ENGLISH NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 692, 23 July 1875, Page 3

ENGLISH NEWS.

- -o—(Compiled from tho Dunedin Daily Papers.) Tho San Francisco mails wero delivered on the 28th. The new service commences in November. It is rumoured that Sir George Bowen will take the Governorship of Bombay. Sir Henry Buhver has been appointed Governor of Natal Tho Theatre Royal London has been destroyed by fire. There are largo failures in tho London tea trade. Mr Delaney, editor of tho Times has been offered a baronetcy. Tho Loudon and Westminster Bank has paiil a dividend of 10 per cent but tbeir losses are estimated at half a million. Tho Times publishes a two-column review on the Now Zealand Handbook, and praises Sir Julius Vogel in unmeasured terns. Cardinal M'Loskey gave a grand reception to the clergy' of his archdiocese. Tho Archbishop Canterbury' endorses tho Moody and S nkey revivals. The Corporation of London invites the Mayor of New Yoik to an International Municipal banquet. Sankey and Moody still attract thousands of persons. Numbers continue to become converted. Moody and Sankey are preparing to visit Eton for a service specially addressed to the students. Their intention caused a great sensation and much controversy. ThoPrinco of Wales, Marquis of Twceda’e and General John Fitzgerald have been gazetted Field Marshals. The English [Government have telegraphel to the Fiji authorities to spare no expense nor exertions to stop tiro progress of disease on tho island. In Dublin, on, June 18, at midnight, a fire broke out in the Excise Bond Stores, which Contained 7,800 puncheons of whisky. There was a series of tremendous explosions, and the flames great rapidity to adjoining buildings. Liquor flowedpnto the street, , ignited' the whole neighborhood, from fifteen to twenty buildings in Mill and Chambers streets, and put them in flames. A’ast crowds surrounded the burning buildings. The mob rolled severaljbarrels of whisky out of tho stores and helped themselves to the contends. The police mustered in force, and troops were ordered out to preserve order. Five thousand casks of liquor and thirty - five houses were destroyed. Three persons died from the effects [of drinking so much of the whisky. Seventeen are in the hospital from the same cause. Intelligence has been received at Shanghai that the British Consulate at Clring Kiang has been attacked by a mob, and that the native soldiery and foreign residents were protecting it. The English and American squadrons - were ordered from Shanghai to repress the outbreak. In tho House of Commons the Government stated that the communication as to the correspondence relating ?to i the Russian occupation of Khiva was premature ; but the Government had abandoned tire policy of a neutral tone, and had refused to fetter its freedoms of action. The relations with Russia, however continued friendly. In reply to a deputation to Lord Derby, urging to intervention in the coal traffic and the Cuban war, he said the present time was not favourable to British interference. The Moscow Gazette says;—“ England having declined to enter, into intimate relations with Russia until Central Asia, U. S., are placed under the protection of international law, Russia has no reason to leave the alliance of the three Empires, and enter into a league with that country,” The Canadian steamer Vioksburghf running from Montreal to Liverpool, struck ait iceberg and sank. Forty lives wero lost. Three hundred thousand dollars iu specie has been recovered from the Schiller. Mutilated bodies of the victims of the disaster continue to come ashore. AMERICAN. The Bfooher-Tilton ease slowly drags its slimy length along. Other witnesses have come forward on Tilton’s side, including two rephehsterers (?) who have appeared before Judge Morrit. They are prepared to swear they saw Beecher and Mrs Tilton in flagrante delicto. The jury in tho Beeoher-Tilton case deliberated a week, then disagreed, an 1 ware discharged, Great fire in Worcester, Mass. Damage 300,000d015. The total number of deaths by the Holycake disaster was was 120. Terrible conflagrations in Portland, N.B. Seventy five houses destroyed ; 140 families rendered homeless. Loss, 2,500,000 dollars. Thors has been a disastrous fire in Spring field, Mass. Several block* of buildings were destroyed, and numbers of lives lost. The loss of property is 2,000,000d015. President Grant writes a letter fin refer, ence to the “ third term,” in which he says he is not a candidate for re-election. Small-pox is raging in New York. Several hundred cases have proved fatal. Tho disease is known as the black small-pox. Gilmore and Go's saw-mills, Ottawa, were destroyed by an incendiary. Five hundred men are thrown out of employment, A large fire has taken place in Philadelphia, Tho contributions to tho Central Celebration amounted to 3,600,000d0lThe new direct cable is completed and working. Tread will and Co, of San Francisco, have failed for over halt a million. The Rev. Asa M. Fisk, brother of the notorious Fisk, is an eloquent parson in San Francisco. Extensive bush fires are raging in the vicinity of Ottawa, In one section over 3.000 acres, covered with fencing, cordwood barns, timber and corduroy roads, were destroyed. Over 100 mon aro fighting tho flames.

