SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 743, 28 August 1878, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

SUMMARY OF NEWS. The ceremony in honor of Earls Beaconsfield and Salisbury at Guildhall, was interrupted by a person who denounced the plenipotentiaries as traitors to the constitution. Kelly, the Fenian prisoner, has been liberated from Mount Joy 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 in 19 hours. Bismarck has been asked by Greece to induce Turkey to come to terms. Russia i 3 still buying •the German Lloyd-Hamburg steamships. Locusts are ravaging the Madras districts. Proposn]s will be made in September to erect S -via into a Kingdom. "The L-:idon Times writes severely ■ -'insr, Mr. Gladstone. Fourteen children and three teachers were drowned by the capsizing of a boat in the River Blackwater, Ireland, Heavy fighting has occurred in the Transvaal, Africa, with losses to the British forces. Five hundred Peers and Commoners were present at a banquet of the Carlton Club to plenipotentiaries of the Congress.' Earl Beaconsfield spoke of Mr. Gladstone as a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and egotistical imagination. Lord Salisbury refused to believe that the other Powers would display jealousy when they said that England's object was merely to establish peace and order. During the debate on Lord Hartington's

resolution expressing dissatisfaction with the Berlin Treaty the mover made a powerful attack on the Anglo-Turkish convention, and asked if the British Government would have deemed a similar agreement between. Itussia and Turkey justifiable. He said that Cyprus was useless for the defence of Asia Minor. Mr. Gladstone resumed the debate. He read a letter addressed to Earl Beaconsfield, asking him to cite instances in support of his accusation—that of having made an unjust and reckless attack. Earl Benconstield s.-iid tho expressions used by Mr. Gladstone wore that he (Earl Beaconsik'ldj had debased the great name of England. The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs has gone to St. Potersbiirgh by the request of the Cx-ir. Kigiifc r.liniis.'ind Lazis, displaying the British flag, arc concentrated to prevent the Russians entrance into Baroum. Mr. Gladstone has declined the Leadership of the Liberal Party. He called the Convention with Turkey an insane covenant. Meetings are being held in Rome, favoring the annexation of South Tyrol to Italy. The Ministerial journals at Vienna warn Italy of her dangerous playing with fire, and Austria has taken timely precautions against Italian aggression. . Bismarck has emphatically informed the Italian Ambassador that the Tyrol and Trieste can never become Italian. Garibaldi approves of the agitation and recommends rifle practice throughout Italy.

George M. Neill snd Company, London, have failed for L 240.000, and have involved Buddecotfc and Co., Brokers, who recently suspended payment. A pigeon shooting match between Capt. Bogardess, of the United States, and Wallace, of England, resulted in a draw, each man killing 97 birds. Playford won the Thames single scull race for Wingfiekl sculls over Payne. Time, 24 minutes 13 seconds. Strikes have occurred amongst the silk and lace operatives at Steimiene, France. Yelverton, Lord High Admiral, died on the 24th July. •Vera Sassoulitch, who was feted at Geneva, turns out to be an impostor, and a real woman. Gambetta has congratulated France on the enlarged policy adopted by England consequent on the Berlin conference.

An abortive attempt was made to enrol volunteers at Itavenna and Geneva for the annexation of the Tyrol and Trieste. The Bologne Gazette publishes a rumor that King Alphonso threatens to resign the throne of Spain. King Humbert has been telegraphed to by Ministers to return to Rome from Turin, ant.' a hostile attack on the British embassy at Rome is feared. Ministers are discussing the expediency of sending a ffeet to the Levant. Rusß?a is also making an effort to secure the early construction of a proposed railway from Oenbery into Central Asia. ~ : , J wo parties of railway experts, under the direction of the British Government, will examine the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys for the best railway loute to the Persian Gulf. The Berlin Despatch an-? nounces that Russia proposes to appoint diplomatic agents at various points in Asiatic Turkey, to watch Russian interests. A dispatch, dated July 7th, from Maridaly, Hindostan, "reports that 470.0 houses were destroyed by fire at that place. Jfobling's attack on King William's life

was; connected with-the 'interests of the Russian Socialists. \ : . .„■%. The officers of theffgtbsser Kurfurst and Koenig Wiihelm are exonerated from blame. '••<: N. tGount'Hatzfeldt succeeds Prince Henry as German Minister at Constantinople. Great fires are devastating" Thessaly. They are supposed to be the result of incendiarism. ; Sir Garnet Wolseley, new Governor for 'Cyprus, has already under consideration a scheme of "a financial company for railways. The Island will be permanently garri-. soned by a small number of troops, the militia doing the rest. Sir Garnet Wolseley will divide the Island into five districts and decide the Land Titles by a mixed commission. The Queen has issued a proclamation declaring Her interests in the Islands and their progress. Earls Eeaconsfield and Carnarvon had sharp words in the House of Lords on the occasion of the former intimating to the latter that he had flinched at a critical moment in dealing with the Russian question. The Prince Imperial has recovered LBO from the La Liecle, a Parisian newspaper, for libel. The paper charged his father, Napoleon 111., with appropriating the crown property. Emigration is taking place from Egypt to Cyprus, and a large line of steamers will be established between the two places.

The British Commissioners at the Paris Exhibition have formally notified other "Commissioners of the International Exhibition to be held at Melbourne in 1880. and invited them to be present. The weather is very hot in England, and the temperature in the Exhibition building is almost unbearable. The Vatican proposes to remove the Catholic churches of Great Britain and America from the control of the Propaganda and to place them under the immediate control of the Pope. An Anglican Conference held in London has adjourned to Liverpool. The Summer Cup was won by R,obert Jardine's four-year-old by Strathmore. Padre Sanfelice has been appointed to the See of Venice. The obsequies of Queen Mercedes were c Lbrated with great pomp. Four thousand persons were present. Nine bishops assisted at the requiem mass. The Australian cricketers play at San Francisco against a local 22 in October. The Pacific Mail Company has severed connection with the Central Railroad, and are running in opposition, The English residents at San Francisco are subscribing to a Beaconsfield testimonial. -' Public opinion favors General Grant as the next President. A Sioux war is imminent. A Kansas army of tramps have been committing excesses in the western part of the State. The railroad labor troubles at Washington have ended. Railway freights between New York and San Francisoo have been doubled. The export of fresh meat to England has greatly declined.