SAN FRANCISCo MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 179, 28 August 1878, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCo MAIL NEWS.

The ceremonies in honor of Lords Beaconsand Salisbury at the Guildhall were interrupted by a person who denounced the plenipotentiaries as traitors to the Constitution. Kelly, the Feniau, has been liberated from Mountjoy prison on account of ill-health. Captain Webb attempted to swim in the ! Thames for 36 hours continuously, but owing to the high wind he left the water after completing 22 miles iv 19 hours. Bismarck has been asked by Greece to induce Turkey to come to terms. Russia is still buying German steamships. Locusts are ravaging Madras. In the debate on the Marquis of Hartington's resolution expressing dissatisfaction with the Berlin treaty, the mover made] a powerful attack ou the Anglo-Turkish convention, and asked if the British Government would have deemed a similar agreement between Russia and Turkey justifiable. He said Cyprus was useless for the defence of Asia Minor. Mr Gladstone in the resumed debate read a letter addressed to Lord Beacousfield asking him to cite instances in support of his accusations of unjust and reckless attacks, and that he (Mr Gladstone) had said that he (Beaconsfield) had debased the great name of England. Proposals will be made in September to erect Servia into a kingdom. The London Times writes severely against Mr Gladstone. Fourteen children and three teachers were drowned by the capsizing of a boat in the river Blackwater iv Ireland. ! There has been heavy fighting in Transvaal with losses to the British forces. 500 Peers and Commoners were present at the bauquet given by the Carlton Club to the plenipotentiaries. | Lord Beaconsfield spoke of Mr Gladstone I as a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and egotictical imagination. Lord Salisbury refused to believe that the other Powers would display jealousy when they saw that England's object was merely to establish peace and order, I Eight thousand Bazos, displaying the British flag, have concentrated to prevent the Russian entrance of Batouni. I Mr Gladstone has declined the leadership of the Liberal party. He called the conven- : tion with Turkey an insane covenant. Meetings are being held in Rome favoring the annexation of South Tyrol to Italy. The Miuisteral journals in Vienna warn Italy that it is dangerous to play with fire, aud say that Austria has taken timely precaution against Italian aggression. Bismarck emphatically informed the Italian Ambassador that Trieste can never become Italian. George M. Neil & Co., London have failed for £240,000. A pigeon shooting match between Capt. Bogardius (of the United States) and Mr Wallace (of England) resulted iv a draw, each man killing 97 birds. Playford won the Thames single scull for the Wingfield sculls beating Payne. Time 24 minutes 23 seconds. Yelverton, Lord High Admiral died on July 24. Vera Sassulitch who wa3 feted !at Geneva turns out to be an impostor. The real woman is in Siberia. Gambetta congratulated France on the enlarged policy adopted by England consequent on the Berlin Conference. An abortive attempt has been made to enrol Voluateers at Kavenna and Geneva for the annexation of Tyrol aud Trieste.

The Bologive Gazette publishes a rumor that King Alphonso threatens to resign the throne of Spaiu. Two parties of railway experts under the direction of the British Government will examine the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys for the hesfc railway route to the Persian Gulf. A Berlin dispatch aunouuces that Russia proposes to appoint diplomatic agents at various points iv Asiatic Turkey to watch Russian interests. Russia is also making an effort to secure the early construction of the proposed railway from Oenberg iuto Central Asia. Dr. Nobeling's attack on the Emperor of Germany was connected with the interests of Russian Socialists, The officers of the Grosser Kurfurst and Ivojnig Wilhelui have been exonerated from blame. Great fires are devastating Thessaly, supposed to be incendiarism. Sir G. Wolsley, the new Governor of Cyprus, has already tjuder under considera- i tiou a scheme of railways. The island will be permanently garrisoned, a small number of troops and militia doing the rest. Sir G. Wolsley will divide the island into five districts and decide the laud titles by a mixed Commission. The Queen has issued a proclamation declaring her interests in the Islanders aud their progress. Lords Beaconsfield aud Carnarvon had sharp words in the House of Lords on the occasion of the former intimating that the latter had flinched at a critical moment in J dealing: with Russia. i The Prince Imperial has recovered XBO from La Site, a Parisian newspaper, for libel, the paper having charged him with appropriating Crown property. Immigration has set in from Egypt to Cyprus and a large line of steamers will be established between the two places. The British Commissioners at the Paris Exhibition formally notified the. other Com- ' missior ei3 of the International Exhibition to beheld in Melbourne in 1880 and invited them to be present. The weather is very hot in England, and the temperature iv the Exhibition is almost unbearable. The Vatican proposes io remove the Catholic Churches in Great Britain aud America from the control of the propaganda and place them under the immediate control of the Pope. The Liverpool Summer Cup was won by Mr Robert Gardener's four year old Strathmore. The obsequies of Queen Mercedes were celebrated with great pomp, 40,000 persons were present, and 9 bishops asssisted at the requiem mass.