THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3563, 24 July 1874, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Telegraph.]

Auckland, July 22. The Cynhrsnes has arrived with the San Francisco mail. She left San Francisco on the 21st June. Passengers : Rev. Mr Hussard, Messrs Hawkins, Frengrovo, and Goodman. Cargo: 3,347 sacks barley, 6,380 de oats.

The steamer Prince Alfred has been totally wrecked.

A duel between two editors took place in an open street in San Francisco, and ono of them was shot.

Small-pox is causing great distress in Canada.

The steamer Tartar grounded on Caldron Reef, but was lightered and got off without injury. Leaving Honolulu on the 22nd June, she had been set forty miles to the eastward by the current.

London, June 20. Mr Disraeli has annftuncod, in the House of Commons, seventeen domestic Bills, and urges diligence, to avert a protracted session. The Earl of Yarborough, who had been missing, was discovered on Jersey Island He has left for London, in charge of his friends and a policeman.

Mr Gladstone has presented a petition, signed by 8,602 laborers, asking for assimilation of the county and borough franchise. Forty deaths from cholera are reported from India.

Mr Mosley’s cotton mills, near Manchester, have been burnt—loss, L 50,000, It is stated that a slave ship, with 275 negroes from Mozambique, bound for Madagascar, was captured by the English man-of-war Daphne, in March. Fourteen slaves were put on board with only two days’ provisions, and the voyage was prolonged to eight. Their sufferings are alleged to have been indescribable, and many died in great agony. Indian telegraphic reports relative to growing crops are favorable. A “special” to the ‘ Tiroes ’ says the Government continue to furnish assistance to 500,000 natives. There can be no crop in Testool until December, and the Government admits that some people may die before assistance reaches them.

The prospect of a settlement of the look-out in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire seems very distant. The Norfolk Farmers’ Labor Defence Association contemplate an alteration in their rules.

A general meeting of Ministers has been called to consider the course to be taken. The ‘ Post ’ says : “ The Public Worship Regulation Bill, now before Parliament, which is intended to restrain ritualists, threatens to lead to a coalition of the High Church Clergy and the Liberals, which may result in an attempt to replace the present members for Oxford University with Gladstone and Montagu Bernard. Gladstone heads the opposition to the Bill,”

LATEST. (Per Otago.) ... London, July 14. The assailant of Prince Bismarck was a journeyman cooper from Magdeburg, a member of a Catholic society. He confessed his intention was to assassinate Bismarck, A priest is supposed to be implicated in the plot, and has been arrested. Much excitement has been occasioned m Berlin, and there are strong manifestations of sympathy. The Scotch Patronage Bill has been read a second time, by 307 to 109 votes.

general. There have been extensive inundations in Hungary, and many villages swept away. Copies of the ‘ New York Herald,’ containing itochefort s Isttcr, were seized in Pans, owing to its attapk upon iu‘Mahon. The Turkish steamer Kars, with 330 persons on board, was run into, in the sea of Marmora, by an Egyptian vessel, and sunk, 320 lives being

The Emperor of Austria has summoned an International Congress, to consider sanitary measures for the prevention of cholera. Despatches from Algeria state that the insurrection in Fez was extinguished by the oultan bombarding the town. Ninety inhabitants were killed.

Despatches from India announce famine riots at Darjeeling. The treops fired on the rioters and several were killed. ’

A letter from a China missionary, published m Paris, states there were 80,000 Christians in China, but that 10,000 have been strangled burned, or drowned. He adds he does not expect to escape from martyrdom. The Pope, in answer to urgent solicitations from exalted political personages for reconciliatmn with the Italian Government, has said he will yield nothing. The Spanish Government solicit a loan of fifty million reals.

A London special despatch from Berlin says that the Government of Germany, in the interest of Servia and Eoumania, has confidentially inidriHcd the other European Powers that they have concluded an agreement to mutually protect their interest against the designs of Turkey. Despatches to the “ Daily Telegraph,’ from Berlin, assert that the differences between the Khedive of Egypt and the Sublime Porte are serious, and intimate that giave complications in the East are probable. The ‘Hums’ Berlin correspondent says the Congress which assembles at Brussels next month, to consider the subject of international rights in time of war, will first codify the recopised usages of international law, which attect the actual conduct in war, and then enact a new code in the form of an international treaty, which promises to become a first law common to the whole. A draft of the treaty has been made. It has seventy-six clauses, stating the rights and obligations and mutual claims of belligerent States, and individually specifying what arms may be legitimately used. They are making a regulation toi the treatment of prisoners. A banquet was given in honor of the agricultural exhibitors. The Crown Prince Frederick 'vdhani of Germany, in replj to the toast of the Emperor \\ iiliam, expressed the hppe that foreign exhibitors would, on their return home, convey the assurance to their countrymen that nowhere was the wish for peaceful continuance of labor and civilisation stronger than in the re united German Empire.