LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1688, 16 July 1875, Page 3

LONDON.

. _ January 21. Messrs Moody and Sankey are preparing towit Eton, to hold service especially addressed to students. Their intention causes considerable sensation and much controversy in the newspapers. Merafane, a Paris spiritualists who protessed to photograph deceased persons, had been convicted of swindling, and sentences to six months' imprisonment. Th^ree persons Lave died from the effects of drinking whiskey at the fire in and seventeen are in the hospital from the same cause. The Moscow Gazette sajs : "England having declined to enter into intimate relations with Russia until the Central Asian States are placed under the protection of international law, Russia has no reason to leave the alliance of the three empires and enter into a league with that country/ The revolution in Mexico continues and the re federal troops hav c been defeated in several towns. Cyrus Field telegraphs that Lady Franklin is dangerously ill in London, and requests the churches in America to offer prayers for her. A BRITISH CONSULATE ATTACKED IN CHINA. A despatch received at Shanghai states that at Chingkiang a number of native soldiers publicly insulted the American Consul and his wife. The soldiers were arrested and confined in the British Consulate. A mob of Chinese, enraged at the arrest of the sobers, collected before the Consulate, and made an attack for the put pose of effecting their release. The foreigners at Chingkiang defended the Consulate, and successfully resisted the mob. Groat excitement prevailed, and fears were entertained of a general riot, but the Chinese authorities finally restored order. The British and American "squadrons have left this port for Chingkiang to protect the foreign residents. The Beecher case slowly drags its slimy length along. Other witnesses have come forward on Tilton's side, including two upholsterers, who have appeared before Judge Morris, and are prepared to swear that they saw Beecher and Mrs Tilton in flagrant,: delicto. The ship f hamplain has been lost at the Farralones near San Francisco, her post of destination, and the Captain and several of the crew drowned. An attempt was made to put the ship in stays, but, owing to the want of headway, she would not come around aud almost immediately backed stern foremost in between two large rocks just north of the North Farralone Island. Bodies continue to be recovered from the wreck of the Schiller, buc so disfigured as to be unrecognizable. Mr. E'elane, of the London Times, will shortly retire from tho editorship of that our.uil. He has been offered a Baronetcy. The woikingmen societies of Paris have opened a national subscription to provide for sending delagates to the Philadelphia Exhibition. Narraten, the Communist editor who urged the shooting of the Archbishop of Paris, has died in New Caledouia, whither he was banished. European en p reports are grather more' favorable. The Prussian Diet ha\ finally passed the hill withdrawing State grants from the Catholic clergy. Ihe German Government proposes shortly to establish a central maritime observatory at Hamburg, similar to that in use in Great Britain and several other courmries. A violent storm swept over Paris and other portions of France on the ikh. In Paris traffic was wholly suspended on the streets, and many accidents are reporred. The damage there is estimated at 11,000,000 francs. Terrible Earthquake in South America —Thousands of Lives Lost. New Yoik, June 12th.—Correspondence of the American Press Association from Panama June 4th, says : The following details of the recent earthquake at Salessur, in Columbia, are just received here : The eaithqaake violently visited the city of Cicula, Columbia, in New Granada. A portion of the chuJch feil down, and many houses were destroyed. Cancena was also destroyed. The hss of life is frightful Thousands have perished. There is much excitement in Panama over the calamity. Ihe city of Cicula was entirely destroyed, and few families were saved. A ball of fire issued from the volcano, which is now very dangerous, and sets fire to houses. Another mouth was opened in the volcano on the side fronting Santiago, in a ridge called Guachon. 16,000 is the estimate of the loss of life.