'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 237, 24 January 1879, Page 6

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

e London, December 5. The Standard's Yienna correspondent declares that SchuvalofFs sjjecial object in visiting Yienna was to try arid persuade the Austrian Government to agree to the joint occupation of Constantinople. Austria insists on consulting England first, and the Count's mission failed. Large reinforcements have recently joined the Russian Array of Occupation m Turkey. The Berlin papers declare it is the intention -of Russia to retnin her hold on Turkey by keeping the districts of Burgos and Adrianople occupied until the Sultan signs the proposed definite treaty of peace.' Returning from Livida, the Czar reached Moscow on Monday, where he expeiienced an enthusiastic reception. Negotiations between Austria and Turkey respecting Bosnia are virtually completed. It ia arranged that the Sultan retains sovereign rights, and the Austrian s 1 retire when permanent order is esta- • blished. The expenses of occupation are to be recouped. It is reported in diplomatic circles that negotiations wei'e pro- ■ ceeding for the concession of a fresh cbnvention between England and Turkey. At the request of the Porte, French and English officials are to undertake the reform of the Turkish Custom houses. An Imperial decree authorises the Porte i, to take steps to raise a loan of twenty j millions on Turkish bonds, and the English Government has been asked to gaurantee it. The Emperor of Germany returned to ; Berlin to-day. Extraordinary precau- . tions have been take7i to insure his safety. Owing to his feeble state of health, i Prince Bismarck was unable to be present s on the occasion of the Emperor's recep- • tion. • • - A week previously," an orcler was issued • under the new Socialist law, enacting that dangerous persons were to be qxpellecl from Berlin and its suburbs, and proi hibited carrying arms and having posses- , sion of explosive projectiles. Alarm has been excited by the seizure of Orsini bombs at Hamburg. ; On the 29th ulfc. , 40 conspicuous Social > Democrats, including two Socialist deputies, have received notice of expulsion from the police. No time was given them i to arrange their affairs. They will seek ; ; refuge in Switzerland, Belgium, England, and America. A manifesto, addressed to the Socialistic Brcthern, was confiscated by the GovernGreat alarm prevails, and rumours of a conspiracy are current, and the Federal j • Council urges the proclamation of a limited state of siege of the capital. Owing the activity of Internationalists • an agitation is general throughout the Continent, and the Spanish Government has resolved on the expulsion of all foreigners belonging to the International Society. The Madrid Cabinet is corresponding with the foreign Governments as to joint action against Socialism and secret societies. A Congress at Rome to discuss the subject is suggested. The great Bond fraud tried at Brussels, after lasting a month, terminated yesterday in the conviction of T. Kind and Fortamps on a charge of embezzling 20 millions of francs. T. Kind was sentenced to 15 years' solitary confinement, and Fortamps to one year's imprisonment and 600 francs fine. The Times Philadelphia correspondent states that orders have been received to prepare immediately for sea four Russian cruisers bought in America. All are expected to leave before Christinas. The Russian cruisers Asia and Europe left Philadelphia for Cronstadt amidst great enthusiasm, Russian seamen manning the rigging, wharf, and batteries, and firing salutes. A despatch from Nashville, Tennesse, reports a terrible fight between the revenue officers and smugglers ; .sixkilled on each side. Hong Kong advices report Asiatic cholera ther.e. The American Government propose to quarantine all vessels from Hong Kong. , '. . ■ The Sioux Fndians in the Decotah territory left 500 lodges ; 2,000 warriors have assembledj and are supposed to be preparing for war on a gigantic scale. The Governor of Guadalaxara, Mexico, having decreed an extraordinary tax of 1 per cent, on real property and capital, the citizens assembled to protest. The troops were called out. Many prominent citizens were killed. ; The emancipation of the. slaves .is proceeding in Cuba. Five thousand were freed in thirty days. ,'.■'. . During the election quarrels,at-Louis-ville, men crazed with whiskey charged through the streets brandish-ing 'knives and revolvers. Four were ' killed , and seven wounded.- The military suppressed the riot. ) . ' ■ A terrible f steamboat collision occurred* on the Mississippi between the steamers Morgan and Cotton;Yalley,.;. r r. Twenty lives were lost. . '"!,/. A serious' rebellion; has ibrokenj out Jn Kivypgsi (China) under General Li, who* has 50,000 men .uMer^lumTani^^'cany^nl;; all before him. . ■; * . •■■ 4 ~; , r

