SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1092, 4 May 1883, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS

The United States Minister, Mr Lowell, attended the banquet of the Corporation of Civil Engineers at Kensington on April 8. In the course of his after dinner remarks he said : •* Though I may not venture to allude to certain topics, I can say that no American, any more than any Englishmen, believes that assassination is war, or that dynamite is the raw material of policy ” —(Cheers.) Mr Davitt has written a vigorous letter on the “ dynamite” policy. He s iys it can only have the effect of exasperating the English democracy. “It would bo better to wait another 20 years than to play into the hands of Ireland’s enemies by giving the rein to despair and reven.e." A dispatch from llorae of April 4’h says the story of a triple defensive albance bo tween Germany, Austria, and Italy against France is made r.he occasion bv the Italian Press of many off -nsive anti-Gallio ar icles. The Liberia and Journal de Rome are particularly bitter. The latter says that from the Baltic to Sicily the French Republic has none but enemies, who a'-e ready to attack her if she moves a finger. Gsneral Miller arrived in Paris on April 4th for the purpose, it is sai l, of directing from that point the Irish revolutionary movement. Madame Charleston was murdered by her husband in Paris on April 5. The family had become notorious through the recent sensation at the seduction trial. The bus-' band cave as a reason for the act that be was tired of seeing his wife's name in prim. The. powder depot at Passa Corose, Italy, exploded on April 5, killing forty persons and injuring many others. Toe explosion was caused by a workman carelessly throwing a ruatefi near some 2c wt of gunpowder. Baron Wethera. the wealthiest manufacturer iu Austria, and celebrated as the fabricant of the Enn Caves, died in Vienna on the afternoon of Anrii 4. The persistence of the Danes in Souleswig in opposition to the d mauds of Prussia that they serve in the army, is as strong as ever. Thirty of them have just been expelled from the country for refusing to inscribe their names for snob service. The Gorman Reichstag has passed a formal vote of thanks to the American people for their donations to the European flood sufferers. The Hungarian colony of 20,000 souls, at Bukovina, propose to emigrate, in order to avoid starvation. Dispatches from London of April 2nd say that on acc -unt of ihe steady stream of letters containing threats of the destruction of buildings, which continue to be received by prominent persons and Government functionaries, the previous precautions against the execution of these threats are not remitted, but new ones are beingdevised ami carriedout. This is particular y the nase in London. The gasworks are carefully guarded against surprise, and none but known and tuisted friends are allowed on the premises. The War Office is making an investigation into the explosives recently found. Among other measures taken for thwarting the dynamite workers, experiments are being undertaken with the view of preparing an analysis of the various forms and comnonent parts of all substances that are capable of bring employed as explosives. The result of this work will be given to the police, and it is believed the ing unity of the men now engaged in the manufacture and use of these diabolical contrivances will be thwarted by this means. M. Billing, late French Consul to Tunis, is amigned for an alleged attempt to palm off a foundling as the son of his late wife by her first husband, Admiral Carreemie. The case was before the Paris Proh ite Court on April 6. Counsel for the prosecution hinted that the foundling was a natural ! son of Napoleon 111. The village of Vallerdcs, Canton Vand, | Switzerland, was destroyed by fie on April 7. One hundred and forty-five cottages were consumed, entailing a loss of 1,500,000d01. No lives were lost, but 1200 persons arahomeless. In the House of Commons, on April 2nd, Mr Parnril said that the reports of the French the interview with Kelly and himself in Paris were correct. In this he said substantially that he knew the British Government were hangi ig innocent men in Ireland, and also that the Government took the initiative in the Kilmainham Treaty, making overtures to Mr Parnell while in gaol. They also denied Lord Car - ; lingford’s statement that Mr Parnell himself made the first overtures. Mr Gladstone, at the conclusion of Mr Parnell’s avowal, endorsed the correctness of Lord Calingford’s statement, end- reiterated his refusal to appoint a committee of inquiry into the subject. Mr Coleridge Kennard writes to The Times of March 18th complaining of the House of Commons neglecting his motion relative to the surplus of the Alabama Award. He says his object was to recover the surplus of the awards, and pay it to the legitimate British claimants and taxpayers. The Glasgow express from Edinburgh, on Ma-eh IS, telescoped the train from Glasgow at the new central station. Sweutytivo persons were killed, and many injured. Mr T. P. O’Connor, M.P. for Galway, delivered an address at Leeds on March 27. He had previously been challenged by the Mercury to say whether he hail received any funds of the League, and whether he would have the League accounts audited. Ho failed to notice the questions in his speech. The Queen slipped on the steps of the palace of March 17th, and sustained slight injuries. She was able, however, to hold, a Council of her’ -Ministers on Monday. Fenian sympathisers find a hopeful augury in the tact that Her Majesty should have fallen on St. Patrick’s Day. The Channel tunnel scheme is being vigorously agitated in London, with a view to securing a concession iu its favour. There will be one mile and a qua ter bore on the French side. The French engineers have shown they can proceed to bore at the rate of 132 t. daily. This will complete a gallery 18ft. wide the whole way across in little over IS months. French enthusiasm on the subject takes no account of English opposition'. Tho Lord Mayor of London, on March 10th, made a special appeal for contributions to relieve the distress prevailing in the Western, Islands of Scotland. A dispatch of March 22nd from Dlendalo, Isle of Syke, reports ithat they have driven away the st n ck of Lord Macdonald. Systematic depopulation of parts of the West of Ireland was begun by tho (iovernment on the 31st March, and will be continued for three months ensuing. The Allan lino of steamships contracted fo” the work and the first vessel, the Historian, received her proportion of emigrants at the date named in tho Black Sod Bay. They were brought off from the Belle Mullet in the boats of the man-of-war Seahorse, which had been detained for duty. On the west coast the people are described as looking well and being happy. The Government pays the expenses of embarkation and passage, and each emigrant gets assistance besides from the late fund. They are to be landed at Boston, and the Historian will bo followed on the 13th April by anothe.r Bteamerfnl from Newport. These immigrants being desirable, there will probably bo some competition among tbe American Western land interests to secure them.