NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1462, 23 October 1878, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[Per Australia via Auckland.] EUROPEAN SUMMARY. Russia intends to issue a loan to cover the deficiency in the Budget. The strike in the cotton factories at Radcliffe, Pilkington, and Misworth ended in a compromise. The Albanian insurgents are moving on the frontier of Bosnia. The last stronghold of the insurgents in Herzegovina, Khobuch, was captured by General Phillipovich. The Austrian .Hoops will be recalled from Bosnia at the end of October. Three hundred Russians entered Batoum on the 15th September. . , The Sultan has definitely decided to cede nothing to Greece. Earl Salisbury refuses his influence to induce the Porte to conclude a convention with Austria. He considers Turkey is not alone in being behind in fulfilling the treaty of Berlin. The British retired to ArlaLi, but saluted the Sultan previous to leaving. The Russians ask from Turkey 310,500,000 franca as indemnity. The Queen and Prince of Wales have written letters to the Government of Greece, suggesting a pacific course in the dispute with the Porto. Russia promises to support Greece on the frontier question. In a colliery explosion at Abercaldie, near Newport, Monmouthshire, cut of 371 miners, Only 01 were rescued. The pic was on lire. The f gyptian obelisk was put into place on Sept. 12th. A fierce fight took place at a Home Rule meeting in Dublin, because O'Donnell, who had supported the Government on the Eastern Question, was present. Paris is sending money to the yellow fever sufferers in the Southern States of America. Bcventy-eight more J)'reach Communists were pardoned. i The editor of “ Le Pays ” was fined, and is to be imprisoned for three months for insulting President McMahon. Cholera is increasing at Casabankia, Spain. A new plot was discovered against the life of the Emperor William, and arrests followed. The second son of Prince Bismarck, Count Wilhelm, has been elected Deputy to the jßeichstag. t 1 Midhat Pasha is allowed to reside at Crete, .poudon and. Mdady, released but expatriated

Fenians, sailed for New York on the 17tli of September. The embarkation was secretly conducted.

A flood destroyed upwards of 1000 houses in the Jullinder district of Punjaub. The Christians in Turkish Croatia revolted. M. Jacobin has been sent as Papal Nuncio to Russia concerning the Church iu Poland. Mehcmet Ali Pasha was not assassinated, as at first reported. He was killed in a fight between rebel Bosnians and his own troops. The Sultan remitted the grain tax in Constantinople because the bakers refused to bake bread owing to the high price of wheat. The Newfoundland fishery difficulties between France, England, and the United States have been adjusted. France will abandon the exclusive protectorate over Catholics in the East. The Pope will send a Nuncio to Constantinople. Bosnia is virtually pacified, but the Hungarians in a mass meeting protest against its occupation by Austria as inimical to the interests of Hungary. Bismarck has been ill with erysipelas, bat is recovered. No trace of the conspiracy or accomplices has been discovered in the Hoedel and Nobling cases. Von Beust goes as ambassador to Paris. Belgrade is being fortified by redoubts overlooking the rivers Save and Danube. Parliament has been further prorogued till 20th November.

The German Socialists collected £150,000 marks to meet the expenses of recent elections, of this sum 3860 marks came from the United States. In the first heat for the Sportsman’s Challenge Cup, rowed on the Thames oh September 15th, William Elliott, of Blythe, beat John Higgins, of Sbadwell, by four lengths. Au American boy, Braden, from Indianopolis, has distinguished himself aboard the English training ship Worcester. The Tyne crew beat the Thames and Putney crews by two lengths in the international regatta for the champion fours. In the final heat for the champion sculls Higgius “caught a crab” at the start, and Elliott won easily. Reports of the French harvest are good. The police dispersed a congress of Socialists of the working men’s party at Paris. The anniversary of the battle of Sedan was observed as a general holiday in Germany. A basis for future agreement between Germany and the Vatican was settled, which does not involve even the partial repeal of the Falk laws.

It is proposed that King Alfonso should marry Christina, sistir of his late Queen Mercedes._ A hundred students, suspected of Nihilism, have been banished from the universities of St. PetersburghIn Cyprus 307 men are in hospital out of a force of 2640.

Vesuvius is in eruption. Mount Hecla is also active, and Cotopaxi. The Swiss Government granted an amnesty to Catholic priests who were deprived of livings in 1873, for refusing to comply with the requirements of the State.

