THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3845, 21 June 1875, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

ADDITIONAL NEWS. {From our Auckland, Correspondent.)

In the House of Commons, in the discussion on £he Budget, Mr Gladstone censured the method of stating the Treasury accounts, whereby, he said, deficiencies were concealed; and pointed out that the expenditure had increased during theyear the Conservative Government held office by L 1,360.000. He contended that counting interest on the loans and interest on Savings Banks and Friendly Societies’ accounts, which were not mentioned in the Budget, the educational charge, &c., no surplus existed. Mr Robert Lowe said the Budget was unworthy of the confidence of the House; that Sir Stafford Northcote manipulated his accounts, and produced a fictitious ®uypl us * He said the Liberals had paid L30,000,0000ff the public debt, audleft a surplus in the Treasury which the present Government had squandered ; that a deficit was a national calamity, and there ought to be a surplus. The schooner Jefferson Burden, from New Orleans for Loudon, has arrived off Port Haven. The captain reports that the crew mutinied, the first and second mates were billed, and two sailors wounded. The latter were put in irons, one of the wounded being chained to the pump, and another is dying. The vessel was worked by three hands. The schooner sailed from New Orleans on March 5, and when eighteen days out the mutiny broke eut. Captain. Paterson and his officers fought the men with pistols and knives. After a terrible struggle, in which the second mate was killed, the captain succeeded in disabling and securing all the men who resisted. Having sufficient hands to work the sh;p he proceeded on his voyage to London. The mutineers seized the opportunity to carry cut their plot when only the first mate and a boy were on deck. The latter was gagged, and the men then struck the first mate from behind and fractured his skull. The second mate, coming to the rescue, was seized and thrown overboard alive. The boy meanwhile got free, alarmed Captain Paterson, who came up from his cabin with two revolvers and began firing with effect; one seaman received seven bullets, and another was wounded in the stomach.

The ‘ Fall Mall Gazette ’ finds the origin of the recent war rumors in the following circumstances The Versailles Assembly just before adjourning for the last recess passed a Bill concerning the strength of the French army. Bismarck addressed a circular despatch to the diplomatic representatives of Germany complaining of the adoption of a measure which was described as being calculated to disturb the peace of Europe. The contents of these despatches were, according to instructions, orally communicated by the German representatives to the Governments to which they were respectively accredited. The substance of this despatch was divulged, and gave rise to the reports which caused so much alarm throughout Europe. The assertion that Bismarck sent such a despatch has received a semi-official denial, ahe article in the Berlin 4 Post 1 also contributed largely to the war alarm. The articles traced the efforts made by France' to enlist the co-operation of Italy and Austria against Germany, by increasing the French army to a large standard. The article says, “If the Pope would recognise Italy as a State without reference to his own claims to territorial possessions, Italy would readily turn against Germany.” A terrible case of fanaticism, superinduced by S A )l rJ^v ra^>^ * s DOW un dergoing investigation. A Cuban mother, believing she was acting by order of the spirits, sought to tear out her eye; her son afterwards attempting to tear out his own eyes. This she did openly as a solemn sacrifice in the presence of other women of the family, who prayed in loud voices while the operation was going on. All the parties have been arrested.

Mexican telegrams state that the revolution which began at Michohan in consequence of the promulgation of church reforms, and the expulsion of sisters of charity, is extending and gaining ground. Another telegram states that Michohan is suffering greatly, all business being paralysed, and the people are leaving the villages. J acabah was pillaged and burned. The legislature at M’chonan, alarmed at the progress of the revolt, has been convoked in an extra session, which began on the 23rd inst. It will discuss measures for the suppression of the rebellion.

Two American steamboat explosions, with loss of life, have occurred. A despatch from Osceola, the territory and town destroyed through the great forest fires J? Pennsylvania, says that for miles around that place the fire is still smouldering in the woods. The loss of timber will be much greater than was at first supposed. Millions i°S B - chopped are utterly useless, and millions of young trees are still standing, out of which the fire has taken the sail, and they also wiil be valueless next year, A Relief Committee met in Phillipsburg, and drew up a circular appealing to the public for aid to build up the town of Osceola. Provisions and clothing are coming in. Last night it was discovered that a barrel of whisky had been brought to a place in a wood near the a . ft number of men had got drunk. A Catholic priest went to the place and dispersed them, but he was roughly repelled; when coming back_ to town he secured the aid of a party of citizens, who routed the sellers and spilled the whisky, A police force has been organised and placed under the command of Captain Clarke. Already two shanties have been erected, but in most places the ruins are still too hot to commence building. The roads leading to the town are still burning. The Town Committee will put up the frame of a building for the reception of clothing and pro.

