tburger is submerged, and many bridges and houses have been carried away, and several persons drowned. At Franfeldt the capital of the canton, four inmates of houses were killed by the falling wall b.

There have been heavy failures in tbe United Kingdom. The liabilities of the firm of Malcolmson & Co., of Belfast aod Waterford, Ireland, linen manufacturers, are estimated at one million five hundred thousand; Johnstone, Furie, and Co., yarn merchants, Glasgow, Scotland, £800,000; Gurburt, colliery owner, Darlington, £170,000.

The Under-Secretary of the Foreign department announced in the House of Commons that a peremptory demand had been made of the Peruvian Government for the release of the crew of the Talisman ; peaceful relations between the countries to end if the demand is not complied with.

A fire broke out in the carpet manufactory and woollen works at Ayr belonging to James Templeton, caused by the friction of the machinery. It spread to all parts of the building. The operatives were at work at tbe time, but it is believed that all the men escaped. A number of women rushed out saying there were others inside unable to escape, and soon afterwards the roof fell in and twenty-four women were buried in the ruins and perished. One woman who leaped from the upper window was so badly injured that she died soon after being taken to the hospital. It is reported that an overseer named Barr locked the door of the room in which the female operatives were working. Barr himself perished in the flames, and it is impossible to learn the truth of the report, but as the women bad time to escape it is otherwise inexplicable. The works were entirely destroyed. A despatch from Calcutta reports an alarming outbreak of cholera in Galwood village, on the Bombay and Baroda railway. Out of 200 inhabitants 100 died in three days. The Spanish Senate have adopted the clause of the Constitution establishing religious toleration by a vote of 43 to 40.

Some dynamite stored in a joiner's shop on the Burbank road, Glasgow, exploded, killing six women and wrecking several houses.

Latest Atlantic cablegrams to June 21 state that the Turkish insurgents have refused the armistice. Austria has resolved to withhold relief, and the money of the Herzegovinians is exhausted. The insurgent leader is defeated. The Sultan's troops at Pelrovo killed 200 Turks and captured 200 head of sheep and cattle. Neisik has been provisioned, and the Turkish army has received six months arrears of pay.

A correspondent of the Moscow Gazette telegraphs to that paper from Cettingi that the Turks in Bosnia have unfurled the green flag for a holy war against the Christians.

Tbe Berlin special reports that Austria has ordered the concentration of 158,000 of the landwehr in the eastern and south-eastern provinces for autumn drill.

A despatch from Belgrade says that tbe Servian Government's decision in favor of peace is opposed to the wishes of the whole people.

The position of affairs is becoming dangerous.

Reports received from Sclavonic sources state that Prince Karageorgewitz has destroyed ths town of Allapusa and killed 2000 Turks.

The Prussian Cross Gazette publishes a private letter from Jerusalem, in which it says great anxiety aud excitement prevail there in consequence of the excesses of the Turkish authorities and the threatened rising of the populace. On the 2nd of June the Christians, fearing an attack, barricaded their houses, and the foreign residents kept an armed watch throughout the night. The Germans met 1 at the Consulate and made an organisation for mutual defence, and sent to their Government a formal application for military assistance. The Turkish soldiers have Bince permanently encamped in the public tquare. A Berlin despatch says that accounts received from all sources are full of apprehensions of further violence, and, perhaps, of a general uprising in Constantinople.

The Turkish fleet, consisting of eight first-class vessels, will sail for Crebe within a week on an important mission. A Circassian, named Hassan, incited, it is believed, by an order of the late Sultan, attempted the assassionation of the Ministry who deposed him. He called upon the War Minister, who was atteuding a Council at the Prime Minis? ter's residence. He proceeded in, and the guards, believing him to be an aide-de-camp, permitted him to enter. Hassen fired point blank at Hussien Aswi Pashi, the Minister of War, with a revolver, and while the other persons present were pressing forward to seize the assassin, Raschid Paschi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs a servant of Pasha Asuri, named Ahmed Ghahara, and a soldier- were killed,- and Kaiza Taipsi, minister of Marine, and another soldier wounded, Hassen has been executed.