THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4851, 9 October 1876, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

ARRIVAL OR THE AUSTRALIA AT AUCKLAND. (per PRESS AGENCY.i Auckland, Sunday. The Australia has arrived from San Francisco with the English and American mails. She left on the 13th September. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, Sept. 12. The Great Yorkshire Handicap was won by Bosaglier. A letter from Stanley, dated May 19, on Lake Victoria Nyanza, says that nearly a hundred lives were sacrificed' owing to the hardships endured. The hop crops are good. The steamer Arbitrator, from New Orleans to Liverpool, struck an iceberg and foundered in twenty minutes. The crew were saved. The Liverpool ship San Raphael was burnt, off Cape Horn. The crew were saved after fearful sufferings. The new tunnel at Bishopsgate-street station, Metropolitan railway, has caved in; five workmen were injured. ' .

Several failures have occurred .in the iron trade at Cleveland. , . '

Advices from Dundee report great depression. Strubing and : Co., tea and sugar merchants, have failed.’ In the case of Sloman and Company v. the Governor and Government of New. Zealand, on appeal by Mackrill against the service of the writ, on the ground that the Governor and Government were not a corporation, Lord Justices Mellisb, James, and Baggaly held that there might be substitution of service on Mackrill. Appeal allowed with costs." Reinforcements are being sent to Cuba. The Spanish Government claim the cfedit of impartiality in suppressing the public religious manifestations. The Lisbon monetary crisis has subsided. The Marquis Guiseppe Mantegorzga, of Italy, who forged Victor Emmanuel’s signature to bills of exchange for 200,000, was sentenced to eight years penal servitude. Consols, 95f. E. T. Ticket and Co., of Bradford, merchants, have failed for £70,000. '

The Marl: Lane Express quotes wheat as advanced Is. to 2s. per quarter in London despite foreign arrivals.

Liverpool, Sept. 12.

Wheat, 9s. 6d. to 9s. 9d. . The Loan Agency circular, August 24, quotes preserved meats as follows:—Boiled mutton, six pound tins, 5 id. to per pound;: two pound tins, 7d. to 7fd,; boiled beef, six.pound tins, to 6id. per pound; two pound) 7Jd. to 7|d. per pound. New Zealand Consolidated five per cents, are quoted at 104 to 105; fours, 114 to 116; sixes, 193 to' 116 (sic.) ; Bank of New Zealand, £2O 10s. to £2l 10s.; National Bank, closing quotations, J discount to J premium ; Dunedin debentures, sixes, 104 to 106; New Zealand Trust and Loan, 3J to 3J; Otago and Southland Investment, i to i premium. ' Shipping.—Arrived: Oatnaru,, from Port Chalmers, July 30; May Queen, August 1, from Napier; Schiehallion, August 3, from. Lyttelton; Crusader, August 11, from Wellington; Hurunui, August 14, from Wellington; Otaki, August 17, from Wellington. Sailed: For Otago: White Eagle, August 6,’ 31 passengers; for Wellington: Ocean Mail, August 24. To sail: For Canterbury: Eangitikei, August 30; Cardigan Castle, September 27; Valparaiso, September 7; for Otago and Bluff: Avona, August 30; Otaki, September 30;for Napier and Bluff; Waitara, September 6. There are Turkish war telegrams to September 12. Inquiries of British commissioners show that the reports of atrocities in Bulgaria have not been in the least exaggerated. Children were roasted alive and their flesh thrust down their parents' throats, and pregnant women, ripped up. Women and girls have been violated by thousands, men impaled, skinned alive, and flogged to death, and tortured in every conceivable manner, not alone byßashi Bazouks, but to a greater extent by the regular troops, who were rewarded instead of punished for their cruelty. The English Seoretaiy of Legation Baring, and the American Secretary Schuber, have been sent to investigate a report that sixty thousand Christian non-combatants have been murdered. The American, Secretary suggests that a foreign commissioner should be sent to see that, the leaders of these outrages are hung. Thousands of bodies were strewn about in every direction, and were gnawed by dogs and in a horrid state of putrefacation, with a few half-starved women sitting in the midst of them bewailing the fate of their dear ones. One woman was found moaning over three small skulls with hairs clinging to them which she had in her lap. These revelations have caused intense feeling through England; Meetings have been held at all’the chief centres, and have passed resolutions calling on the British Government to- stay these atrocities. Canon Liddon, from the pulpit of St. Paul’s, said:—“ While they were listening in that sacred building, the Ibud cry and bitter wail of anguish and despair was rising to Heaven from thousands of desolate homes,, from mothers and daughters whose whole future life would only be one long memory of agony and : shame. What made the voice falter in speaking of the subject was that the Government to which Turkey was turning for support was free, humane, Christian England. God was the same as He had ever been - He hated cruelty, and would punish those who* enact and those who abet it now as of old.” John Bright stated in a letter to a public meeting at Rochdale- convened to' protest against’the cruelties, that England'was the sole cause of these cruelties and of the Servian war,, as but for her support. Turkey dared not have been guilty of them. .Gladstone, in a pamphlet oh these atrocities, says the British name has been more -seriously compromised in

