THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3893, 16 August 1875, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(Ptr Maegreffor at Auckttikd.)

ENGLISH NEWS.

The rumor published that Mr Gladstone will resume the leadership of the Liberals is considered unfounded.

On July 13th there were the usual Orange celebrations in Dublin, the towns throughout Ulster, and at Liverpool. At most places resolutions were passed condemning Home Buie. No disturbances anywhere were reported. At a meeting at Hydo Park, to protest against the grant for thejPrince of Wales’s visit to India, 12,000 pewons ware present. Mr Bradlaugh made a violent speech. A resolution of a similar character was adopted almost unanimously. Eight persons who voted agai' st it were set upon by the crowd, and the police had to interefere. Another telegram says t—“The meeting called by the Radical Clubs, in Trafalgar Square, London, to protest against the grant for the India journey, was a failure.” The heavy rains have caused much damage in Wales. The river Ogmore overflowed its banks, inundating the town -of Brigand. One life was lost, and many cattle drowned. The Monmouth Canal, at Carnarvon, burst, and thirteen persons were drowned. Hundreds of inhabitants of Grangetown were removed to Cardiff in boats.

Sir Wilfred Lawson’s Permissive Bill was again defeated by 371 against 86. Mr Delane has not resigned the editorship of the ‘ Times.’ Some doctors have advised the Prince of ales not to go 'to India, as injurious to his health. Tlie House of Commons rejected the Bill for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act by a majority of 182. “ Sir George Grey’s return to public life,” writes the London correspondent of the ‘ Star,’ ‘‘ has caused a feeling of very general satisfac tion amongst old colonists in England, and his remarks on the new Colonial honor are approved Admiral Rous has written to the ‘ Times ’ nelending cock-fighting, which is becoming more prevalent. Madame Rastoul has forwarded the ‘ Times ’ a description of the shocking treatment of Communists by the authorities in New Caledonia. Mr Mackenzie, the Canadian Premier, in a speech at Dundee, referred to the great resources of Canada. He recorded that it was quite consistent for nations to exist on the North American Continent governed differently, and with differing political institutions, and was convinced, so long as Great Britain maintained her present attitude towards the Colonies, that friendship and confidence would be maintained.

i Mood .V and Sankey farewell meeting, 18b clergy of the Church of England were present, far outnumbering these of any other denomination, Canon Conway, of Westminster, occupied a seat on the platform. All present were deeply affected. Moody, while speaking was so overcome by emotion that he had to stop, and was unable to conclude his speech. Ihe following is the number of meetings held by Moody and Sankey in London during the past four months, with the aggregate attendance Victoria Hall, forty-live meetings, attended by 400,000; Opera House, sixty meettngs, attended by 33,000 ; Bow meetings, at tendedfby 60,000; and in the Agricultural Hall sixty meetings, attended by 720,000. Amount of money expended on buildings, printing, stewards, &c., 140,000d015. Moody and Sankey declined to receive any compensation from the committee. Mr Gladstone has written an article in the Contemporary Review,’ entitled “Is the Church m England worth preserving ?” After summing up the argument of .both sides, he answers the question thoroughly in the affirmative. He reviews the division which takes place in the Church, and the attempts made to attain conformity by penal proceedings He declares the enforcement of arbitrary rules fatal to the Church.

CONTINENTAL. The Pope in a letter to the Bishop of Orleans on Freemasonry, says:-“ This sect has now unmasked itself, and avows its signs, and in a certain community, not under pretext of public rights, but in its own name, does guilty battle with the Church, The nefarious character of the sect being known, there is no honest man who must not turn from it with horror, and peihaps many members who did not know the secret mysteries will now withdraw.”

A special from Borne says the Pope is in better health, but walks with gieat difficulty. I elegrams to the London ‘ Times ’ say that 900 persons perished in the flood at Toulouse alono. An outbreak of an epidemic is feared. It is believed that 2,500 houses have been swept away in the town and its environs. A * Daily News ’ special says the lowest estimate of deaths in flooded districts is 2,000. It is proposed to bombard and destroy St. Cyprian quarter, to prevent danger from the crumbling walls. A subsequent telegram says the first reports are exaggerated. The number drowned is estimated to be much lower.

