ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 837, 9 January 1883, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL AT AUCKLAND.

[BY TELEGRAM.] Auckland, To-day. The P.M.s.B. City of Sydney, with the San Francisco Mail arrived this morning. General Summary. ! [T < V London, Deo.. 18; Lord Derby, in a speech made at Mali. Chester on the 13th, rejected the idea of a protectorate for Egypt. England, he said, ought not to remain in that country longer than was absolutely necessary itek restore order. English influence imEgypt must preponderate, but it was not necqf* sary. to exercise it in an offensive spirit*., nor exclude free and friendly consultation with France. Referring to the attitude of France towards Madagascar, the,, speaker said—“lf amicable mediation; would prevent an invasion of Madagascar, w« ought to offer our services ; but if, as appears probable, the dispute. is only a pretext for the annexation ■ of $ part of the island, we ought to from mediating.” ’ ‘ A Madagascar envoy had an interview with the Queen at Windsor on the 12th.’ T - > Following Lord Salisbury in Scotland, Mr W. E. Forster delivered a speechon the 16th, strikingly in contrast to. Lord. Derby’s views on the subject of BgyjwL Mr Forster argues that the process of- ezk tension is a part of the law of our existence as an empire ; and he considers that England’s presence in Egypt is the ; only guarantee of order, and that it is impossible to say how long she will remain. A despatch from Dublin on December 7 says that the applications of the Wests port Law Union for assistance to emjr grants number 1,000. Many desire to g$ to Australia. . >

The barque Langrigghall, which left Liverpool recently for Port Not, is stated te have been wrecked on the Tuscar rook. Twenty-four of the crew were drowned,:^,. The British ship Glad Tidings, from Calcutta, went agjmro at Prowle Point She caught Are and was burned, two of the crew being drowned. Sir Thomas Watson, one of the Queen’s physicians, is dead. , ;> Messrs Parnell, O’Connor, and Sexton were bauquetted at Cork. During the evening a man proposed A toast to the' Queen of the Belgians and was promptly put out, although he drew a revolver to; prevent it. The Hematite Iron Company, Mari--pari, has failed, for L 200,000; also Smith, and Co., of Swansea, tin plan, manufacturers, for LIOO,OOO. ■' > In a fire which destroyed a watch factory at Belfast, f„ur employees perished. The following batch of failures is reported in England . —Morrison and Co., Brighton, Ferry and Morris, Llanginneck, tin plate workers, for L 150,000 and L 140.000 respectively. They were involved in the downfall of Biddulph, Jevons, and Co., Liverpool. Forester and Go., tin plate workers, L 50,000; Cambria Tin Plate Society and Red Book Tin Plate Company, the liabilities being large, have also failed.

Mr Henly, telegraphic engineer, and the Bishop of Llandaff are dead. Saunders, who threatened the life of Mr Gladstone, was acquitted on ths ground of insanity. V' In the Belt libel case, Mr Alma Tadema and other well-known artists who* wore called, expressed a strong that the bust which Mr Belt has personally, executed in a room adjoining the Court and exhibited in the witness-box the day before as a proof of his skill, watf far inferior to any other bust from th,s same model which Mr Belt was alleged have executed.

Lord Derby, in a Manchester speechoh December 13th, said his personal Jopinion was that some millions spent in prompt* ing emigration from Ireland would be 3 profitable expenditure. He believed that in a few years, despite the Land Acts, sma'l tenants in Ireland would be just as dependent as ever on the forbearance of landlords. Thus, the old difficulty would recur. But he thought the Government should abstain from encouraging further proposals for legislation in regard to Irish land. The Government should refuse to listen for an hour to the claim for Irish nationality in whatever disguise it presented. An Irish Parliament would lead to separation as certain as two and two make four. If we do not want this to become a practical question, he said we must be careful to avoid giving vague pledges, which will be construed as moaning more than they do. The Hampton Court Royal Palace wiki damaged by fire. Twelve rooms in the east quadrangle were scorched* and twd actually burnt. The curiosities and tapestries which suffered most was .the part that represents Alexander the Great entering Babylon and the Battle pf

Germanious. In Queen Anne's bedreora the celebrated painted ceiling was damaged. Pictures by Rembrandt, Rubens and Kneller, and Lely’s celebrated “ Beauties,” had a narrow escape. The room known as the Queen’s Gallery, the King's and Queen’s private chambers and SriVate drawing-room were partially boded. One woman was suffocated. The loss is roughly estimated at L 30,000. Mr Forster gave an opinion recently that “ Homo Rule in Ireland means absolute separation from England, and great probability of civil war in Ireland. ” Five Skaters were drowned in the Thames on December 12, by the ice breaking. The thermometer registered seventy below zero. A warrant was issued for the arrest of MrWballey, M.P., on a charge of obtaining L 65 by false ’ pretences from a Peterborough publican. - A severe snow storm took place in England on the 7th December. A train was snowed up all night in Cheshire. The passengers suffered acutely. The heavy storm earned many wrecks. Railways and'telegraphs were interrupted in Scotland in every direction. 'The’Duke of Edinburgh has been appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Marines. Olidwick and Sons, woollen factors, of Leeds, have failed for L 70,000. A train in the North of Scotland from McDuff, fell through a bridge at Figvie, Aberdeenshire. Fourteen persons wore killed and many injured. Oleveden Hall, near Bristol, was burnt down. The library, one of the most valuable in England, was partially destroyed. The Albert Mills, Dewsbury, and the London and Northwestern Car Factory, Wolverton, were burned. The loss was LIOO.OOO. The remaining four prisoners for the Joyce murders threw themselves on the clemency of the Crown, and asked fbr life. They wore sentenced to death, but five of the sentences have since been commuted to penal servitude. San Fkancisco, Dec. 18. A consignment of twenty-two ostriches reached San Francisco from Capetown on the 14th. They will be placed on an 800racre ranehe near the border of San | Francisco county. In the southern parts ; of the State the speculation of ostrich j farming has been undertaken by Dr Protharal, who went from England to 'Capetown some years ago as a practising physician. ' Advices from Panama say that cholera , ia raging fearfully at Ohiappo, Mexico. ' The owners of, ard the laborers on, the plantations have perished in such num- ’ Mrs that it was not possible to bury the 1 bodies, which were burnt. Sixty deaths ] in a day have occurred. Vanderbilt, the railroad magnate, is reported to have lost several millions lately, through sharp jobs put upon him | by railroad speculators. iTho Secretary of the Brooklyn Board of Education is a defaulter to the tune of SSO.OOOdoIo. He has fled the city. ( Mrs Lftbouchere, who accompanied Mrs i Langtry to America, has quarrelled with ] her over her flirtation with the gilded j American youth, and in an interview with the American reporters said she had had enough ot the Jersey Lily’s nonsense, and exposed the way the sensation of her arrival was worked up. The general opinion is that Mrs Labouchere is piqued at the attention paid to Mrs Langtry, of , which she has received-a scant share.