SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 262, 5 November 1877, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Orders have been received at Portsmouth for the armour plated ships Triumph and Hercules to be ready for sea by October 30. Tbe Triumph replaces the Shah in the Pacific squadron, owing to the weakness displayed by the latter vessel in her .encounter with the Peruvian ram.! Mailer aud Co., silk merchants, of London, have failed for £100,000. The trade returns for the last nine mouths are unfavorable to the American manufacturers. The Indian office invites tenders for a three million, four per cent loan, payable in seven years.

The steamer Pandora ia being fitted out for the Arctic expedition. There have been 750,000 deaths from famine in India. The latest reports are favorable from Madras and Bombay, bufc unfavorable from Scinde, llajputana, Central India, and Punjaub. Cardinal Manning is visiting Rome at the request of the Vatican. bir Stafford Northcote thinks that both armies have behaved so bravely that peace negotiations may be undertaken during the winter without loss of dignity to either. Harvest prospects have greatly improved The prices of breadstuff's are steadily declining, iv consequence of the excessive importations and of the fact of the English harvest being of the full average yield. A conspiracy to assassinate the Czar on the battle field has been discovered by the Russian police. Birmarck and Andrassy had a four hours' conference with Earl Salisbury. In the Hungarian Diet, on Sept. 27, the Prime Minister, Lizza, stated that the policy of the Government was unchanged, namely, to preserve peace if possible, and to protect ttie interests of Austro-Hungary at all hazards. It is denied that the three JEmperors have entered into engagements on the Eastern or any other question. The Greek Government has announced that 2000 Bashi Bazouks, on the 19th Sept., attacked the Greek Consulate at Larissa, but were repulsed by the Consular Guards. Greece has remonstrated with the Porte. It is stated that the Porte has sent 4000 irregular troops to Thessaly, who are sacking the country and outraging the inhabitants. The Circassians have been sent into Macedonia in violation of repeated promises. Anxiety prevails in Europe over the conduct of the Porte. Greece and Servia have arrived at an understanding, and guns and military stores are being removed to the Greek frontier. A collision is considered imminent. Yellow fever has depopulated Fernandino, in Florida. The fever is .spreading in the Gulf State. Praugh's chrome establishment in Boston, the largest in the world, has been burned down. Some prominent city men in Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia, have been committed on a charge of embezzling large sums. General Pearson, who ordered the militia to lire on the rioters at Pittsburg, has been committed for trial on a charge of homicide. There are fresh Indian troubles in Colorado and Arizona. Fifteen whites were killed, and 40 squaws and children were afterwards killed by the Indiau scouts. The Pacific Mail Company's steamship Constitution arrived at San Francisco on the sth October, on fire. She was towed up on to the mud-flat, and holes were cut in the deck and the hold was filled with water. The fire arose from combustion in the bunkers. There are 2,090,000 unemployed jin the United States, and the labor trouble and the Chinese agitation continues. Boss Tweed has made extraordinary disclosures re the Tammany Ring. Thirteen masked robbers took possession of the Eastern bound train from San Fran- | Cisco, at Big Springs, went through the passengers treasure chest and took 750,000 dollars. A safe with 300,000 dollars escaped, and Government silver bars to the value of 300,000 dollars were too heavy. Two of the gang were shot subsequently in JKansas, and _0,000 dollars were recovered. There have been heavy mercantile failures iv the Eastern States. The loss at the Washington Patent Office was 500,0(10 dollars. No drawings or models were destroyed.