LATEST MAIL NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 133, 19 July 1876, Page 3

LATEST MAIL NEWS.

The subjoined are the latest transatlantic telegrams received at San Francisco prior to the mail steamer leaving. S4N FRANCISCO.

June 21. The Turkish insurgents have refused the armistice. The insurgent leader defeated the Sultan’s troops at Petravo, killing 200 and capturing 200. A Russian correspondent telegraphs that the Turks in Bosnia have unfurled the green flag fora holy war against Christians. A Berlin special correspondent reports that Austria has ordered the concentration of 158,000 of the Landwehr in the eastern provinces for autumn drill. Reports have been received from Sclavonic, sources stating that Prince Karageoigewitzhas destroyed the town, of Allapusa and killed two hundred Turks. The Prussian Cross Gazette publishes a private letter from Jerusalem, which says that great excitement and anxiety prevail there in consequence of the excesses of the Turkish authorities, and that there is a threatened rising of the populace. The Turkish soldiers have since permanently encamped in the public squares. A Berlin despatch says that accounts received from all sources are full of apprehensions of further violence and perhaps of general uprising in Constantinople. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to assassinate the Minister who deposed the Sultan. w ”

A fire at St. John’s, America, destroyed premises extending over a mile, entirely in the business part of the town. The Centennial Exhibition is attended daily by 30,000 people. One of. the last decrees signed by the late Sultan of Turkey was a secret order for the invasion of Servia, but the Austrian ambassador at Constantinople succeeded in having the order withdrawn. Prince Hassan, son of the Khedive of Egypt, has resigned his commission in the Prussian army. He goes to Egypt, where he will be made Minister for War. The Poite has declared a full amnesty to all insurgents who are prepared to lay down their arms and to renew their allegiance to the .Turkish Government , during the next six weeks. The Servian army consists of about 125,000 men, and a militia of 100,000 more. The Servians are convinced that war is a moral necessity. A vote for the Duke of Connaught’s establishment on his'"marriage with the Princess Frederica, daughter of the exof Hanover, will be submitted to ■ Parliament this session. England and the other Powers have come to an agreement upon certain points, .among which is not to exert undue pressure on the Porte. A torchlight procession has taken place in Dublin, in celebration of the escape of the Fenian convicts from West Australia, and Disraeli was burned in effigy. A Berlin despatch says that the insurgent loaders have accepted the armistice, and appointed Wessilitzeke to arrange guarantees with the Northern powers. The Vienna special correspondents report that the Turkish Governor of Herzegovina has offered a reward of 2000 florins for the capture of the Russian organizer of the insurgent forceis. An exploring expedition to north-western Africa has left England. The main object is to ascertain the feasibility of admitting • the waters of the Atlantic to a portion of the Desert of Sahara. Great riots have occurred in Belgium through success of Catholics in elections. At Antwerp serious disturbances took place, many thousands marching" through the streets shouting ‘ Down with ministers.’ A mob attacked the Catholic institute ; but the gensdarmes . charged upon the rioters, wounding a number of them; several arrests were made. The cereal crops in the provinces of Badajoz have been entirely destroyed : by locusts. Over 600 tons of locusts have been burnt with petroleum in trenches, and 15,000 soldiers were occupied in destroying them. There have been immense failures in the United Kingdom! , Terribly disastrous floods have been produced in Switzerland through heavy rains and melting snows. ‘ : Peaceful relations are to cease between England and the Peruvian Government, if the latter do not release the crew of the Talisman. Twenty-four women have been burned to death In a woollen mill at Ayr. There has been an alarming outbreak of cholera near Bombay, Of 2000 inhabitants 1000 have died.