THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3852, 29 June 1875, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

The Bishop of Orleans condemns Freemasons as Atheist’, and the Archbishop of Toulouse excommunicates Spiritualists as devils. At least one important reform seems likely to come out of the agitation of cremation. This is the substitution of other matt rial than wood for coffins. Just now the municipal authorities of Paris are deliberating the propriety of requiring that all coffins shall be made of c-ment, as they were, in fact, in the Gallo-Roman period of French history. President MacMahon has sent to the different powers of Europe a diplomatic note stating that the sentiments of the French Government are peaceful, and that the notion is adverse to war or any unfriendly controversy with the other Governments. The Tichborne madness runs so high in England that Lady Radcliffe- - the cousin Kate Doughty ot the story—has been compelled to leave her residence in Staffordshire m consequence of the brutal impudence of the people near of the lower classes. Mr PlimsolJ, writing to a London paper on the 18th March last, says that since the Ist January last—a period of barely eleven weeks the number of vessels posted at Lloyds as missing with all hands is 28. The crews amount to 343 souls. He states that many ships are sent to sea for the purpose of being lost.

The Judges of England, with one or two exceptions, have unanimously come out in f*™- of flogging as a means of punishment. Chief Justice Cock burn thinks that flogging should bo extended to cases of violent assault ; Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and Lush, from practical observation take a similar view. Mr Justice Quin says that flogging is the only punishment, except the punishment of death, that seems to retain any real deterrent power about it. Baron Bramwell believes that dime branded in this way would soon become odious. With such eminent authorities in its favor flogging may once more become common in England. An English paper says that the Hon. Sir Henry Ayres, the present Prime Minister Adelaide, South A ustralia, is a son of a Mr Ayres, who was many years a joiner in Portsmouth Dockyard. In the course of a case brought by Emmanuel, the London jeweller, it was shown that he charged 20 OOfidol. for a necklace which was valued by a Paris jeweller at 7,500d01.

It costs the Shah of Persia a little to buy a bonnet for his wife. There are fifty of her. One case with that number of new bonnets was sent from Paris the other day directed to bis Majesty at Teheran. Jhe French Society of Veterinary Surgeons recommend for the prevention of hydropho bia a police regulation to compel all owners (i dogs and cats to notify the authorities whenever their pets are low-spirited or apparently ill. Not much for the authorities to attend to !

The “ Americanistes,” who are to meet at Nancy, in France, next July, form a society of savants analogous to the Kgyptologists in the nature of their study. They study America anterior to the discovery by Columkua monuments, the mounds, the ancient cities, the inscriptions, &o. A M. Pipet has recovered from the city of Marseilles 18,000 francs, the price of his wife, killed on her way to market by a shot in the streets during the revolutionary times of • Iv l"« f^ ou ght that a great many men in that city will send their wives to market assiduously during the next revolt. An application for relief in Paris was supported by this recommendation-.—“This unfortunate young man is the only son of a widow who died without leaving any children, and he is the sole support of his a-ed rather and young brothers.” frving’s “ Life of Washington,” which has outsold all his books except the “Sketch Book, has been newly brought out in two octavo volumes. Over 100.000 copies of the Washington have been sold. Minister Justice in MacMahou s Cabinet, gets up at three every morning and goes at his work. He once accepted an invitation to a ball, and went to , hl3 word, for half-an-hour after he got up next morning. In Switzerland there was a marriage by proxy. A woman there was married to a man the proxy bein S a neighbor and a man already married. The authorities are discussing whether this much-married man has not committed bigamy. thorlff S °j <i at tbe Public auction in Paris ” er da 7 a revolver that has had many E a ? d which five of its owners had committed suicide, paiotefk n m. Pteroß t )o “? ell y- an fnoL nJ- : iorence , has instituted proceed hovina^of^w? 10 tbe local, journals for g tated that he and some other Ame Sn artlSt 2. had b( ! en ln thG habitof em. startups’ f n n^lV i iu needy crcumproduce works which they have ve Sf t0 i the - Unlted Bta t«i as their own name <ind Pr ° C hiction, and thus have found a name and a market for themse’vea. DaXt S H I IV» re of the “Seventh Circle of in thff Hd contains 900 figures. Those “ th ° fore groiind are the size of life. They Vir o fi r ° Ui i ed m a circle a bout Dante and w n!i i®. • are , ()u a central eminence. It wfil be exhibited at the next Paris salon. man pf octors appointed to examine into the case of Louisa f afcteau, the Belgian fasting frrm f h and alsHucnce _ . od ar6 to be miraculous, have in a report hv which they say they are that she is supplied with food, Ao o the marks of the “stigmata” the report seys they can be accounted for as the result of a nervous affection.

