NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 98, 23 November 1878, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(London, Oct. 23, and San Francisco Oct 23.) All the directors of the Glasgow Bank have been arrested, and separately confined. Th ir arrests created a great sensation, but it has met with general approvak The Crown authorities appninte i a lawyer officially to investigate the affairs of the‘Bank, and the research is to extend back to 1857. The report is worse than the most gloomy forbodings. The loss is L 5,190 933, which, with the addition of L 1,000,000 capital, the shareholders will have to make good. The report shows systematic deception to have been practised. A call has been made on the sh-vrelu'ldi-rs for LSOOO per share. It is rumoured that the ohl directors of the Bank are to he arrested. Hugh Balfour and Go., of Manchester, have failed for £2,000,000, and Ja nes Lawers and Co., of Liverpool, suspended payment with liabilities of from one to two millions,

It is snid. that 150,000 fighting men have responded to the cHI of the Ameer of Afghanistan. The Kyberees favour the Bri isli, and about 30,000 fighting men of other tribes rem in neutral. Troops have been ordered to India from the Curragh, Ireland and ships of war are to ent'T the Persian Gulf. Advance 1 ' are to be made from Dera Ghnzee, threatening the South of Afghanisian, as well as by the northern

. passes. If the Ameer Joes n> t give satisfaction the B i isli frontier will be pushed beyond t 1 e Hindoo Kioosh an l Soliman ranges. Tni-s will terminate the difficulty of the p-sses J or the future. A despatch from St Petersburg says if tlv Ameer is beaten, and Ir.s territory anil xed to E 'gland, .Russia will occupy Merv and Balkh, in southern Turkestan, near the Afghan borders. The Ameer’s reply to the Viceroy has been rec dved, an lis in substance—“ You may do your worst, and the issue is in God’s hands.” The organisation of the Quettah column of invasion is approaching completion. It will have six months’ supplies by the 31st instant. The army officers have been ordered to lea in the Afghan lenguage. Cettywayo, the chief of the Zulu Kaffirs, is threatening open hostilities aga : nst the British. The French Cabinet is discussing the English and Afghanistan question, and the state of affdrs in Turkey. The situation is held to be very grave. A strong French fleet has been sent to the Mediterranean. A movement is on foot in Bulgaria to exterminate the Mahommedans. Biker PaGm lias undertaken to complete the fortification of Constantinople in two months. The Br.ti h fleet lias been withdrawn to Artiki Bay, but further withdrawal has been stayed on account of the movements of the Russians. War between Turkey and Greece is considered inevitable. The Russian army in Roumcdia and Bulgaria still-amounts, contrary to treaty, to 153,000 men. 4000 wagons with Christians are in the wake of the Russian army. The bulk of the Russian forces in Bulgaria are moving southward. The Russian Infantry a one in Eastern Rmunelia already numbers 80,000 men. Another army corps is n-’ar Constantinople. Thera are 15.000 in Adri.mople. A camp of 60,000 men is forming at Kiscbeneff to rep’ace the troops who have crossed the Balkans southwards. Russia refuses to evacuate Dobrudscha or Roumania, until Roum.inia has concluded an offensive and defensive alliance. Russian ag; nts openly c'aim + hat Moldavia, as far as the Sereth, must become Russian T e St P t raffing ‘Ruski Mir’ says that A iglo-Turk’sh i trigues are on foot to spread the Rhodope insurrection to Sln.nra, ami that the o ly resa’t of such a m ve nil be to c>usa Russia to issert lur r'ghs ns a co iqneror, nd revert to tiie Trealy of San S sl'am-, as all the Powers ''iv t< o mu h occupied e sewlrere | to offer any r*si4 mce. j Tie Ndton h.s decayed to Minister I L yard that lie w aud never couehi-le an a Ham e with Ru.-s’a. T ie R -.sunns refuse to qirt Adiianople ti I the signing of the deti it - tre ty witn Turkey. Tiie Onr is contracting the issue of military fmao ighs. In no ease are they extend’d oi-ymid iA-bruary, Row ia w 1 m ,ke a i immediate demand on Turkey for 3,000,006 miibl s. A Y enn • ‘hap ton says Russia is still urging Romp nia to conclude a convention. grinimr the r'g’ t of p suige for Russian tro ps rb-ongh her territory fur the minimn o pm- od o. two years Count Audi-is-y lias so tar n luced Roiunauia to witnliold her consent. A Russian 4 p-ree it loan was effected with the BetTn b .ulcers to the amount of 60.000. marks. Rommnia has been reeognised as a State by the Unite I States. England. Ita'y, and France vill not recognise Servian independen e till civil and political equality to the Jews is proclaimed. The Servian army is to be reduced t<- a peace footing immediately. The Eup ror Willi an resumes the reins of Government early in D member. The German Socialist Bill has passer), and the Central Socialist Committee has voluntarily dissolved. The Socialist newspapers have also suspended, and will appear under tie"’ titles. Prince Bismarck said that, armed with the Bi 1, lie hoped to cure the prevalent disease. If not successful in tavo and a half years, he hoped to obtain further concessions. Count Von Bismai’i k, nephew to the German Chancellor, cnimniiied suicide. The cause was physical suffering. Rothschilds have agreed to lend Egypt £0,000,000. The ‘Journal de St Petersbnrgh’ state’s that in consequence of an increase in cover’d no'es issued dining the year by 500.000. roubles, the tariff is to be raised 15 per cent., .and an income tax introduced. It exhorts the people to improve the agricultural exports, so as to compete with the United States. There is a panic in the Glasgow iron trade. The prices of pig-iron were at one time 10 po>- cent, lower. Wages have been reduced 10 per cent, at Oldham.