The Wesleyans are building a handsome Church m Rome.

, garibaldi on his arrival at Cevita Veochia on ms way to Caprera, was drawn to his hotel by tbe people. The town was illuminated. A Paris despatch says the damage to property by the inundation in the cities of Toulouse and Ageri alone exceeds 24,000,000fr. The heaviest losses are in the department of Haute Caronne and Loire-et Garonne. A contribution for the relief of the sufferers is pouring in from all parts of France, Switzerland, and Belgium. The subscriptions ore unprecedently large, the total to date amounting to L 200.000 It is announced that 10,000 persons will be wholly dependent on the public charity for months.

The wheat and vme crops in Villo Fraache and Magon, in Franco, are completely destroyed by floods. lu the French Assembly {General Dutemple a Legitimist Deputy, created great confusion by his remarks, in the course of which he insuited Minister Buffet, and the President cf the Assembly. He declared General Macmalion was equally guilty with the Emperor i, j h ? e | ea * Sedan. The speaker was called to order and silenced by the interposition of the House.

1 he Spanish steamship Bayonese was wrecked near Motrico, on the Biscayan coast. The crew were saved by Carlist fishermen, and will be held as hostages ; and tho Carlists threaten to shoot them if the Royalists bombard any more coast towns. Telegrams show that the Carlists are retreating. It is expected that the main body will be driven over the French border. 1,0110 Carlist prisoners are at Valencia. The populace threatened the Lynch system to some of the Carlist officers. They embarked them on board a man-of-war to prevent a massacre.

A Royal Ordinance has been issued, commanding that tho members of Carlist Juntas, and all families of which any member is in the

C&rliat service, be expelled from Spain, and directing that the property of the Carlisle be confiscated and devoted to iridnuufying own* munities Buffering from C artists’ requisition. special despatch from Berlin says the Ger* man Government has ordered that delegates, on submission by the Catholic clergy to new laws, shall be kept strictly secret, to secure them from persecution by Ultramontanes. A despatch from Vienna reported that the peasants of Deva and vicinity, in ■Transylvania, revolted against the nobles and defeated a battalion of military. IVlauy persons were killed, including two judges. Regular troops were sent to the scene of the out* break.

A letter from Pesth {confirms the reports of the destructive character of the recent storm in Hungary. It says Twenty-eight bodies were found, and over a hundred bodies are missing. The destruction of property .on the mountain slopes is fearful. No villas on the upper grouna entirely escaped. Hundreds of people are destitute -and homeless. Subscriptions are opened, and relief is being liberally given. The water fell in extraordinary torrents, and swept the streets of Buda, carrying vehicles and everything moveable down. Many houses wore suddenly flooded and destroyed before the inmates could escape. 600 persons ate missiug, and at least 100 were drowned or killed by the falling walls. All the railway trains were stopped. The weavers on strike at Brurm, Austria, assumed such a threatening attitude that troops were despatched to preserve order. electoral struggle is beginning in Bavaria. There is great excitement between the Ultramontanes and the Nationalists. Much importance is attached to the result. The Turkish insurrection at Heraegovinia extends along the Dalmatian border. It is much more serious than the usual disturbances in that The populace attacked the Turkish authorities in the frontier towns, and in_ many places the Austrian flag has bee* raised, A special from Paris says the Turkish students in Paris have been ordered to leave. The money hitherto devoted to the education of the.ie youths will be employed to establish an institution at Constantinople offering equal advantages to those of Paris The Turkish troops made au attack on the fences erected by the insurgents, and were defeated.

