SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 38, 13 February 1879, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

There is fearful distress iu the manufacturing districts in England. 500 agricultural labors left in a body for New Zealand. The Cornish bank of Truro failed after an existence of one hundred and ten years; the deposits amount to five millions. There is great financial trouble in consequence. The Town Council Cork absolutely refused General Grant a reception and charged him with anti-catholic sentiments. Belfast and other northern cities made more elaborate manifestations in his honor a3 a consequence. European capitalists refuse Russia another loan unless her armies in Turkey are withdrawn, and no fresh wars in Asia'undertakeu. Russia reduces the indemnity claim against Turkey by one hundred million roubles. The Great Council at Geneva, Switzerland, has accepted the principle of separation of Church and State. An attempt was made by an insane man on the life of the Emperor of Austria. An hotel keeper at Copenhagen has been arrested for threatening the live of the Danish King. The Duke of Cumberland left Copenhagen because Russia expressed her displeasure at his residence there. The revenue of Great Britain shows an increase of £1,803,485 for 1878 over the preceeding year. A general organisation of all the trades in England haa been formed for the purpose of resisting; an extension of the hours' of labor. England aad Scotland have suffered from floods.^ The country around Darlingtown and Wrexham was .submerged. Many~miles of ice floated down the Thames, and steamboat traffic between Chelsea and Woolwich was suspended. The rumor is revived that the Duke of Connaught is to become Viceroy of Ireland. The Duke of Edinburgh will shortly be appointed Admiral of the North American station, and will repair to Halifax, U.S., with the Duchess in the early summer. On the 17th December a run on the London and County Bank, Lombard street, began from the fact of an idle crowd having assembled in front of the building owing to a cabman's dispute; this gave rise to a report that the Bank was iu dauger. The steamship Oberon was totally lost at White Bay, near Queenstown, Ireland. Every member of the North Wales Miners' Union who desires to emigrate to America is promised £7; those who go to Australia will receive £14. The North Wales State Quarrymans' Union offer the same terms. It is believed that mauy will accept, as most of the smaller quarries remain closed. The Standard correspondent at Rome says that the Jesuits have sent the Pope a kind of ultimatum, pointing out the evils resulting from their exclusion from the government of the Church. The Pope remains firm, and many of his friends fear the consequences. The construction of barracks for 150,000 men on the Constantinople lines of defence has been opened. A despatch from Vienna to London hints that the delay in the signature of the Rus-sian-Turkish convention is due to the revival of Russian influence iu Constantinople, aad intrigues to prolong the occupation. A Grand National Exhibition is proposed at Mascow for 1880 A collision occurred on the Wasau railway which killed twenty persons and wouuded many others. The British ship Lancashire, was sunk at sea with all on board by coming into collision with a Spanish steamer. Weston, the pedestrian, started to walk over the_ highway, 2,000 miles in 1,000 hours and deliver 50 lectures.