ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Dunstan Times, Issue 499, 10 November 1871, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

{BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] PER OEE' r ILLE & CO., REUTER’S AGENTS — O — Clyde November 8, 9, p.m. The Nebraska left Honolulu on October the 22nd and stopped one and a half hours at Suttonnella ; one of the Navigator groupe. She reached Auckland on November the 7 thThe Moses Taylor left San Francisco October 11 Picked up a water logged brig, the Captain, the only one alive on board. He had subsisted 105 days without food, except straw, and fish thrown on board, nothing to drink except wine. The Nebraska brings London telegrams up to the 10th of October. Passengers for Auckland in the Saloon.—J. S. Graham and Wife, Captain Montgomery, E. H. Maude, Mr. and Mrs-Bush, and Miss Old. Steerage, eight. For Lyttleton, L. Cook. For Port Chalmers, Sharton and K. M Donald. For Sydney and Melbourne, eight. GENERAL SUMMARY London Out. 9, The health of the Queen is causing great anxiety. Mr. Gladstone and the Prince of Wales have been summoned to Balmoral. Great gales and many shipwrecks, and loss of life on the eoasc of England. At great Grimsby, barrowing details of shipwrecks in full sight of the people on shore. The ship James Bo th, foundered in the Bay of Biscay, and eighteen men were drowned. The ship Hesperus has been lost with all hands. The ship Mount Sinai was burnt atsca, there are no details. Strikes in favor of nine hours continue. The masters at Newcastle have compromised for nine and a half hours till January, ami after that, nine hours will constitute a day,s work. Great distress prevails in con sequence of the demands on workmen. The London Telegraph says there is no doubt that the misfortune of a deficient harvest will be added to the disaster of the . cattle plague. The foot and mouth disease is spreading throughout the kingdom with deplorable rapidity, In the city of Preston 470 cattle were attacked. It is estimated that there are 25,000 animals suffering in the kingdom. The past involves shoop, and swine, Besides this disease Pleuro is ravaging the herds in England and Scotland. The Times says that a Bishop and Archbishops have appeared in the pulpit of the Scotch Kirk, and conducted Divine Service, the announcement when given caused a severe shock thioughout the sensitive ecclesiastical nerves England ami other classes welcome the event as the commencement of a system of reciprocity in the pulpit.. Au explosion of fire damp occurred at Glamorgan, and killed five men. The reported marriage between Prince Arthur and Princess Thyra of Denmark, is pronounced to be untrue. Mr. Gladstone was presented with the freedom of the city of Aberdeen, ho was enthusiastically received there. It is reported that Melilia Morocco was be-eiged by 12,000 Cabuis. Reinforcements were promised the garrison. A letter from Teheran says that 80,000 persons perished in Misohidan, in July. Tin remaining 40,000 were captured by Afghans, who also enslaved a great many. Backiss is exacted with extortion. Four successive deputations to Thiers from Dijon complaining of the conduct of the Prussians in the occupation of that city. The Prussians were charged by the deputations with wantonly imprisoning 125 citizens, who forgot to deliver up their arms. Tue Municipality of Paris has voted two million francs to repair the monuments and oubliu buildings. The supporters of the Empire are becoming bolder in their in trigues, and are now agitating baldly for a Restoration. Ihe Republican journals demand of Thiers prompt action in suppressing the Booapartists conspiracies. Tue Court of revision which Rousset ap-p-aiead to, have judged him guilty. The penalty of death sentenced on Rochfort has been commuted to banishment. The dis-armment of the National Guard* is proceeding rapidly. Tremendous explosions occurred at the establishment of an oil merchant at Chelsea, thirteen persons were injured. FR NCE. Paris, October 9. The loan of the city of Paris has been taken up. Subscriptions arammed to fourteen times the amount required. Several conflicts have taken place botwo m French citizens and the German garrison. At Dijon intense excitements prevails in consequence of Thiers having received complaints daily from the occupied provinces, declaring that the presence of German troops is unsupportable. The German generals refused to evacuate the department of Ayse, until they were officially informsd that the third instalment of indemnity has been paid. They have subsequently received orders and evacuated. Arkmbrouski, the leader of the mob who attacked the Germ in residence at Lyons, has been arrested and sin.e.iced to two mon'hs imprisonmentDiplomatie arrangements between Franco and Germany are completed. { Continued agitation in the Algerian po*tcetione cantos uneasiness, lest tijat trouble ' may cause great expense aud p.Mwb)y, the abandonment of the Colony,