With reference to the Turkish revolt, the ‘Standard’ publishes advices from Tara, the capital of Dalmatia, which represents that Panslavic emissaries had spread repots among Herzegovinians that the Turks intended to exterminate the Christians, and this falsehood had caused the insurrection, which is taking great dimensions Masses of the insurgents surrounded the towns of Callao, Nevessioni, and Holata. 600 families fled into Croatia and rtema. 1,200 arrived in Dalmatia at different periods along the frontier. A Copenhagen despatch states that an explanation is to be demanded of Germany for soundings taken last week by a Prussian vessel of war.

An extinct volcano in Iceland opened for four weeks, and ejected fire, lava, ashes, and muddy boiling fluid. The farms and villages within twenty miles were destroyed, and a thousand people had to flee for their lives. I his volcano ceased, and another opened a hundred miles away, and devastated the country for fifty miles around. Eight hundred people are homeless. In the centre of the island several new mounds have been thrown up to a height of several hundred feet, and poured out their burning contents over two hundred miles of country, rendering thousands ot people homeless. Several hundred people are reported to have perished. The famous geysers have dried up since the terrible eruption, and, instead of water, emit immense volumes of hot smoke and ashes, which at night appear like gigantic columns of fire, and are visible for a hundred miles. The eruption is said to he the inost widely-extended volcanic action known in j,he world, Forty thousand inhabitants on the coasts of the island are too poor to support their destitute fellow-country-men, and the Copenhagen Goverument has made an appeal for the sufferers.

AMERICAN. Yellow fever is reported to have broken out in Norfolk, Virginia. It is said to have been introduced by a vessel from Barbadoes. The jury in the Beecher case came into court at eleven o clock on tho 2nd July, when the foreman., Mr < Carpenter, said it was impossible to agree. They were discharged. Nine were for Bejcher and three for Tilton. The ‘ Tribune ’ says that the evidence in Coerder’s trial for conspiracy so seriously implicates Moulton that Beecher’s counsel have already taken steps to indict him for perjury. Judge Barnard, who was removed from tho Supreme Court Bench in 1871, is accused of having tampered With the Beecher jury. Beecher and Barnard were enemies, and Barnard boasted of having fixed the jury so. that one would stand out under all circumstances. It is rumored that the negro named Woolly will be arrested for perjury? Beecher was serenaded at Peekskill ou the loth July, and received an address from Judge O Neill, reposing confidence in him as a Christian minister. Beecher replied in a speech of an hour, justifying himself, and expressing his trust in the future. Ho stated the expense of the trial would amount to 7,500 dols, which he could hardly pay. He said he was thankful lor the heartfelt sympathy offered him. At at. Burnch. Quebec, on the 12th July, six people crossing the railway wore ran into bv a tram. Two women were killed and three badly hurt. Woodly and Co,, the largest boat manufac* > "jinn 18 *** Canada, have suspended payment. •Ihe rectifying establishment of Fraser and Co., St. Louis, has been sequestered for the non-payment of 40,000 dollars duty. The Secretary of the American Navy has mode a requisition for 360,000 dollars on the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the remainder of the Farragut Prize award. It will be distributed among 450 pers.ms. Herr Gumeonborger, of Vienna, has written to tue Post Office Department at New York stating that he has discovered an apparatus for directing the passage of air baloons. He wishes to be allowed to make a trial trip between New x ork and San Francisco. ihe Vanderbilt Consolidated Mining Co. has been incorporated to operate in Humboldt country, Nevada. Capital, 10,000,000 dollars. At Milwaukee, on the 3rd July, Mr Knelland, of tho firm of Flint and Knelland, was found drowned. As his friends wore removing the body for burial, a woman of bad character came forward, claiming tho body as. that of her husband. She showed a certificate of marriage, and claimed u share in the 100,000 dollars of property. The unfortunate union is supposed to have been the cause of suicide. The steamship Idaho, from Liverpool, landedon the Bth July, 760 Mormons, under seven agents, en route for Utah. Ninety-nix were British, the remainder Scandinavians. Ihe Utah authorities are prosecuting the Mormons for the Mountain Meadow massacre. Lee, the woman originally accused, has turned States evidence. Some horrible particulars and the conviction of many leading Mormons are expected.

