'FRISCO MAIL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1829, 30 April 1888, Page 2

'FRISCO MAIL NEWS

GENERAL SUMMARY. [Per RM,B. Mariposa ] London, April 7. The Frapcror Frederick baa ordered the rebuilding of the Cathedral of B rlin on a fcile cf magnificence more worthy of the grentneßa of Germany . The Em veror'fl amnesty proclamation app'ies to Frees offon o j , insults to the Emperor, misdemeanors m exproiee of civil rights, aud infractiona of the lawa regulating public meetings The Empress Victoria, replying to addresses presented on March 27th by seventeen Associations of" Berlin of which she is Patroneap, BaiJ her foremost an 1 most sacked duty waß to care for her Buffjriog husband Sho wps conscious of the task devolving upoa her as Q leen und Empress, and would a.-.-compliah it to the best of hir übiliy. At the aime time, she was re* minded that she had other social daties, moral aud intellec'ual— the education of women, the sanitary condition of th 9 laboring cIaBBS, and improvement of facilities by which women may earn a livelihood, being constant y before her. The noblest vocation of a princess she said was unfiring activity m the work of ameliorating the Bufferings of the laboring olaasea. Owing to the difficulty of her task, the Empress doubted whether she would succeed as folly as she desired. The t British barque Princess was wrecked cff Oraminka, Portugal, on Maroh 31st, and twenty-three parsons were drowned. I- Is reported the local customs officers prevented the saving of lives by firing upon the Portugese lifeboat that had gone to their reßCua. A despatch from ladfo, received on April 2 ad, says that the Duo d'Orleaos, the French Royalist leader, had a narrow escape from being devoured by a Bangui tiger while on a hunting expedition. The Indian budget estimates for 1887-8 shows a defilt of £1,448,000, without counting £569,000 spent for special defences. The deficit; is caused mainly by conversion of stock, fall m the rate of exohange, and mlitary expense] m Burmah. The latest advices from China, dated Maroh 18oh, Bays the crisis In Hanan li passed, but the distress of the people is appaling, 2,000,000 persons being utterly destitute. The nearest ton as are being invaded by hordes of naked and starving refugees from the flooded districts, who, like Bwarms of loonsts, are devouring everything before them. ; A mnrderer who had beeu released on tioket o2 leave neir Tempesbar, Hungary, went on April sth to the house of the judge, who had oondemned him and killed his wife. He thea went to the house of a notary and killed the Utters deputy. From there he went home and split the skulls of his wife and ohtld, after which he fled, and has not been captured. Advices from Bokhara dated April stb, say the grand Vizier of that place has been murdered by a native. The Ameer ordered the murderer and his aooompUoe to be exaoutad, and they were thrown from a tower 180 feet high. Mr Gladstone Is reported %b saying 1 — " One oan do nothing m this Parliament. Our duty ia to force a dissolution as soon as poaalble." Oae of the results of Matthew Arnold's late visit to Amarioa is a severe criticism from his pen m the " Nineteenth Century" on the institutions and people of the country, which will delight every one who dislikes the United States. He makes the broad assertion that " olvllisatlon In America is a failure " An Exhibition of the relics of the House of Stuart, sanctioned by the Queen, Is about to be opened m London. The American novelist, Julian Hawthorn, hae been appointed to an Important United States Consulship. The res alt of the sham fight on April 2nd, on the Southern coast of England, showed the weakness of the defences. The Invaders were teohnioally successful at every point, notably at Portsmouth and ttaatbourne, They brought against the guns at Portsmouth, whioa have a range of 2500 yardß only, guns of 7000 yards range. It is reported (Maroh 220 d) that it has been found neoeesary to pat Mr Buskin In a private asylum for the insane. Reoently, while he was at Sandgate, be had a freak of ringing bells throughout the day, having purchased them for that purpose. He then became violent. There is no doubt that his mind is failing. By the will of the lato Smperor of Germany Dr Mack.nz c will receive the Grand Cress and the Star of the Order of the House of Hohensjllern The Emperor's Bavlngs do not exoeed £2,500,000. The Oriental mail at London, April Ist, brought newa of terrible eartquakes m China, m which 15,000 persons perished. Huge chasms opene4 with the shocks, and engalfod masses of the unfortunate people. Water of blood oolor ißsued from tha fissures. Satnl. W. Brooks, father of H, M. Brooks, alias Max «y ell, under sentence of death for murder of Prellar, has written a long and touphing appeal to the American people to help him to save his son from the gallows. Nothing since the accession of the Emperor Frederick has occurred that has so Btrongly animated the Prussian Conservatives ,'agalnst the Empress m the Batternbnrg marriage question. Ml of the Radical newspapers treat the Battenburg question with disdain, as of no consequence to German politloa, and ignore the faot that Prince Alexander of Batten burg is only a chord In the general disoord struck on the part of the Empress.