SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 836, 18 December 1878, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

—, [Per Zealandia, at AccKi-AXn.] EUROPEAN SUMMARY TO NOVEMBER 25. The Clyde shipbuilders' strike is over. It is probable that the Duke of Edinburgh will be made a rear admiral. Four-ton and Gambetta have fought a duel. Neither was wounded. The latter will be X>roseeuted by the Government. A federalist plot has been discovered among the Spanish naval officers at Cartha-

gena. The Rhodope insurrection has ended. The Porte accepts the principle of the rectification of the Greek frontier with the Thessaly line. The St. Petersburg papers are advised by the Government to use moderate language when writing against foreign powers. The Russian army in the Asiatic provinces has been placed on a war footing. The iron and cotton trades in England are depressed. Pits are shutting and mills are closing daily. Those in operation are working short time at reduced wages. Amy Sheridan, the actress, is dead. The Shropshire Handicap was won by Orontco.

Storms of great severity have occurred in the north of England and throughout Scotland.

A Committee, while endeavoring to force the early assembling of Parliament, with a view to the consideration of the Afghan affair, was snubbed by Lord Beaconsfield. The Lancashire Handicap was won by Sir Joseph Tower. The subscription to relieve the City of Glasgow Bank shareholders has reached 503,000. The depositors are asked to accept 15s in the pound. The High Court Justiciary lias definitely refused bail in the case of the directors they committed for theft.

Gray and Co., iron founders, Scotland, and Robert Forrester, colliery proprietor, Glasgow, have failed. Cardinal Howard declines to accept the Archbishopric of Dublin. Sothern, the actor, has broken down. His physician has recommended a long retirement.

A strike has occurred amongst the Clyde iron workers. The Messrs. Elder have discharged 1200 men. The Shrewsbury Cup was won by Sunrise.

Norwich is inundated by a freshet. 4000 houses are uninhabitable, and loss of life has occurred.

Tlie England Carriage Company has suspended payment. Wright and Company have failed, liabilities one million, assets nothing. The Glasgow house only fails. Gamier Pages, the French historian, is dead.

The Paris Exposition was closed on the oth. The receipts since the opening amount to 12,053,746 francs. Bismarck's daughter Marie has been marto Count Rantzau.

The Prussian deficit for the fiscal year was 75,000,000 marks. Giovanni Possannati attempted to assassinate King Humbert while tho latter was entering Naples. He scratched the King's left arm, and inflicted a wound. The American forger Johnson has been arrested near Dumfries, and sent to London for extradition.

The steamship Wyoming from New York I has arrived at Queenstown with a cargo of cotton on fire, which had been burning four days. Settlement on tho Glasgow Stock Exchange was marked by tlie default of five brokers. John Lomas and Co., Jarrow-on-Tyne, chemists, have failed ; also, Young, Liston, and Co., London, shipowners, insurance brokers, and sailmakers; Wilhelm Pastan and Co., in the Hamburg and China trade ; and James Forrest and Co,, Blackburn, cotton-spinners. Lord Roseberry has been elected Lord Rector of the Aberdeen University. He had a majority of four over Mr. Cross, the Home Secretary. The New York Tribune's London correspondent gives a gloomy picture of financial distrust in England since the Glasgow Bank failure. He says that all the signs which commonly precede a great crash arc now observed. Private brokers declare they are flooded with orders to sell all the good stocks that can be sold ; that it is impossible to raise money from the banks for investment in undoubted securities, and that even upon consols loans are made as a great favour with unprecedented margins. The Furness Iron and Steel Company has closed its iron mine at Greevside, and thrown out 2000 men.

The Harley, Stoke-on-Trent, and Cleveland mines have reduced wages 5 per cent. German Government silver is being bought in quantity for transmission to India at 50i per oz. It is denied that Margaret Rothschild has applied for admission to a Catholic church as a preliminary to her marriage with Duke de Guise.

The Republicans lost no deputy in the recent elections. They will have- 12 or 15 of a majority in the Senate—say 46 out of 75 senatorships be filled. Balthazar Jacobson, a Republican senator, was detected cheating at cards, and resigned at the demand of the Minister of Justice.

