ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK WITH THE EUROPEAN 8 AMERICAN MAILS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3047, 20 November 1878, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK WITH THE EUROPEAN 8 AMERICAN MAILS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

(Pie Fbkss Aobvcy.)

Auckland, Tuesday. The E,M. '■.■, City of JNew York arrived this evening witn mails and tt*e following passengers :—Cabitf: AucklandJohn O. Clarke, W. K. Graham, Bey. Father "Walsh and nephew, J. Beaumont aiitf wife, A. W. Q. Buclanan, Wm. Blacklock, Hon. Bromley, H. Britton, C. Eeid, Captain William Kins;/ Ly ttelton— J. A. Sutton and wife, H. U. Hill, J. A. White and wife. Fort Chalmers—Miss , Richardson, E. Griffiths, and 29 steerage.

The City of Glasgow Bank failed on the 31st instant for £5,000,000; in consequence of large,- advances, on, American securities, grain, and real estate. The value of the latter is much depreciated* Smith, Flezing, and Co., East India, merchants, of Leadenhajl. street, are liable for cash advances amounting to £&63,000 and acceptances for £900,000. All the directors have been arrested, charged with fraud, and confined separately. Of these E. K. Taylor i« ex-Town s Collector ;of Glasgow and member of the School Board, and partner in a large grain-dealing firm in the west of Scotland: Inglis is a landed ; proprietor in the east of Scotland. Louis I Potter is a member of a large shipping firm in, Glasgow. Scotland Wright, is a member of an East Indian firm in London, and Glasgow. Robert Salmon was manager of the City of Glasgow Bank when it stopped in 1857. Stewart is an Edinburgh merchant. The: larMstcpeated a great sensation, but it has met with general.approval. The Crown authorities appointed a lawyer officially'to investigate the affairs of the bank. The research is to extend back to 1857. - The/report is worse than the most gloomy forebodings. The loss is £5,190,983; which, wifth the addition of £1,090,000 capital; the/shareholders will have to make good. The report- shows systematic,, deception. \.A> call has been made on the shareholders of £500 per share. Steps are being taken to organise a relief fund for the shareholders. J. JSicol Fleming, connected with the bank, had absconded, chartering* .steamer for the coast of Kintyre, whence he hoped - to reach Spain. A large number of and London failures have followed t^is finsM«|i|Lc|lasb, {among them Potter, Wilson, and Co., of Glasgow, for £600,000; Anna, Donald and . Wilson, engineers,lyJlueVjfeT /foe £70,0C0; Westwich and' Co.f spies W«r^ ' chants, of London,, for £fQ/)Op^ garnet Morton and Co., Glasgow, have plaoed their books in the hands of accountants. ' They were largely indebted to the bank. Hugh Balfour r&V(ks of Manchester, iave failed for &fipQjOqO.^ „, Five batteries of L artillery and the second battalion' el X.X.'s l««h lUgi: as follows: —Unless Shere Ali gives satisfaction, the present occasion will be seised ■ to secure for ourselves the passes pieroing the mountain ranges along'the whole frontier from Khyber to Bolan, and further stragetic measures will be adopted to dominate the Sulieman Bange and Hindoo-Koosh Mountains. ;

The Su'tan hat been atked to interfere between Afghanistan and. England; ■,; . , A number of warship's hare been ordered to the Persian Gulf from the. squadron of the Admiral of the' Bast Indian station.

The Bombay newspapers announce that the JLuybense hare declared in farour of the British. ' ; :'">J { * :

A dispatch fromßombay to London says troops hare been ordered to adrance from Perghaukhan, thns threatening' Afghan from a new point. It is reported that dissensions, hare, broken oat among the great Afghanistan chief 3. . "' *

The. Ameer has asked the fribal eooncilf, for assistance. •'.•'•,; It is beliered that tribes mustering IoO.COO fighting men hare assembled. The other tribes, .with about 35,000 warriors, remain neutral. '■•:.''*

The Ameer,has freed from prison hit. son Hakoub Khan, who is a noted gene- '- ral. ■- , -' , , . A despatch from Darjeling says 800 men of each' regiment at Peehawur, and „. the horse artillery with forty powder batteries hare gone to Jamrood. ■ A despatch from St. Petersburg says if the Ameer is beaten and his territory annexed by England, Russia will occupy Mezr and JBbalkh, in Southern Turkestan, near the Afghan borders. ',",;■• The Ameer of Afghanistan Vlo~foe at: Ali Musjid is estimated at 25,000. " An Afghan embassy is. to proceed to Bt. Petersburg. The Ameer's reply to the Viceroy hat been receired, and is in substance,' " You may do your worst, and the issue is in God's hands."

Sir Stafford Nortbcote admitted, in a speech at Wolrerhampton, the possibility of a renewal of war. , The Government hare offered free passages home' to the families of officer! engaged on active service in India. The organisation of the Quettah column of invasion is approaching, completion. It will have six months, supplies by the 31st inst. . ■■•...*. The French Cabinet is discussing the English and Afghanistan question, and \ the state of affairs in Turkey. The ' situation it considered to be very grave. A movement is on foot in Bulgaria to exterminate the Mahommedans.

Baker Pasha has to complete the fortification of Constantinople in two months. .

The British Minister energetically insists that the Turkish slave trade matt bo abolished. ' ' " ' '

Eighty thousand Austrian troppa havo been withdrawn from Bosnia. : .' -

Eoumania has been recognised,by the '' United States.. , , . '.•'■■■ The - British fleet has withdrawn to Artaki Bay. Further withdrawal hat been stayed on account of the movements) of the Bussians. • Turkish money has depreciated to rapidly that it is now only one-third its nominal value.

Corruption among Russian army officer* is . discovered to be widespread. i6oOofficers, including 40 colonels are afctuad of misapplication of. money. The Government at CotitantinopU tap

received intelligence that Saad Getden Pasha, on announcing that he had received * orders to surrender Podgoritza to the Montenegrins, was killed by, the Alba- . nians, and 156 officers and men under his command were massacred. Turkey definitely rejected the AustroTurkish Convention. Pirates have appeared in the Persian Gulf. War between Turkey and Greece is considered inevitable. . A .despatch from Vienna states that Russia informed the Powers of the stoppage of tbe retreat of Russian troops, and has invited them to join in energetic representation, which Prince Lobanoff is instructed to make, in order to induce the Porte to take prompt measures to stop outrages upon Christians. , A Vienna despatch says RussiaTis still urging, Roumelia to conclude a convention granting the right of passage for Russian troops through her territory for the minimum period of two years. Count Andrassy has so far induced Jtobmelia .to 'withhold her consent. . ' Russian army in Roumelia and ■PSulgaria still amounts, contrary to treaty, 153,0QD men; 4,000 waggons with Christians are in the wake, of the Russian army. . . ■

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