NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3962, 5 November 1875, Page 2

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

ENGLISH. 'A despatch from the Swedish Arctic Expedition reports its arrival at Hanmn. rfest, 5 orway. All the offic r« and men are well. 1m portant maps and scientific collections have been made. a railway train has been stopped by brigands between caragossa and Barcelona, Spain. All the passengers were robbed, among them being seventeen officers and seamen of the American man of-war Constantins. . King Alphonso opened the Madrid University with a speech, in tho course of which lie said : “ I recognise tins fact, that existing cir cumstances are perplexing. Education and enlightenment can alone regenerate Spain and restore peace, as it is painful to me to see the civil war still continue, notwithstanding my efforts.” The Journal de St. Petersburg, with reference to the reforms proffered to the insurgents by the Sublime Porte, regards the concession of provincial representation the best that could be made to settle the present diliiculty. It is certain to meet with general approval. The journal adds:--“ Not only ought the in-urgents to accept it, but tin great powers ought to sec that it is carried out. A difficulty has arisen between Holland and Venezuela. The latter asked to be indemnified for the expense .ncurred in the suppression of the recent revolt in her dominion, which, she alleged, was aided by tho inhabitants of the island of Ouragba. Holland refuse I to enter into negotiations until Venezuela should return the Dutch ship Afida, Which she seized, and agree to open her ports to Dutch commerce. Venezuela eventually agreed to restore Be Mida, but disliked the withdrawing by Holland of the second condition. Holland not having acceded to these terms within thirty days, diplomatic relations between the two countries were ruptured. The Bishop of Breslau informed the Ecclesiastical Court that he will not obey their summons to attend for trial, ou the ground that vhe Court is not competent to try him. A. Breslau paper says that twenty-three priests in the diocese renounced', their submission to the ecclesiastical laws. A * rimes ’ special, from Rangoon, says that I'hiuaand Bmmah have formed an alliance offensive and defensive. Aide, man Cotton, M.P. for the City, h.* been elected Lord Mayor of London,

The Swedish steamer L. J. Absfen, rußßlni uetween 1 .übeck and Copenhagen, was burned n trie Baltic. Twenty-four passengers and a even of the crew perished. The fiftieth antuv. roar of the establishment f railways was celehra'ed hy a precession and ■i nquet at Darlington on the unveiling of the aue ol Joseph Pearce. : 'CS'Tuctive floods 1 ;ive occurred during a do in the valley of the ] .ee, Ireland . The ■i ver rose several teet in the imme- date viciidty t the itv of Cork, and the country for miles round, and occasioned immense damage to mi operty. Similar accounts have been received mm other parts of J ieland and Scotland The i.image done to the crops by floods is reported o be enormous in Longford, Kerry, and Tiperary. J.-vt Cork Iho floods have subsided. D is 1 elieved that so vend persons were drowned.

Two letters from Stanley, the explorer, hare bom received in London. Both are dated from the district of Victoria Kyauzv. V.dward Pea* -nek and Frederick Baiker died of fever. The co;,rt martial iu the mat'ei of the sinking of the ironclad Vanguar >, reprimanded Captain I -.whins of that vessel, and di-rmssed um troc.i the Hernco. The cause of the Vanguards sinking was the blow striking exactly net.wee.’ uvn air ■ ompai’t.nu nts. The ship is a total loss and will have to be blown up to remove the impediment to navigation. Toe Herzegovina insurrection is believed to have received a permanent check. The reports of surprises of toe Turkish villages allege horrible biutalities against ihe insurgents, such as roasting children alive i i the presence of their parents. The insurgents refused the medication of foreign consuls, and made a long sta ement of their grevauces, and demanded concessions which will probably be made. The forces are commanded by a priest. The consuls report the districts travelled by them to bo •beadfuby devasted, and the population decimated by disease and suffering. Unless reiof is supplied speedily, tie country will be ruined for many years. tier via is in a pitable condition. The coffers are empty, and tax■athen rs had to go out a month be;ore the usual time.

The daughter of a Scotch earl who got into troul le and was divo.cd from her husband, hj is been remarried to I dm, and they are about to proceed to New Zealand. it is reported that the, Uisrac'i Govern ent nave under consideration the propiiety of establishing an Imperial Council for Colonial affairs, in which the Colonies are to be repre* rented, and have a voice in the action of the Home Government affcc.ing Colonial matters, ihe great sensition of the month has been the _ diicovery of the murder of a woman in Whitechapel road, .Loudon, c mmitted twelve mo iths ago. '1 he man had cut up the body and buried it in a cellar. The house changed hands, and, fearing detection, he took up the pieces, and was removing them when the smell attracted the attention of a in -n he asked to he p him with the parcel-, which led to the detection. He had been living with the woman, ami had two children by her. Mr Gladstone, in a speech, stated his belief that the iise of wages (luring the last thirty years has exceeded the rise in prices. Cardinal Manning, in a speech in Ireland, •declared Ids belief that nothing but the direct mterposition of the Blessed Virgin saved i ranee horn complete destruction by Germany.