The fire in the vicinity of Honesdale is believed to be under control On Friday night it had reached into a patch of forest that covers the hillside between Franklin and the sterling coil mines. The proprietors of both mines had nearly 500 men fighting the flames. iVLany or these men were badly burned in cuttmg down the trees and brushwood. The fires are still burning in the forest near Honesdale. but they appear to be travelling in the direction away fiom the towns. The woods are still burning in the vicinity of Phillipsburgh.

{From the Daily Times.) Emigration to New Zealand is much more S iTSiAi” The oitte * Katl bl ° Ck SaJed by the <Jariablook

«« T he Southern Cross ’ correspondent says , American line of steamers will most laid on before long between Australia and New Zealand, The California and Pacific Mau Company will probably undertake the contract, and as they are one of the largest, if not very steamship companies in n . , , .A e, » their name is a guarantee that neither ability nor capital will be wanting on their pari to make the line a success. The City of Pekin, next to the Great Eastern, is the largest steamer in the world, and belongs to this Company. ” The Tilton-Beeoher trial continues. Both ? lde s are sanguine of a verdict. Those favoring Tilton say he believes that the public has not been disappointed in respect to his case. A telegram from Osceola, Pa., dated May 22, says all that is ’now left of that thriving town is about thirty houses—everything else in the place is a mass of smouldering wood and ashes. The fire commenced in a Presbyterian , a strong gale blowing from the mil directly towards the centre of the town at the time. In three hours the devastation was complete. The people were obliged to fly for their lives and leave everything behind them. An attempt was made to burn the town of Shenandoah, Pa. At Rule’s Hotel it was discovered that coal, oil, and lighted matches had been thrown mat the windows. Several dwelling houses and carpenters’ shops have been burned to the ground. While the firemen were working on the adjoining buildings a third alarm was given up the town. Lumber yards were fired and partly destroyed. The citizens are much alarmed, and Vigilance Committees

and Committees of Safety have been organised. parties have been arrested charged with being connected with the incendiarism. At a dinner to Sir George Bowen, the Duke of Edinburgh presided. Sir J. Fergusson «««? applause by the announcement that Sir J. Vogel had succeeded in negotiating for a New Zealand cable. Sir'l, Bowen gushed immensely over bis services to tho Colonies, and said ; From Queensland I was promoted to New Zealand, which, as my right honorable mend and successor, Sir J. Fergusson, will confirm, is one of the most interesting and fascinating countries in the world. I there presided over a body of most energetic and enterprising settlers, who glory in naming their adopted country the ‘Great Bfitain of the « r 5 ~a nd also over the Maori e.«, noblest race of—l will not say dark-skinned— Ineff,' Which have ever been brought into contact with civilisation. . . , The true weapons for conquest of the Maori, aa of the Scotch High landers, have proved to be the pick-axe and spade—not the sword and rifle. This is ‘ the only witchcraft we have used.’ In New Zealand this is briefly the policy which was carried out during my government and that of my suc-cessor-Sir James Fergussou-by Sir J. Vogel, bir Donald M‘Lean, and other able men, and which resulted in the final pacification of that glorious country. The Queen has now here no surer and more loyal subjects than many of the Maori chiefs.” On the subject of federation, Sir George said Englishmen at the antipodes, like Englishmen at Home, dislike constitutional changes without any need for them. He advocated Colonial reciprocity, , Gorst, M.P., at a meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, said that to compensate for the misery brought on the Maori race by the introduction of rum and other evils of civilisation, a special effort should be made to benefit them by the spread of Christianity. bir James Fergusson, at a deputation of colonists who waited on the EarUf Carnarvon tor the annexation of New Guinea, said very little was known about New Guinea. It would be rash to undertake the responsibilities without knowing something of their probable extent.

Captain Stewart, of the ship Tweed, has addressed a letter to the ‘ Times,’showing how frequently ships are exposed to a danger which resulted so disastrously in the case of the Cospatnck, owing to the untrustworthy character of the sailors. He says on his last voyage to New Zealand, in June, he had not been long at sea when he learned the sailors were plundering the cargo, and that naked lights were seen m the lower hold among the merchandise stored there. Two ordidary seamen were detected pissing sardines and preserved milk into the forecastle, and were brought aft. After being confined, they confessed they were sent into the hold by the crew, and that several sailors had been many times in the hold with naked lights surreptitiously obtained from emigrants, ihe letter continues:—“ Before sailing every possible precaution had been taken to prevent the crew gaining access to the hold ; but it was accomplished by the men cutt'ng a passage through the coal, removing the bulkhead, and passing out the plunder, which they secreted under the coal until they could get it into the forecastle. When this discovery was made I refused,to supply them with tobacco. Then their conduct became most disgraceful. They combined to neglect their duty in every possible way, shamming sickness, &c., although pronounced by the surgeon to be quite well, "heir conduct became hourly more mutinous and disorderly, and they could not be kept out of the forecastle through the night although the ship was running in dark, foggy weather, and in the vicinity of ice There is scarcely a vessel going to the Colony whose owner does not have to pay heavily foi loss occasioned by plundering caigo, but what is much more of consequence is the danger to valuable lives by crews getting into the ship’s hold with naked lights amid inflammable cargo,