The Internationalists’ propoganda has been discovered by the police in Paris. The receipts at the Paris Exhibition amount* to 7,402,229 francs, A memorial anniversary of the death of Thiers was held on 3rd inst. The music was rendered by 24,000 persons. A meeting of Lancashire manufacturers is called to consider the unprecedented commercial difficulties.

John Estwood and Sons, of Hudderslcy, near Halifax, failed for £150,000. The International Congress on weights, measures, and coins on the 4th inst. unanimously adopted a resolution deploring the fact that England, Russia, and the United States have not yet adopted the metric system. The American and English _ delega'es afterwards passed a resolution petitioning the English and American Governments to appoint a mixed committee to consider the adoption of the metric system by both countries, the rates between gold and silver to be regulated solely by their commercial value, and silver not to be legal tender for debts of over £2O. Herr Kuitz, an Old Catholic priest of Heidelberg, refused the decision of Synod regarding celibacy, and married.

AMERICAN SUMMARY,

A settlement of Trappist monks from Europe will be made in Pennsylvania. A day of national fasting and prayer will be observed on account of the ravages of yellow fever, and of the commercial distress and discontent throughout the country. A surveying party has been attacked by Bannock Indians at Yellowstone, but escaped without loss of life. A ring of jewellery thieves was discovered and broken up. Kearney, the agitator, was sued for libel by a manufacturing firm of New York. A lire in Fredericktown caused a loss of £BOOO. Sitting Bull sent offers of peace from Canada, and wants to return to bis old bunting grounds. A ;United States broker, Landrian, of Paris and New Orleans, sued the Peruvian Government for a hundred million, commission for discovering guano beds. A number of wealthy and influential men committed suicide during the month. Bishop McCoskley has been deposed from Michigan diocese by the House of Bishops for scandalous practices and abandoning his pulpit. Hanton and Courtney are to row Ladiure in Canada for £2OO. President Hayes is making a tour of the Northwestern States, and is well received everywhere. A strike occurred among the street car drivers of New York for shorter hours and increased pay. t , Major-General John C. Freeman had arrived at San Francisco en route to Arizona, of which territory he takes the Governorship. Matilda Stanley, known as Queen of the Gipsies, and recognised as such by all the tribes, died at Daytown, Ohio, on the 15th ult. A dynamite machine exploded at Bradford, Pa, and blew four men into fragments. A Deputy-Sheriff at Boutle, having killed a couple of men in a quarrel, was taken from the gaol by a baud of negroes the same night, and literally riddled with bullets. The local columns of the New York papers are swelled with accounts of daily murders and all kinds of brutish deeds. A destructive flood visited Ontario Canada. General Butler claims to have been nominated by the Democratic Convention for Governor of Mass. The manager’s party deny it, and call him a usurper. # ... Th» yellow fever, after ravaging the cities in the States of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee, is abating. The cities that suffered most are New Orleans, Memphis, Canada, Canton, Holly, Springs, Yicksburg, Boston, Kenge, and Port Gibson. Large amounts of money for the relief of the|distressed were sent from all parts of the United States, and from Liverpool, London, Paris, and other European cities. Au anti-Beecher meeting was held at Omaha on the 19th. During his presence in that city Beecher has ipade hjmself very obnoxious to working men by disparaging their social position and adulating wealth. _ ‘ The Chinese embassy has, arrived in Washington, and js shortly to leave for Spain. The barque Carlo, at Philadelphia on the 19th, brought 163 officers and crew of the Spanish frigate Pizarro, foundered at sea. Wilhelmig, the famous European violinist, is creating a furore iu New York. An inventory of O’Brien’s Bonanza estates showed the deceased millionaire to have been worth only nine million dollars, instead of the twenty million with which he was credited. James Leroy, an actor known in New Zealand as the husband of Marie Duret, died suddenly in San Francisco.

The released Fenian prisoners, Edward Condon and Patrick Melany, arrived in New York on 29th September, on board the steamer Mosel. The United States Government placed a revenue cutter at their disposal. They have been imprisoned fop eleven years. ; tt • A heavy light between Imjian and United States trdpps took place near Port Wallace, Kansas, on the 28th September, in which Colonel Lewis in command was killed.