SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 40, 15 February 1878, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

[Br Electric Telegraph.] Mukhtar Pasha has been appointed commander of the army of defence at Constantinople. Lord Derby has recovered, and will resume his Parliamentary duties immediately. Gambetta desires to have the French Chamber adjourned throughout the summer to ensure political quiet during the International Exhibition. A Cape Town despatch, States that an engagement took place at Komgah, in which the British troops were successful. Volunteers are eagerly enrolling. Dr. Metchies, a member of the Hungarian Parliament, has been convicted of hijrh treason. The British Parliament was opened on January 17th. The Queen's speech states the cause of the early assembling to be the war in Europe. The address in reply was moved in the House of Lords by Earl Wharnclifc and seconded by Earl Londesboroug and in the House of Commons by Mr Wilbraham Egerton and seconded by Mr Robert Tenant, the member for Leeds. The Russian Budget shows a deficit of 600,398,425 silver roubles. Sergeant Charles M'Carthy, the lately released Fenian prisoner, died suddenly on the 14th, while breakfasting in Dublin with Mr C. S. Parnell, M.P. The funeral was attended by 60,000 persons, which was the largest since O'Conuell's. At the forthcoming Postal Congress, France will propose an international post office at a one per cent ta3c, the rate of exchange to be adjusted by Congress, The deaths by cholera at Mecoa average 60 daily, and at Jeddah 38. The Quccd, in a despatch to the Sultan, expresses sympathy for him, and says she will follow the couusels of her Ministers. The verdict of the corouer's jury in the case of the deceased Fenian M'Carthy was " death from heart disease, accelerated by the treatment received in prison." The verdict was received with loud and prolonged applause. Cardinal Manning will negotiate with the British Government for the removal of obstacles to the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Scotland The London Times and other journals estimate the fourth quarter of the fiscal year will show a deficiency of nearly £6,000 000. One hundred thousand persons were present at the funeral of M. Raspail. Fugitives are arriving from Constantinople by thousands. M. Layard telegraps to Barouess Burdettl/outts," Distress tPrrible." Native companies have been formed for tlie development of Chinese mineral resources. A Japanese ship of war, built aud wholly nttea up in Japan, and manned and officered by natives, is about to start on a cruise to the Mediteiranean. Gambetta's tone to the French Republic is Delay and prudence." In it letter Garibaldi exhorts King Humbert to follow in his father's footsteps. A heavy fire occurred in the warehouse of Crocker, Sons, and Co, Watling-street, London, being the largest that has happened for years. The loss is £200,000. D. Macgregor and Co, merchants and steamship owners of Leith, have failedliabilities £100,000 to £150,000. Mr Macgregor baa resigned hja seat in Parliament,

The ex-Queen Isabella insists upon attending the marriage of her son. The Government refuses to allow her to enter Spain. An unknown man committed suicide by leaping from the whispering gallery in St Paul's. A demand is made by several of the French Republican papers to remove the present commanders of several army corps of Bonapartists. Midhafc Pasha is in London. A strong demand is made in Constantinople for his return. Baker Pasha has been promoted to Lieut.General of the Turkish army. Joseph Anderson and Sons, provision dealers, London, have failed for £200,000. Mexico has resumed diplomatic relations with France, and participates in the Exhibition. The result of the triennial municipal elections in France is a large Republican majority. Corporal Chambers, the only remaining military Fenian prisoner, has been released. A barque from Cardiff for Constantinople was run down in the English Channel. King Humbert of Italy has issued a proclamation, in which he pledges himself to carry out his late father's policy. Robert Watson Boyd, of Gateshead, was defeated by John Higgins, the present : champion* in the boat race at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 'the 14th for £200 a side and the .championship. The course was from Highland Bridge to Scottswood suspension bridge. The match was won by Hiegins on a foul.

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The Servians were defeated in two engagements, in one by Haffes Pasha, and in the other by Eyoub Pasha, with severe loss. The last nnrned pushed them to the frontier, burning six military stations and- destroying the entrenchments. General Ivnnoff cleared the Gyopia Valley of Turks and ocoupiedGlariaaja. Mr Archibald Forbes, the war conresponden*, reports terrible sufferings by ihe array of invasion. Ha saya that words cannot deaoribe the ornery of the situation on the Danube. The Russians suppress telegrams wj{h,a. view to prevent the state of affairs becoming known in Europe. Spotted typhoid fever has broken out among the Turkish prisoners in (ha Frateschi and neighborhood. It is whispered that it is the plague. Italy has demanded for her fleet the same privileges in Turkish waters as England. A London Times special of the 14th reports a heavy battle near Tartar Bazoofik between Radetsky and the Turkkish force. A victory is claimed by both sides, one report saying that the Russians were defeated with a loss of 2000, aud wounding Radeteky. The Turks are bombarding the towns in the Crimes, causing, irritation at St. Petersburg seeing that peace negotia. tions are proceeding. Erzeroum is little better than a huge hospital, and a hundred soldiers die daily, two or three being frozen to death every night. Typhus fever is raging, and the corpses are barely covered with earth. The consequences will be terrible. If the peace negotiations fail, the Su!tan will unfurl the flag of the Prophet, and call out the faithlul to rally to the standard. THE I,ATEB : . London, Jan 20. The Turkish Peace Delegates have arrived at Herman li, and were received with military honors by the Grand Duke. Austria demands a voice in all the peace negotiations, and will not recognize a peace concluded without her consent. Vienna, Jan. 22. A Pera special says " Izzed Pasha conveys to ths Turkish plenipotentiaries full powers, and will inform them that England is not likely to go war." Another correspondent says that [negotiations have commenced. The Turkish plenipotentiaries have been instructed that they may oflar to make Batoum a free port, to cede territory on the Asian frontier nearly as far as Kara, and to dismantle the fortifications of Kars and Erzeroum. They also propose the following programme for discussion hy the European Conference : — The Balkans to be considered the southern limit of Bulgaria, Roumania being independent; the Dardanelles to be open to men-of-war of all nations ; the settlement of the Montenegrin and Servian question to be temporarily deferred. Difficulties have already arisen, and it is reported that Russia haa demanded that Adrianople be included in Bulgaria, also the cession of Batoum and the opening of the Dardanelles to Russian and Turkish men of war only. AMERICAN NEWS. A mob of^ roughs captured Dead City, a town near Deadwood in the Dakotah territory. Mr Creighton, the agent for New Zealand in San Francisco, sent by the City of New York a consignment of half a million of whitefish ova. The barque G. M. Tucker has been chartered in New York for Dunedin and Wellington at 42s 6d per ton. A fishing schooner, with a crew of thirteen men, natives of South Boston, foundered at sea recently. A stage supernumerary, named Maekenna, was captured at Hillsbro', Ohio, on the 14th. He had purchased a property there with the proceeds of last summer's plunder, and had married and settled down. General M'Clellan has been reinstated Governor of New Jersey. War is threatened between Guatemala and Porfca Rico. Guatemala has invited immigration, and is sending out agents to induce it. Three hundred cattle perished in the flames of a burning stockyaad at Terre Haute. The Spanish Government have proposed peace to the insurgents at Cuba. President Hayes will make the Chinese question tlie subjec' of a special message to Congress. General O'Neill, the Fenian, is dead. Secretary Scaurs is pushing measures to purify the Indian Bureau. There are appalling disclosures.