A terrible disaster has visited llolyoako, in Massachusetts, in the burning of the French Catholic Church, which was so fatally swept, that sixty-six men, women, and children were either burnt or crushed to death in the panic. Nearly at the close of the service a taper caught lire in the light trimming of the altar, and spread rapidly over the walls. The 700 people present rushed wildly to one narrow entrance, while those in tho gallery jumped down on the mass below, from whence they were driven by the increasing flames, only to live for a few hours. In tho streets were relatives of those burnt in tho conflagration. The flames of tho burning building, tho gathering of the dead for identification and the comforting of the dying made a scene never before witnessed. A panic occurred at the funeral services o F the Holyoake victims, through the falling of a platform upon which a number of bodies had been placed. A fire in Portland has "rendered one hundred and forty families homeless. The ship Champ'ain, hound inward to San Francisco, was wrecked; close to that port. The Captain and several of the crew were drowned. A disastrous earthquake has occurred in tho Province of Carouesa, Aa : a A-in or. 1 hree hundred and fifty persons were killed and wounded, and tho destruction of properly was very great. hurt her details of the earthquake in Asia Minor'iifshow that {several villages were destroyed and ,two thousand persons perished. A terrible earthquake’ has taken'place in New Granada. Sixteen thousand, lives lost, and whole -towns [and villages were swallowed up. The following are'fdetails of the’earthquake which violently 'visitc-dj the city of Giceula, Columbia, in Now Granada. A portion of a churclgfelFdown. Manv houses were destroyed. Caucena was also destroyed. The loss of ■ life is frightful. Thousands perished. There is much excitement mPanama. The City of Ciooula was entirely’destroyed Jf Fewjfamil’es were saved. A ball of s fireissued from the volcano, which is 'now , very dangerous, and sets fire to houses. CONTINENTAL. —o— In Paris the whole of {the {Left/ has resolved on 4 dissolution of the Na ional Assembly in A ugust. The French Assembly has"voted the Public Powers Bill The Working Men’s Societies of Paris have opened national subscriptions to provide for sending delegates to the Philadelphia Exhibition, A violentjstonn [swept over Pans, and other portions of France on the 9th. In 1 aris the traffic was wholly suspended in the streets. " Many accidents are reported. The damage [is estimated at eleven million francs. The French propose to spend 600,000 francs in forwarding exhibits to Philadelphia. The great TnternationalUlaco In Paris of 10,000 fr was won by Salvator. The Emperor of Germ my will visit tbe King ofjltaly in October. The -German Official Gazette says the idea of requesting Franco to reduce her forces, or discontinue her military organisations, was never entertained. His Majes’yjGeorgius, King’iof Greece, is about abdicating. Several Russian mon-of-war have been ordered to Greece. King Alphonse is to marry a German Princess. A Republican movement is on foot at Madrid, General Jovellar has completely defeated the Carlist Commander, in Arragon. The Carlist forces have escaped intact into Catalonia. The Carlisle have checked the advance of the Royalists in the North. The Royalists have captured Cantavejua, in Arragon, with 2,000 prisoners. Tho Carlist general repulsed an attack on Blanko. A thousand prisoners have been exchanged between the Government and the Carlist forces. Many of the Carlist troops have fallen victims to small-pox. Sixty persons have been drowned by the capsizing ot a lighter in the Tagus river, near Lisbon.