SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 220, 27 September 1878, Page 6

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Auckland, September 24. Cardinal Nita is appointed Pontifical Secretary of State. The Swiss Government have appropriated 5,300,000 lire for the completion of tho Mount Gothard tunnel. The insurgent force. in opposition to the Austrians numbers 1,000,000 men, and is well armed. A large portion of Kars was destroyed by fire. The Queen has invited Lord Beaconsfield to Osborne. Two thousand cotton .operatives at Bristol have struck. . Scinde, Patna, and elsewhere in the interior of India, have been flooded, and great damage has been done. The diplomatic arrangements between Britain and the Holy See are not reestablished, and no communications has*e passed. A collision has occurred on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. Eight were killed and thirty wounded. The Mussulman population of Belgrade propose to emigrate. The Porte asks the Czar to assist in the suppression of the outrages in Roumelia. Of. the Russian army of occupation 20,000 are sick. Garibaldi has written endorsing the , principles of the German Socialist's. " Samuel Wild, cotton spinner,- Rochdale, has. failed for LIOO, OOO. : ' The weavers are on strike at Oldham against a reduction of wagfes.. Three thousand looms are idle. England contemplates a new loan of five millions. , The- Constitutionel says that President M'Mahon resigns in October. A fanatic claiming to be Christ was shot by" the police, at the head of a numerous following in Italy. He was only wounded, and his adherents claim that his life was saved by a miracle. Nobeling before his death appeared insane,, and was watched by experts. ' It is believed that Cardinal Franchi was poisoned. • Sir- Colin. Campbell (Liberal) has 'been elected for Argyllshire. ; He. replaces the Marquis of Lome. It is, said that Italy promises Greece assistance in- the present juncture. At the, international monetary -conference, Ooschen (English representative) said England reserved the right to maintain the gold standard. " : A Russian army, 80,000. strong-, is to be stationed' at Bessarabia. „; A thousand delegates of the Chrisfiain Association are now holding .a World's r Convention in Geneva. -, -■ _ ■ ■--•■•. 1 Cattaml Morton, a West Indian iner- - chant has; failed for L 300,000. ( - Tunis. Becomes a Suzerainty in Italy. , : Judge. Keogh, of Dublin, is temporarily insane. He attacked his valet, with, a razor,.anct cut him severely. ''•" ' ,' Ifive liundred Catholic journalists parfciCipatecl hi the Press pilgrimage: on the . aiihiversa^y of the Pope's; exaltation.; - • * c-. '■'<

Sir A. H. Layard is pressing Asiatic reforms on the Porte. « Spain is issuing a five million colonial loan. The Fenians .liberated, .at repeated requests of. the United States Ministers, are to reside out of England during their ■ santences. A large portion of Kissingen, in Germany, has been burned. Typhoid fever' is raging in Bristol, and is. attributed to impure milk. Virtue and Co., London publishers, have failed for 1.200,000. Tho West of Scotland ironmasters have reduced Avages 10 per cent. Home Rulers , refuse to rescind the censure on Butt for his conciliation policy. The Times says that England will never again guarantee a Turkish loan, or help to raise one. The people of Pesth are petitioning for the suspension of the Bosnian occupation, because it is ruining Hungary. A deficit in the Prussiaii budget of 2,000,000 marks is published. The American schooner Enchantress came in first in the Royal Yacht Squadron regatta, but the Formosa won by her time allowance, Port Aleppo is the port England wishes to acquire on the mainland of Syria. The English barley crops are under the average. Turkey wants a five million guaranteed loan secured on Cyprus revenue. The potato failure in Ireland is nearly a repetition of the potato failure in 1847. Edge, a Liberal, was elected for New-castle-on Tyne, vice Buckley, a Conservative. The occupation of Cyprus led to great land spectilations. The site of the capital is not yet fixed. Sickness is generally prevalent among the troops, but sanitary works are contemplated. The Post announces that Parliament will not be dissolved during the recess. A European Commission to settle Roumelian and Bulgarian affairs will meet early in September, and the Rhodope business pass under its cognizance. Parliament was prorogued on the 18th of August. The Queen's speech chiefly referred to the Eastern Question, the Berlin Treaty, and the Anglo-Turkish Convention.' Satisfaction is expressed at the suppression of the Kaffir revolt in South Africa. , ■ • • • The "Russians are reported to be fortifying the Gulf of Savos in the belief that peace is temporary, and a good deal of angry feeling is manifested at the London Times stating England would hold Russia responsible for the continued atrocities in Bulgaria, which shock the public conscience of Europe, Great Britain, and Ireland. A Vienna telegram, dated September 1 says : — " The town of Mikato, capital of the circle of Barsod, Hungaiy, has been entirely laid waste by a storm. One thousand houses were destroyed by the rainfall, and thousands of persons were killed." Later accounts from Mikato, Hungary, state that over 4000 corpses have already been recovered, and 200 persons are still missing. The Queen reviewed the fleet off Spithead, on August 13. The fleet consisted of '4o broadside ships, 3 turret ships, 6 sloops and gunboats, and 2 torpedo boats, aggregating 99,441 tons, and 72,350 horsepower, manned by G691 officers and men. The vessels were apropriated for the Lords of the Admiralty, members of the House of Lords ' and Commons, 1 foreign diplomatists,,and other distinguished persons. The Queen was on board the yacht Victoria and. Albert. The Prince and Princess of Wales were on board the Osburne. The fleet was drawn up in line, through which the .Queen passed. No evolutions were attempted, as it was blowing half a gale, and raining in torrents. AMERICAN. The troops were called out at Montreal to aid the civil power to take possession of the Montreal, Ottawa, and Occidental railroad. Times are dull. Savings banks have been closed by the Banks Commission. Twelve persons were killed, and twenty wounded, by a collision on the Cincinatti railroad. M' Donald an actor, . was : killed by an Opera House manager at Cincinatti. At a quarrol at a jSTegro Minstrel fight in Philadelphia, Revel was killed by Lamont. A general strike of shoemakers has occurred at Chicago. The proprietors talk of introducing 'Chinamen. ' Angeli, secretary to Pulman's Palace Car Company, has absconded with 120,000 dollars. . . • O'Leary finished his walk of 400 miles in 122 hours. . : Gold has been discovered in the snowy ranges in the Shoshone mountains. - In four months one man realised three hundred pounds of. gold. ■ ! ' The Jesuits. have been . expelled from Ecuador. There has been a fresh outbreak fat Acheen. The natives inflicted, great loss on the Dutch. . . Another revolution has broken out at j San Domingo, and misery and anarchy prevail. . " ' . .'. | Yellow fever is at its worst, and promises to devastate the South. The death roll is fearful. On August 31st,. in Vicksburg, 204 fresh cases were reported. The plague loss got. beyond the control of the local municipalities, and subscriptions are being raised throughout the United States to, succour the' distressed,' and from abroad relief is coming for the ■plague-stricken South. • Howard Societies and benevolent organisations are working for 'the relief of the sufferers. . •. ...•.-.,-. ; Thousands of families are dependent on charity for everything. Rich arid poor stricken down dead and dying, lie together for days from lack of attendance. . The doctors and druggists are exhausted, and clergymen are dying off by contact with the sick. • ,;* ; " ■'•■■• ■/ At Morocco the presence of cholera is .denied. : The' newspapers were filled with bankrupt lists filed and anticipated on, : the Ist of [September when the abolition law came into operation. . ■ ''•' .■'" '■■■■ -'-'■'■■ A rabbit : rate ! of "one farthing an acre wilPbe levied for the year ending March Ist, 1879, on all. landowners. in ( the. 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