SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2465, 15 February 1878, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

European ITeWS-

London, January 20. Gambetta desires to have French Chambers adjourned throughout ;the summer, so as to insure"political quiet daring the International Exhibition. Dr Meletics, member of the Hungarian Parliament, has been convicted of high treason. . The British army and navy estimates have been formed on a peace footing. i The budget of Russia shews a deficit of 600,395,425 silver roubles. Sergeant Charles McCarthy, one of the lately released Fenian prisoners, _ died suddenly on the 14th, while breakfasting in Dublin'with C. S. Parnell, Home Rule M P The funeral was attended by 60* 000 persons, and was the largest since O'Connell's. The verdict of the Coroner s jury was, "Death from heart disease, accelerated by the treatment he received in prison." The announcement of the verdict was received with loud and prolonged applause. . . Cardinal Maiming will negotiate with the British Government for the removal oi obstacles to the re-establishment of a Catholic Hierachy in Scotland. The London " Times " and other journals estimate the fourth quarter of the fiscal year > will shew a deficiency of nearly £1,000,000 in the budget. The French Government has been officially notified that Spain has broken off all relations with ex-Queen Isabella, regarding her as insane. She will never be permitted to return to Spain. The "Fanfulla" reports that Victor Emanuel said on ghis death-bed : " I have always felt affection aud deference towards the person of the Pope. If I have personally displeased him I am sorry, but in all acts I have always had the consciousness of having fulfilled my duty as citizen and Prince, and of never having committed anything contrary to religion." _ The " Advertiser" hears oh reliable authority that official information has been received in St. Petersburg that the Chinese have massacred 15,000 men, women, and children at the Kashgarian town of jManas, : committing the most frightful atrocities. I General Ignatieft' is expected to take part at vhe Conference of European Powers. A Turkish paper was suppressed for attacking the Czar. The Kaffir war is nearly closed. Cotman had surrendered, and Kreli Galiki was endeavouring to make terms. A small chief, Chiwa, had escaped with 200 followers. Sir Bartle Frere recommends complete disarmament of natives. Bradford, late U.S. V ice-Consul General of Shanghai, still remains in gaol on a charge of tampering with letters. Native companies are being formed for the development of Chinese mineral resources. The Japanese ship of war Telki-Kuwau, built and wholly fitted up in Japan, aud manned and officered by natives, is about to start on. a cruiae in the Mediterranean. A heavy fire occurred on the 12th m the warehouse of Crocker, Son, aud Co., Watling-street, London. It was the largest that has happened in London for some years. The lo&s was £200,000. D. R. McGregor, and Co., merchants, have failed, with liabilities ranging from £100,000 to £150,000. McGregor, in consequence, has resigned his seat in Parliament. On January 11th, an unknown man committed suicide by leaping from the Whispering Gallery, St. Paul's, London. The Imperial order of the Crown of India, for ladies only, has been created. It has been conferred upon all the English princesses, eight Indian Highnesses, and eighteen other persons of distinction. Midhat Pasha is in London. A strong demand is made by people in Constantinople for his return. Baker Pasha has been promoted to the position of Lieutenant-General to the Turkish army, Joseph Anderson and Sons, provision dealers, of London, have failed for £200,000. Corporal Chambers, the only remaining Fenian prisoner, was released on Monday, the 6th.

cj-The barque Penstero, from Cardiif for Constantinople, was run down in the English Channel on the Bth.

King Humbert, of Italy, has issued a proclamation in which he pledges himselt to carry out his late father's policy. Slado, the Spiritualist, was expelled from Berlin because he could not give the police any satisfactory explanation of his means of subsistence. He went to Vienna, from which he was also expelled.

A boat race for £200 aside and the Championship of England took place on January 14th on the Tyne between R. W. Boyd, of Gattcshead, and Higgins, of Chadwell, present champion. The course was from Highland Bridge to Scotswood Suspension Bridge. Boyd got away first, but Higgins was gaining when Boyd began to crowd him out of his course. Finally when Higgins was about to take the lead, Boyd laid his 1 scull over the forequarter of Higgins boat, and the two boats went some distance locked, when Higgius boat filled. Another boat was provided, but meantime Boyd took a long lead, an I went in nearly a mile ahead, but the race was awarded to Higgius on the foul. .The "Daily News" says Disraeli is determined to force Russia to stay her hand, or to precipitate war. A movement is imminent on the part of Germany to obtain seaboard under conditions which would seriously affect England. This consideration is having great influence in the Cabinet on the side of those who advocate England's reserving her strength. Some deeply important information has just reached this country, leading to the conviction that a warlike policy on England's part in the East would be the forerunner of more serious complications nearer home,

A dispatch from Berlin says Russia is negotiating with the other Baltic Powers for the purpose of prohibiting war vessels of non-Baltic Powers from entering that sea.

