SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 218, 23 October 1878, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

("I'cr Australia at Auckland.] Hacfcthorne won the Easter Handicap jit Isewmarkfit, Warrior 2nd, M^y 3rd.. Howes, spinner sjtfc liochdale. has failed for ±75 ,000. ' r Cholera is increasing in Spain. jßismaiek ancj Voa Molfcke are ill.

A new plot against the life of the Emperor William has been discovered. Bismarck's son has been elected to the Reichstag. Condon and Melody, the released Fenians, have beeu expatriated to America. Floods have inundated the Pucjaub. There has been v Christian revolt in Turkish Croatia. France, England, and the United States have settled the Newfoundland fishery difficulties. Bosnia has beeu fully occupied by the Austriaus. Hungary protests. Von Beust goes as Ambassador to Paris. The Liberals in the Reichstag have secured amendments in the Socialist Bill. The Tyne crew beat the Thames and Putney crews by two lengths for the champion fours. It is proposed that King AlDhonso shall marry Christine, sister of the* late Queen Mercedes. | The basis of a future agreement between Germany and the Vatican is settled. Two Russian Nihilist students have been banished from the Colleges at St. Petersburg. Vesuvius, Hecla, and Cotopaxi are all in active eruption. The Dutch Indian Budget shows a deficit of 10,000,000 florins owing to the Acheen war. A Paris municipal loan of sixty-five million francs is proposed. There has been a fresh outbreak of fever at Cyprus. John Eastwood and Son have failed for £95,000. Mr Charles Weltham has been chosen Mayor of London. The Queen asks Greece by letter to offer conciliatory terms to the Porte. Prussia intends to issue a loan to cover the deficiencies in the Budget. Heinrich Peterman, the German Geographer, is dead. The British fleet retired to Arlaki after saluting the Sultan. Russia claims 310,500,000 francs indemnity from Turkey. The Abianians are moving on the Bosnian frontier. The dreadful disaster to the Princess Alice steamer on the Thames turns out to be more calamitous than was first supposed. Including numerous children, there were fully 800 persons on board and only 120 were saved. There had been 628 bodies recovered up to the 11th. There has been a whole week of funerals. Those bodies not identified or claimed were buried at Woolwich. The Mansion House fund, headed by the Queen and Royal Family, amounts to nearly £10,000. The vessel, which was divided into two by the collision, has been beached. Luring the past week four railway collisions have taken place, in every instance by mineral and goods trains. Several lives were sacrificed. At a frightful colliery explosion at Abercorne in an old pit twelve miles from Newport, 280 lives were lost ; eighty-four men were brought up alive but nearly all more or less injured. The exploring parties failed to get beyond a few yards from the bottom of the shaft, the pit being on fire and the air had to be shut off. It is expected the mine will have to be flooded. The Prince Leopold steamer, with 500 excursionists, narrowly escaped destruction on the rocka near the Isle of Wight. The Court Martial upon the survivors from H.M.S. Eurydice, acquitted everyone of blame. Curran, the valet of Judge Keogh, is fast recovering from the wound inflicted by his master. The discovery of the unburied remains of seven children on the premises of an undertaker in the Old Kent Road caused an outburst of indignation. The windows were smashed, and the shop was wrecked. There has been great agitation at Brighton respecting the gambling hells established in the town. The Queen remains at Balmoral till the middle of November. — The Princess of Wales has accompanied the King and Queen of Denmark to Germauy — The' Duchess of Edinburgh and the infant Princess are doing well. Musurus Pasha has left London for Constantinople, and Midhat Pasha has been summoued home by the Sultan. The impression prevails that the delay in confirming his appointment as Minister of Egyptian Finance was due to the opposition of the French Government.

AMERICAN. A day of national fasting and prayer is to be observed on account of the yellow ferer. There is commercial distress and general discontent. The Greenback party in Maine have been successful in the elections. Kearney, the Californian agitator, has been sued for libel in New York. The Oxford Iron Company of New York have failed for 6,000,000 dollars. The Canadian Liberals have been successful in the Parliamentary elections. Equinoctial storms have been severe in the States of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Sitting Bull asks leave to return to the United States from Canada. Landreun Brothers, of Paris and New Orleans, have sued the Peruvian Government for 100,000,000. dollars for the original discovery of the guano deposits. M. Gustave, Director-General of the French Savings Bank at San Francisco, suicided by pistol on the 17th instant, and Alexander Austin, ex tax-collector of San Francisco, in the same manner on the Ist. There is great excitement in the San Francisco Stock Market. Jeauette Bennett, sister of Mr Bennett of the iV. y. hera'd, is married. Her presents were valued at lOQ.Opp dollars. There has been a riotous Working Men's demonstration at Washington. Dr M'Coskray, Bishop of Michigan, has been deposed for unclerical practices. There is a strike of cab drivers at New York for shorter hours and increased pay. Yellow fever U abating in the Southern States. A dynamite magazine exploded at Bradford, P.A. Four men were blown to fragments. Destructive floods hare occurred in Ontario, Canada. General Butler, who was nominated as Governor of Massachusetts by the Democrats has been defeated by J. G. Abbott. An anti-Beecher meeting was held at fjinaha while the preacher was in the city. Lord Dufjferin proposes an International Park around the Njsjgara, F-alls. The steamer Adelphi exploded her boilers near Norwaik, Cinnciuatti, killing six and wounding twenty. Condon and Melody, the released Fenians have arrived at New York. The Government cutter Sherman was placed at their disposal.