Th? unending criticism of Shakspere has produced as its latest book Professor Edward Bowden's “Shaksnere: A Critical Study of his Mind and Art,” which the ‘ Academy ’ pronounces the best work of the kind ohathas been written in our language. The Para pnpers v hetnently deny the imputation cost by the German Press, that ' b(? Urcnch military preparations are upon a scale which is threatening to the peace of 1 tlrope, aid they insist that France has neither the intention nor the power of undertaking war at present. Tb v centenary of the batt’e of Lexington has been celebrated in tho United States by religious services, the uncovering of monuments, and public meetings. A letter from Mr Gladstone was read at one of the meetings, expressing very friendly feelings toward the people cf the United States, j/the medical officer cf the district of Cmslcdon made a special report to the Board of Guardians, in reference to an application for relief to a woman who had just been confined. The report was as follows “Mary Ann May, Chisledou, herself, husband, and ten children, sleep in one room fifteen feet l r,n £. Vith tho roof sloping to the level of the floor, what can be done 1” The Relieving

Officer’s report of the family was as follows : —‘‘Thomas May, aged 45, works for Mr C , average earnings 10s a week ; Mary Ann, his wife, aged 47 ; Edward, aged 18 ; William, aged 16; Elizabeth, aged 13; Emily, aged 11; Mary Ann, aged 8 ; Tom, aged 6 ; Hose, aged 5 ; John, aged 3 ; Andrew, aged 2 ; infant last Saturday. The family all sleep in one room sixteen feet long by ten feet wide. There are three beds in the room, but no partition or curtain of anv kind." , Rubrical revision has been the chief topic of debate in both Houses of the Convocation of Canterbury, and the “eastward position” is stoutly defended. The new ironclad Devastation made the voyage from Portsmouth to Lisbon in five days. She encountered very heavy weather, bat behaved very satisfactorily. Two servant girls at Antrobus, Warwickshire. aged respectively fourteen and seventeen, have been committed for trial upon a charge of attempting to poison their employer’s children in order to lighten their work.

Before the death of Sir John Gray, brother of the late tVilson Gray, the following paragraph .appeared in the ‘Dundee Advertiser’:—“lt is a somewhat carious fact that prayers were offered up on Sunday for the recovery ’of the hen. member in several Roman Catholic churches in Dublin, although, as is well known, Sir John is a Protestant.” The Berlin 1 Post ’ congratulates Germany upon the beneficial effects produced by its recent warning article; but holds out a threat of more stringent measures against the Ultramontane party, who are the only allies possible for France at present. The conciliatory and tranquiiising remarks ascribed by the Paris papers to the German Emperor are confirmed from Berlin. The Prussian Government is proceeding steadily with its stringent measures directed against the Roman Church. The documents relating to the proposed law for suppressing religions orders in Prussia have been forwarded to the Emperor at Wiesbaden. The suffragen Bishop of Guesen has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for officiating in the Cathedral in place of the suspended Bishop. The Bishop. of Lichfield, speaking at a meeting of churchmen in Wolverhampton, deplored that after consecration of churches there should be expensive dinners at which champagne, at eight shillings a bottle, was drunk. Drinking after the consecration of burial grounds was even worse. Worse still was drinking at funerals, when poor widows were often made poorer to give drink to mourners. He called for 200 people to join him in pledging themselves that, under no conditions, would they ever sanction drinking either before or after funerals.

The Viceroy of India issued a proclamation on April 22, announcing the deposition of the Guikwar of Baroda on account of his gross misgovcrmnent and incapacity to carry out necessary reform*. The proclamation states that the Commissioners at the recent trial not having been able to arrive at a united judgment, the Guikwar’s deposition is not based upon the charge there made against him. Sir Madora Eao has proceeded to Baroda to conduct the administration, and the widow of the former Prince is to be permitted to adopt a successor to the sovereignty, [to be selected by the Indian Government.