MAIL NEWS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4036, 28 June 1884, Page 3

MAIL NEWS VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

The aquarium of Bishopsgate, London, was burned on June 4th, with several lions, bear.?, and other specimens of natural history. Benedict, the composer, has decided to visit the United States next fall and lecture upon his "Half Century of Musical Experience." Earl Granville has transmitted a note to Washington in relation to the collection of conspiracy funds within tho jurisdiction of the United States.

George Hudson, M.P.,bequeaths£2oo,ooo for the education and maintenance of orphans in Sunderland. A Papal encyclical was road on Sunday, June Ist, in the Catholic Churches in England warning the people against joining secret societies under pain of excommunication. The letter says Freemasonry at its inception was probably merely a friendlysociety, but if sd it asks where was the necessity for blind obedience to the demands of its votaries.

The Earl of Easton is about to apply for a divorce on the ground of adultery. The Countess's friends say that no evidence can bo procured against her, and that the Earl wishes tho divorce to enable him to marry an heiress.

Moody and Sankey (who is ill, and has quite lost his voice) closed their English mission at Croyden on May 26th, and would leave for America ou July sth. The present drought throughout England is almost unprecedented. No such dry season has been known for fifteen years.

Lord St. Leonards was convicted on May 23rd for an indecent assault on a servant girl named Cole. Tho Court reserved its decision till the Juuc assizes.

The Duke of Marlborough has made an offer to the directors of the National Gallery of eleven of tho best pictures in the collection at Blenheim Palace for £367,500.

There was intense excitement in London ou May 21th over the poisoning of several people from eating what is known as '' Chicago Brown," imported from AmericaOne person died, and three more aro reported dying. At a recent meeting of the watch and clockmakers of London, Sir John Bennett, an eminent man in the trade, acknowledged that unless something effective was soon done to counteract American and Swiss competition tho British article would be extinct in a very few years. The business of making time-keepers in England was in a most desperate state of decline. On the 24th the British Admiralty ordered the torpedo flotilla at Chatham and Portsmouth to prepare for service. A fire in a coal pit at Portobello, Scotland, on May 22 caused the suffocation of nine men.

Advices from Great Britain say the number of visitors from that country this season to the United States and Canada promises to bo unprecedented. One thousand savants alone, including one hundred members of Parliament, already havo applied for and secured tickets for attendance at the meetof the British Association at Montreal. _ A large number of these visitors, it is said, propose to make American investments. Mrs Leffley, who poisoned her husband last fall, was hanged at Lincoln on May 20. The circumstances attending the execution, according to a despatch from London, are shocking. The hangman Binns was unnecessarily and barbarously brutal in his treatment of the unhappy woman. An eye-witness states that ho knocked her down in pinioning the rope, and choked her till her face was livid in order to stop her screaming. The London papers generally condemn tho exclusion of the press, and say this disgraceful scene furnishes another and quite sufficient reason for the dismissal of the drunken brute Binns from his office of hangman. When the news of the Scotland Yard dynamite explosion and damage was received in New York, O'Donovan Rossa said, " We've got England at last.' It will not be long before she will be on her knees. Last night's explosion is only the beginning of her troubles." Patrick Joyce, secretary of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, said last night's work ought to convince England that we are in earnest. You need not bo surprised to bear of greater explosions before many days. Gladstone had better mind himself." A London despatch of May 31 states that four of the dynamiters had been captured. One effect of the later outrages will be doubtless to secure conviction and long terms of imprisonment, for Daly, Egan, O'Dounoll, now on trial at Birmingham for treason and felony in connection with dynamite conspiracies. The London press demands O'Donovan Rossa's arrest, although many people believe that the explosions were not the doings of Irish-Americans, but of Anglo-Irishmen, which makes the

situation all the more serious for Irishmen in London. Patrick Delaney, an Invincible informer testified at the Sligo investigation on May 23 that his only object in giving information was to save innocent lives, and prevent others from being trapped. He was duped into assisting the Phoenix Park murderers, and was not giving evidence for money or liberty He expected to return to the life of ponal servitude. Timothy Harrington, secretary of Irish Land League, reported on May 29th that two or three years ago from £1000 to £2000 were received weekly from the American League, but now they are obliged to depend almost exclusively on funds contributed in Ireland. There has been a marked increase in the number of agrarian crimes and outrages in Ireland within the few days preceding. The people are beginning to trace a connection between this fact and the dynamite explosion in London the preceding week. Colombier has been sentenced to three months imprisonment in France and a fine for her indecent brochure, " Sarah Barnum." France wants a Cardinal, and the Vatican will consent to appoint one on condition that the French Government will restore the grants to the churches suppressed last year. Tho Grand Duke Louis of Germany persists in the demand for legal separation from Madame Yon Kolemini. The Emperor of Germany conducted the annual spring review in person on horseback. Prince William of Prussia was present at the marriage of Princess Elizabeth of Hesse to Prince Leopold, the heir to tho throne, on May 26. Dr Stroughberg, the well-known financier of Berlin, is dead. France is supported by Italy in her demands for an international control of Egypt, while one section of tho Italian Liberal press is strongly opposed to the French demands. A woman was arrested at Var'anada, Hungary, on June 4th who confessed to having poisoned four husbands and hundreds of women during tho past two years. A number of accomplices have also been arrested. , A Catholic priest who arrived at Cairo from the Soudan on the 28th reports that seven Catholic priests and four Sistersof Mercy have been murdered at El Obeid. Ho also reports that three priests were exposed naked to the sun for four days, and died from the effects of their exposure.