SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 25, 29 January 1877, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

I The result of the Eastern Conference was that the Porte declared its 'willingness to make concessions and offer ample securities to the Powers, but unwaveringly refused to I sanction the occupation of the provinces by [ any. troops whatever. Tie Mussulman population are very excited. Great quantities of arms and ammunition have been received from America. The temper of the population is warlike. The Saf tas made a demonstration before the Russian Embassy, by shouting "Down with Russia." Russian steamers have ceased running on the Black • Sea. The Mahometan population in India is also said' t<rbe excited. The Marquis of Salisbury had an interview with Midhat Pasha, the Grand Vizier, after the rejection of the Conference proposals; The Marquis addressed the Conference, warmly condemning the obstitfacy of the Porte. The plague has reappeared at Bagdad. A famine is reported in Montenegro. ; Dr Sclilemanri, whilst excavating at the supposed site of the Tombs of Agamemnon and Cassandra, has discovered immense treasure. . . : •.■.-■ j'The Cambridge University has declined tie challenge of the Yale and Cornell Universities to a four-oared race from Putney to MortJake. \ : j The Times, in a leader, concludes by saying that the Porte may rest assured the first shot fired in defence of the united demands of Europe w6ul<j be the beginning of the end, and that neither England nor ■■,-. any other Power would' interpose to save it from ruin. It might have more foes than' Russia even at the OUtset,./: ::-,;.. ' The mobilisation of a reserve of 100,000 Russian troops' is said to be proceeding at Moscow and St. Petersburg under the order of the Grand Duke Nicholas, and Russia is said. to have 120,000. men concentrated on her .southern frontier. The meeting to promote the purchase of American .vessels to be used as privateers in case of War is creating much comment among German ship-owners who, being, largely engaged in the- carriage of Russian merchandise, fear the ruin of their trade if England should ever be compelled to resort to reprisals. The 7Ywie»,says the warlike feeling in Russia is decidedly decreasing. ' ''. ■' In the middle of December severe gales were experienced throughout the United Kingdom; 120 vessels aud 250 men were lost on the Aberdeen coast. Sixty lives were lost on the shores of the Tyne which are strewn for four miles with wreck. There are also great quantities of wreck at Pentlaud firth. Dover pier has been partially destroyed. Nearly every town between Dover and Portsmouth is partially inundated, the furniture being washed out of the houses. At Ashiabula, Ohio, on the 29th December, a bridge over a creek broke and precipitated a train to a depth of 75 feet; 100 lives were lost, being either crushed, burned, or frozen j to death. There was a great snow storm at ■ the, time of the accident. Every house in the neighborhood was turned into a hospital. Twelve '-Mollie Maguires" have been sentenced to death for wholesale murders in Pennsylvania. The Presidential election is still undecided. The Florida vote is disputed. A favorite solution of the difficulty is to hold a new election in the next fall. The snow in Broadway drifted five feet high on January 2. J '-'-Accounts of. the famine in Madras are worse: than from Bombay. Large numbers are flocking from Madras to escape starvation. •There is a great emigration movement to New Zealand and . Australia of Japanese pensioners, who use the capital of their pensions to pay their passage. A fire at Tokio, Yokohama, destroyed 10,000 houses, and 1000,000 people are rendered homeless. The area covered by-the fire was sjx square miles. '. •'.V Agrarian riot's ajre numerous in America. . Mr R. j. Creighton, late of ths New- Zealand Times, has addressed a long letter to the San Francisco Post on the subject- of , the Paeifiic mail route, showing the advantages to the United States, and advocating the abolition oi the forked and, coastal Service." '- A report run! that Major Randall and' a detachment of troops and friendly Indians, part of Crook's command, have- been surrounded and massacred in the Big Horn Mountains. Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India on the Ist January, at Delhi, with great ceremony. Two nurses have been convicted of selling clothes taken from small-pox patients at the Victoria Pest House in British Columbia, and sentenced to eighteen months in tthe chain gang. In Mexico Iglesias has declared himself President. Information received in Washing-" . ton says the revolutionary party intend to take advantage of the disturbed state .of. Mesfep and the. strife between the rival Presidents t» establish, by aid of America, an independent State, £o combine ultimately with the United States. Igle.sjas has 12,000 ; troops and Diaz 18,000. Both* are anxious for recognition by' the United States. The country is now under three Governments, and a reign of terror exisjs? on the frontier of Lower California.; • .