Phillip Port, the Prench-Belgian railway contractor, has been tried for embezzlement and breach of trust. He was acquitted, but has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Belgium for incurring large liabilities, knowing his inability to meet them.

A motion was i-.dopted by the Municipality of to Communists. '"£!'£/■*■■

Paul Cassigriac has been Called tb order in the Chamber of' Deputies for saying there was nothing in .common between Bonapartists and President MaeMahon since the latter perjured himself, : and said'a duel would' take place between himself and a 'memtier named Marion. . -

In consequence of the Convention concluded at Pirie between the countries of the Latin Union, it; is provided that the coinage of gold shall remain free* and the coinage of silver suspended indefinitely, and cannot be resumed without the consent of all members of the Union. The Convention requires the ratification by the Chambers of countries in the Union. .... .

Cassignacs! election as a deputy has been declared invalid. " "■*■■■'

The Seine is rising rapidly, and- inundations are feared. -"_.

Gambetta and Foiirtoh "fought a duel on the 21st. The piquet distance was 35 paces. Both fired on the word being given, and missed.

The Spanish Government anticipates a general European war, and is preparing for it. ' Dissatisfaction to an alarming extent exists in the Spanish army. Fears of an insurrection at Seville are entertained. An ex-soldier had attempted to assassinate Ginderia, Minister of War. Senor Jano, formerly Senator from the Basque provinces, implores the King by letter to restore Fueros or local laws, and thus avert threatened total ruin in the north.

Moncasi, the assassin, has been sentenced to death, on his own confession, for an attempt on the King of Spain's life, premeditated since IS7C.

A Federalist plot has been discovered amongst naval officers at Carthagena. Socialist organisations arc being disbanded all over Germany, and the Socialists' newspapers and pamphlets suppressed. The Government intends to propose an impost duty on grain, wine, hides, and some other articles.

A Free Trade League, to combat the spread of Protectionist tendencies, has been formed. The Tagsblatt asserts that the object of the present Protectionist movement is the establishment of a Customs' Union in Eastern Europe, under the leadership of Germany, against Western Europe, especially England. Bismarck, on the occasion of his daughter's marriage, was presented by the Emperor with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Red Eagle. This Order was only once before conferred, by Frederick William XIV., on Baron Manteufiel.

Archbishop Dedochowski has again been fined IS.OOO marks, or two years' imprisonment, for excommunicating a local priest. An exiled German bishop has writen to the Pope expressing his wish that a good understanding may be arrived at between the Vatican and the Emperor William. In a recent speech, the Emperor hoped that every nation would imitate Germany's example in resisting the criminal tendencies of the age.

The Berlin Post, in an article on the closing of the Paris Exposition, says that Germany observes without anxiety the renewed power of Franco, which would only be dangerous if that nation surrendered its power to the judgment of adventurous usurpers. The present moderate and conservative Republic offers a guarantee against all excesses in the foreign poliev. The Government have sold L 1,000,000 worch of silver at 52A per oz. One hundred and two Socialist Societies, twenty-six newspapers, and eighty-eight books have been suppressed since the passage of the anti-Socialist law.

A belief is current that a plot exists for the assassination of all the sovereigns of Europe. It is stated that the Prussian judges, when examining Nobeling, were led to believe in the existence of a central organisation for this purpose. Investigations are still going on. The official Gazette contradicts a statement which appeared in the Paris Estafettc that the German Government had decided to occupy tho whole of tho Archipelago. The Gazette declares that Germany does not contemplate acquiring or founding Colonics beyond the Atlantic. The dispute in regard to the Samoan Islands will naturally be settled by treaty, which will secure _to Germany and other States interested privileges granted to most favored natives. The exiled bishops have been notified to return.

The Vatican will re-establish relations with Switzerland consequent on the defeat of the Radicals there.

Jean Jacques Fagey, political economist, died at Geneva on the sth inst.

The Government has given notice of their withdrawal from the Latin Montcnary Convention.

An election for members of the Great Council for the Canton of Geneva resulted in favor of the Democratic Conservative party. This ensures the return of the dispossessed Catholic priests, the cessation of religious war, and the eventual separation of Church and State, but does not insure the return of Bishop Wredmillod, as he was expelled by the Federal Government in Zurich and imprisoned. The cotton mills are now working short time.

