NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 364, 16 January 1880, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Telegraph.]

(Per s.s, Australia, via Autk .v ... GENERAL SUMMARY Over two millions of white *- g are forwarded by Mr C » Australia, for the Gjuven. • ' >\i , were shipped in prime toii'iilim, nul packed in Mountain ice, brought from the Sierra Nevada ranges. '

Cardinal Manning appeals for subscriptions for the relief of the distress in Ireland in the coming winter, when the hunger and want is expected to be such as was never known since 1*847.

. The Rev. Arthur Wagner, of St. Paul's Church, Brighton, has joined the Church of Rome.

The assassin who fired at Lord Lytton in Calcutta was a native of Bengal, and has a grievance against the Government. He was recently discharged from the Allahabad Lunatic Asylum.

The Irish agitation continues unabated. Mr Parnell delivered a highly inflammatory speech at Liverpool, amounting to a challenge to the Government to arrest him, but no notice was taken of him or his address.

The Grand Jury at Garrick-on Suir found an indictment against the accused agitators, who will he tried in Dublin. Excited meetings are being held all over the country, at which pikemen parade in strong force. No overt act of violence has yet been committed, but evictions continue. The agitation in English and Scotch towns increases, and a considerable amount of money is being raised.

About 40,000 people attended the Hyde Park Sunday demonstration in favor of Ireland.

Irish relief meetings have been held in the large centres of population in the United States, Canada, and San Francisco, A powerful Committee is being organised. Mr Parnell was well received in New York.

Resolutions have been earned denunciatory of the land system of Ireland, expressing sympathy with the Irish people, and requesting the President to represent the wish of the American people in favor of peasant proprietary, to the British Government.

A meeting of Irish sympathisers at Chicago voted an address, asking the '

States Government to assist them in peaceful resolutions against the landlord system.

Carlotta Patti has sued the Pittsburg (Pa.) Despatch for libel. The paper said the prima donna wa& intoxicated at a concert performance.

The managers of theatres in Cincinnatti are endeavoring to introduce Sunday performances. They were all arrested for infraction of the law.

The Westminster Abbey statue and national memorial to the Prinoe Napoleon have been abandonded.

An Englishman won the seven days" bibycle race in Chicago, allowing the Americans a handicap of 100 miles.

Baron de Lesseps has sailed for Aspinwall. General Grant will accept the Presidency of the Nicargua Canal Company when it is formed. He visitsNicaragua during the West Indiau and Central American tour.

A party of prominent men have gone to Aspinwall to receive Baron de Lesseps. They are all in favor of his canal scheme, especially the railroad men.

A motion was made before the Lord Chief Justice for the release of the Tich borne claimant, seven years having' expired of the first sentence. It is claimed that the other sentence of seven years should run concurrently. A ruling by the New York Supreme Court in Tweed's trial regarding cumulative indictments was accepted by the Chief Justice as a precedent for opening the case. This shows the intimate relations of English and American jurisprudence. Gordon Pasha is still detained- in Abyssinia.

A Catholic Vicar apostolic, imprisoned by King «Jbhn, will be released owing to the representations of the Pope.

The French Chambers have appointed a Committee to enquire into disciplinary punishments in New Galedonia.

The Tyrone Constitution contains a letter from Mr Vesey Stewart, announcing that he has made arrangements with the New Zealand Government for another block of 50,000 acres, and will take out a party in ISBO by direct steamer to Tauranga.

The winter palace at St. Petersburgis illuminated by electric light, as a precaution against attack. Several military officers have been arrested for complicity in the attempt on the Czar's lifo at Moscow, when his baggage train was blown up.

The police are powerless against the Nihilists, who are found in the highest social circles of the empire. The Czar has appointed a Commission to consider what reforms are practicable.