MAIL NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 559, 15 February 1878, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

Mulch tar Pasha has been appointed to the command of the army for the defence of Constantinople. Lord Derby has recovered, and will resume his parliamentary duties immediately. Gambetta desires to have the French Chambers adjourned throughout the summer, to ensure political quiet during the International Exhibition. A Cape Town despatch says an engagement took place at Ronigah, in which the British troops were successful. Volunteers are eagerly enrolling. Dr, Micbies, a member of the Hungarian Parliament, has been convicted of high treason. The British Parliament was opened on the 17th January. The Queen's speech states the cause of the early assembling of Parliament to be the war in Europe. The address in reply to the speech was moved in the Lords by Earl WJtarncliftc, and seconded by Earl Londoran (mo) : and in the Commons by Sir Wilbraham Eyreton, and seconded by Sir Robert Tonnant. member for Leeds.

The Russian budget shows a deficiency of 000,398,425 silver roubles.' Sergeant M'Carty, a lately released Fenian prisoner, died suddenly on the 13th while breakfasting at Dublin with Mr. C. S. Pamell, the Home Rule M.P. The funeral was attended by GO, 000 persons, and was the largest since O'Connell's.

At the forthcoming postal congress France will propose an International Post Office at 1 per cent. (I one cent.) tax ; the rate of exchange to be adjusted by Congress. The deaths from cholera at Mecca average 00 daily ; at Jeddah, 38. The Queen, in a dispatch to the Sultan, expresses sympathy for him, but says she will follow the counsels of Her Ministers. The verdict of the coroner's jury in the case of the. deceased Fenian M'Carthy was '"■ Death from heart' disease, accelerated by the treatmeut he received in prison." The verdict was received with loud and prolonged applause. Cardinal Manning will negotiate with the British Government for the removal of the obstacles to the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Scotland.

The London Times and other journals estimate that the fourth quarter of the fiscal year will show a deficiency of nearly L 6,000,000.

The Servians were defeated in two engagements—in one by Hafiz Pasha, and in the other by Eyoub Pasha, with severe loss. The last named pursued them to the frontier, burning six military stations, and destroying the entrenchments.

General Karregoff. lias ■ cleared the Gyopsa Yalley. of Turks, and occupied Clissara.

General Gourka occupies Stchiman. Mr. Archibald Forbes, war correspondent, reports terrible suffering by the army of invasion. Words cannot describe the misery of the situation on the Danube. The Russians suppress telegrams with a view to preventing the state of affairs becoming known in Europe. Spotted typhus fever has broken out among the Turkish prisoners in Frateschi and neighborhood. It is whispered that, it is the plague. The Turks are bombarding towns in the Crimea, causing irritation in St. Petersburgh. Erzeroum is already little better (17th) than a huge hospital. A hundred soldiers die daily, two or three frozen to death every night ; typhus fever is raging, and the corpses are barely covered with earth.

If peace negotiations fail, the Sultan will unfurl the flag of the Prophet, and call on the Faithful to rally round the standard. THE LATEST. London, January 23. The Turkish peace delegates arrived at Hermanli, and were received with milir tary honors by the Grand Duke.

Austria demands a voice in all peace negotiations, and will not recognise. .>. peace concluded without her consent. Austria's position is regarded as indicating an understanding witlwJEiiglaud.