ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 78, 6 January 1876, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF THE NEWS. By an 'explosion in a coal mine afc Ashley, near Leeds, six lives were lost. The Carlisfc court martial sentenced General Dollar to four years imprisonment. - ■ , ' In fche French Assembly, ballotting .for 75 life members, gave the Left a large majority over the Right. . . - " .. . Spain is sending further reinforcements to Cuba. Ifc dees not anticipate American intervention, and thinks Europe wonld not permit ifc. ' There 'was a terrible colliery explosion at fche Swathe Colliery in England. Tlie latest accounts idicates tho total number of lives lost as one hundred arid forty. The explosion was caused by carelessness in blasting operations. Another disaster of s\ similar, character is reported in a coal mine near Penrith in South Wales. Twelve pei sons were killed and- ten injured: William Spotter and Co. , linen manufacturers and bleachers of Belfast, have failed with liabilities of a million and a half. A telegram from Alexandria says Egypt does not wish to annex Abyssinia. Sho merely wants security against violation of her frontier. ' The vessels have been ordered from the East Indies to th« Medifcerraneum to compose a detached squadron under the command Rear- Admiral Lambert, wliich according to previous arrangements, was to have remained in the East Indian water till March. The combined crews number over 3,000; On receipt of the new order the squadron will sail for the Red Sea, and proceed through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean. This will be the first time that a whole squadron belonging to a foreign power has passed at once through the canal. ; . A special fiom Berlin says the Prussian Government has formally summoned the Archbishop of Cologne to resign his see preliminary to. legal proceedings to depose him. Anofcher special says Count Yon Arnim has refused to obey fche summons to attend his trial for treason' on the-plea of ill health. Ifc has been very cold in the "South of Spain. Some soldiers have beeu frozen to death. It was reported that the Carlisfc General — General Trisfciauy had re-entered Catalonia, and issued a proclamation urging tho people to rise, but this is'deniecl. St is stated that Max Muller, Professor of Comparative Philology, at All Souls' College, has offered his resignation, and' will leave England in 187 G. Placards,, censuring the arrangements made by the Chinese Government, with Mr Wade, -the British Minister, were posted in Pekin, but were immediately removed by tlio authorities. The native officials are uneasy with regard to the recent negotiation. Information implicating the Molien authorities in the Murder of. Mr Margary, has been received. -•-'.- The Federal Provincial Council has passed" a resolution adding 100,000 marks to the . sum already voted to facilitate -and iprofnofce'thfe display of Germany's products at the Philadelphia Exhibition. The Egyptian troops have occupied the districts of Juba and Restago, disarmed the Zanzibar forces there, and hoisted the Turkish flag. Asiatic cholera is violent in Madras. Committees of the Right, and Lefb Centres of the French Parliament have agreed to report that the dissolution shall take place in December,, the election for senators to beheld January 2*, and the meeting of both Chambers on the 26th, March. Tlie Eastern complication and ihe report of a' Foreign Loan Commission caused a speedy depression in the Foreign? Bonds department of the London market. Tho action of the Prussiau Government regarding the ratification of a contract; for the sale of guano hypothecated for payment of interest of the Peruvian fines, caused a panic. The Foo-Chow ' officials say they have afc length captured the murderers of Mr Blackloek, Custom-house officer. A Rangooii correspondent says that news of reported settlement of the Chinese difficulty and the projected opening of a trade route between Burmah and Ynnin wa3' 'received there incredulously. On tlie 25fch October Chief Justice Small, at Hon.ar Kong, passed sentence on- the prisoners found guilty of murder and piracy. The accused had boarded a junk, forced the passengers and crew (in all twenty) below the hatches, fastened them down and then scuttled the ship. Three were sentenced to death, two to ten years', and one (a women) to five years' imprisonment. The repert that a boat's crew of H.'M.S. Sylvia had beeu chased by the Corsica'ns is confirmed.. - A jury t has been struck in tho suit against Tweed to recover six million dollars on behalf of the City of New York. Meanwhile Tweed has disappeared, and detectives are. searching for him in Canada. It is reported that he went with his accomplices to South America. " The survey made of the route of theMacaragna Canal to connect the Atlantic withthe Pacific is highly .spoken of. . ? There haVe beeu further indictments bf Mormons of Salt Lake for bigamy. Telegrams from -Oka, an Indian village on the Ottawa river, says that' a Protestant Indian church was coinpletly wrecked by a ciowd of French Catholics. The firsf raid on the opium dens by the police San Francisco was made on December 6fch, when four captures were made. The raids are to be continued till the dens are suppressed. At Toleda, a mail agent named Robinson, after being missing for five days, was found in river ' terribly maltreated.. There is no clue to the tragedy. It is stated that the Apaeha Indians in Eastern New Mexico," numbering several thousands, are about entering on the war path. About 4,500 of them have been handed over to the 'United States troops, who have .I'empved them to Fort Stanton. Kerr was elected speaker on the sixth ballot by a democratic caucus at Washington.. ■ • Charles O'Connor, tlio noted billard expert, died suddenly at New York. The American papers still harp on the Beecher scandal. At a plymouth prayer meeting Mr Beecher declared that the policy of silence was afc an end. .