SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 214, 10 September 1877, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

A Turkish loan of two millions has been floated iv London.

The following were the latest despatches to haud at San Fraucisco:— A large Russian army under the Czarewitch is facing Eyoub Pasha on the left, and Mehemet Ali on the right; the former is threatened from the direcction of Karshar, and the latter from Osman Bazar. Eyoub is believed to have 48 battalions of infantry, 62 squadrons of cavalry, and 15 batteries of artillery, while the army of Mehemet comprises 60,000 to 70,000 Turks on the Lovatz aud Plevna line, and they will take a deal of beating. On the Russian lef r, the flauk of the Czarewitch's army is necessarily extended over a loug front so as to leave no gap for the Turks to creep through. The Turks are probably about the same strength, but if Mehemet Ali chooses to take the offensive he may concentrate at Rustchuk, Rasgrad, and Osman Bazar. The Russians must be ready to face him everywhere, consequently they must remain strictly on the defensive. The River Lorn still virtually constitutes the line of the Rustchuck army.

Mehemet Ali has appointed Rescind Pasha chief of the artillery, and Bhumpsa Commander at Varna.

Both the Prussiau correspondents with the Dobrudscha armies telegraph that malarial fever is doing its worst. Hundreds of sick are arriving at Tchernovada daily. There is a great e*odu3 of Circassians from the Caucasus, consequent on the withdrawal of the Turkish expedition. The Russians have succeeded in stopping the exodus from one district, and drove the people back with great cruelty. The men are to be sent to Siberia and the women given to the Cossacks.

A convention has been signed between Englaud aud Egypt for tha suppression of the slave trade.

The Fenian prisoners will probably be released.

There has been rioting at Londonderry, and Belfast. The military were called out, and several were wounded.