SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1124, 16 November 1883, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

A despatch says the Queen’s health is greatly improved. Her Majesty will remain at Balmoral till November, but in the meantime requires no medical assistance. Weston, the American pedestrian, pur. poses to tramp over the highways of Eng-land-and Wales, doing titty miles -every twelve hours f6r“a hundred consecutive hours. The Admiralty has-decided that coloured men cannot enter the British Navy without special sanction; The Queen will provide a largo dowryfop her grand-daughter, the Princess Victoria, of Hesse, who is about to marry Prince Louis, of Battenbu-g. the bridegroom bring impecunious. She will give th- m rooms at Kensington, and ha» made the Prince captain Of the yacht'“ Victoria"and Albert,” a sinecure berth. Some Radical M. P-’s pro.test against the appointment as’a scahdalous waste of money. The Despatch of the 23rd says : the Princess of Wales is becoming deaf, and the best aurists are unable to suggest s.remedy. Mrs Langtry in her coming American tour will be accompanied by her mother,’ Mrs Lebreton. She arrived at New York on October 15th. ■ The secretary of the T.endon- and Rivei Plate Hank ahsconded on October 3. He defrauded the bank of LIOjOOO which;he invested in stock gambling. The bank paid its dividends as usual.

Joseph Donohue, a Californian millionaire, had thirteen truriki seized-at New York on his arrival from Europe. Thp ; trunks contained dutiable articles to the value of 7000 dollars. Among the articles were, a number of priest’s vestments. ... J " r Mr H..M. Stanley, the explorer, has sent a letter to the British Association' for the Advancement of Science, in which he urges that Great Britain should proclaim a protectorate over the Congo Country. The Duke of Connaught has requested the Bombay authorities to forego his public reception. The London Standard says there is a strong apprehension that if Spain does not obtain satisfaction for the insult to King Alfonso Germany will interpose and exact it. It is also asserted that Germany will require an apology as well as Spain. The animosity of the French towards the Germans grows deeper and deeper. News-' papers advise the removal of all employes in Paris of German nationality, and hostile demonstrations were made during the week ending October 7 against an establishment where German workmen were known to be employed. Mona. Charland, the'proprietor of a large printing house, discharged all his Germans, and a number of Germans in the State tobacco factory have been forced to leave. . . A cable special from London dated Oct. 13, says that newspaper discussion regarding Miss’'Mary Anderson’s (an Araercan actress) refusal to meet the Prince of Wales n-axes hot. The Catholic Times says that she refused his proposition point blank. Upon being questioned about the matter, the actress said —“ Yes, I was asked to meet the Prince of Wales, but I perfectly under.-, stood the light, in which he regards actresses as a rule, and 1 refused. I have always maintained my dignity and self-respect, and would not place myself in a position where I might be compelled to forget them.”

It is announced that , John Bright will; visit America next spring and deliver addresess in all -the great cities of the Union., The Queen has issued a memo, forluddihg privileged occupants of the Royal Palacefrom indulgence ih exeeSsi'tre gambling. : . A society for promol mg. gration is can vassing the east end of London to see ho w many persons are disposed to go-; to North western Canada. . V .■ A few English gentlemen contributed £6OOO to pay the pi eliminarv expenses for a six months’ mission by Messrs Moody and Sankey at Islington. j Postage in the United States is npw reduced from three to ' two cents, i The foreign postage remains unchaged.- - • Chicago sent the" Parnell, Fund ! Committee on the 4th ido23. The fund "will close at the end of November. It 'is expected that with donations from I ' Australia it will reach a total of 1/40.000. . . ‘.. A cable dispatch from Paris, received in New York on October 9th ■ says there is no' truth' in the reported assassination of Consul Seymour at Canton. Chinese are being smuggled to, the Pacific States and the Territories in such large numbers from Victoria that the restriction of the law has become virtually a dead letter. The Chinese themselves look on Victoria merely as an open gateway to ths United States. J. L. Sullivan accepted on September 19 Jem Mace’s challenge to meet him in the fistic arena for 10,000dols. a-side The pugilists propose to use the gloves, but in ease Sullivan should manifest a 'desire to fight him with bare knuckles Mace will train.down to: 1721b5. :.;v. Sir John M’Dowall has been unseated for Lennox County, Canada, on account of bribery. An attempt was made to assassinate Con-sul-General Booker, New York, on September 16. The assailant is a man - named Jas. P Feeney, and it was-said that he came from Canada for the purpose of killing Booker. On" his examination after his arrest he showed he was ' afflicted .with melancholia and severe nervous depression. He was sent to. the .asylum. ,„ : J. H. Tynan, , So. 1.” was at an hotel in Rochester, New'Ydrk, bn October 9. Mrs Langtry visited Wall street on October 19 to consult her lawyer. She was recognised by the pasaers-hy as she alighted from her carriage and.a crowd soon gathered to shout and hoot at her Street urchins called aloud for “ Freddie.” and pelted hei with jremarks more or less coinplimen-

tary. _■ The business failures in.the United States and Canada for the week ending October 18 numbered 243. Hanlon, the rower, : made this vigorous proposition on October 26 am ready to bet< 5000 dollars lean row any man alive. I will make another ;proposition—l will undertake the task of rowing six races in one week*, that is 1 will match myself . against six picked oarsriien of: the world to row. si,x r ac.os '.of one mile each,, stakes to be 100 dollars each.” Two dynamiters were arrested in Halifax, ; U.S., on October- 1 7.'with a large 'qjuadtity of explosives in their possession.