ITEMS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 923, 26 December 1879, Page 3

ITEMS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Tin ex-Empress Eugenie arrived at Paris on Nov. 22nd on her road to Spain. The Government sanctioned her presence through the representation of the English Embassy. A teirific explosion occurred in a tunnel on a Californian railway, resulting in the deaths of 30 Chinamen, and frightfully burning 20others. Active preparations for war against Japan were going on in China, according to the latest dates. The Russian Press allege that neither the Government nor the people want war. The bad financial system of the Empire enjoins peace, lint every day convinces them that a great struggle is impending. The winter has set in very severely in the Eastern and North-western States. There were heavy snows in Georgia. The navigation of the St. Lawrence to Montreal was clos 'd on November 22ml for steam-boats, owing to the frost. It is rumored at Berlin that the British jointly with Persia, will occupy Herat next Spring. Irish agitation has attained alarming proportions. Seventeen warrants are reported to have been issued for seditious language, including five clergymen. The English Press, except the Daily News, approved of the arrests, hut the Irish Press is divided in opinion. Many Irish landlords are leaving the country through fear. Three additional regiments are under orders to proceed to Ireland.

A now source of apprehension concerning the military has arisen. A large proportion of the soldiers about to be sent to Ireland are Irish, and hints are thrown out that if ordered to (Re upon their countrymen they will r-ftise to obey. The British Government’s arrangements for watching the Fenian movement in Americ i is very perfect. Yaknob Khan is now practically a prisoner. All his attendants except four have been dismissed. A sentry is constantly o duty inside his quarters, with a strong guard outside Prince Napoleon is surrounding himself with a complete diplomatic Court, and putting on the airs of a Pretender.

The Miners’ Association of the United Kingdom— tn assist miners tn emigrate—has tixeil the following rates nf assistance; —To America, L 6; Australasia or New Zealand, LI2.

There is great improvement in the coal and other in lustries nf England. The famine in Upper Silesia is assuming alarming proportions Toe French revenue for the ten months of the present year, ending October, exceeds the estimates by 128,000,000 francs. Prince Bismarck has requested the Bussian G ivemment to withdraw 20,000 cavalry from Poland, on the borders of German territory.

Uussian officers on leave of absence have been ordered to rejoin their regiments immediately. A vessel sailed from Liverpool on November 20, for New Orleans, with 65 farmers and their families, hound for Texas They were mostly from Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Durham, with a few from Scotland and Ireland.

Considerable alarm is felt in Belgium at the fortifications which have been begun at Dunkirk, Lille, and Valenciennes.

The Danish AVnr Minister is expected to resign, having said in public that Germany on the first opportunity would occupy Oeuma k.

The German Minister nf War has ordered a re-survey of the Baltic coast, to see if further fortifications are needed.

At a Guy Fawkes riot in Exeter, the troops Were called out. the Riot Act read, and ritles loaded with hall. The police quelled the riot by the me of clubs, under cove of the military demonstration. Lady Gooch, wife of Sir Francis Gooch, well known in connection with the attempt to palm off a spurious child on her husband is dead. The widow of Charles Dickens died in London, after an illness nf IS months. Winter has set in all over the Northeastern parts nf Europe It was snowing in London, and throughout the United Kingdom for several days before the 23rd of November. A severe storm in San Francisco on the Sth November din considerable damage to the shipping. Gi-ncp d Grant was struck in the face with an egg at the public reception in his own State of Illinois. U the Lord Mayor’s show in London, th>* crowd vigorously hissed the ex-Lord Mayor along the entire route. He has since received a letter threatening him with death if bespeaks against the Irish at any public meeting