THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5070, 8 May 1878, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

GENERAL HUMMAItY. Subscriptions are being collected at St. Petersburg to cover a new issue of 50,000,000 roubles in Treasury bonds. It is generally believed that an English war

with Russia would cause national bankruptcy in Russia, and an entire suspension of the payment of the Russian national debt.-— King Humbert is neutral, but favors the extension of the Hellenic Kingdom, and the creation of other Christian nationalities to oppose Russia.— The iron trade in South Yorkshire is stagnant, and thirty thousand people are unemployed. — Four German war vessels have been despatched to Nicaragua to enforce reparation for a consular outrage. — Lord Adderley has been elevated to the peerage as Viscount Loudon, and succeeds to the Presidency of the Board of Trade. Earl Salisbury has been appointed to the Foreign Department ; Hardy, Indian Secretary ; Colonel Stanley, War ; Ibbetson, Treasury. — Typhus fever is raging throughout Turkey. — Mr Butt has resigned the leadership of the Home Rule party. — Troops and war material have been sent to England from Jamaica. — The Paris bankers refused a further Russian loan of 300,000,000francs.— SouthLondon has been flooded two feet by the bursting; of a aewer, causing much damage. — There is intense cold in England, and there are four inches of snow in the Midlands. — Sir Bartle Frere announces the termination of the Kaffir war. A subsequent telegram reports a native insurrection in I Transvaal. For once the British troops were compelled to retreat before an overj whelming force, and assistance was asked i for* All the Government's prudence was I required to prevent a general native [ war. — There are eight thousand destitute Mussulman refugees in Greece. — [ There is an increased famine in China. — The relations between Austria and Russia are more conciliatory. The Czar sent the Emperor Francis Joseph an autograph letter. Austria will not participate in further hostilities, and is disbanding. — The American chief Sitting Bull, is again menacing with 7000 warriors. — The revenue of Great Britain for the fiscal year ending March 31, shows a surplus of £615,000. It was expected to show a considerable deficiency. — The Pope has instructed Cardinal Franchi, Secretary of State, to enter upon diplomatic relations with England. — The Communist Captain Garcin has been sentenced to death at Paris. He was the ringleader in shooting Generals LeCompt and Thomas.— The steamer Childwell from Hull, Liverpool, for Bombay, was wrecked at Sagres, Portugal. — The Greeks demand that the Patriarch will summon the Russian Government to declare itself on the question of Graoco-Bulgarian schism. Should Russia recognise the Bulgarian Church, the Patriarch would declare Russia schismatic. — The people in Albania ravaged by Montenegrins ask Austria's assistance. — Eight thousand Thessalonians, utterly destitute from burned villages, have taken refuge in Greece. — Bismarck has inspired an article in the Berlin Provincial Correspondence in favor of protection for German native industries. — There have been hurricanes and waterspouts at Canton, and immense damage has been done to the city. — There are prospects of an immense strike among the cotton operatives in England, on account of the masters demanding 10 per cent, reduction, and] there are noisy meetings in every direction. — In the House of Lords, Lord Beaconsfield said he could not see why England should be unarmed, when all countries are arming. — Lord Derby has denied that the calling out of the reserves was the sole or principal cause of his resignation. He admitted that circumstances might force England into war, but at present he could see no ground therefore. — The situation at Constantinople is still regarded as dangerous. Notwithstanding the protestations of the Porte, intrigues are going on among the Pashas. — A riot occurred at St. Petersburg, on account of a woman who attempted to assassinate the Chief of the Police. The students followed her from the Court, and cheered. Pistols were fired, and one student was killed. — The Porte is considering the advisability of transferring the seat of Government to Scutari. — Bismarck, it is said, believes the Congress possible if the Powers consent to the retrocession of Bessarabia, and the extension of Russia in Asia as far as Erzeroum, and a pecuniary indemnity to Russia. — The French budget estimates a surplus of 2,000,000 francs.