SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 166, 16 July 1877, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

[Per City op Sydney/] . The slow advance of the Russians on fche Danube t is partly owing to bad. roads, and partly to inadequate railway communication. Iti is also stated as a reason that the Czar desired to obtain a diplomatic guarantee of neutrality from England. Count Schouvaloff informed Bismarck that Russia would claim Upper Armenia as far as Kars as a war indemnity. No definitely known understanding exists between Russia and Germany. Some Russian officers succeeded in running a boat alongside a Turkish monitor arid blew her up with a torpedo. Orders have been issued by Hbbarfc Pasha to bombard Odessa. The Turks hope to create an insurrection in the Crimea. ' ■ " > ! :•' The Turkish fleet protected Sulina at fche mouth of the Danube. Russian torpedo boats attacking "were driven off and three captured. ■■'.<. - The Russians occupied a strong position while besieging Batoum. They suffered heavy losses around Kars. Terrible sickness prevails in the Turkish army in Asia. Charges of malversation have been preferred against Mukhfcar Pasha. His position iu Asia Minor was at one time very critical, but is much improved. He has been reinforced by twenty battalions from Trebizond, and is now considered unassailable. The Russian force in Asia Minor is estimated .afc 140,000. Mukhtar Pasha's army number ouly 40,000, but holds an unassailable position. The Turkish forces in Europe are. 200,000, well armed, but deficient in artillery and organisation. The Danubian fortresses have been effectively strengthened. The Turkish squadron sent to Eupatoria consists of two monitors, three ironclad frigates, and several smaller vessels. r^ ne ™ 1 Todleben commands in the Crimea. lhe Turks obtaiued important successes near Snishnm Kaleh: Twenty thousand Arabs have ravaged the country between Aleppo and Damascus. The Governor of Syria telegraphed for troops, but has been recalled in consequence of serious i charges against his administration. ihe Turks cut the dykes, and flooded the Ivusteudgi railway, turning it into a strong position ior the defence of Dobrudscha The fighting in Montenegro has been verv severe. The ;Turkish forces numbered 70,000, and the Montenegrins were crushed by overwhelming numbers. Several thousands were killed on both sides. Lords Salisbury and Derby' made pacific speeches at the Merchant Tailors' banquet Mr Gladstone received an immense ovation at Birmingham. Resolutions were carried at

a meeting of 30,00? calling upon the Government to .demand guaranteed from- Turkey for the protection of Christians. " <•' "• In America, an alarming uprising of Indians is reported at Comas Prairie, Idaho Territory. Settlers have been massacred ia s alldirectio!jß.\ A body bf 'troops aen\to tha re.cue N haa been surrbunded^according fe^tM latest tidings, and almost aU killed. The Ins surgeuts are Nez Perces, and number about warriors. The steamer City of San Francisco was ..totally wrecked on the 16th of May, on the voyage from Panama to San Francisco. She .struck on a sunken reef eighty miles from 1 Acapulco. No lives were lost. An earthquake and tidal wave occurred on ..the 9th of May on the Pacific Coast,.destroying six towns, killing six hundred people, and inflicting incalculable damage to shipping on Tine cOctsc* General Grant was enthusiastically received in England. He had the freedom df the City of Lopdon conferred upon him, also the - degree of D C.L., Oxford, .and was cordially. ' eitcrtained by the Quben and her Ministers, -rreat good is; expected to\ result- ft-omithis The Dover and Calais submarine tunnel has been reported practicable. The Hoia. Mrs Norton died on the 15th oi , June., . h ■ ' __Gr^t Britain claims 20,000,000 dbllara ftonifthe United States On account of the Canadian fisheries. "' --•-*-■ A bridge near Bath broke down, precipitating one hundred and flf ty people into "the A^- T .^ l ? e were killed and. fifty-one }i seooasly injured.; _ ,_ '.'£:',■: ■.:£■:■ £ w ?. um< . ra a li?™™M that _th.e. Princess, ot Wales .is , about -to. return-' -permanently tb ■-> •>^nmark m - co^q«ence. j>jf .£v.serio«i_-diffi- . :- ..cuVty,co-mected with ahbther; lady 'an^. tire For the-Derbiy seventeen^.ir.ed.' ei_a__&' ; (the favorite) wgs beaten after passing Ta^-" tenham;corher,rand- tho running Vas n,&_ e by Crown Prince and Glen Arthur, Silvio -• wmnmg by half a length. Betting aC starts mg, 12 to 1 against the winner. »^n France,- Maemahon's reactionary" rag £- : iurers are causing greai\ discontent, :M 'h V 6 fe of noconfiae ? cel^> een P3ssedhy363 The famine of Corea is still racing and •, .thousands, ate. starving/. •. The .G^_h_neh6 are organising measures of relief, ] The House of Commons has' rejected a i h Ss t650 6 ° tX ° P ° f ° apitaI P 1 " 1^* 116 .