NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1547, 2 May 1887, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

o London, April 26. Tha groat parrmnent Infantry Barraoka at; Aldershot wore partially destroyed by fire on April 6ib. S r Janieß Ferguson aaid m the House of Oomoiono on April 6th that the British G v.ruraent tuntained Canada m the fisheries question. Mr Gladstone writea to the Chelsea eh oorj undor date April 6tb, " Oar advercnrioß hay* availed themselves of the fan-. that I have taken a large share In pi -Mug the Ivsh problem as a question of practical -politics before the oountry to p 1 cl that it is a p arson al affair, that It is n>t my trua conviction, and . that the p«?< pie are not iv genuine sympathy with the justice of the Irish demands A.- little reserve on my part will help them to be sooner undeceived and to profit more effcciively by the teaching they are already beginning to receive-— the teaching of events. — " Joßfcph Ooldwell, a Company promoter of Telegraph street, London, has failed. Bis liabilities are believed to be enormoua. He failed once before for £1,000,000. a remarkable collection of Oriental manuscript?, formerly m the possession of Kng Theelaw, of Burmah, has been ee^ ured for the Indian offioe. They treat almost exclusively of the modern history of Burmah and Siara. ■ -- The Enplish public are said to be amaz9d at Lord Tennyaou'a jubilee ode. The verses are called unmusical, the phrases awkward and meaningless, suoh coinages as';" Lord Territorial" and " Lord Manufacturer " for example. Mr Charles Philps, second Seoretary of the U.S. Legation m London, denies m toto the whole story concerning, the Btolen naval plans, and telegraphed to the "New York Herald 1 ' as coming from him by that paper's resident correspondent. ; The question hRB now narrowed down: to one of veracity between the correspondent and \he secretary The sentry on guard at a magazine m Chatham Dockyards noticed' on the ul^ht of M*roh 27th a man lurking about the place, and aa he did not reply Jto the proper challenge promptly the lentry bayoneted him m the thigh. The wounded man was found to be an employe named Clark, and was sent to the hospital to be detained »s a suspect. Lord John Manners, Vice-Fresident of the Committee of Counoll on Agriculture stated m the Commons on Maroh 29th that after a Government - inquiry the Department of Agriculture, declined to tecommend British farmers to inoculate according to Pasteur's system for the pre« veotioo of anthrax and other diseases. A movement is on. foot m London to establish some English colonies m the vicinity of Los Angelos m.. Lower California. Several English cHurohes are discussing prr jects of buying ttaots of land upon which to build /: ohurbhes, and Bell the remainder m Bmall lots to '.Christian workmen. There is great distress through* out England among the working olansea, and emigration agents have no trouble m getting skilled men to emigrate. An attempt waa made on the life of the Irish Secretary, Mr Balfour, by means of a Bmall packet of supposed dynamite Bent through the Post Offioe. The parcel wai handed over to Colonel Majendie for analysis. Many believe the affair to be only a praot'eal joke. The French are making a fuss over the failure of the Duke of Edinburgh to return the Fconoh .Admiral's salute at Cannes. The DuVe explains that h9 had no saluting cannon. He left England m a hurry, and forgot, or had no time, to get them on board. A letter has been received m London from Henry M. Stanley, dated Capetown, Maroh 9th. He found Tippoo Tib, the uncrowned King of the region between *,i?n!oy Ft* Ho and Tanganyika Lake, comm nding thousands of fighting Arabs, Stanley says : — " He was equally ready to fight or to be employed.. I chooße the l-.vtlor, not on account of his helping me to reach Emm Bey, bat to assist to bring ■Eicin'a Bi-y'a store of ivory away, valued at £80 000. In the pieaenoe. of the British Consul I contracted with Tippoo Tib to supply me with 600 carriers, and ;Ibo, after receiving consent from King iaopold of Belgium, appointed Tippoo Governor of Stanley Fails at a regular 8 lary. He guarantees to defend the fetation against Arabs, and suppress the slave