Sir Chas, IDilke, the English Radical, comes to America in September for another journey round the world. He means to devote most ol his time to study in Jjipan. A cablegram to San Francisco announces the reduction of quicksilver in London to LlO a flask, but prices are still advancing. The Hanks of New York are advised to keep a look out for persons offering in the market forged Bank of England and Bank of France notes.

Three San Francisco shipowners have been awarded by the Court of Alabama claims of from 67,000 to 85,000 dollars, for whalers destroyed by the Shenandoah.

c f W tM oc c»rred on the South Side Hallway to the up train from Williamsbury, with excursionists, chiefly working men and their families. The train ran into the down luggage tram, which was sixteen minutes late, both trains were running at the rate of forty miles an hour. Upon turning a sharp cinva in the line the trains came in sighted each other at a short distance; one engineer leversed his engines and jumped off safely, ihe two ponderous locomotives crashed into each other with a shock heard over a mile away, ° P MKon K cr carriages piljci themselves m a heap of shattnvd rum. ? The c fs ,icxt tbo en g ino was completely smashed; the next oar rose up on the top of the broken locomotives, and rested on tho wreck at ah angls of 45 degrees, but the two

last qors. although suffering a violent shock, did not leave the track. persons wore killed and over twenty injured. The American man-of-war Carnack sent to collect specimens for the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, ran on the rooks in Discover Passage, Vancouver Island. Captain Queen, her commander, reports that on the 18th June the vessel was caught in a whirlpool, and became unmanageable. She struck on a sunken rock, making a hole in the port side, abreast of the foremast, and starting the decks, and on springing her off she was headed for shore, filling rapidly. The boats had to be lowered, and all hands got ashoi e, but very little of the stores or armament were saved. She sank in sixty fathoms, and relief on the island was affoided to the crew by the British war ship Mvrmidon,

Kleiner, a negro, who outraged the wife of William Vaughan in Missouri, was brought to Greenfield for safe keeping, One morning, a mob numbering 160 masked men, broke open the gaol and hanged the prisoner. The Tex Commissioner in New York reports the city property worth 53,000,000d01s less than last year. A desparate attempt was made to rob an express car at Long Point, Illinois, on the Bth July. The engine and car wore cut loose and the engineer was killed. The expressman, Burke, barricaded the doors and kept the robbers at bay till help arrived. A scouting party at San Diego returned from an excursion on the Bth July, and report seeing Indians. On the Ist July they killed twentyfive, took nine prisoners. On the 4th July another ranchero was struck, and five Indians killed, and twenty-five captured. The Indians known as the White Mountain Apaches bad been stealing stock from-the Border settlers. The St Louis ‘ Mail ’ special says several thousand dollars reward is offered by the Vandalia Railway Co. for the capture of the parties interested in the attempted express robbery. ■ The American Treasury sold one million dollars in gold every Thursday in July. The earnings of the Union Pacific Railway in June were 818,000 dollars against 569,000 last year. Private letters from Maricabo give interest-, ing details of the great earthquake in Central America on May 28th. Cucuta suffered horribly. Besides being destroyed, thieves robbed the city of everything valuable. Three thousand perished in Cucuta alone. Sixteen adjoining villages were also destroyed, with 8,000 souls. Thousands are The inhabitants of Cucuta proposed to build a temporary town on San Bern, but gave up the project in consequence of the terrible stench from the decomposition of the bodies. A pestilence is feared. Many thieves have been shot. Relief is expected to he sent. The loss of life ■was 10,000 to 15,000. Hundreds escaped most miraculously. 6 A large extent of country was desolated by a violent storm at Valparaiso. In the harbor many boats sank, and there was a laige loss of life and property. On June 27 a force of Spanish troops fought SOO insurgents near Moruycula. They killed twenty-seven. There was an engagement the same day near Oregie. A Spanish man-of-war chased a British schooner into Hayti, when the authorities found her with contraband cargo. The insurgents in Cuba captured two forts »ißarcara with the garrison.