— The Vatican appointments made by Pope Leo XIII are Master Camera, Mgr Macchi ; Auditor, Mgr Latoui ; Almona, Mgr San Miniadeilli ; secretary of the Latin Letters, Mgr Nocella; physician, Dr Ruggers Valenti ; surgeon, Alessandro Ceccarelli ; Secretary of State and Master of the Sacred Palace, Cardinal Franchi ; Prefect of Propagandi, Cardinal Simeoni ; pro-Datario, Cardinal Sacconi ; Camerlengo, Cardinal Morichini. — Nicaragua has accepted the conditions proposed by Germany. — Lady Burdett Coutts is negotiating for land in Osnarburg-street, London, on which she intends to erect lodgings for the poor, capable of accommodating 10,000 persons, at a rental of 4s 6d weekly. — Earl Derby' 3 resignation caused a profound sensation among official circles at St. Petersburg. He is reproached for having misled Russia and England by going as far as he did in the direction of which he disapproved. — Thomas Henderson, of Glasgow, founder of the Anchor Line of steamers, is on a visit to California. — The aotton masters of north and north-east Lancashire have combined against the strikers. — The prices for board and residence at Paris have advanced enormsusly, in view of the approaching Exposition. — Marshal Bazaine is reported in Madrid in good health. — The responsible editor of the Journal Commune has been sentenced to a fine of 5000 francs, and a year's imprisonment, by a jury. — The " Grand" Bank of Prague has suspended payment. — The head of the Jesuits wishes to return to Rome, but the Pope declines to comply. The Jesuits, therefore, oppose the Pope's general policy. — The Pope will issue no encyclical, not wishing to commit himself to any definite policy in the present complexion of European affairs. ADDITIONAL. The Society for the Protection of aboriginees recently addressed a memorial to Sir Bartle Frere, deprecating the present stern suppression of the Kaffirs. In reply, Sir Bartle stated that from the evidence there is reason to believe that the Galekas have taken up arms as part of a " vague sort of combination against the white man and his ways and all that belonged to them." An influential deputation, representing Australia and New Zealand, waited upon Lord Carnarvon to express their regret at his retirement. He seems to have gained the good will of all colonists. At a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute, Dr Forbes Watson read a paper on the character of the colonial and Indian trade of England contrasted with her foreign trade. The Duke of Manchester j presided. Sir Julius Yogel read a paper at the same institute on New Zealand and the South Sea Isles, and their relations to the Empire. Mr Thomas Russell has been presented to the Prince of Wales. On March 25 the news reached London of the wreck of the Eurydice off the Isle of Wight, almost within sight of Spithead, for which place she was standing at the end of a pleasant and successful cruise to the West Indies. The Eurydice was a training ship for young seamen. She had 3GB souls on board at the time, and was bringing a number of military officers, supernumaries and invalids, from the West Indies. The Eurydice was a wooden ship, sailing fully rigged. She was a ship of 921 tons displacement, and was at one time considered one of the smartest and quickest 26-gun frigate in the service. She was built about 1843. She sailed from Portsmouth on November 13, with a crew of about 300 ordinary seamen and officers, all of whom were lost, with the exception of two seamen. Captain Hare had been Commander of the St. Vincent training ship, at Ports-

mouth, and was selected for the command of the Eurydice from his knowledge and experience of young seamen. The Eurydice left Bermudas on March 6, and nothing was heard of her until she was seen by the coastguard at Bonchuro, on Maroh 24, bearing for Spithead under all plain sail, her object being clearly io arrive at the anchorage at Spithead before nightfall. There was an ominous stillness prevailing at the time, and a heavy bank of clouds was coming down from the north-west, and the glass was falling rapidly. Such wind as there was came from the westward, and blew on the port charter of the ship. From the direction in which the ship was steering, she would be in comparatively smooth water, so sheltered would she be by the Downs, until she rounded Bunnoae Head, where the disaster occurred. This circumstance explains the fact that the Emma, schooner, which was near at the time, was not affected by the gale* Just before four o'clock the wind suddsnly veered round from west to eastward, and a gale, accompanied by a blinding fall of snow 1 / came rushing from the high lands, striking the Eurydice just a little before the beam, driving her out of her course, which was heading to the north-east, and turning her bows to the east. This is what seems probable, though, from the manner in which the sea was concealed by the snow, nothing was seen of her at the moment when she capsized to starboard. The air cleared as suddenly as it had become overcast, the wind sinking away &b the same time. As soon as anything could be seen, the masts and top-hamper of the ship was discerned above the water, about 2\ miles E.N.E. off Dunnose. The ship lies in 11 fathoms of water. From her position, Bhe appears to have righted in going down. Of the whole of the souls on board, only two persons succeeded in reaching the shore alive. These are two able seamen, named Benjamin Cuddiford, a native of Plymouth, and Sydney Fletcher, ordinary first-class seaman, aged nineteen, belonging to Bristol. Lieut. Tabor, who was rescued from the sea, died before reaching the shore. One of the survivors states that when the squall struck the vessel they were taking in sail, and the captain ordered the men to come down from aloft. Water was then running along the lee netting. He caught hold of the weather netting, and could see the vessel's keel. The vessel righted a little before settling down. She then went gradually over from forward, the greater part of the hands being forward outside. A telegram from