Negotiations between the Vatican and Germany are progressing slowly. A new Baptist Church was opened at Rome, near the Vale Theatre.

The Pope is seeking to bring back the Armenian Separatists to Soman allegiance. Italy agrcss to abolish paper money for smaller amounts than five francs. Violent storms have occurred throughout central Italy. The Tiber overflowed and caused great destruction. The indignation throughout Italy is very great at the attempted assassination of the King. The assassin is an Internationalist. 'The King received a thousand congratulatory telegrams, including one from the Pope. During the passage of a procession of veterans at Florence, in honor of his escape, a bomb exploded among them, killing two and slightly -wounding several others. Signor Milo, editor of the Censor, at Naples, has been arrested as an accessory to the attempted assassination. He was formerly an associate of Passannte, the assassin, and was arrested with him in IS7O for posting revolutionary placands. A shopkeeper who sold Passannte the knife with which he attempted to kill the King, has also been arrested. President Hayes congratulated the King on his escape from assassination. The Porte charges Russia with fomenting an insurrection in Bulgaria. The extent of the rising in that country is disquieting.

Russian troops arc concentrating at Adrianople and eastern Houmelia. Russia intends to raise the army in Turkey to 200,000.

The pirates in the Persian Gulf have been severely punished, and IS boats have been captured. The London Telegi\Tph says, the tions which threaten the fulfilment of the European settlement,-' are closely watched, and will be thwarted by the resolute vigilance of Lord Beaconsfield's Government, with the loyal support of France and Austria, and the approval of Germany, The treaty of Berlin will be sustained to the letter.

Five thousand Russian troops land at Bourgeaus weekly. Russian officers command the insurgents in the Macedonian district.

Hordes of Mahommedan refugees, many of whom are starving, are refused permission to return to Roumelia.

The revision of the treaty of Berlin is seriously proposed. The idea originated either in Berlin or Vienna. The Manchester Guardian says that before the Plenipotentiaries left Berlin, Lord Beaconsfield and Count Andrassy signed a treaty providing that if the Russians should continue to remain on Turkish territory after May, 1579, England and Austria would insist on the complete withdrawal of the troops. If Russia should urge that Turkey is unable to protect the Christians, owing to the disturbed state of affairs in Roumelia, England" and Austria will furnish a garrison to relieve the Russians. The purport of this treaty was communicated to Russia. Ihe Rnssians are establishing for the second time the defence of Adrianople,- and several prominent Turks say a secend war will soon follow, on account of the attitude of the Russians in Roumelia. A Greek vessel has been seized in the Dardanelles by a pirate, who killed the sailors. The vessel was rescued by boats from the British fleet, but the pirates escaped with their booty. They are said to be deserters from the Turkish army. The pirates were afterwards captured by English

boats, and delivered up to the Turkish authorities. . .England is assisting the' Porte to conclude a loan, guaranteed by the revenue of Syria and the surplus of Egyptian revenue. The amount of the loan is L 15,000,000. ' An insurrection against the Turks has broken out'in the Nejo district. The -Russians demand, as the condition for evacuating, the right to occupy-and fortify Rustendji and other strategic points in the Dobrudscha, and to maintain a military road through the country. The Russian press is extremely hostile towards England. It rejoices over the delay in the Afghan operations. The Golos says : —" While peace continues, Russia may give arms and money to" anyone." The Vandesti says :—" The great struggle with England, which has been preparing for centuries, will occupy Afghanistan." The Ruskimir declares :'■ —" The hour has come when England must be held responsible for past delinquencies." Russia, replying to the Porte's overtures, expressed willingness to re-open negotiations for a definite treaty. There are no hopes of a satisfactory result to the negotiations between the Vatican and Russia.