Cortina, the rebel Mexican general, has been arrested. There, is great excitement in Matamoras, and trouble is anticipated.

CHINA AND THE EAST.

Advices from China say disorder in Ching Kiang, growing out of the arrest of two native soldiers for insulting the American Consul and his wife, has subsided. Chinese pirates attacked a British steamer at Foo Choo. aud were repulsed, after killing tire Custom House officer aboard. The Chinese have made arrangements in Europe for the defence of their coast and the Empire with extensive tonifications. The general scheme of defence has been confided to General Ripley, formerly in the Confederate army. United States. M.M.S. Challenger left Japan on the 16th July, to continue explorations in the Pacific Ocean. Previous to her departure Professor Wyvillo Thomson, F.R S., head of the scientific corps ou board, delivered a lecture on the results or the voyage before a branch of the Asiatic Society. It is reported that an insurrection has broken out at Bhamo. Burmah.

The bultan of Zanzibar, while in England, completed another treaty for the suppression of the African slave trade.

(From our own Correspondent.)

Auckland, August 14,

The mail papers give particulars of the case against Colonel Baker, of the 11th Hussars, for an assault on a young lady in a railwajf carriage, referred to in the cablegrams per Omeo. Colonel Baker was committed for trial at the next Guildford Assizes on the charge. The evidence as given by the young lady herself, and some other passengers by the same train was as follows Miss Kate Dickensian, a lady twenty-one years of age, and an uncommonly pretty girl, holding a fair position in society, lives near Midhurst, Sussex. On the day in question she was accompanied by her mother and sister in their carriage to the station, whence she intended to proceed to London and then to Dover, where she was to join a married sister for a tour in Switzerland. She got ioto a first-class compartment by herself, and the journey commenced. At Diphook station a gentleman got into the compartment, and soon began to talk, introducing the conversation by offering to put up the window, which Miss Dickenson declined. They talked as people do about the theatres, the Royal academy, and the passing landscape, and the stranger told her that he was an officer in command at Aldershot. After leaving Woking station the train had nowhere to stop for some time, and the stranger then pulled up the window and asked Miss Dickenson for her name, but she declined telliug, “because she did not choose.” He then asked her to meet him again on that line and allow him to write to her. all of which she refused. Then he got hold of her and tried to kiss her, and she got hold of the guard’s bell to ring it, but (as usual with these means of communication when they are wanted) it would not work. Then he violently pushed her back on the seat and kissed her, and getting down on the floor she felt his band above her boot At this she set up screaming, and struggling to her feet managed to get the window down and turn the handle of the door, which flew open. ’'hen holding to the man’s arm with one hand she got hold of the door with the other, and stood on the outside steps. Her screams had in th<» meantime been heard by some of the passengers, and she could see heads looking out along the train. One gentleman, a dissenting minister, tried to get along the steps of the carriages to her assistance but failed, and it was a long time before the attention of the guard could be attracted. In the meantime Colonel Baker was imploring Miss Dickenson to re-enter the carriage, promising to get out himself if she would do so, but she declined to trust horseli with him. After riding about five miles in this manner the train was brought up at a small station, the lady having been descried at the preceding station hanging on £o the step, and a telegram forwarded to stop the train. When lifted off she pointed to her fellow-traveller, ana said ho had assaulted her. He gave his name as Colonel Valentine Baker, and said the lady was making a mistake. The

other passengers present however say that he a«ked her in a loud voice to say nothing about it, as it would get him into trouble, and that he would make it all right with her brother (who is an officer at Aldershot). She declined to hold any com munication with him. When the case was investigated, Mr Hawkins, Q.C., who appeared for the colonel, declined to cross-examine the young lady, reserving all his defence for the trial. The colonel, however, said that he desired to express regret if anything he had done had caused the lady annoyance, but that she was suffering from the effects of a complete hallucination.