THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2248, 21 July 1870, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

There is still some excitement and anxiety about the Fenians. The Pall Mall Gazette intimates a continuation of Fenian outrages, and thinks the leaders were forced to some show of activity to sustain a sinking cause. A well informed correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says the leading Ministerial reform measures will be shelved for this year. The Laud Bill, however, is safe, and probably the Educational Bill. There was a distressing accident at the Alhambra Concert Hall last nigbt. The trap gave way, and a number of danseuses were precipitated into the space under the stage. It is unusually deep, and filled with machinery, and eleven wore badly injured, some, it is feared, fatally. There was a panic among the audience, but no serious results therefrom. June 0, Alarm among the farmers at the continued dry weather amounts to almost a panic. Lord Chancellor O’Hogau, of Ireland is created Baron. The female masqueraders, recently arrested, are indicted for felony. It is said Disraeli is about to retire. The Sappho has declined to compete for the Prince of’Wales Cup on the 24th. The Gloriana beat the Egeria, Cambria, and other yachts from Gravesend to the coast of Holland and return, yesterday. The steamer City of Bogus* left Liverpool on May 31 for New York, rtho is only twenty-one feet long, provisioned for three months. The captain counts on making the passage inside of fifty days. The crew is one man besides the captain, A Newfoundland dog goes as passenger. Now York is the nominal point of destination, but the Captain will make any convenient point in the United States. A large crowd witnessed the departure. GREAT FIRE AT CONSTANTINOPLE. Constantinople, June 6. About one o’clock yesterday afternoon a fire broke out which spread alarming rapidity tlirough the richest quarters of the city. The names were first discovered in an old building on the north side of the Golden

Horn. A strong wind was blowing at the time, and the fire, (juickly communicated to the adjoining buildings. The efforts of the firemen and citizens to stop its progress were of no avail, and in a few hours the residences of the English, American, and Portuguese Ambassadors, Consulates, the Naomi Theatre, many churches, and thousands of houses, and the richest stores and shops in the city, were reduced to ashes. The loss of life by the falling walls is fearful. It is estimated that at least thirty people were killed or injured by this cause alone. The loss of property is incalculable. The fire at this hour is still burning furiously, and the excitement of the people beggars description. June 9. The groat fire in the Per t district is subdued. Over seven thousand buildings of all sorts were destroyed, many of the best in the city. The loss of life has greatly exceeded the estimate. Some days ago the remains of oue hundred and fifty human beings wore found ; it is supposed that this number represents one-half the actual loss. The total pecuniary loss is computed at twenty-live million pounds sterling. The English underwriters suffer heavy losses. The archives of the British embassy were saved. The American Church of the Immaculate Conception was on fire several times, aud considerably damaged, but the Gobelin tapestry, the gift of the Empress Eugenie, with which the church was decorated, was saved uninjured The loss of life by the conflagration is frightful; some families were hemmed in by the fiames and perished in full view of the spectators. The panic among the people was terrible ; many lost all presence of mind aud were unable to save themselves ; others, in despair, made no effort to tiy ; some Turks shut themselves in burning houses, refused assistance, and met their fate without a manner. Two hundred and fifty persons were burned to death or killed by falling walls ; many more are missing.