MAIL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 49, 26 February 1877, Page 2

MAIL SUMMARY.

A number of Bashi Bazouks crossed -the Danube and plundered the Roumaneian outposts. ; The commander of Silistria is ordered to punish them. The cost of • relief works and measures to relieve the famine in Bombay and Madras is estimated at six and a half millions sterling. The Servian General, Tchernaieff, is at Prague making incessant orations favorable to Russia. The authorities informed the police who escorted him oyer the Saxohy frontier. As he showed a disposition to resist force was threatened. The British ship Ada Iredale, bound for San Francisco with coal, has been totally destroyed by fire. The crew numbering twenty-three set out for the Marquesas Islands, over 2000 miles .distant. One boat capsized in a gale, but all were saved except one. After twenty six days in open boats and undergoing great suffering they arrived safely. In the event of war, a split is expected iu t e .British Parliament, the Liberals dividing under the opposing leadership of the Marquis of Partington arid Mr Gladstone, and. the Conservatives dividing orying to a known difference between the Marquis of Salisbury aud Earl Beaconsfield. The Porte has warned Servia thafc no armistice will be granted beyond Ihe Ist of March. The Countess of Howe, throngh grief at the death of her husband, threw herself from a window and was killed, A fire has occurred at the Stonehall Coal Mine, Bolton, when fifteen were known to be killed. ■ ' " „ Commercial intercourse between Russia and China is suspended, owing to Chinese suspicious being excited by the Russian exploring expeditions. It is said that Servia and Turkey have agreed to accept the U'ttua quo ante ledum as the basis of peace negotiations. It isre-

ported that Russia will not oppose the Servian peaoe negotiations iu order that should war arise, Servia may be invaded as Turkish territory. The Porte has sent a dispatch to its representatives abroad, giving notice of the appointment of three Christian Governors, and that reforms were proceeding unremittingly.The steamers George Cromwell, from Hull, and tbe George Washington, from Halifax, the. former with 30, and the latter "with .31 passeogers, have been totally lost. The Roumanians are erecting redoubts opposite the Turkish fortress at Wadden. Prince Gortschakoff is dangerously ill. It is reported that he is likely to resign, owing to the Emperor's uriwiilingness to declare war. The American ship Dakotah was struck by lightning and burned. The captain aud his wife escaped, after being in a boat for four days. The Freemasons have refused to recognise negroes. A fight OQcurred, whites against blacks, in South Carolina, when the American trooDS were again defeated. The Indians have revolted in Ecuador, and defeated the President's troops in a bloody battle. The revolutionists are expected to enter Quito.