The Abbe* Debaize proposes to penetrate '-. Central Africa. , Stanley advocates ~a railway from Zanzibar to Lake Nyanza: pie \ :hmks a grand trade could "he developed ; with. Central Africa, affording employment '-; :or English looms. The "French also pro- ; ject a railway from" Algiers to Tim : buctoo. : Diipouchel, the engineer j thinks the wate* ? iimculty.couM.be surmounted. An extraordinary story is circulated \ that Cyprus was required; to .ensure! Eng- \ land possession of Captain Burton's gold discoveries in Midian and Hecljaz. Gold | discoveries are also reported near Hindoo ' Koosh, on the river Hi. • • ; A recent conspiracy at Constantinople ' was a serious attempt to replace the Sul- ; tan. by his brother Reshid Pasha.- The 5 Sultan had to be dissuaded from execut- \ ing Heshid and Mahmond Domad Pasha, i The, former has been confined "to * his seraglio. . * ; It is reported in club and military circles that the Czar intends to propose, the Duke of Edinburgh as the Prince of. Bui- " -■ garia. ■ : The Electrician says that Dr Wall> about .the year 1070, first observed the ? existence of electric light, and suggested ,; the resemblance between .electricity and ' lightning. - ' : \ • Lord Hardwicke declares, that writing to newspapers is one of the greatest curses of modern times. The King of Burmah, has married, in accordance with the custom of the country, his own half-sister. A Newchnrch wife-beater named Brindley was on Monday sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. Captain George Graham Duff, R.N. (on the retired list), died on the - 21st November of wounds received at the storming if the Gate. Pah in 187-i. , The electric light is getting very far east indeed. The "Municipal Council at Saratoff, on the river Volga, has'unanimously decided to illuminate the Bazaar* with Jablochkoff's candles. The East Sussex News states that one of the shortest wills ever known has just been proved in the Lewes Probate Court. It contains only nine words, and is to the following effect ':— " Mrs is to have all • when I die." * ■ A new synagogue, said to be one of the finest of its kind in Europe, has just been opened at Warsaw. It has cost, the Jewish World says, no less than L48,000, exclusive of the cost of site, which was ; 70,000 roubles. ' ' Two young men, named Bryan, Mida; and John Park, pleaded guilty at the Liverpool Assizes to having, at. Preston, personated two voters at a municipals election, and were each sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. ; As illustrating the widespread despondency amongst farmers at the gloomy] prospect of agricultural affairs, tne Land; Agents' Record' learns that the Notting- \ hamshire agent of his Grace the Duke of ] Newcastle had received something like; twenty notices to quit from his tenants §n^ that county alone. ' -Vf_] i A decree has been issued in OHanc^yj for the administration of the estate of the j late.Dr Eraser, of Hampstead. „_ HeJb&dJ bequeathed ten thousand* pounds to thei Edinburgh "dniversity, but revoked it on 1 ; learning that in its medicalschools vivisec^ tion was practised, and .then- transferred; the bequest to the Scottish 'Society^! or, the.; Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. e - r ' ' . ■ * From Constantinople a correspbndentj telegraphs ': — " I hear from the Dar-j danelles that a Greek trading vessel wasi seized by a party of deserters from the^ Turkish army, who had obtained a, vessel,;; and commericed trading on their own! account. The English Admiral at Besika^ hearing of this, sent out cuttersyrecap-^ tured the Greek vessel, and handed the, pirates over to th^ Turkish authorities.!' ] The Mayor of Fusignano, near Bologna,? v/as recently carried off by brigands, but*] released on paying a ransom of 150dols.| We had no idea that Mayors were- worth] so. much in Italy. Now, in this country! if a mayor was carried off by brigands,| they would have just that much unsaleable] stock on their hands, unless some fellow| was to advance five or ten dollars for the| sake of the clothes the captive wore.'! There may be a few exceptions however. The passion for astounding feats of| pedestrianism has, we think, overstepped! all bounds, and become senseless "in thej exhibition with which the public appetita| for sensationalism is regaled in the Agri-J cultural Hall. The emulation would* s?em to be to exhaust the vital as well asfj the muscular powers most completely. Ini the progress of such a competitive struggle] for the highest reach of folly science canj have no interest, and the spiritrpf "manli-J ness neither sympathy nor concern.! — Lan*l cet. ' ■ ■ ■_ ;| We hear from Metz that the surround*! ing neighboui'hood is again being plasjuedj witli the unpleasant- apparition ■ :of--^olves.| About fifty of these dangerous brutes havel been killed since' the incorporation with| Germany, but, each winter they.. descendj and commit ravages. The hunting^gentry| on the French frontier, on grounds whichj they suppose to be patriotic, refund to> associate themselves. with ; the Germans- inf a common campaign against the wolvesi! So loner as this temper prevails the total! extermination of the wolf, or of ; the other! plague of Lorraine — the wild boar— is notl likely to be attained. > •_.' \V\ J The Liverpool Corporation have given] nofcice of their intention to* apply to Par l ! liament next session for ah Act" to confer| on them stuidry powers in connectipiiwithl the adoption , of, the electric" light as a| public illuminating, medium. !i Th'ey ask| for legislative authorisation to produce andi 'supply light obtained by "..electricity, orl by any means, other than the burning off gas," for all purposes wdtHhrthe 'boroughs! of Liverpool and Bootle, and the suburban! townships of Tpxteth P. arJc,,,West,- Derby,! Walton, Litherland, Great Crosby," Waver^| tree , , Allerton ,_ arid Garstony all- of •whichf are in Lancashire, "to the exclusion of 1 all persons, companies, or corporations." 3