ENGLILH NEWS PER CHIMBORAZO AT SYDNEY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 244, 15 October 1877, Page 4

ENGLILH NEWS PER CHIMBORAZO AT SYDNEY.

The three police inspectors, Drascovitch, Palmer, and Meiklejohn, and the solicitor Troggatt, were again on the 1 1th August brought up at Bow-street, charged with conspiring to defeat the ends of justice, in connection with the turf frauds. The convict Carr was further examined, and in his evidence stated that directly or indirectly he had given money to eleven members of the police force. He also mentioned several inferior members of the police and prison warders to whom bribes had been given. Mr Troggatt's connection with the case was traced, and the witness having been examine-, another adjournment took place. The Quean, with the members of the Royal family, paid a vißit of inspeotion to the Thunderer. On 11th August, SuUeman Pasha telegraphed that 10,000 Mussulmans, women, and children escaped the massacre by the Bulgarians aod Russians at Kazarebek, the remainder of the men being killed, and the women carriel away prisoners by the Russians to the Balkans. In August last it seems that the Russians had only 150,000 men on the Danube, and the army of invasion in Armenia did not exceed 50,000. The difficulties of transport and commissariat have been found very great while the army suffered very heavily from sickness. Advices from Panama of 2nd August state that the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer Eden was lost on 15th July, seventy miles north of Valparaiso. It is estimated that 160 persons were on board of her, 43 of whom had reached the shore up to the 18th of July. Twenty others took refuge on a rock, and the British war ship Amethyst went to their assistance, but the bad weather prevented their rescue from being accomplished. The survivors on the rock, after experiencing Jhorrible suffering from exposure and want of food, threw themselves into the sea to end their misery. Only tbree of them were saved, and it is believed that altogether upwards of 100 perished.

• A fearful accident occurred on the C.R.T, and P. Railway ou the,2Bth Augnst at tha bridge over the east branch of (Four-rdila Creek, seven miles from De koines, lowa." A passenger train ran ofi! the rails and r plunged sheer into the stream, which was 20ft at the placo. Seventeen dead bodies were got out, and over fifty wounded. . The accident, which was occasioned by the washing out of the bridge, occurred at four o'clock in the morning. . The wounded survivors were taken to Altyona and well cared for. The fireman had a most miraculous ' escape. Many of the bodies floated down the stream. Barnum's sho tr car-wot down ? with the rest, and it was first reported that of eleven occupants all except one ware killed. The scene of the accident is seven miies away from a telegraph station, and the details were at first very xontradictory-^the number of dead being variously estimated at between ten and fifty.