ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3235, 12 November 1881, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Atjcxiand, November 12. TRe Pacific mail steamer Australia arrived at 8 a.m. to-day. She left 'Frisco on the 22nd October, with light and fine weather, and arrived at Honolulu on October 30. The time of her passage is 19 days 13 hours, and 24 minutes. Passengers—Messrs Allan, Gibbs, Geo. Duncan, Justice Williams, wife, nurse, and infant, Misses Williams (2), A. Nathan, Bruce, McDonald, Keating, Klphinstone, J. A. Mann, Mra Mann, Mann jun., Misses Mann (2), C. F. Webb, G. Barton, Jas. Ellis, and 15 steerage. She also has the English cricketers for Australia, including Shaw, Bates, Lilly white, Pilling, Emmet, Ulyetfc, Midwinter, Barlow, Peate,, Selby, and Scotter.

LATEST NEWS.

San Fbanoisco, October 22.

The British ship Fernglen, Capt. Bubb, from "Wellington, wenb ashore on Clatsop Spit, outside the Columbia river, Oregon, on Sunday, the 16th, and became a total wreck. The captain and crew were taken off and brought to Victoria. Professor King, the aeronaut, who recently made an ascent from Chicago, has turned up at the Luppewa Falls, Wisconsin. The British ship Friedburg,while unloading railroad material at Oakland wharf, opposite San Francisco, sunk afc her moorings by steel rails slipping from the slings and knocking a hole through her bottom. The vessel was owned by Tomlin&on and Hodgetfc, of Liverpool. The centennial celebration of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yarklawa was com-

' menced on the 19th. Military were present from all parts of the Union, and military delegations from France and Germany were present. The display was very imposing. A monument is to be erected to mark the event, and the cornerstone was laid with full Masonic ceremonies. Rafaelle Monte, the celebrated Italian sculptor, has died in London. An organization against the tobacco monopoly by the German Government has been formed in Berlin. Captain Adams of the whaler Artie, visited the scene of the los 3 of Erebus and Terror, and founed the house to store provisions near Franklin in a wretched condition. In Fury and Hecla Straits the Esquimaux gave him particulars which appears to clear up the fate of the Franklin expedition. After the loss of the ships seventeen men started overland, hoping to reach Hudson's Bay, but only three survived the journey to the house of the narrator's father. One of these is supposed to be Lieut. Crozier, who died first, and the death of the others followed. Pilgrims to Rome are being assaulted by mobs who cry " Death to the Pope," and "Down with the Vatican." Terrible riots have occurred in Limerick and Dublin. In the latter city the Irish Times and Mail newspapers offices were mobbed. The Keely motor has again been bested, and again pronounced a failure. The press charges the would-be inventor deceptive. A few Russian Jews, the advance guard of the mighty host that have been driven from the Czar's domain, have arrived at Chicago. They look like well-to-do tradespeople. Ifc is whispered concerning the celebration at Yorktown that the French delegation have shown marked symptoms of jealousy because of the attentions paid to-the Germans. They claim that in the fight one hundred years ago France was represented as -a nation, while Baron Yon Steuben was present only as a soldier of fortune. The Great Eastern was offered by auction in London on the 19th, and was . bought in for £30,000. Preparations are making at Moscow for the coronation of Alexander 111. The Russian Imperial Palace at Gatechina and its approaches are now illuminated by the electric light to guard against. the Nihilists. Ihe steamer Thingoalla, from Copenhagen for New York, with 500 immigrants, is missing. The press generally considers the manifesto of the Irish Land League as a direct incentive to civil war. Tbe Times, however, says that there is a hollowness and insincerity in „its ring, that amounts to selfconfessed defeat. Scoville, Guiteau's lawyers, has made an appeal to the people of the United States, for his client in the interest of patriotism, justice, humanity, and mercy. He believes the assassin to have been insane, but is' much discouraged that ho cannot secure first-clrss legal talent, and witnesses everywhere refuse to testify. The British ship Geraldine Paget, from Hong Kong to Portland, Oregon, is reported on October 21 as ashore at Pratao Shoal, has become a total wreck. George Roberts an Englishman, was robbed of 1000 dollars in a sleeping car between Indianapolis and Littlefield. Archibald Forbes writes to the New York Tribune concerning the Yorktown celebration that President Arthur gave the key note of the feeling towards England at the very commencement by the singularly graceful and careful observance with which he inaugurated the proceeding. The British flag was saluted at the close of the ceremonial. The military review was a success, 9,500 militiamen being in line. Over one million dollars worth of Confederate bands were bought t.nd sold in Richmond, Va.,'oh the 20th and business continued brisk. Trickett challenges Hanlan to row him a three mile race for 1000 dollars a side and the championship of the world. Archbishop Croke'has written a letter protesting against the manifesto of the Land League. The League has been proclaimed as illegal and criminal, and all its meetings will be dispersed by the police. When the news of this proclamation i-eached the League's office, a hurried council was held, and books and papers destroyed, the lights extinguished, the doors locked, and the ( executive officials decamped fearing arrest, : leaving only a stock of notepaper and ■ envelopes. Mr Gladstone's residence, 'Hawarden . Castle, is elaborately protocted. Two editors in New Jersey, for a con- ' certed libel, have been sentenced to ten months imprisonment with hard labor, with , a 200 dollars fines. ' The United Kingdom has been visited by a terrible hurricane. Despatches to the , 16th mention it as one of the most disastrous for years. There was much damage to shipping in the Mersey, and many boats were aground in the Thames. Steamboat traffic was suspended. The London parks were strewn with fallen timber, and in South park 400 trees were ■ blown down. The gale damaged property all over the country, unroofing and wrecking hundreds of houses in Ireland and Scotland, and killing many people. Forty-five fishermen are reported lost at Barnmouth and ' Eymouth, Scotland, and*'fifty Berwickshire men at sea during the time are given up as lost. 70 Dunbar fishermen are reported drowned, and also three pilots in the Tyne. At Stockton-on-Tees five persons were killed by the falling of a roof. The steamer Cypridan, from Liverpool to Genoa, was wrecked on the Welsh coast, and twenty-five lives were lost. Eighty-five vessels in all are lost. The approximate value of the property destroyed is £8,000,000. The wires were down iv every direction, and communication was uncertain, and most of the land wires connecting with England and the Continent were broken. The arrest of Mr Parnell in Dublin caused great excitement. Warrants, signed by Chief Secretary Forster, charged the agitator with inciting the people and intimidation of orders from paying their just rents, and with intimidating the tenants from taking the benefit of the Land Act. The Cabinet was unanimous on the subject of the arrest. Mr Gladstone was informed of ifc at the Guildhall, and his announcement of the fact was received with uproarious cheering by the whole of the large blage of guests rising and waving their hats and handkerchiefs. Mormon missionaries are swarming over Europe. Darwin, the philosopher, has fallen heir to £30,000 by the will of Erasmus Darwin, his brother. Moody and Sankey commenced services at Newcastle-on-Tyne on the 9th. They go to Scotland, and thence to Ireland, visiting the English southern towns later. (For continuation of news see fourthpage.')