SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 161, 5 July 1878, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

The German ironclads Grosser Kurfursfc and Kcenig Wilhelm when seven miles off Folkestone bound for Gibraltar via Plymouth met the barque Feeching off the shore. The Grosser ported clear of the barque but was struck by the Koenig forward of the mizen mast. The Grosser went over on her broadside and sank in five minutes in fifteen fathoms. All hands jumped overboard. The escaping steam scaided many, and 450 were drowned.

The attempted assassin of the Emperor William was a Professor of Agriculture in good circumstances and has two brothers in the army. The Berlin Criminal Court received a letter threatening the assassininatioa of all soverjgns if Noebliag (the intending assassin) was harshly treated. The London detectives have in formed the British Government that there ia great agitation among the Socialists and important events are impending. The Porte has represented to Congress that it was hurried into signing the Treaty of Stefano by the Grand Duke threatening to march on Constantinople. The active work of the Congress will fail on Scholivaloff, Gortschakoff being incapable owing to the strain of severe mental labor.

A party of Taukish insurrectionists who broke into Mnrad's apartment to proclaim him Sultan found him a hopeless Idiot. There has been severe fighting at Roumelia. Four hundred Russians were cut off and all. killed.

Admiral Astley Cooper of the South Atlantic Squadron has been summoned Home to command the Baltic Fleet.

There have been furious riota among the Blackburn strikers, and the troops had to be summoned. The residences of the leading masters, Colonel Jackson, and Alderman Hornby were burned.

Malta despatches say that the transports are ordered as a precautionary measure to take on a coal supply at six hours notice. Lord Penzance sentenced the Rev. Mr McConochie the incumbent of St. Aibans, Holborn, to suspension from hi 3 benefice for six months, and from the priesthood fog three years, for persistent ritualism. »

The Russian Imperial Bank is reported to be in hopeless financial difficulty. Mr Butt has reluctantly consented to retain the Home Rule leadership. The Pope is ill owning to the obstruction to progressive measures.