THE CALIFORNIAN MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3772, 27 March 1875, Page 2

THE CALIFORNIAN MAIL.

[Bi Tumraph.] ARRIVAL OP THE CITY OF MELBOURNE. m, «... , ’ Auckland, March 27. ihe Olty of Melbourne, with the English mail, arrived this morning at eight o’oloek, after til ° n "T She lef ‘ Frisco on the 3rd with fine weather, and completed the voyage out four days under contract time, and rV*! 1 ® IT 16 ta S® Passengers to New Zealand. Messrs R. O. Kent, A. D. Smith, M. C. Levesy, and eight in the steerage. mi. t «... London. March2. The cost of *be British Arctic Expedition is estimated at L 98,000, including the price of the vessel, and three years’stores. Experienced navigators consider the present season unusually favorable. It is thought the German expedition now being organised at Bremen will receive Government aid. vw Polished another pamnhlet entitled “Vaticanism,” in reply to Dr Newman and Archbishop Manning, in which he says Dr Newman s secession was the greatest loss to the English Church since Wesley’s. He maintains his original assertion, and points to the declaration repudiating the doctrines of papal iiifallilulity and temporal power, by means of which the English and IrisnCatholics obtained full civil liberty. A Mark Lane express, dated March 2, says the weather is rough in aspect and wheat is Tho continental market has risen one Shilling,' At a railway accident near Richfield; Staffordshire, thirty people werejnjured. * Mr John Bright, in a letter on Home Rule, says only a party of mad or wicked men could atlvooate John Mitchell’s idea of Home Rule, which is ndicnlons. r Earl °, f Derby has accepted the sum of LSOO for each white and L3OO for each black murdered as indemnity in the Virginias Dr Kenealy’s election was contested by three candidates. One was a member of the Tichoorne family, and was defeated. The Evangelical Alliance deputation returned J® -England from Turkey without presenting toe Sultan with the memorial prepared by that body. The Sultan refused the deputation -an audience. . Intelligence has been received of a serious disturbance in the City of Bethlehem, Palestine. xht Greeks made an attack on that portion of the city occupied by the Armenians, and several on both sides were killed. Prince Gortschaohoff has replied to England’s refusal to participate in the International Code Conference at St Petersburgh, that it will always be open for England to give her adhesion to the resolutions adopted. A match manufactory at Gotenburg, Sweden, crowded with working people, took fire, and the flames spread with such rapidity that the employes on the upper floors were unable to escape. Fifty-one were killed by burning or by jumping from the windows. By a fire at Port au Prince, two-thirds of the eity was destroyed, six or-seven hundred families rendered homeless, and the damage is estimated at two millions of dollars. It originated through the explosion of a barrel of kerosene. It is reported that the retirement of Bismarck is owing to ill-health. It is causing much discussion. A Bill has been introduced into the House of Commons to lessen the penalties for the unlawful possession of arms in Ireland. Also one repealing the law which authorises the closing of public-houses and the arrest of persons found at large at night in closed districts; and removes the restrictions from newspapers. The Chief Secretary states that the Government mtended to re-enact the laws against Ribbonism m West Meath, as it is assured that the Ribbon conspiracy exists there as strong as ever. AMERICAN. There are continued storms and floods with destruction of property, especially of houses, fences, and stock.' An ice gorge in the river breaking up threatened Port Deposit, Maryland, with total destruction. Great apprehension was felt when the mail left J°bn Kelly, clog-dancer, well-known throughout New Zealand, has been shot at ’Frisco by an attorney, who was discharged on the ground that he fired in self defence. There have been more disturbances in the Louisiana Legislature. Mr Ward, representative from Grant parish, was expelled from the House for attempting to shoot the Sergeant-at-Arma.