AMERICAN NEWS.

r l he United States Government lave adopted active, measures for putting a stop to the outr iiiges of Mexicans desperados along the Hio urande. An order has been issued from the Navy Department to make icady all its light st draught vessels to patrol Lha stream, and co-operate with the land torces in pursuing the outlaws. The gem ral in command of the I exas troops will have authority over the combine I miliury aud naval force. To taeh gunboat will be assigned a certain poriiou ot the river, and as the guns of these vessels have generally a long <ange are expected to no edict, ve work against the i aide is. o.s ascent of the river is made, its channel is uecer am aud navigation difficult, but prints for crossing in are to be specially ordered, and it is believed that the troops, cting in - oi,junction with the fieri, wdl be ..ble to afford all the protection desired to the frontier settlers.

A Washington special says there is a, prospect of international trouble with Great Britain that may need another board of arbitration. Not long ago the A 1 erioan schooner Gilbert C, t rufast was sold at Liverpool to a British shipowner, in violation of the provisions of the American law. Minister Bchin k attempted to prevent this sale, and notified to t lie State department the violation of iis regulations, A lively correspondence was maintained between the authorities of the State and (heat Britain. I'he former request ed the British Government to turn the vessel over to the States. Karl Derby fioady decided that the vessel should not be delivered up, as in the sale the regulations of the British law were perfectly observed. Bo sees no reason for interfering. On receipt of this decision the Secretary of 'he Treasury issued orders to the 1 ollcctor of Customs at ail seaport ports, to detain the Trufast should she ever visit America. As the vess.l has P .pera from the British Government, and flies its flag, the seisure is bound to cause trouble. r l lie Grand 1 Hike Alexis of Russia. who incurred his father's displeasure by his secret marriage, lias been divorced from ins wife, and is now happy in the Impeiial loigivem-.ss. The negro and white relations in tho Southern States are becoming a fmitful sour ei' f anxiety. Douglas, a negro representative in Congress, in s| caking of the Mississippi troubles, is reported to Lave said the wholesale robberies and murders, like those recently committed, could only ho perpet uted w.th the approval or com iremce of the pro-perty-holding clasecs of the South, as tho negros must die in 'he south. His advice is to let them sell their lives as dearly as possible, and let it be seen by those cowardly mobocruts that in attempting to daughter black men they invite the knife to their throats and fire anti rapine to iheir hearth stones A company has been organised in Texai to utilise the immense quantirit s of bones strewing die cattle ranches. Tho- quantity is reported to be almost inc m utabl,. •he largest, podge ( i, god ever fouim in Nova Scotia wa lately rtiuckin the Oldham disti ct. 1 lie emit ids :ire vaguely estimated to be worth between 1,000 and L’,ooo dollars. -■v tenihle c) clone hj ..s swept over Texas, destroying life and property, In Indianato, out v f 300 houses oinv live were left standing. When the storm Was at its heigh , the water iii the river rose six feet in two hums, Tho wind was blowing a -ale. driving the water and breakers through the city at the rate of fifteen miles per hj ny weeping everything in | its way, •ml a; ruing the plain in 'lie rear of the cly for leu miles adi pth of seven feet. eve/ai_ small s. ttl< im-i.is, numbering a total population of 150 -ouis, were also swept out of existence ; m, Id g, with 1:50 lost in Indiana, a total of 400 lires lose. The stench in tlit. city, from the putrefying of the dead, with the stench from animals, was most intolerable. A party of Mexicans on Sunday began to rob the dead bodies washed to tin* plain, four to six miles at (he back of the city. The scoundrels chopped tho fingers, hands, and ears off the men and women to obtain their jewellery. As >oou as this was heard of a party of citizens went out and killed five Mexicans whom they caught at this devil’s woik. The lowes,, barometer occurred on the a'tmioon of September 10. when it stood at 29.88, with a maximum velocity of wind of 80 miles per hour. Thousands of drowned ca/ t e are strewed over the prairie south of the town, and several light coasting steamers are lying from six to eleven miles iul.'iiul. Galveston and other places were sub merged, but the most serious losses were at I.iiiiniiato, a town of 1,500 inhabitants at Matagoda Bay.