THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 118, 13 February 1872, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The mail steamer Nevada arrived at Auckland from Honolulu on the sth inst. She encountered boisterous weather both ways, and was detained five days at Honolulu, awaiting the arrival of the branch steamer. From the Daily Times of the 9th we abridge th e telegraphic su i nmary. The Nevada brings telegraphic news from England to Gth wyGENERAL SUMMARY. The Prince of Wales is convalescent. His recovery was retarded by a painful affection of the hip. The Archbishop of Canterbury ordered the discontinuance of the special prayers for his recovery on December 28th. The papers publish a letter from Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in which she says she desires to express her deep sense of the touching sympathy exhibited to her family, and for her dear son, by the whole nation. “ The feeling,” says the Queen, “shown by the people during the painful and terrible days of the Prince’s illness, their sympathy with herself and her beloved daughter, the Princess of Wales, and the joy manifested at the improved health of the Prince, have made a deep and ineffaceable impression upon her heart. The manifestations of the people are nothing new to her : she met with the same j sympathy ten years ago, when a similar ill ness to that under which her son has been suffering, removed from life the best, wisest, and kindest husband that ever lived.” A letter has been published, in which the writer states that he is informed, on the authority of a person well posted regarding secret societies, that the Prince was not suffering from typhoid fever, but from an attempted poisoning by a secret agent of the International Society. Tiiat organisation is said to i have resolved upon the death of the Prince, j and the public assertions of some of its members are urged in corroboration of the state-1 ment. The New York Herald editorially dedines to endorse the story. The mail steamer from the Cape of Good Hope brings the intelligence that the treaty annexing the diamond country to Britain has been finally concluded, and that it has produced much excitement in the Territory. Mr Brand, President of the Orange Free State, has issued a formal protest against its transfer to Great Britain. Gold has been discovered in considerable quantities in the Transvaal Republic, and the reports have attracted to the spot many adventurous diamond-seek-ers, who have abandoned the diamond districts for the newlv discovered gold country. | Alarmed at Mr Gladstone’s Republican ten- j dencics, the Conservative section, led by the i Duke of Somerset and Viscount Halifax, are | seeking to form a coalition with the Tories, j for the purpose of electing Mr Bouverie the I Speaker of the House of Commons, instead of Mr Brand, and to compel the retirement of Mr Gladstone. ! A letter from Cairo savs that a report is I current that Sir Samuel Baker and his men, ; who are exploring Central Africa, near the j head waters of the Nile, had died of starva-' tion. Another report says that Baker’s men mutinied, and shot him ; and a third, that! onlv Baker and his wife are left of the expo-1 dition. At the installation of the Conservative i Mayor of Limerick, a tumultuous mob alter- j nately hissed when the Prince of Wales was mentioned and gave cheers for the Home Rule. The ship Edward foundered at Falmouth, | and all hands were lost. At Glasgow, a road waggon, ‘ propelled by! steam, was carrying some heavy boilers! through the streets, and was surrounded and followed by a throng of children, when, its I boiler exploded. Five children were killed, and seven seriously injured, their recovery j being doubtful. A grand demonstration has taken place in honour of Sir Charles Dilke. The floor of the crowded court-room at Kittyclaghan, County Leitrim, gave way while j a trial was in progress, precipitating 3001 people a distance of 40 feet. The number killed is not known, but 30 arc badly injured, most of them fatally. The Government having refused to help! the Royal Geographical Society to search fori Dr Livingstone, the Society has organised an expedition for that purpose, and appeals to i the people for assistance. Great efforts are| being made to enable the expedition to start I this month. On New Year’s Day, the cx-Emperor Napoleon is reported to have said, —“I will give Thiers six months’ Presidency of the Republic. By that time, Gamhetta will he in his place, and the change will bo favourable to ! the Imperial cause.” Wool is quiet, but very firm. FRANCE. The income tax has been rejected by the; Assembly. M. Thiers spoke strongly against i it. It is reported that, the repeated outrages! upon the German troops in the Departments 1 still occupied by them have caused the issu- i ancc of orders providing for the severe pun- j ishment of all persons guilty of such offences. One hundred persons have boon seized bv the Germans as hostages for the outrages. Sum- j nurv proceedings will bo taken in cases of I murder. Unless the actual offenders are sur- J rendered before the 27th, the hostages will! be tried by Court Mart’al. Prince Bismarck | bas declared that unless these horrible outrages cease, the Army of Occupation will re-! occupy the Provinces, and the expense and 1 burden of its support in he paid by France will be dmibl.-d. ’ | Dispatches from Algiers report that the [

French troops have gained successes over the rebels, two chiefs and 150 horses being killed. An uproarious Scene took place in the Assembly on the reading of a number of petitions praying for the restoration of a monarchy. Some of the petitions wanted the Comte de Chambord, and others the Comte de Paris, as King. The election of Victor Hugo is considered almost certain. TURKEY. Despatches from Constantinople announce that four Greek brigs were wrecked In the Black Sea, and that all on board perished. ITALY. Mazzini is seriously ill. At the Telegraphic Conference at Rome, Mr Cyrus Field gave a banquet, at which the representatives of twenty-one countries, and speaking twenty-six different languages, were present. AMERICA. Fisk, jun., the great railroad speculator, was shot by a man named Edward Stokes, in the vestibule of the Grand Central Hotel at Now York. He received three shots, and expired next morning. “At half-past six o’clock, Colonel Blake said something in a broken tone which closed his eyes. Change in his face had become more apparent, the pallor more like death, and moisture appeared on his forehead.” [What the portion in inverted commas means, Greville’s agent alone knows. We don’t, nor whether it refers to Fisk at all. It is jumbled up between the German and Turkish news, and we put it hero at a guess. It is preceded by an incomprehensible item of news, which says,— ‘ ‘ Fiske’s regiment Chasseurs sailed.”] Stokes was arrested close upon the commission of the outrage. It is said the Grand Jury have found an indictment against him, and a Miss Mansfield, for attempting to levy black-mail. Fisk’s funeral procession was more than a mile long. A great snowstorm took place on the Central Pacific Railroad. The passengers turned out of the carriages and shovelled snow for three days. 28 locomotives were smashed in ploughing through the snow-drifts, there being not a single snow-plough on the Union Pacific line. The charge for a cup of coffee was half-a-dollar, and the same for a loaf of I bread. Some of the passengers were fourteen days in the train. A despatch received in New York from London, states that the number of deaths from small-pox in London during 1871 was. 8000, the average being 90. In one previous vear the number reached 0000.