ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 125, 21 June 1876, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

[Pi:k City oT San Fka-ncisco.] The Levant Herald reports' that thd plagUe is re-appearing at Bagdad. Thirtyfour now cases and thirteen deaths' are reported; A despatch from Calcutta reports that the Punjaub'frontier is quiet.- There is' reason to hope that the disturbances' have completely ended* . Cholera is raging fearfully in Maddley among a gre.U number of people,- who are erecting earthworks for the King of Burmah. It is rumored that a plague has appearedat Muscat. The authorities of Bombay and other' Indian ports have established stringent quarantine for vessels coming from Muscat. The Reichsenseger of Berlin states that the investigation at Salunica has not afforded any trustworthy explanation of the real cause of the assassination of the' Consuls, but it is certain that the murderers' had no connection with the alleged forcible' conversion of a Christian girl. Sir Edwin Buckley, baronet, is declared rt bankrupt. He transacted business in Manchester and elsewhere. Ills liabilities’ are 6,500,0C0d015. , The liabilities of .W. and A. Faircasey Liverpool cotton;dealers, whose suspension was announced, atfe over G0l),000dols. y The barque Casswell has at Queenstown in tow of the gunboat Goshawk Mutin'ee'rs killed Captain Best, who belonged to Loudon, the first and second mates, and the steward, all three of whom? were from Glasgow. One of the seamen killed two of the mutineers, both of whom were Greeks. Another Greek sailor was badly cut with the carpenter’s axe, but he Survived, and was landed a prisoner at Queenstown. Captain Best was shockingly mutilated, and the two males shot and stabbed. The steward was shot while going up the companion! ladder. England lias dissented from the proposals agreed to by the Northern Continental Powers for reform in Turkey. The Channel Fleet have been ordered to' be in readiness to proceed to the Medjterannean. Two vessels have already been despatched there. Germany lias ordered five ironclads to the Mediterannean. Count Andrassy, at the latest date, published a note asserting that the peace of Europe would remain Undisturbed