SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1190, 19 December 1884, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

The Prince of Wales entertained Edward J. Stanley and Jesse Ceilings, members of Parliament, and ocher advanced Radicals, at his palace in Sandringham. The distress among English shipbuilding workmen is increasing. At the shipyards on the Tyne, Clyde, and Mersey scarcely one fourth of the possible working force and power is now in effective operation. Miss Fortesone, the actress,' who obtained a verdict of LIO.OOO damages against Lord Garmoyle, son of Earl Cairns, has temporarily retired from the stage, A severe shock of earthquake, accompanied with terrific explosive reports, occurred on the night of November 14, at Chtterakoe, Cheshire, 25 miles from Man*: cheater. The shock threw down horses ,in the streets, and caused great consternation and excitement amongst the inhabitants. .

The United Ireland, of November 21, state# that it is-the intention Of the Nations’ Mists to. impeaphyEarl.-.Guenoer for. conspiring |o ratifdar.j. It says Jthe Irish patty ; is determined toforce an inquiry mto jEarf Spencer’s acts.- >’■ A Blue pnb iShod ,«i November 13 savs Government: has sanctioned the expenditure of L 454.000 for the speedy maun-

facture of latest pktterhs of braeohloading ordnance, and L 417.000 for works and ar manents for defence at Aden, Ceylon, Singapore, . Hongkong, Simon’s Bay, Sierra ; Leone, St. Helena, Mauritius, Jamaica, and St. Lucia. The principal expenditure is at Aden and St. Lucia. The Colonies themselves contribute L 333 ODD towards the works, and L30i),00l) towards the armauent. It was qfificially anuouuced on the ,12th November that an International Inventions Exhibition, wifi be held in London in 1855, under the patronage of the Q teen, the presidency of the Prince of Wales, and the management <of an executive council of eminent Englishman, Postmaster gefieral Fawcett was buried on the 9th at Cambridge. Fully 15,000 persons-..were- present. The Hon. Geo. J, ■ Shaw-Lefevre succeeds Mr Fawcett.

On November 12 Government issued Deficiency Estimates with reference to the cost of ,the.Nils expedition. The army will require a-mitlimi pounds more than previously intimated, and for the navy L324,C09. For the iJechuana expedition the Governmiritestimates L 665,000 will be required by the army, and L 50.000 by the navy. , At tha Shce.Wsbury November meeting on the 11th the Shrewsbury Club Handicap was won by-Springbok, Postcript second, and Umpire third. Ada Cavendish, the actress, died at Brighton from brim disease, i Fifteen lives were lost by an explosion in the TregaifCoal'and Iron Company’s cot-' fiery at Hocken, near the town of'. Tregar, on November 7. , . ■;

Henry George, the land agitator, arrived in London on the Bth from New York, at the invitation of the Scottish band Kestora tibn League His public lectures will deal particularly with the crofter question. A cablegram from London of the 9th says: ‘■ A sensation has been caused by a rumour that the earl of Durham, the great land;owner, politnian, and bearer of-an illustrious name, is about to bring an action for a judicial separation irom his wife. The cause'assigned is the discovery hat the unhappy la ly is mentally unsound. Opinions differ as to the rights am l wrongs of- the business Some persons blame the husband, while others' declare that he was wilfully deceived bv his wif- ’s relatives.

In a lowing match on November 14, on the Thames, from Putney to Mortlake, between Bubearand Perkins, for L2OB, Perkins bad 5 seconds start, and won the race easily.

Twenty four bombs Were found in a shed at Stoke Newington on the 14te 14 by some boys.-. The bombs do not bear thA Govern, mnt stamp. The po ice are investigating. Fred Archer the jockey, who has recently lost his wife, has left England for the United States.

: Lord Tennyson’s poem “ Freedom" will not be issued till December.

The Queen returned to Windsor from Balmoal on November i 9 in excellent health.

In the .House of Commons on the 19th. M r Gladstone stated that Government was submitting its financial plans regarding Egypt to the Powers, and therefore was unable to disclose them.

On the 2lst the Marquis of Salisbury pressed Mr Gladstone'fiir a reduction in the number pf Irish members ip the . House of Commons under the proposed Redi-tnbu-tiou Bill, and it.is reported that Mr Gladstone consents to reduce the number by five.

A coalition .of the extreme Radicals and Parhellites in the House threatens the Liberals with a large defection, j MiQ.h_ael Davitt made a speech -B-WGalV-bricfil),' Glasgow! od November 11, Tu which he pieiimteu great danger for England it, after ttespassage of the Franchise-Dill, toe Government refuses to. all Home Rule in Ireland. Mr-Davitt also denied the statement that he had urged the Skye crofters to armed resistance. He said they hail right on their side, and would ultimately succeed. f ,

Michael'Davitt, Henry George, Miss H. Taylor, and several members of Parliament attended a Urge land-restoration league meeting at St James’ Hall, i ondon,' on November 18 There was a good deal of enthusiasm during the discussion of the proposition that the laud inalienably belonged to the people. Patrick Fitzgerald, a Fenian, arrested in London last April on a charge of treason felony, was acquitted in Dublin on the 11th. Owing to his acquittal, the Crown a 1 andoped the Lubber Curry cases, and all the prisoners , were release !. They were received by their friends with great rej ’icing The Corporation of the City of Limerick, by an overwhelming mijoricv, refused to pay auy atte ition to second writs for the extra police tax. They also passed a resolution denouncing the Government for reappointing George Bolton as Crown Solicitor.

United Ireland says :—“lt is possible a generalfiscal revolt will recommend itself as the simplest and- most effective way of compelling the Government to yield to Irish demands.”

Frederick J. Allen, vice president of the Young Ireland Society, charged with treason~felnny, was committed for trial. A: serious riot occurred at the mining village of Coal Island, in the suburbs of Dungannon, county of Tyrone, on Novem her 16. While being far from good Catholics, the colliers are bitter haters of the Protestants', and to show their feelings th'-y attacked the church and drove the Protestant worshippers out, assaulted with clubs and stones every Protestant they could fi id and held possession, of the village for two hours. They were dispersed by a police force from Dungannon.