whereby many good ships and many unfortuQ&to passengers have oeen sacrificed, whose number (?) could never be told, for the ships have been posted as ‘ missing.’ While I was in New Zealand, the Cathcart, another immigrant ship, arrived at Lyttelton with mutiny on board. If Plimsoll would take a few trips fiom the docks to the Downs in some outward bound vessels he would see a little of what masters have to contend with through the drunkenness and bad conduct of poor ‘ ill-used Jack.’ ” Captain Montgomery, of the Queen of the Age, writes confirming Captain Stewart’s remarks, an i recounting an experience similar to that of the Tweed during her lost voyage to Auckland. He complains of the heavy sentence given for cases of burglary, as compared to the trifling sentences for endangering hundreds of lives by plundering the cargo with naked lights. He adds that if his vesse 1 or the Tweed suffered the fate of the Cospatrick, every effort would have been made to censure the owner and captain, while the noble British seamen who caused the calamity would receive a large measure of public sympathy. The Princess of Wales has several times been to hear Moody and Sankey. They presented her with a handsomely Abound copy of their hymns. The Revivalists are now preaching in Her Majesty’s Opera House. Many of the nobility are attending Many assertions are made relative to the profits accruing from the undertaking, which are disbelieved. Tneir financial affairs are managed by a committee, and their expenses are estimated at L 24.000 a year. The ‘New York Herald ’ publishes, under the heading of a cablegram, a statement that Moody and Sankey are in the employ of Barnum, the showman. There is a clerical scandal in the diocese of Bangor, in consequence of a child being born by a young lady to her stepfather, a clergyman. It has led to great indignation. Both disappeared.

Mr Farnall, has given up the Belfast emigration agency, and returns to the Colony with Vesey Stewart’s party. The youth O’Connor, who, on ths' day of thanksgiving for the recovery of the Prince of Wales, attempted to shoot the Queen, was arrested again on the sth inst. The Queen was holding a drawing-room reception at Buckingham Palace, and O’Connor was found standing

in tho same place in front of the railings, as on a former occasion, with a pistol protruded at the Queen. His arrest was quickly made. O Connor was sent to Hanwell Asylum, by order of Sir Thomas Henry, the Chief Magistrate atßow street Police Court, on a certificate by two physicians, that prisoner was subject to both bom ctdal and suicidal impulses. ■The |Examiner* mentions a rumor that Mr Disraeli will resign at the end of the session. It believes there is foundation for it, as the Premier’s disability for continuous work is damaging to the Government. The ‘ New York Herald’s’ special correspondent from Mandallay, of May 22, writing in reference to the threatened war with Burmah, says the King of Burmah is most anxious to settle the matter between the British and Chinese Governments amicably. Lebdie, the Chinese General who is supposed to have arrested Colonel Brown’s advance, in March, for territorial explorations, arrived at Mandallay three days ago. He is bearer of dispatches from the Court of Pekin. The King denies all complicity in the failure of Colonel Brown’s expedition. No serious difficulties are anticipated.

A telegram received at the Russian embassy, Pans, states that the Czar lias left Berlin, thoroughly convinced that' a conciliatory sentiment, of a nature to ensure the maintenance of peace, prevails there. Similar intelligence has been sent to all Busian legations in

Germany The police have procured the at rest abroad ot Uuan, the principal conspirator in the plot to assassinate Bismarck and Dr Palck, minister of Ecclesiastic affairs. The ‘ Gazette,’ says the prisoner is a relative of Archbishop Ledchouskie. The i lot included the assasiuation of the Emperor, and three men were hired to cany it out. The ‘ Standard’s ’ special from BerUn says the Prussian police are redoubled in vigilance, having received alarming notices of plots against Bismarck and minister Falck. A. special staff of fourteen detectives has been formed for their protection. In the Lower House the Bill for the suppression of religious orders was rend a second time without amendment, and a Bill giving old Catholics a share in Roman Catholic Church property passed the third reading by 202 to 75. Instructions have been sent to the Provincial authorities of Prussia to treat the collection of money for priests who have been subjected to legal penalties as a punishable offence. The Roman Catholic Bishops of Prussia have decided to dissolve even their religious orders which the State tolerates, being unwilling to see them subjected to Governmental supervision. r Six thousand German families are preparing to emigrate from Prussia ou account of the oppressive conscription. A ciowd of women mobbed an old Catholic school-house at Konigshutte, Silesia, declaring they would never allow their children to become old Catholics. After much excitement the military were called out and cleared the streets, which were full of spectators. Twenty persons were arrested.