Russian piratical schooners are robbing whalers in the Arctic Ocean. Prince Gortschakoff has been ordered to south of Europe, on account of failing health. The Golos says it is impossible, under present circumstances, for Russia to fulfil the Berlin Treaty. Several thousand Russian soldiers and officers have been permitted to volunteer for service in Afghanistan. The Czar has written an autograph letter in answer to the French Minister Waddingl ton's circular, declaring his intention to abide by the Treaty of Berlin. ! The Pope intends to appeal direct to the Czar in favor of the Catholics. The British Vice-Consul has been insulted by the Russians at Bourges, and the gunboat Condor has been ordered to investigate the matser. i The Russian army will be increased to 632 battalions in time of war. A tremendous snow storm has occurred at Vienna. The telegraph lines are prostrate within a radius of 190 mile of the city. j AMERICAN SUMMARY. An explosion has occurred at the Sullivan Coal-mine, Pennsylvania, by which thirteen persons were killed and many wounded. A new line of steamers has been established between New York and China to compete with the route via England. It is proposed to abolish the reciprocity treaty with the Sandwich Islands. The loss to the revenue has been heavy. A party of women at Michigan tarred and feathered an editor. Rear Admiral Ammen, of the States navy, recommends the Nicaragua route for a ship canal to cost fifty million dollars. The body of the late Mr. Stewart, the New York millionaire, was stolen from its vault with the hope of a reward for its return. Two parties have been arrested. Great loss of life and property occurred through the gales at the Northern Lakes. The fishery award of 750,000 dollars has been paid to Canada. The steamship Georgia has been lost at Punta Arenas. The captain was charged with being intoxicated in his cabin. Yellow fever has disaj>pcarcd from the Southern States. Rudolfson, a photographer at San Francisco, was killed by falling from a roof. The results of the late elections are in favor of the Republicans. "Women, other than Gentiles, held a mass meeting at Salt Lake, and endorsed Polygamy. The New York- r.nJ Boston Banks oppose the silver currency. The Duke of Magrita, a famous colt, has been sent to England by his owner, Pierre Lorillard, to compete against English horses. Manuel Pardo, ex-President of Peru, has been assassinated. An earthquake destroyed several cities in Salvador, South America. It is proposed that a vote of the people of California be taken on the subject of unrestricted Chinese immigration. THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN. London, November 21. The invading columns have crossed the Afghan frontier. They found Fort Dapey abandoned, only three children being left in it. General Roberts' force immediately moved forward to Fort Shams, five miles further up the valley. No further resistance was expected till the upper end of the Kuhrum Valley was reached. The force advancing from Quettah had arrived at Kushlak, ten miles distant. The cold is intense. One hundred men are sick in each regiment. The column numbers 52G0 men. November 23. A division commanded by Lieut.-General Donald Stewart has left Mooltan for Quettah. Fort Ali Musjid was invested on the 22nd by the Khyber column under General Brown. It was captured after a heavy bombardment. The garrison bolted precipitately, leaving behind them arms, food, 21 cannons, and 40 or 50 wounded. Many prisoners were taken. The loss to the British in the operations in the Khyber Pass so far is 300 killed and wounded. Major Bird, who commanded the advanced detachment of the Third Brigade, and Lieutenant Fitzgerald were killed when near the entrenchments of Ali Musjid ; and a lieutenant and over 20 Sepoys were wounded. The inhabitants of the valley are friendly, and bring in supplies freely. The Quettah column occupied without resistance Sibi, due east of Dazar. The London Times' military article of the 23rd opposes the occupation of Dakha, Khurum, and Pishen Valleys. The winter is drawing near ; the cold is intense, and fuel and forage in the mountainous regions is scarce. November 25. Kauffmann assures the Ameer that Russia will not allow him to be injured. The forts at Kapion, Kiazanga, Ali Musjid, and Sibi have been captured. The loss at Ali Musjid w-as three. SPORTING. KAKANUI RACES. The following are the weights for the two principal events to be run at the Kakanui race-meeting on Boxing Day : Kakanui Handicap—2 miles. St. lb. Mufti 9 6 Orange Lightning ' 8 6 Lady Ellen 7 10 Blue Peter 7 3 Shillelagh ...," .., ..."6 0 Zeuobia ...' ... ... 5 7 Publicans' miles. St. lb. Mufti 9 7 Orange Lightning ... ... S 7 Lady Ellen 7 12 Blue Peter 7 5 Shillelagh „ ~6 0 Zenobia ... ... ~, 5 8 Matthew Sherwin, Handicapper,