THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2245, 18 July 1870, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The Queen continues in good health. There is again a rumor current that she is about to be married to a prince of the House of Schleswig-Holstein. A Bill providing for female suffrage has been rejected by Parliament. Mr Gladstone has adopted the Ballot, The Saturday J’emew believes in the certainty of its being carried, and prophesies the adoption of universal suffrage as its result. A heavy delate on the proposed abolition of the Indian opium duties ended without result. The Married Women’s Property Bill passed its second reading without a division. Great complaints are made as to the inefficiency of the London police. The roughs reign paramount. Mr Disraeli’s new political novel “Loth air,” has be n n severely criticised. Public opinion generally is against it. Mr Goldwin Smith stigmatises the allusions it contains to himself as the “stiugless insults of a coward.” By latest accounts all was quiet iu France. The English tourists captured by brigands near Gibraltar have been rescued. The reported massacre of Jews in Ron mania turns out to have been a canard. Tim Pope lias not yet been declared infallible. The American prelates iu the (E uimetrical Council oppose the proclamation of the dogma. The American Cabinet is in favor of granting a subsidy of 500,000 dols. to the Australian mail route. It is thought that Congress will pass the item. Professor Gamgee’s meat-curing process is a failure. Street shootings, termed “little difficulties,” arc on the increase in San Francisco. . Walter Montgomery is playing in San Francisco. The sensation is not profound. The establishment of telegraphic communication between the west coast of America and China is in contemplation, and is likely to be realised. It is rumored that Pussia has promised to give active active support to the Khedive of of Egypt in his endeavors to to free himself from the yoke of Turkey. Egyps is increasing its armament. The Flying Squadron left Honolulu for Valparaiso at 8 a m. on the 23rd June. London, June 10. The Paris physicians have reported favorably of the practical value of vaccination as a preventative of small-pox. Seventy-three deaths from small-pox took place in Paris during the first week of June. The Examiner recommends a federal union between Spain and Portugal. 21,000 emigrants, chiefly Irish, left Liverpool for New York during the month of May. The Shipping (Inzxtle, calls for the interference of the English and American Governments to prevent extortion in the Cuban ports. Considerable alarm continues to prevail with regard to the ramifications of the Parian movement in Dublin and the large towns of England. The wheat crop in France is very short. Arrests continue to be made in Paris. The High Court of Accusation is to sib on the 30th June. The Emperor of the French is suffering from rheumatism. In Spain the adherents of the Due de Montpensier are very active. The Cuban insurgents have offered to surrender if their lives arc spared. The debates in the Cortes have raised the issue of republicanism or a monarchy. New York, June 7th. Cable despatches report that the French have defeated the native tribes in Morocco. A rising in Algeria is feared. Wacbtel, the famous tenor, has been dismissed from the Opera for undue familiarity with Madame Patti. Canada. A meeting of French settlers has been held near Fort Garry to assist the Keel River expedition. Two companies of United States infantry have arrived at St. Joseph.