SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1116, 21 September 1883, Page 3

SAN F RANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

In the House'of Commons cm August 1(1, during the debate on the bill fur tne payment of expenses of the Lin 1 C in nission in T eli. d, Mr Par ed declared tint unless the deficiencies of the Land Act were speedily remedied he would lead a deeper an l mope desperate agitation Ilian any yet witnessed. The new agitation threatened by Mr Parnell is suppose i to refer to a demand Lr peasant ownership, with or without compensation to landowners. Mr Parnell finally ilec ! ui*-s to visit, the Unit-ri States this year, and the members

•if Parliament in f ivnur of his views ois cui-sed ihe expediency of sending a delegation thither in aid of the cause.

'I he great narional demonstration proposed to be held on Air Parnell’s estate in Wick ow on (Sunday, August 12, was suddenly abandoned. The authorities intimated that the gathering would be suppressed.

A stage nailed with Eastern tourists for Ynsemite Val ey, California, was stuck up on the 15th, and the pas-iengo s deprived of their money and valuables. Next day the same stage upset, and many of the robbed per.-ona were seri -us ! y, if not fatally, hurt. Serious rtoti-g occurred in the town of Ci,a bridge, in Lanark. Scotland, on the l 9 hj, between Orangemen and Catholics. Twenty six partisans were arrested ; two po ice officers being wounded in quieting the row. Fighting wis resumed on the 20th when a number of Catholics, armed with picks and hammers, parad-d the streets of the town in search nf religious antagonists, and resisted the ({forts of a torce of p. lie. sent mit to disperse them. Subsequently tiie police being t l infon ed, scattered the rioters in the evening the Riot Act was lead, and the police again dispersed the mob. There are sixty rioters arrested. A i.umbe 1 of Catholics se.-e-ely beat two Protestants to the point of dia'b. Cowboys have become so strong in Kansas that they virtually took possession of the t wn of Hiimmmiil. Five ciiy marshals resigned within 10 days. One was assaulted in the street by a Cowboy name ' Dick' Turner, known as a “ killer,” but be was left mortally wounded. 'J'tuner’s gang now threa en to bum the town. Mr Forster, formerly Chief Secretary for Ireland, is delivering speeches in favour of Irish immigration. The telegiapbists’ strike in America is a failure, and the president of the bio ber-lti-0.1, John Campbell, i-sned on August 19 that ail the striking op.-raters who onuUl might return to their keys. Sir Moses Mimteliorc lias written sympathetic lett. rs to each of the Jews accuse , of the murder of Esther Solymau at Tuzzuzzard, in Hungary, a (i enclosed 50 01. On August 15 a party of depositor* in a small savings bank in London, angry ~.c their i".abili y tnibaw their money op demand, entered the l ank and wrecked the j premises. The police were cal e l m, hue j re:used to intefere. : Mr Caningmi, the Amcii -a'i ironmaster, has b- light tie bon. o i Echo and taken shares in several hj iifp tiny pipers in the I Eolish province-. Hartmann, the Nihilist, is in London 1 making arrangements for a Socialist Cougt i ss. The Hott=e of Lords Committee have : dropped consideration ot the Manchester Ship Canal Bill for Hie session. i A meeting in favour of State at I to end- 1 ovation was be d at the Mansion hj. use in L 111 1 0 11 on August K), at which the Earl i of Shaftesbury presid' d. It is proposed to sen I 10.000 families to Canada next spring. Ear’ Granville has instructed the British Minister to Morocco to ina’-c an earnest appeal to the Sultan of that country to I cor Jeer whether it is nut time to plae Ins Empire on a level with other civiiistd Powers by abolishing slave' y. A despatch of An list J.2, from London, describes the return of M s Langtry. She is not looking in go d health She had begun her provincial tour at data, but pu> posed go visit Paris to repleHsh her wardrobe. While there she would take lessons >n elocution front Pe pair. She is duo at Montreal on Oo ober 29. Mar-wood stanls a chance of Insinf his position as hangman. At Dnrhain, on Angus. 12, he appeared drunk on the scaffold to hang a man named Burton, for the n unier of a woman. His shocking bungling was represented to the Home Secretary. Enough has been learned of the Taraatave (Madagascar) affair to sln-w that the Brii Eh Government was mi informed, and assumed an atti;u ic towards the French for which tin re was no satisfaction. There was a wrangle in the House of Commons over Prince Alfred's .Moscow expenses, Li 00. The House was asked to pay, amt did so, after a slightly acrimonious debate. Mr Lahoitchore made a spirited attack on the measure, cubing attention to the fact that L40l)t) had ab- aly been paid for the English Atnbassanor’s expenses on the same occasion, and saving that his Royal Highness might to d. fray his own exp'uses when he wants to visit his relations. L noon Gossip says the Duke of Took is excited to an aln ost desolate and unpleas sant German selfless on account of the scandal he has brought on the Royal family by having his hj lasoliold effects sold out. by the sheriff. 'The fti.ho is uncomfortably ] oor for a member of r lyaUtv, and be bon owed money from city J wa to pay the expensef of his j ntrney to Egypt. I bus it was ti.a - ho got into deep • r -able. Dispatches from India, il :. -1 August 21, mention the growing nun s: and ‘dissatisfaction at the attitude of the Resident Engs hsb towards reform measures. Their hostility against (ho social advancement of refined and highly rdueated Indians, the arbitrary and tyrannical imprisonment of an editor for a harmless ami unintentionud libel, and the unexplained refusal of redress to him by the higher tribunals at Home, all tend to promote this ugly feeling. Dispatches from Egypt of August 15 say the river Nile vs billing, and thete are no longer fears ot' a (1 mil.