SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1202, 13 March 1885, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Mr Courtney and Mr John Morley are arranging fora confeyeiice of all members of Parlfalnn t oppose 1 to"'the continuance of the Sudan war. Many Liberals urge that the Soui,!.ati andfEgvptta!*i'S.in l ri”'-sltould be handed over to the-Sukan. They are alarmed at the prospect: of boundless expense. The Government have giver the contract for the const)action of a railway hom Suakin to Berber to Lucas and Co. The osipraotora will provide all materials, wlich ih ; Government undertake to transport to Egypt. The work will begin immediately. Sentries are treble lat She ness’ Pow ier Magnz ; ne in consequence of the appearance of suspected dynamiters. Guards are also pl„ce I at Eton College. The War Depa'tment are organising a corps of balloonists to form an engineer corps for experimental service in the Soudan.

There is a prospect of Edmund Yates being released a .on. Confinement has tohl upon his sniritsand health Fifteen hum Ire I Irish has been dismisse 1 from buildings 'n the eour.-e of c 'ns-ruction in East, 1 ondi.n unto February 14. Similar movements have been started at Vlancliester, Liverpool, and other provincial centres. A great corporation, called the Local Soudan Trading Company has been formed in Lond .n an I Aletcan lria upon the same ' asis as the old East India Company. One of its privi'egea will be the right to build railways between Berber and Simian At a Liberal meeting at Birmingham, a resolu'ion was una damns y passed condoling with the Conservative party on the eath of he gallant soldier an 1 kind-hearted C donel Burnaby. His lo i is greatly epni-e lin England, and is more spoken of than the battle itself.

Frank Adams, the Loud n barrister, who recently marrie i Miss Goleridge il spite the opp; sition of her relation'*, his begun a li 1 e! no ion against his father-in-law, Lord Coleridge. - ■ Crofters have been arrested in the parishes of Kilmuir and Gl-ndale, isb, of Skye, for resisting iho sheriff, wholande' ■t Portree on January. 30, guarded lit 100 policeman and anumberof marines. A large crowd of people sympathise I with the pi is soners, and followed the guards with yelis, and would have attempted a' rescue, but we e kept at bay by the guards. > Leary, the Fenian, hi I a free fight at his Clas, ow lecture ou February 1, excited by his refercucea to Purnell, Rossa, and Fold.

The Tichborne Claimant has now fallen very low. He appears in a provincial variety company in England, and lakes his turn between an acro>at styled “ the Human Serpent ” and “ the Cornish Mite.” The English detective force is to be nn organised and a department-for secret service aided fur the purpose of tracing political off aiders. 40d!) Irish were out of work in London on Pehiuary 3rd, and fully one-third have been discharged since the recent explosion. The London weekly newspapers say that Lord Garmoyle and iiiss Fortesoue will marry not withstanding the lawsuit. Ford, a London oirriage-bniUer, recently shipped 1400 hansom cans to New Yoik. The Prince of V ales recently requested one of his sons to aopear at and conduct services in a boys’ tefuge in the most squalid part of London. At a ticket office opposite Somsrset

House, a 'up'icite emigrant ticket, purchased by Lucella Du lley.Rosaa’s assailant, was exhibited, It is slated August 21-. One of the Transatlantic steamshio lines is about to issue tickets entitling passengers merely to lodging and conveyance. This is a concession to passengeis subject to seasickness. A soldier was bayoneted to death on 7th February at the London Arsenal, He i would not cive the countersign to the. sentry,' and tbeditteiv-ion his aitemptihg'to’ pass the gnard. stabbed him t > death. An investigation ahoweJ the affair to be the

result of-j^psactical* j oke on the part of ifca dead man. There ie some, activity in the British shipping interest. Among tEe incoming contracts are'two big steamers ordered' to be built separa’ely under the British Limited id ability Act and_tb bo saile I under the British fl ig, while every share in the stock in both vessels is owned by American citizens., ■

John Lennox, the convict who murdered Mias Lee, a wealthy lady, in her mansion at Babbiuombe, has been sentenced to death.■

The Governments of Russia and America are conferring as to a treaty for the extradition of dynamiters. A marriage has been arranged between cess Clementine, daughter of King Leopold of Belgium, and Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.

Sir Vernon Haroourt is said to be *in a state of nervous alarm, and extraordinary means are taken to guard against personal danger. . .' Sir Andrew Clark and the Duke'of West - minster each gave young Gladstone k LlOt) cheque *s a present on bis wedding day.', Mr Michael Davitt is in Rome, 1 seeking to present an address to the Pope.justifying the action of Catholic Irish Nationalists. The, Vatican is unwilling torecejve him. Eminent persons are, however, 'trying to ' procure him an audience.'' The Russian Press strongly advocates hoisting the Russian flag within a few miles of the Corean frontier. China has taken alarm, and is establishing posts and.concentrating troops there. The present attitude of Russia and China is one of menace.

The insistence by the French on the right of searching all vessels for all articles contraband of war has been put a stop to sail ■ ,ing from Hamburg and other ports. All orders are now being transferred to London and Liverpool, where owners of vessels are ready io tikuriaks. Mavor-O’Gimnor, of Dublin, a strong Nationslst, declines to attend the coming vice,renal levee a f Duh'in Castle

The I'ish Times p eposes that the B iliah Press should raise a monument to J A. Cameron and Heibert, the war correspondents kiUe I at the,battle of Aim Klea Wells. Messrs Redmond an i O’B ien. Irish Naliona'ists, on returning to l.oudoidcrry on January 31st, after a meting at G irdonough, were met "y a to chlight procession The Mayor ordered the police an 1 military to prevent the entrance of the pro cessiio into the city, whereupon Mr O’Bn- n departed for Duh'in. and Mr Kerim >n I pat up at a hotel in Londonderry. This led to a>vage riots during the night between O angemen and Natienalis s. At a meeting of the Irish Nationalists held at Dub'in on February 9 hj, Thomas P. O’Uo-inor, M P., -ai l in his address that when in due lime Parnell appeal si to the people the result would astonish the world. He made no allusion to the explosion in London or the shooting of Rossa. A Dublin special of Pc'irurry 6th says that the attempt to shoot Kossa has alrea ly ceased to be talked of. AMERICXN SUMMARY. San Francisco, February ’Ch. Eightem violent maniacs were burnt to death when the Br.iokley Alm-rh mss, Piula-i delohia Asylum, was destrove 1. The Socialistic labour party tn New York passe 1 resolutions favouring the Ir.sh dynamiters. Mr Sala was favourably received at San Frau.isco. He remains a year in the Colonia. . A- tremendous storm occurred in the Western States on February 10th. : ,Tne snow. in-Chicago s’opptd the nlilroa I traffic, and horses an i cat'le were frozen or starved to death. ; The vigorous enforcement of the antipolygamy law in Utah has demoralised business. Influential Mormons are removing elsewhere. The deb;s of th • Ne v Orleans Expodtfon have reached 360 010 o , an I Congress is asked to make goo I the deficiency. Slade, the spirt medium finished a series of manifestations before the Leigoert Commission, Yew York, appointed under the will of Henry Leigbert, who left 6 I.OIIOdoI to be expended in this kind of investigation. When Slade’s manifestations were concluded Kieler, magician, coutrio e l with rhe 0 nmiission to duplicate all Slade’s feats and prove them was nothing supern itural in the perform net. The director of the D S. mines renorts thit the gold and silver pioUict of the coun ry in I8f?4 was greater than in the year pi ece Mug. Chief Engineer Melville, of the Jeanet e expe iitioii, wan's ISOOOOI-ds to teach the North Pole t y Franz Josef Land.