trade. Below the Falls a European h; s keen appointed resident, who is authorised to stop Tippoo's salary on any breach cf engagemant. So far there has been no hitch m the expedition, i Everybody shows the utmost sympathy, and our difficulties have been smoothed ; away. I have sent a letter to Emm Bey, ' Tippoo has been ordered to conoentrate h's people at Stanley Falls m readiness i for marching." The Berlin police on April 6th made a : raid on the Social Democrats, and confis- < cated many of their books and journals. Arrrests were also made m Hamburg) Stettin, Konigsberg, Mannheim, and many ; other places. i Great uneaßlnes3 has been caused m i Berlin by the reports from St Peters* i be g and Afghanistan, An Anglo-Russian . conflict is feared m the near future. i G3D era) Komaroff writes m the Russian ; military organ of St Petersburg of April sth. that the work of the Anglo-Rutslan • Frontier Commission is not likely to lead to any useful result, and adds, "The foroe ; of circumstances will Inevitably lnpel Rusßia, sooner or later, to move forward into Afghanistan until she touches her : only natural and proper frontier, the , HiodoKhoosh Mountains, 1 The roof of a church In Sicily fell : without warning during service on Sun* day, April 2au, burying beneath it one 1 hundred persons, forty of whom were ' killed and more injured. ; A largy emigration of skilled workmen from the United Kingdom to America [ has set m. The steamers are taxed beyond their capscity. Canadians are quite despondent at the decrease of trade and impending trouble , with the United States. ; Father Keller, now m gaol at Dublin i for refusing to whon summoned, ; is allowed to ceiebrate mass daily m his cel l . He is also allowed to recaive visitors for balf-an-hour, and to read newspapers sent him, His cell has been furnished by outside frletidß. Father Ryan, of the BerberUtown Branch League, summoned to give evidence m a case similar to that m which Father Keller refused, also re* mained silent and was cent to prison. Much agalcsc his desire Father Keller ia bei-g lLmised aa a political Martyr. He has been made canon of Oloyne. The agitation m Ireland against Lord Lansdowno, Governor-General of Canada, is said to ba erasing him some annoy* ance, and the Government Grounds at Of awn arc under police surveillance. Wra. O'Brien, M.P., proposes to visit Canada and intensify the feeling against the Governor-General, but should he do bo the ohanoeß are that he wiil bd arrested as coon as ho opens his mouth to utter words host'le to the Government. The nßw_ Dominion la^s m this respect ate very'strict. The attempts of the agents to oompro* m'so with tha tenants of Lord Landsdovyne'a estates have failed, and the worjt of evicting all who refuse to pay the rents demanded will be resumed on April the 20th. Messrs Duane and Kll* bride, the two principal tenants of Lord Landsdowne, who were recently evicted from their extensive holdings near Baggacurran, have been eleoted Chairman and Vice-Ohairman of the Board of Poor Law Guardians. It is denied that the National League will remove its head quarters to England m the event of the passing of the, Coercion. Bill } w w<^ 4

Doyle, the "Invincible," has been released from gaol. He complains bitterly of the treatment he received while In confinement. Some outrages are apprehended from London Sooialiets dnrlng the Jubilee procession. The Queen intends, however, to make snch a Royal progress through the olty as this generation has not Been, Her Majeaty insists that the ceremony •hall *be held m Westminster Abbey, where she was crowned, and thoEe m charge of the 'celebration propose tha* the Queen Bhall drive m full Btat3, which she has not done -since Prince Albert's death, from the Palace up Constitution Hill, through Hyde Paric to Marble Arch, thence along Oxford Etreet, Ho!-----burn Newgate and Cheapaide to the Thames Embankment, thence back either by tne Embankment or Fleet street, the Strand, and Whitehall to the Abbey. Strong efforts are being made to change the day of celebration from Tuesday, the 21st, to Monday, Juno 20. h, aa being more convenient for the general public. Scotland, Ireland and Waleß hold aloof from participation m the Jubilee.