Lloyd's agent at Constantinople, dated March 7, contains the intelligence that the British steamer John Middleton, Captain Robson, from Odessa, grain laden, whilst lying at anchor, was run into by a Turkish man-of-war. The John Middleton, by the force of the collision, was forced from her anchors, and drifted against the Antelope (British gunboat), causing some injury to the latter. The John Middleton sustained so much damage that she sank in the harbor. The crew were saved by the English man-of-war. The John Middleton was the pro--perty of Watts, Milburn and Co., London. She was an iron screw of 1200 tons, gross. In the early part of the year she arrived at Constantinople with a cargo of military stores from the United- States. After discharging she went to Odessa to take in grain for Antwerp. The Antelope is stationed at Constantinople at the disposal of the British Ambassador. A Pera correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that terrible distress exists at Schumla, where some 250,000 fugitives are now collected. A formal note was sent to the Porte by the English Embassy, representing that unless something was immediately done an immense loss of life was certain, in consequence of the appalling destitution that prevails. The utter exhaustion of the means hitherto at the disposal of the Ottoman Government quite precludes, it is stated, the possibility of offering a transport to the sufferers. The Russian and Bulgarian atrocities prevent the wretched Mussulmans from returning home, even if transports were ready for them. The Porte declares itself unable to decide on a place to send these people. Being used to the climate of Bulgaria, they would soon die if they were sent into Syria. The hard times are causing more numerous enquiries in England about New Zealand, especially among farmers. A deputation of the National Liberal Federation were met on the afternoon of April 3, at the Westminster Palace Hotel, by Lord Granville and Lord Hartington. The purpose of the deputation was to protest against the attitude of the Government, to express disapproval of the calling out of the reserves, and to proclaim the desire of the Liberal party to save Great Britain from the shame and misery of an unjust war. The deputation numbered about five hundred representatives from all parts of the Kingdom. Mr Joseph Chamberlain, a member of the House of Commons from Birmingham, presided. Earl Granville, addressing the deputation, said that he required no stimulus to adopt a course likely to prevent the country from being dragged into a war which neither its honorable engagements nor its national interests demanded. They would, however, be deceiving themselves and Russia to conclude that the Opposition could prevent the Government from going to war if the Government were bent on a warlike policy. Lord Hartington said that the present duty of the Opposition was to interpose, by every means in its power, obstacles to any rash and ill-con-sidered action of the Government, the result of which might be war. The Earl of Leitrim, his clerk, and driver were all shot dead on the morning of the 2nd April while driving near his Lordship's Lodge, Manor of Vaughan, County Derry. The act was committed opposite a cottage from which Lord Leitrim had evicted a widow. Eightynine of his tenants were under notice to quit. The Earl's body was found in a ditch with the left side of the head battered in. The fatal shot was through the heart. His left arm was broken, and the right arm completely shattered. The driver and the clerk were shot in the head. The ground where the murder was committed showed traces of a hard struggle. A fowling piece and part of another gun were found near the spot. Deep feeling prevails everywhere on the subject. In the House of Commons, Mr Under-Colonial Secretary Lowther said there was the best reason to suppose that the crime was of an aggrarian character. The funeral took place on the 11th April. A vast crowd assembled outside the Church, and hissed, hooted, and cheered. In Paris, on the 21st April, work was suspended in the printing houses, and the publication of books was stopped in consequence of a printers' strike, instigated, ! it is presumed, by interminals. j Mr Ogle, war correspondent of the j London Times, was murdered by Turks near Macrinitzka. The Queen's message calling out the reserves is as follows : — " The present state of public affairs in the East, and the necessity of taking steps for the maintenance of peace, and for the protection of the interests of the Empire, having constituted, in the opinion of Her Majesty, a case of great emergency within the meaning of the Acts of Parliament in that behalf, Her Majesty deems it proper to provide additional means for the public service. Therefore, in pursuance of the Acts of Parliament referred j to, Her Majesty has thought it right to communicate to the House of Commons that she is about to direct that the reserve force, or such part thereof as Her Majesty may think necessary, be forthwith called out for permanent service." A Vienna despatch states that Austria's written statement of her views which was sent to St. Petersburgh, not only insisted upon the European character of the questions at issue, but distinctly rejected the idea of a seperate settlement.