these deplorable, events than* ever was known before. He urges the people to insist upon the Government excluding the Ottoman from the administrative; control of Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Bulgaria, redeeming by this policy the honor of the British name. Lord Derby has written a letter, saying the Government will' spare no effort to ascertain the exact truth and be ready, in common with other Powers, to take such action as the justice of the case Requires. , ~ Fighting between the Servians and n Tories before Alexinatz commenced on Ibtn August and continued until the 4th September. The Servians gained several successes, driving the Turks across the left bank of Morava river. The fighting was hard, with great slaughter - on both sides. The Russian volunteers specially distinguished themselves. It is stated that the Russian officers drive the Servians to battle with pistol and sabre, shooting down laggards remorselessly. The Servian loan was eagerly subscribed at St. Petersburg. ( , . . V , , On September the 3rd the Turks bombarded Alexinatz, firing the town in several places. A severe fight, ensued, in which two villages near Alexinatz, held by Servians, were burned. The engagement resulted in great disaster to the Servian army, which became completely, disorganised. Alexinatz was crowded with wounded and mangled. A stampede from thence took place, and for ten .miles on the road to Deligaad there was a compact moving mass of vehicles, cattle, and people running away as fast as possible. The British Ambassador presented a demand for the conclusion of an armistice, to be followed by negotiations for peace. The time of armistice demanded was one month, England s declaration that if Turkey’s refusal shall lead to armed foreign intervention the Porte must not reckon on the support of the British Government, caused surprise and disappointment. No secret was made that Russia was likely to interfere. It is asserted that slavery will be abolished. After this demand was made it is said that the Turkish Government looked to Austria to repel Russian aggression. Latest telegrams, dated London September 12, state that the Standards despatch from Belgrade says the answer of Turkey concerning the conditions of peace has been received, but not officially communicated. Russia will not permit Servia to accept the conditions. The question is now, when will Russia throw off the mask, and openly prosecute the war she is actually waging while pretending to be merely the Servians’ friend. A Vienna special says that General Manteuffe, who went on a mission to Warsaw to persuade Russia to check the warlike aspirations of her people, has received Prince GortschakofFs reply to Germany, laying down the conditions under which Russia will uphold peace under present circumstances. The Belgrade correspondent of the Daihj News is informed that over 3000 Russians of all grades are in the Servian army.

AMERICA. There has been yellow fever in New York. At Salt Lake all Brigham Young’s vehicles and stock, worth 10,000d015., have been seized to pay money due to Ann Eliza. At Kansas a number of people of a religious sect called Cobbits, crazy from, frenzy and starvation, have committed atrocities. There has been a quarrel between Moody and Sankey. Moody appropriated over six thousand dollars of thank offerings from converted sinners, and gave Sankey one thousand. The latter threatens law proceedings. The Chicago committee is endeavoring to hush up the matter. ... A huge waterspout at Kansas destroyed life and property, Beecher’s counsel has served a notice for change of venue for the trial of Moulton’s case against ,Beecher for malicious prosecution. Tweed has been arrested in Yigo, Spain, at the request of the American Government, under the extradition treaty. He had escaped from Santiago under the name of Tecor. At the Centennial Rowing Match London beat. New York in the professional four-oar sculls by 16aecs. Bagley beat Green, of London, in the single sculling race. A fire in San Erancisco destroyed property worth 70,000 dollars. The, Sioux campaign has ended and the troops have gone into winter quarters. , The Rev. Charles Clark .is lecturing in Nevada on Charles Dickens. Mexican advices report that the Government are preparing an attack on Diaz at Oajaca. The Government troops have gained minor successes.', . Particulars of the attempted assassination of Prince Gortschakoff' state it "was by an elderly lady belonging to the best society. The object was probably to revenge the political persecution of her family. • San Francisco. —Flour, 4dol. 50c. to sdol. 50c.; wheat, Idol. 25c. to Idol. 65c. New York.—Wheat, Idol. 250. to Idol. 35c.; sperm oil. Idol. 25c. to Idol 30c.; whale, 53c. to 58c.; winter bleached, 62c. to 70c. At New Bedford, crude sperm oil, Idol. 250.; humpback, 53c. At New York, refined petroleum, good demand, oases steady at 29c to 30c.

ATLANTIC DESPATCHES. London, September 12. America, September 13. A Russian journal has been suspended for ■war article, Imperial attention having been drawn to the agitation going on. At the Centennial Rowing Match, LuthSr, ©f Pittsburgh, beat Higgins, the English sculler; but the latter claimed a foul, and that the race be rowed again. A thousand cases of small-pox have occurred in San Erancisco since May 19. Vaccination is being rigidly enforced. The epidemic is waning. . , The Spanish Government, m reply to the complaints of Protestant ministers, state religious demonstrations only have been forbidden, the same order being applicable to Catholics. The Russian volunteers are returning from Servia, but the war agitation continues.