Count Zichy, Austrian Embassador here, declared to Server Pasha that Austria could not prevent the conclusion of an armistice on the basis of peace preliminaries, but that as a signatory of the Treaty of Paris, Austria would not recognise a peace concluded without her assent to its different points, and that Austria would be prepared to protect her interests by all means at her disposal. M. Tricoupis, Grand Minister of Foreign Affairs, has demanded of the powers the admission of Greece to a congress preliminary to the conclusion of pease. It is said that Lord Derby has recognised as just Greece's claim to admission. Italy has likewise replied favourably. The Turkish Mininster of Foreign Affairs has sent a note to Lon- , don, protesting against the participation of Greece. The claim of Greece to be represented in any European conference really points to the acquisition of Thessaly and Epirus, and possibly Crete. The Fenian prisoners, 'lately released, were welcomed to Dublin by a torchlight procession in which 20,000 people joined. The Home Rule Conference at Dublin passed resolutions by which the members pledged themselves to maintain the unity and authority of the party, and recognised the wisdom of united and energetic action under the leadership of Dr. Butt. The Conference lasted eight hours, and terminated in a scene of disorder and uproar. THE WAR. The Servians have been defeated in two engagements—one of Haftir Pasha, and the other Ezoul Pasha—with severe loss. The last-named pursued them to the frontier, burninft\six military stations, and destroying their entrenchments. Archibald, Forbes, war correspondent of a London newspaper,, has returned. He could not endure the severity of the Bulgarian climate. He reports terrible suffering undergone by the army of invasion. Words cannot describe the misery of the •t nation oa the Danube. The Russians

suppress telegrams, with the view of" ' venting the state of affairs becoming V* : to Europe. *>Knosm ; Spotted typhus has broken out arnono i the Turkish prisoners in Frotcschie a a neighbourhood, and it is whispered that U is really the plague. lt Germany and Italy have demanded f n their fleets the same privileges in Turkiih ' ' waters as England. 11 Many refugees perished on the way tn> Constantinople In coal trucks, fifteen bein<» ■ found dead one morning. The sufferings of the people are described as awfof>~ Mothers threw away their living babi«, rather than see them diem their arms. A* the train moved from Adrianople, numbers of people tried to cling to the sides and " framework of the carriages, and some to ''* ride on the buffers. At one place, where hundreds of people had been two days H without food, the people threatened violence if notsupplied. 15,000 women and children 1 were outin the snow, the cold being intense It is not known where the refugees w.UI fi a fl shelter in Constantinople. Eizeroum is now (17th) little betterthan : a huge hospital. About 1100 soldiers die, daily. Tavo or three are frozen to death every night. Typhus is raging, and as the : corpses are barely covered with earth, the consequences will be terrible when the thaw commences. If peace negotiations fail, the Sultan will, it is said, unfurl the flag of the prophet, and call on she faithful to rally to the standard. The Turks have bombarded towns in the Crimea, [causing irritationat St. Petersburg, seeing that peace negotiations are proceed- I ing. Servia intends to claim the following peace conditions :—lndependence of the , Principality, cession of old Servia, and indemnity for Turkish devastation during the last war. A " London Times " special from Giugevo says the mortality among Turkish prisoners at Frateshti is fearful. The station at that place is becoming the terror of travellers between Bucharest and the Danube. The graves round the camp are veiy thick. The correspondent says he saw Russian soldiers digging huge graves, and near them fifty Turkish corpses in confused heaps as they were emptied from the dead carts. The bodies were ragged, half-clad, and frostbitten. The Turkish fleet has shelled SebastopoL Prince of Reuss, the German, and Count Cortie, the Italian Ambassador, have informed the Porte that if it permits the British fleet to come to Constantinople, ■ Germany and Italy will also demand permission for their fleets to pass through the Dardanelles. The Russians have extended railway communication to Simnitza, and erected an iron bridge over the Danube. The Turks have bombarded the town of Theodosia, southeast of the Crimea. They burned ten houses, killed one person and wounded twelve. They have also bombarded Anapa, on the Btack Sea, in Circassia | but did littlo' damage to the town. One person was kiled there. The bombardment of open towns by the Turks, while negotiations are proceeding, is said to cause great irritation at St Petersburg. • Germany is said to contemplate the absorption of more seaboard. The Vienna "New Frei Presse" says that the Russian demands increased after the capture of the Schipka Pass.