ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1050, 17 September 1883, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

’ [by telegraph.] Auckland, To-day. The Australia arrived this morning at three o’clock. The following are the passengers for Auckland : —Messrs Shand, Chambers, Ormond, iSaxi, McLean, Miss J. Harper, Dr and Mrs Harrison and child, Captain McPetrie, Mr and Mrs Schoen, Messrs Morrison,Platts, England, Foster and 16 steerage. Mail Summary. San Fjrancxsco, Aug. 26. In the House of Commons on Aug. 22 the Under-Secretary for India presented the Indian budget. The surplus for 1884 is estimated at L 457,000.

Sir Stafford Northcote attacked the whole policy of the Government on the 21st. He accused it of keeping back facts in the Madagascar aflair. Mr Gladstone in reply praised the working of the land act and Earl Spencer’s vigorous government of Ireland. In relation to Madagascar he declared that nothing had occurred to disturb the cordial relations of England and France. Prince Bismarck, in reply to French journalists, declares that France threatens the peace of Kurope; that such a state of affairs cannot continue without serious danger; and that the passions fomented by agitation may burst the bond of peace. ( Mount Vesuvius was again active on August 22nd. buildings and mountains and railroads were damaged by the tremblings.

The Freeman’s Journal bitterly denounces the House of Lords .for its action in rejecting the Irish Registration Bill.

A flour mill near Kinnegall, Ireland was burned on the 22nd. Three persons perished. Count de Ohambord’s death is alluded to by the Republican journals respectfully, and they unite in paying homage to his sincerity. The Royalist papers appeared with mourning borders, and are reserved in their comments regarding the consequences of his death. The body will be buried by the side of Charles X. A reign of terror existed on August 24 h in the village of’ Caseo, Roumelia. The Turks were murdering Christians, and all of the latter who could getaway were fleeing. The Duke of Cambridge, while at Chatham, had just alighted from his carriage with Colonel Gordon, when the horses became very restive, and turning suddenly round they upset the Colonel, and the carriage struck the Duke in the chest. His Royal Highness left for Woolwich yesterday morning. The now Governor of Lebanon has sent to the Porte a memorandum stating that the situation in that, province has been rendered by the action of Hustan Pasha much worse than it was formerly. Mr Gladstone is said to have recently declared in a conversation with a Methodist clergyman that the large number of ministers and others wearing the blue ribbon was' an exceedingly gratifying circumstance, speaking well for the future. Switzerland has just concluded a treaty with the United Sttes, to be in force 'for thirty years, binding both Republics to submit any differences arising between them to arbitration. Honduras and Columbia have given in their adhesion to the principle. If France should continue to countenance the attempts of M. De Brazza to establish French rule in Central Africa, the African Association at Berlin intend to implore the protection of England. A project for the neutralisation of Congo is favored in London. The Pope is drawing up an Encyclical letter against divorce. A despatch from London dated August 6 says the Queen is much stronger. In receiving'M. Waddington, the new French Minister, she stood through the interview, which lasted 20 minutes. She has ordered that no tenant festivities take place this year at Balmoral or any of her estates, on account of the death of John Brovn. Another despatch says that in spite of the continued efforts of the Royal Family, and her medical advisers, the Queen obstinately declines to go abroad for her health, and insists on spending the autumn at Balmoral. She is determined to be near John Brown’s grave, and will make daily visits to it, contributing new testimonials of the esteem in which she holds the memory of her departed gillie. Her family is exasperated by her expenditure of feeling on this subject, which begins to border on the ridiculous. Her Majesty left London for Balmoral on Friday, 25th August. The Cairo correspondent of the Daily Te egraph writes: —“A medical friend informs me that at one of the principal hospitals no precautions are taken to disinfect' or even to clean the beds and bed-

ding from which cholera corpses have been removed. As one patient dies the body is hustled away for burial and another sick gr dying wretch fills the vacancy caused by death. Even vomit and ejections from successive patients are allowed to accumulate for many hours until the whole place becomes inexpressibly noisome—and this case is but a type of what is going on at every clepdt for the receipt of cholera-stricken people. Carts are sent round at intervals to collect the dead at hospitals and from private houses, and bodies are not unfrequently found even in open streets. Should a man in charge of a death cart come across a sick person, the latter is uncerem niously seized and thrown into the vehicle on the top of its ghastly freight, and is left there until the cart charged with the collection of the sick only is met, when the living are transferred from the death cart to the company of their fellow sufferers and taken to the hospital.”

American Items. San Francisco, August 25, 6 p.m. The Northern Pacific railway will be finished by Sept. 6. The new Brooklyn suspension bridge is pronounced a financial failure. Several towns in the State of Minnesota were visited by a cyclone on August 5, with most distressing results. Places were literally wrecked, many of the inhabitants being killed ; and the wind also demolished a railroad train, lifting cars bodily from the track and reducing them to shivers. One hundred passengers were killed.

The object of the. visit of Monsignore de Pal to the United States is said to signify the intention of the Church of Homo to try and make a great spread in future in this country. The somewhat startling story is circulated that Monsignore de Pal’s appearance here but precedes the arrival of the Pope himself. Moody and Sankey go to London in September, to spend the winter there in evangelistic work. The White Star line steamship Ludwig, long overdue at Montreal, Canada, has been given up for lost. Commissioner Pieirepoint made a report to the effect that in five years, if the present policy of the Government towards the Mormons was continued, the latter would control all the territories remaining.