One thousand Glasgow weavers arc on strike against a 7v per cent, reduction of wages. The Clyde shipbuilders have reduced wages 7« per cent. The reduction affects 40 000 employes. It has bean quietly ac opted. The Australian Cricketers won the match with the New Yorkers on the 2nd. The total innings wore—Austra l m*, IG3 ; New York, 101. T >e Bnileddp'da match was not finished on tbs sth when the umpires called time, and the match was o'er. The Australians were forty runs behind, and had only four wickets down on their second innings. This was a drawn game. At Toronto, on the 9fcb, the Australians were vi torions. They finished th > first innings wirh 123 to the Canadians’ 100. In the second innings, the Canadians scor-d 54, when the Australians went to tiie bat and defeated their opponents, with eight wickets to spare. During the game, a mm in charge of the Australians’ ward rob ■ ab con led with five valuable gold watches. On the lOrh, a second match, ber.vee i the AuMivlians and twenty-two Mo-.creaisbi was commenced, Biauermaii and Murdoch, for

the Australians, made 86 when time was Called, as against Monri’eal's SO They also beat tlie Peninsula C ub (eighteen) on the Ist. They did not (day in < bicago. The party arrived in San Francisco mi the 22nd, and were warmly received- C.unsul Booker invited the Board ot Supervisors to attend the niat'-h, "hicb commenced at the recreation ground, San I raneisco, in the presence of an immense crowd. The match was, Australians v. Twentytwo Californians, and it ended in favour | of the Australians with 134 runs and an innings to the good. The elevated, street railroads in New York, have been indicted by a Grand Jury fcras a nuisance. 7 A meeting was he’d at the Conner institution. New /ork, on the 21st, at which the released Fenians, Cond-m and Melody, spoke of the barbarities practised in English prisons. The eonstitutionaflty of all laws bearing on polygamy in Utah is to be artrued before the United States Supreme Court. By this it is intended to legally settle the Mormon question. Gold, in paying quantities, has been discovered in Southern Chi i. The schools are closing in Virginia on account of the utter poverty of tnat State. The believers in the millenium advent of Jesus Christ are holding a conference in New York. The attendance is large and influential. The walking match between 0 Leary and Hughes, of New York, closed on the 15th. Hughes was used up. O’Leary made 322 miles in the six days’ tramp, and Hughes 31U. The Harvard graduates offer their coll -ge boat club 10,000 dols. to send a crew to England. Severe storms have wrought great damage along the Atlantic coast. Seventeen persons were drowned by floods in Northern Italy. Hayti has been visited with a very destructive hurricane. A dyke on the Damita branch of the Nile has burst. It is impossible to repair it, and 10,000 men are engaged in building a new om. Great damage was done, and 12 square mi’es are overflowed, and 20 villages submerged, involving the loss of from 600 to 1000 lives. An excursion train on the Old Cloudy railroad, near Boston, was thrown off the track on the. Bfh, c n d 50 passengers killed, and nearly 100 wounded. They were returning from the Hanlon-Conrtney .Races. A panic at the Colosseum Theatre, Liverpool, led to a frightful result. Thirty-five men, two lads, and several women were suffocated. Toere. were between 4000 and 5000 people in the theatre at the time. The panic was caused by the cry of “fire” without cause. By a railway collision at Polity Pridd, Wales, twelve persons were killed and thirty ' ounried. Fiost lias made its appearance in New Orleans and Memphis, and the ye Tow fever epidemic c ased. The deaf’ s from cholera in Morocco hive reached 696. Seven negioes ou ( raged four white ■women on the 7th insri. near Mount . Vernon, in Lli :ois. The she rift was while trying to arrest them, and ■they afterwards were all lynched by toe

, indignant c'tiz ns S& 'Hie MmVt t ; firings Bank at New York was entered bv burglars on the 27'b.and 2,757,700 dols. sto'e-. The cashier of the Bulk of Odessa defan ! ed with 10,000 dob A run on the ba.uk followed, and 1,500,000 dols. wen withdrawn.