ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 184, 1 August 1878, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The Morning Post announces that the Duke of Cumberland, son of the late King George of Hanover, has not abandoned his right to the throne, and that no arrangement has been made with the Prussian Government. The Austrian Cabinet tendered their resignation, which was refused by the Government. Prosecutions for treasonable utterances and seditious language at Berlin are almost endless. The Pau-Anglican Synod commenced on the 2nd July at' Lambeth Palace, ninety Bishops being present. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided. He urged the question of the maintenance of the faiih against infidelity as the principal subject, and he thought the delegates should debate the best mode of obtaining union among the various Anglican Churches. The Bishops of Pittsburgh, Louisiana, and several English and

Colonial Bishops spoke, The matter was I finally referred to a committee. The Freiligrath library, faradus for bid English bboks> has been been bought by an American gentleman. the Duke of Cambridge has gone toivtalta, During ah interview j)etwe'en Gorts'cbakoff and Bismarck, a large Danisti dog, belonging to the latter, flew at tne Russian Minister's t '.M£ )afc ' Gortschakoff was rescued wi*.h some difficulty, it appears that Bismarck stamped I his foot impatiently whilst talking, and the | dog mistook it for a signal that his toaster was in ci.arig'ei 1 . The Vitacah 1 proposes co-operation with Germany for the repression of Socialism there, ou condition that the Falck laws are modified. The Parisian police have made decent upon several German families, who ure suapected of complicity with l)r Noeblings. Special services have been held for the recovery of the Eussian Empress. The Town Council of Berlin propose to give a grant for an Historical Painting, commemorative of the mating o! the Peace CougrfesS It is said that orders have been issued to reduce the forced expenditure at Portsmouth Navy Yard. H is understood that the Autumn manoeuvres will be abandoned this year, and that there will be bold entrenchments. In consequence of the Liberal triumph in Belgium the Pope has recalled the Nuncio. The Khedive of Egypt recently proposed to abdicate in favor of England. His offer was declined. Mr Graham, special correspondent of the Daily News, died at Constantinople of spotted typhus fever. Muir and Sons, grain merchants, Glasgow* have failed. There was a heavy, fall of snow in Perthshire on June 11. Marshal Macmahon pardoned 600 Communists in honor of the Exposition. The Russians threatened to tear down the British flag over the Consulate at Dingas. Vera Zasulitch has escaped from St. Petersburgh to Geneva, where she received an ovation. It is rumored that the Princess Thyra of Denmark is to marry the Prince Imperial, and the Princess Beatrice the new Duke of Cumberland. American steamers are arriving at Cronstadt with arms and ammunition for Eussia. The Emperor of Germany has fully recovered. The young Queen Mercedes of Spain died of excessive hemorrhage. There have been heavy failures in the South Staffordshire iron districts. The Spanish Government has borrowed twenty million francs in Paris. The Pope and the German Government cannot come to terms. The Crown Prince says the terms are inadmissible. AMERICAN. The ship Alexander M'Neil and barque William Midgett are chartered at New York for New Zealand. The American crew were successful at the Henley international regatta. The tramps have taken possession of the railway trains in lowa, and are becoming dangerous, Specie payments will shortly be resumed by the United States Government. Deaths from sunstroke has been frequent in New York. The noted Mrs Tilton has been expelled from the Plymouth (Beecher's) Church. The Indian hostilities are extending to Utah, Nevada, and Eastern Oregon. The Socialists of New York, in mass meeting, repudiated the assassination policy. The Ohio farmers are threatened with death by the laborers if they use labor saving machines. A Russian priest was found murdered in the streets of San Francisco. The Great South Tuuuel, four miles in leugth, has reached the workiugs of the Cornstock miues. A resolution to restrict Chinese immigration has beeu passed by the Congress in America.