MAIL ITEMS.

West Coast Times, Issue 2744, 17 January 1878, Page 3

MAIL ITEMS.

(fbom the home news.) The death is announced of the celebrated surgeon Dr Wenzel von Linhart. professor at the University of Wurzburr. The Crown Prince of Wurtemburg has been appointed to the command of a cavalry brigade in the Wurtemburg army. Field-Marshal von Moltke complete! his seventy-seventh year on October 26. He was born in 1800. King George has returned to Athens Thebes. The Greek Chamber is expected to resume its sitti »* this week. Count Hermann Arnim, a relative to the ex-Anri>assador of Paris, has been sentenced t n month's imprisonment for libelling P.ince B^mirck. j A telegr i fo! > Constantinople states i that mam piumn.tut dignitaries have been j arrested t y order of the Grand Vizier, I owing to a conspiracy among the party of the depesi d Sultan Murad. The Mexican Government have sent Zamacona as Special Commissioner to Washington, in ordei to negotiate with the United States. Berlin papers record the death of General von Malicvevski, governor of the Invalides at Berlin, The deceased was a well-known military man, He was born in 1804. A telegram from Vienna announces that the number of conscripts to be levied in Ru^ia at the annual conscription in December is 220,000 -that is, 40 per cent, above the ordinary figure. Mr Edwin W. Stoughton has been appointed United States Minister to Russia. It has not been settled who is to succeed Mr Pierrepont in London, but in any case it will not be Mr Simon Cameron. A telegram from the seat of war affirms the two sons of Schamyl to have been taken prisoners adding the intelligence that they are likely to meet with very hard treatment. The youngest son of Schamyl, who was in the Czar's corps ef pages, has deserted. The Duchess of Edinburgh has taken up her residence at the Palace of the Czar, Unter den Linden, at Berlin, where the Russian Embassy is established. The circumstance has excited attention, because on previous occasions the Duchess has beeu lodged in one of the Imperial palaces as a guest on the Imperial family. The Emperor of Germany is shortly expected at Ohlan, in Silesia, where preparations are already in progress for his reception. The Emperor annually repairs to that place in order to take part in the autumn battues in the neighboring forest. His Majesty will this year, as usual, combine a visit to the Duke of Eatisbon with his visit to Ohlan. The pirty of Grejnlandera expected at the Jardin d'Accliuiatatisation in Paris arrived there last week. They consist of a fanvly of Esquimaux — three men, a young woman, and two female children, aged respectively eleven and twenty - five mouths. They bring with them some seals, white bears, &>A sledge-dogs, and occupy, on the Ijiwji un which the Nubians were encamped, huts similar to those inhabited in the Polar regions. The death is announced from Nice of Count Alexander Branicki, one of the wealthiest landowners in Poland, who has resided in France since the Polish insurrection in 1830, in which, however, he had taken no active part. Count Branicki, who had managed to retain possession of his large fortune, made a very liberal use of it during the war in 1870 ; he subscribed £20,000 to the fund for the relief of the wounded. A statement comes from St. Petersburg to the effect that the Grand Duke Nicholas who has for sometime past been "interned" in the Caucasus for an offence which gave rise at the time of its discovery to a good deal of scandal, has been pardoned by the Czar, and that he is now travelling in the steppes of Central Asia with a view to exploring a new route for a proposed railway. The last fortnightly return of the Bank of Russia shows the total amount of notes issued for war purposes up to the 22nd inst, to be 226,000,000 roubles. The issue is regarded as temporary. Besides this amount the Russian Treasury has borrowed 163,000,000 roubles. It is stated to be the intention of the Russian Government to introduce at the beginning of next year an income tax upon small incomes, corresponding to the Prussian " Klassensteuer."

The Italian expedition, under Signor Gessi, which is to explore the country of the Gallas, is to start for Cairo early. But for a fire in the railway station of Suez, in which all the articles provided for the expedition were destroyed, the party would have started laßt June. They will proceed to Khartoum first, and thence by way of Fasoyl and Fadasi in the western district of the Gallas country. The expedition hope to be able to effect a junction there with another party, conducted by the Marquis Antinori and Captain Martini, and proceeding by way of Shoa. According to a despatch from Havanah, the Spaniards have captured E6trada, the President of the so-called Cuban Republic. Official news has been received at Madrid that the force under the insurgent General Ruiz has been reduced to thirty men by the dissensions which have broken out among the insurgents in the district of Manuanville. The Spanish authorities have received the submission of five colonels, several officers, and upwards of 100 men. The Tamboff correopondent of the Golos states that a party of Mennonites, numbering 400 persons, passed through that town on October 30, on their way to Hamburg, whence they will proceed to the settlement allotted to them by the Canadian Government in Manitoba. The Golos hears on good authority that all the officers of the Guards wounded at Gorni Dubnik and other places on the Sophia-road, will be brought direct to St. Petersburg by special sanitary trains. The Btate apartments in the Imperial residences at Tsarskoe Selo are being prepared for their reception.

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